The Meditation Podcast

Welcome to The Meditation Podcast. This is Jesse Stern with Episode 152, Reiki for Creativity. For those of us in creative freelance professions, the last few years have hit hard. The Pandemic, advances in AI, and economic-political chaos, have significantly altered our career paths. Many are left stunned, silent, and struggling. In today's meditation, we use reiki to restore and heal our creative...

Welcome to The Meditation Podcast. This is Jesse Stern with a simple meditation to release muscle tension. In many social and professional situations, we tend to hold our breath. Holding our breath halts the natural flow of movement within our bodies, causing tension, fatigue, and stagnation. In today's meditation, we practice a simple meditation to release muscle tension. ------- Remember that th...

Welcome to The Meditation Podcast. This is Jesse Stern with Episode 150, Inspiration. In many languages and cultures, the words for 'spirit' and 'breath' are closely related. The Latin words spiritus (spirit) and spirare (to breathe) give us English words like inspire (to enter breath), expire (to exit breath), and respiration (to cycle breath). Note that these words are not related to desperation...

As we enter the Spring season, much of the world is focused on war, AI, and the potential impact of these actions on economies, jobs, careers, social interaction, and human evolution. Spring represents new life, budding growth, warmth. But in the generational cycles of our lifetime we are entering Winter - representing death, contraction, cold. In today's meditation, we remain focused on the heart...

After traumatic events or periods of elevated stress, the body may continue to hold onto its protective responses. Thus, even after a painful or difficult event has ended, we may continue to feel elevated heart rate or nervous system, a sense of high alert, or a persistent thought that something bad will happen. By resetting our stress response, we cultivate the release of old injuries and old str...

Anxiety, burnout, grief, stress, trauma, anger, frustration ... our thoughts and emotions are typically based on past or future experiences. However, we carry emotional and mental stress through the present, within our bodies. Physical manifestations of such stress may include tension, nausea, chronic pain, stiffness, and more. In today's meditation, we gather our thoughts and emotions to the pres...