Wellness Minutes

Continuing my reflections on depression and anxiety  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

The most common experiences of profound psychological distress - Depression and Anxiety - are not personal failures, they are the mind and body's response to unrelenting stress. This episode names these two experiences and invites you to reflect on them with compassion.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellne...

Reflecting on how to help yourself decide whether to seek professional help, how to recognize you have gone from stress to STRESSED OUT and how a therapist could help.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Sometimes disconnecting from the phone seems like the best way to reconnect with reality. The concrete reality, not just the manifestation of reality (aka deluge of information) our internet-connected devices throw at us.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

This is what happens when I have a super busy day and then end up in a Spiritual study group meeting and then wonder - do other people think about this too?  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Immigration, regardless of the motivation behind immigration, comes with such a string of losses. This episode is a reflection on what that grief can look like  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Recognizing the invisible work we do in our professions and in our homes and communities.  Read the poem I referenced:  https://pollycastor.com/2019/05/11/invisible-work-poem-by-alison-luterman/ We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Curiosity about our feelings is one form of compassion . today I bring curiosity to health anxiety. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Plants can teach us so much and give us so much. Hope you get a chance to reflect on how to plant these seeds of hope in your life. Here is a video from one of my favorite plant parents on YouTube, Garden Up: https://youtu.be/G-w2gpbyGaM We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

The difficult and sometimes highly unbearable feeling called Fear remains my achilles heel. It incapacitates me and makes it very hard for me to focus, don't know about you! In today's episode I speak a bit about fear and what I have learned from my teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam who sought asylum in France after being exiled from Vietnam. His teachings about sitting with o...

Human civilization has "evolved" to prioritize the brain over the body, much to the detriment of our own holistic health as well as the health of our planet. Today's episode is a reflection on how compassion towards our body is a helpful and concrete tool to practice self compassion.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://w...

How do you talk about this big topic in just 5 minutes? Come listen and find out.  And for further information, check out this book (available on Kindle) called Anxiety: Overcome it and live without fear by friend and colleague in India, Psychologist Sonali Gupta.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com...

Practice the skill of mindfulness by reminding you to pause and bring yourself into the present moment. Tune into today's episode to learn one way to bring your mind and body to the same moment.   Essentially, learn how to pause the auto-pilot and nourish the "human pilot"!  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwe...

Our Rage, frustration, anger, irritation rise frequently during periods of crisis and these feelings (and us, when we feel them) deserve as much attention and compassion as any other time. As an activist, I have firsthand experience with the profound benefits of both loving-kindness-compassion as well as rage-anger-frustration. In this episode, I invite us to notice how all feelings are feedback a...

Focusing on positive and helpful emotions such as loving-kindness and compassion can seem like a denial of stressful realities. Today's episode is a bit about why those emotions aren't about denial but about responding to crisis in a way that are helpful rather than stressful.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pran...

Much gratitude to Kaira Jewel Lingo, a meditation teacher I have heard many times including this morning at the Wisdom and Emotions Summit (Keynote address by His Holiness Dalai Lama!!). Her list is based on scientific evidence and is fairly easy to practice on a daily basis: Hope this episode gives you something to think about and also practice!  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Suppor...

Can you imagine being truthful in response to the question, "am I doing enough?". Self-compassion helps you acknowledge all your demands and your human limitations alongside helping you recognize that every tiny kind and compassionate gesture makes a difference. Extend compassion to yourself and others to help yourself keep walking.  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Tha...

An invitation to take time and space to digest your feelings when pandemic fatigue has already overfilled your plate of feelings!  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

When the going gets tough, don't pressurized yourself to feel better. Hold yourself and help yourself put one foot in front of the other. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Allowing the 4 Elements to comfort us and hold us. Allow yourselves to be cared-for by the Universe in us and around us. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Stress and suffering make our mind and body constrict and tighten, here is an invitation to help them get space to un-clench and un-tighten We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

invitation to join me for 30 days of breathing together, pausing together so we can show up as the Compassionate Presence our families and communities and the world needs right now  We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening,  much metta,  Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/

Amishi Jha , a Psychologist at the University of Miami talks about Breath Awareness practice as a “foundational workout for the brain’s attention system”. This guided practice is inspired by her words as well as the words of countless other mindfulness practitioners I have followed over the years!  See Dr. Jha's Ted Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzvNIIMayo We'd love to hear from you,...

This episode discusses meta-awareness, knowing where our mind is AND what our mind is doing. Richard Davidson, a Professor of Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke about ‘meta-awareness’ as one of four pillars of wellbeing. Also, this paper by Drs Killingsworth and Gilbert shares some fascinating insights about why "a wandering mind is an unhappy mind". (http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/fi...

Do you know a part of nature that we frequently forget to acknowledge? Ourselves! Our body is such an astounding mix of cells - chemicals - electrical activity through our nervous system. We often forget we ARE nature -- nature isn’t just out there, it is in here. And today’s body scan meditation is an invitation to sit with the experience of being one with nature We'd love to hear from you, send...