Becoming Free: Recent Episodes
Dayley Layne
Contemplations, meditations, and guided explorations of what it means to be free of stress and suffering. I invite you to journey along, to dissolve your anxiety and attachments, and to nourish your way back to your natural state of deep, blissful connection with life.
We spend so much time and energy focused on what we're doing in life. We think that all of our doingness is going to get us the results we want, so that we can feel the experiences that we want. For example, we work all day to accomplish a list of tasks, so that we can reward ourselves with the feeling of relaxation and ease at the end of the day.
But experiences like joy and peace are not a byproduct of achieving or doing things - they are an inner state of being. Instead of chasing these feelings in your external world, freedom lies in learning to cultivate a relationship with them inside yourself, so that you can bring this energy into your actions.
Being values are any states of experience of states of being that you value. Some examples of 'being values' are: curious, calm, relaxed, joyful, expansive, graceful, etc.
They are feeling states.
Decide which feeling state you want to experience today, and learn to connect with it in the following 5 minute meditation practice.
Hello friends! This meditation is a simple 5 minute seated practice for softening into presence.
Meditation is about becoming less attached to the activity of mind and your deeply connected with life beyond it.
Join me.
We have habits of inviting stress, worry, & self-doubt into our lives. But how would your life be different if you started your day by tuning into joy and appreciation?
Join me in this 5 minute meditation.
How often is your mind in the present moment? As my teacher would say, "how awake are you in your life?". Most of us are sleepwalking through life. We're running on autopilot, experiencing everything around us through the lens of our minds. As the French writer Anais Nin once said, "We do not see things as they are - we see things as we are". This way of living keeps us trapped in our patterns of stress and anxiety.
Freedom from this stress-filled state comes when you step out of the mind and tune into the present moment.
Join me in this 7 minute meditation with a focus on reconnecting with the stillness of the present moment.
This statement, take responsibility, has become very triggering and controversial.
How can such an innocent and self-empowering statement create so much backlash? Let's dive into some of the assumptions & misinterpretations around what it means to take responsibility, and how these ideas are blocking people from their own healing.
Most of our time and energy is spent trying to control our external environments so that we can feel okay inside. But peace is not a byproduct of what is happening in our lives - it isn't dependent on our circumstances or having things go our way. Peace is an inside job.
Join me in this meditation to cultivate a connection to your inner peace.
This is a 5 minute seated meditation, guiding you through the exploration of oneness and Mudita. After a quick review of the meaning of Mudita, the meditation begins at 1:30.
If you haven't already, I invite you to first listen to the previous podcast episode on Comparison and the practice of Mudita.
How much stress, anxiety, and depression have you experienced as a result of comparing yourself to others? How much Joy have you missed out on because you're so busy believing in your unworthiness?
Gratitude can be an antidote to stress or feelings of inadequacy, but gratitude is still focused on what you have in your own life. So the moment you look up and find other people thriving, does your gratitude hold strong? Or do stress and comparison take you back down? The Buddhist pillar of MUDITA is the key to going beyond gratitude and experiencing a kind of Joy that is untouchable no matter what is happening in life - or who it is happening to.
Let's explore it.