Meditation in Real Life: Recent Episodes
Nate Klemp, PhD
I'm Nate Klemp. I'm here to offer guided meditations, tips, science-based insights, and mindfulness practices designed to help you navigate the hard stuff in life (stress, anxiety, and anger) and experience more of the good stuff (happiness, wellbeing, and presence).
Each week, I'll be posting podcasts on mindfulness-based insights and guided meditation. You'll learn age-old techniques for training your mind and becoming more present in all of life.
Why am I doing this? As a former philosophy professor, mindfulness author, and founding partner at Mindful Magazine, I LOVE teaching and sharing these ideas. There's just one problem: I no longer have a classroom to do it in. So I decided to create my own virtual classroom where we can explore these powerful practices and insights together.
If you're up for exploring meditation in real life with me, be sure to subscribe so that you never miss a podcast. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel -- "Nate Klemp" -- for the videos.
Stress = small mind. Anxiety = small mind. Happiness, contentment, and equanimity = big mind. We all know this to be true. We all know that something special happens when our perspective on the world gets bigger. We see possibilities instead of problems. We feel more relaxed, at ease, and available to the present moment. In this practice, we explore one of the most powerful mindfulness techniques for opening the size of the mind: the practice of open awareness.
What’s the best way to start your day? Two things. First, seeing the sun rise. Second, if you can’t do the first, mindfulness and meditation practice. In this video, you get to experience both, an exquisite sunrise and a morning guided meditation practice designed to help you kickstart your day.
Feeling distracted? Aren’t we all? The continuous state of stress and distraction seems to be the problem of our time. So we need these short practices to remind ourselves to focus and concentrate on the task at hand. In this practice, we use the sensation of breath as our anchor to cultivating a more focused, energized, and concentrated mind. In just five minutes, you will feel this powerful shift.
How can you cultivate a calm mind? In this practice, we explore a guided meditation designed to unwind the stress in your nervous system and allow you to open up to a calmer, more peaceful, state of mind. The practice begins with a science-based breathing technique that will help you quickly relax your mind and nervous system. We then take this journey of relaxation one step further, dropping into a state of wide open awareness.
How can we learn to surrender and let go in a world that has gone mad? In this practice, we use the metaphor of a river to bring the mind into a deep state of surrender and letting go. This skill is essential for navigating life in the modern age. We are good at struggling to hold onto control. We are often not as good at letting go and accepting things as they are. Use this practice to make the shift to surrender and letting go.
Feeling stressed? Use these powerful meditation techniques for managing stress and anxiety. In this video, you will learn about the two primary forms of mindfulness practice for managing stress. The first form of practice is all about change. These are breathing techniques we can use to relax the nervous system so that we can respond more skillfully to stress. The second form of practice is all about acceptance. With these tools, the goal isn’t to change anything. Instead, the goal is to train our ability to allow and except whatever happens, exactly as it is.
How long should you meditate for each day? This is one of the most frequently asked questions about mindfulness practice. In this video, we look at two ways to answer this question. The first is finding your unique minimum effective dose for meditation. The second is an answer based on cutting edge research in the field of neuroscience. The goal is to give you the tools and insights you need to determine your perfect minimum effective dose of meditation. And please subscribe to the podcast. I will be posting these podcasts weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
Is that ringing in your ears or tinnitus driving you crazy? This video offers a powerful 10 minute guided meditation to help you begin to change your relationship to tinnitus. The big idea is to approach instead of withdrawing from the sound. This meditation will help you do just that by bringing your full attention to the nonjudgemental awareness of the sound of ringing. The power of this practice is that it will allow you to begin to habituate to the sound, which, as of right now, is the only scientifically validated way to cure tinnitus. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
Do you or someone you know suffer from tinnitus? Ringing in the years can be an extremely difficult experience. It often leads to anxiety, depression, worry, and a lack of focus. I have experienced this condition firsthand for the last 15 years. Over this time, I’ve engaged in numerous experiments. Today, I bring these insights to you. This video explores two non-mindfulness related tools, masking strategies for tinnitus as well as using diet and exercise for tinnitus management. The video also explores what is perhaps the most powerful tool for managing tinnitus, mindfulness. We learn how meditation and mindfulness practice can lead to the only scientifically validated the cure, the state of full habituation to the sound. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
Having trouble sleeping? Who isn’t these days? This breathing practice is designed to help you calm your nervous system and prepare your mind and body for sleep. You will learn two powerful practices. The first is the “perfect breath,” A technique for slowing down the pace of your breath so you can begin to relax. The second practice is “extended exhale breathing.” This is perhaps the most powerful practice for relaxing the mind and body so you can get some sleep. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
How do you practice street meditation? How do you develop mindfulness in crowded, noisy, urban spaces? The usual answer is to say, “Just seal yourself away from all of these irritating distractions. Find a place where you can be quiet and at peace." But there’s an alternative, more powerful, approach to this question. It’s what I like to call “street meditation.“ This is the ultimate practice of integrating mindfulness into the midst of every day life. In this practice, we turn toward rather than away from car horns, airplanes, and all the other chaotic situations of modern life. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
What’s the secret to developing focus and dissolving stress? Try out this simple 10 minute guided breathing meditation. The breath is perhaps the most powerful anchor that we have to the present moment. Each inhale and exhale isn’t happening yesterday or tomorrow. It’s happening right now. In this guided meditation practice, we explore how to use the breath as the primary objective concentration. You will also learn essential tips for dealing with thoughts, emotions, and sensations. You’ll learn how to bring your attention back when the mind wanders. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
Should you meditate with your eyes open? Or should you meditate with your eyes closed? This might be one of the longest standing questions in the mindfulness tradition. It’s also a question they can be quite confusing when you are beginning your meditation practice. This video gives you the tools to de decide which style of meditation is best for you. You will learn about the advantages of eyes-closed meditation as well as the advantages of eyes-open meditation. In the end, the choice is yours. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
How do you meditate in the midst of life‘s craziness? Try out this 10 minute guided meditation for mindfulness in everyday life. In this practice, you will learn the key tips and tools of street meditation. This is very different from the style of meditation we usually practice, the style of retreat meditation. Instead, this style of practice is all about integration. Our goal is to bring these tools of mindfulness directly into the environments of modern life that create stress, anxiety, worry, overwhelm, burnout, and exhaustion. Let me know how this practice landed for you and feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comments section. And please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you hear about each new video. I will be posting these videos weekly, and your support makes all the difference in bringing this amazing practice to the world.
Introducing the Meditation in Real Life Podcast! I'm Nate Klemp. I'm here to offer guided meditations, tips, science-based insights, and mindfulness practices designed to help you navigate the hard stuff in life (stress, anxiety, and anger) and experience more of the good stuff (happiness, wellbeing, and presence). Each week, I'll be posting podcasts on mindfulness-based insights and guided meditations. You'll learn age-old techniques for training your mind and becoming more present in all of life. Why am I doing this? As a former philosophy professor, mindfulness author, and founding partner at Mindful Magazine, I LOVE teaching and sharing these ideas. There's just one problem: I no longer have a classroom to do it in. So I decided to create my own virtual classroom where we can explore these powerful practices and insights together. If you're up for exploring meditation in real life with me, be sure to subscribe so that you never miss a podcast.