The Morning Meds Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marie Bashiru
Welcome to the Morning Meds Podcast with singer/songwriter, Marie Bashiru. A morning meditation practice using the tool of introspection & retrospection as the vehicle, "Morning Meds" is an alternative process & practice to start your day with the rumination of a particular subject, dissected, with insight shared and offered through the mind & perspective of a creative. Because cultivating good mental health doesn't have to be an esoteric or isolated one, start your day with a dose of a morning meditation short that can help inform your own practice & process for your own mental health journey
Today's morning dose will be the last for sometime and what better way to close than on the note of hope? I ruminate on the power of hope, faith and love and the commodities we simply can not do without.
Struggle. Ironically, this episode was a struggle to create - because it seemed with as much experience as I had in this topic, there were varying obstacles that suddenly reared their head to make it that more challenging to record and release! That being said, we made it, albeit a bit later than scheduled, and in this episode, I get real with what struggle can often look like for me and the ways that I attempt to overcome it.
This week's episode looks at the instinctual mechanism of "self-preservation" ; but not just in terms of physically but also emotionally. That what can often come disguised as a well-meaning method of survival can really more often than not, keep us in that constant state of simply "surviving", rather than living and thriving in the full potential of what life has to offer.
Dancing is an expression that weaves and threads through our lives and various cultures as instinctively as breathing or singing. It's a powerful tool of human communication and "The Dance Of Life" is a term often coined to describe our daily lives. In today's dose, I ruminate on what this could mean from an improvisatory perspective of life, and in tandem to the competitive edge of a dance-off that can do more than just provide an entertaining spectacle to be experienced.
In this episode of Morning Meds, I think about what it really looks like to practice the now very popular and mainstream mantra #selflove. But really, how many of us are truly doing this the way we ought to, and for the right reasons? It may have never been as important as it is now to really know and actualise the love we were born to carry, without condition; so we can move in the world with the knowledge, and the confidence that we were designed to.
The three words "Mind The Gap" have become synonymous with modern day mobility and transportation but how synonymous are these three words with our own personal journeys and lives when we measure where we are now to where we're trying to get to? In today's morning meds, I look at the land of perpetual discontentment and the ways in which we can ensure we don't get stuck there.
This may be a term that I've just coined but it's helped me to identify what my experience of "minimalist love" has been of late, and why it seems to pervade popular culture and our daily lives more than we realise. With revived reality TV and the technological age fuelling our hunger and access for more, we're inadvertently demanding for less and as little work to get, keep and maintain it. Disclaimer This episode was recorded in a moderately quiet courtyard garden whilst I'm currently overseas travelling so excuse the quality and chirping birds!
Happy New Year folks! It's 2020, a new year, a new decade, a what seems like a new era. But with this new year, comes the high expectations of becoming somewhat a version 2.0 of yourself - and the stakes are high. Today's morning dose takes a quick look at the more than familiar perils of "the new year, new me" mantra and why there's a better alternative to be had this time around.
Everyday, we measure ourselves against various standards - but in a world where these are ever changing and often without accurate context, are these standards realistic and frankly, leading us to see ourselves as less than, always striving, daily? Todays dose looks at the metrics of "enoughness" and how to look at ourselves through the eyes of love, rather than the measuring tape of a ""standard".
Ever been in a supermarket and come across a bulky packet or box of broken biscuits? It's funny how many of us can identify with it, the feeling of being broken in multiple places, emotionally and spiritually, and thus feeling like reduced value goods on a shelf. But this isn't necessarily a reality you have to carry with you, and in today's dose, I look at the redemptive power available to us all; thanks to the broken-ness, and not simply just in spite of it.
We've all been given the incredible ability & gift of Imagination, but have we become dream-killers of our own making without realising it? In today's dose, we look at the diverse realities of dreams and the power of validity in all of them.
We all have different roles to play in our everyday lives, but does this day-to-day role-playing become more of a performance the more we focus on our actual deeds rather than who we are beyond them? In today's dose, I look at what performance can really mean and how its context is essential to guide us to an authentic iteration of who we really are, no matter where we are or what our responsibilities look like.
"Showing up" seems like a given if we're all here and we physically turn up but there's more to just incidental presence and being somewhere. What does intentional showing up look like daily, and how powerful can that decision be? In today's dose, I dissect the power of intentionality, being worthy, and how we all have something valuable to give.
The term "overnight success" is synonymous with our current day fast and get-instant-results culture but is it a really a healthy and realistic way to approach progress and what is essentially, a journey that more often than not, takes time? In today's dose, I look at why an "overnight success" story isn't necessarily all that it seems.
Feeling like we're alone in the world is ironically all too common in a world full of 7 billion other people. But why do so many of us feel and believe we're alone in the lives we lead, in one aspect or the other? In today's dose, we look at why it's all about perception and the transformative power of shared experiences.
Beauty and it's huge industry is a currency we all buy into in some facet of our lives. But what can we really define as true beauty and is what we're being sold and told really going to save us like we're told it will? In this dose of Morning Meds, we dissect what beauty could actually mean and why it's found in all of us. Follow The Morning Meds Podcast on Instagram, leave a review or say hello at morningmedspodcast@gmail.com
In order for us to operate in our daily lives with direction and purpose, intentionality is an essential part of making sure our lives don't become a cacophony of mess and clutter - and this includes cleaning house, internally. In today's dose, we look at the inevitability of dust and grime build up in our lives, how to assign and put things back into their place, and why you just might not be the problem. Follow The Morning Meds Podcast on Instagram, leave a review via Apple Podcasts or say hello at morningmedspodcast@gmail.com
In the first dose of The Morning Meds Podcast, we look at the construct of a "lie", how it effects and is sustained by us, and the necessary steps required to weed one out and cut off it's life source from our own. Follow The Morning Meds Podcast on Instagram, leave a review via Apple Podcasts or say hello at morningmedspodcast@gmail.com