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Guided Meditations, Mindfulnes
Science now shows that meditation and mindfulness really work. For example, we now know that meditation not only lowers stress and improves mental sharpness but it also strengthens our immune system, gives us more youthful and healthy brain tissue, and can be as good or better than prescription drugs for treating mental illnesses like depression, addiction, and PTSD. So maybe there is something to what all those ancient masters were talking about. Turns out when you strip away the religious and institutional covers, they figured out how to feel happy, healthy and fulfilled and told us how to do it. This podcast provides an easy way to access the simple meditation and mindfulness practices developed by the wisest masters to have graced this planet. Zebediah Rice guides you in an easy and free way to learn to meditate, become more mindful, energetic, happy, peaceful, and mentally sharp. Just sit back, relax, and let me do the work for you.
In cultures separated by vast distances and long stretches of time there emerged a formal tradition of a forgiveness ritual. In places as far afield as Ancient Egypt, Medieval Islam, and pre-Colonization Polynesia, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.
This is a 60 minute version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation
Cultures around the world practiced a formal tradition of forgiveness. In places as far afield as Ancient Egypt, Medieval Islam, and pre-Colonization Polynesia, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.
This is a 45 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation
In the olden days, in places like Hawai'i, there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness based on the Ho'oponopono prayer from Hawai'i. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.
This is a 30 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation
In ancient times there was a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. The cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.(NOTE: This is a 20 Min version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation)
There used to be a belief that illness, trouble in life and what today we might call psychological distress were caused by past or ongoing errors or transgressions against the gods or spirits by the sick person. In those ancient days, the cure for the illness was therefore to seek forgiveness from the gods or the ancestral spirits through prayer or the people involved with these errors or transgressions through ritual. Like many of these ancient techniques, the explanations of old may not accord well with our modern scientific understanding. Nevertheless, there is merit in these ancient practices. In fact, they can serve as an effective method of hacking our brain and our body to achieve improvements in our health or happiness. We are going to employ this principle today in a meditation on forgiveness. One thing to keep in mind is that often these forgiveness meditations need to be repeated sometimes more than once a day, for many days for the full effect to take hold. So consider that as an option for you.
This is a 10 minute version of the Health 'Hack' Forgiveness meditation.
If you worry about providing a living for yourself or your family, this meditation will be helpful to you. Particularly when we lose a job or are struggling to make ends meet with the income we do have, these feelings arise. In addition to the outer work that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, there is an inner work that is even more important. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.
This is a 30 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation.
Many people worry about providing the basics. Whether it is making a living for yourself or making sure your family has enough, at some point in life most people will encounter this challenge. Some will struggle with it throughout life. There is outer work (in the physical domain) that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, but there is inner work that is even more important. It is this inner work that sets the stage for the physical world to yield its bounty. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.
It is a 20 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation.
It is normal to feel anxious about providing a living for yourself or your family. Particularly when we lose a job or are struggling to make ends meet with the income we do have, these feelings arise. In addition to the outer work that is required to remedy these sorts of situations, there is an inner work that is even more important. This meditation will help guide you on that inner journey to awakening and embracing the change that awaits you.
This is a 10 minute version of the Protected & Provided for guided meditation.
This is a 60 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened
This is a 45 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened.
This is a 30 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened.
This is a 20 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened.
This is a 10 minute guided meditation that will help you connect to the invisible energy all around you. By tapping in to that energy you will be relaxed and strengthened.
The physical body we can perceive with our senses and our everyday consciousness is not all there is to you. You also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.
This is a 60 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation.
From ancient times, the enlightened ones have taught that the physical body you can perceive with your senses and your everyday consciousness isn't all there is to you. You also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.
This is a 45 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation.
Many people believe that the physical body we can perceive with our senses and our everyday consciousness is all there is to us. But you also have an energetic body. And instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. The energetic body is composed of a series of energetic wheels or "chakras" that follow the line of your spine. Your first chakra lies at the base of your spine. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.
This is a 30 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation.
Instability or holding in your energetic body can be the source of many a physical or psychological malady. When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. And of course there are the myriad of physical ailments such as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet (and in men, prostate issues). This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.
This is a 20 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation.
When your first chakra is blocked or out of balance, you may feel fearful or anxious or you may manifest any number of other negative feeling states. Depending on your emotional predispositions, this could appear as anger or irritability, a deep sense of insecurity or worry, even panic or depression. This meditation will help restore balance and open your first chakra to the ever present flow of healing energy available to all of us at any time.
This is a 10 minute version of the You Are Safe And Secure guided meditation.
Though your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that the mind generates, there is a world of energy that is invisible to most of us most of the time. But this doesn't mean that it isn't there. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of (for matter is energy in a different form after all) can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And energy isn't just the sort of energy you are probably thinking of. There is the level of energy and light that we can measure with our detectors and comprehend with our senses. And then there is an entirely different level of what we might call spiritual energy or Qi. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what this other energy is like and how it connects to the energy of the physical dimension. If you work on it enough, you will be on your way to opening and activating this chakra and therefore aligning it with the energy of the world around you. The power that comes from this cleansing and alignment is difficult to explain in words. So, enjoy!
This is a 60 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation.
There is more to you than just the flesh and guts of your physical body. You may think that your body plus your thoughts or the contents of your consciousness is all there is to you. But the great masters from disperse regions and times have explored this question and each reached the same conclusion. One level up from the physical world of course are your emotions and then the next layer is your thoughts. But there are several layers or levels of being above those three. The easiest one to access is your energetic body. Your consciousness is dominated by the information coming in from your senses and the emotions and thought patterns that your mind generates so it is hard for you to notice that there this world of energy all around and within you. All of this matter and energy in the physical and energetic dimensions is interacting with your body and your mind all the time. The root chakra, located at the base of your spine, is the connection point to the energy this dimension of energy that permeates this physical world of ours. The fluctuating, vibrant fields of energy that we are immersed in and a part of can be connected to and sensed by bringing your attention to this chakra. And there is tremendous healing potential, both physically and emotionally, by connecting and harmonizing with these fields of energy. This guided meditation will give you a sense of what that means and start you on your journey to activating this chakra and aligning it with the energy of the world around you.
This is a 45 minute version of the Condensed Energy guided meditation.