Life events can overwhelm us. In addition to the challenges of daily life, we also carry the change and loss that many of us experienced during the pandemic.In today's meditation, we practice letting go.

Dr Charles Brown

Feb 29th, 2024 16m 54s

Dr Charles is a Minister and Babalawo, father, mentor, and friend. To describe the impact he has made on my life would take hours, so I will simply share his words with you.In today's meditation, I am honored t

A Simple Meditation (2024)

Feb 3rd, 2024 15m 46s

Meditation, in its simplest form, is simply awareness. In today's meditation, we practice awareness.This podcast is made possible with great thanks to our subscribers on Patreon. Join our community at Patreon (

Reiki Meditation For a New Year

Jan 3rd, 2024 24m 40s

As we flip our calendars to a new year, we face an opportunity to revisit our intentions. Which parts of our human experience would we like to drop, diminish, add or amplify in the coming year?In today's medita

Reiki For Big Feelings

Dec 4th, 2023 26m

Overwhelm, anxiety, stress, grief, frustration. These intense, 'big feelings' can sap our energy, our drive, our focus, our presence, and our joy.In today's meditation, we allow the Universal Life Force of Reik

Reiki Together

Nov 2nd, 2023 46m 4s

When we direct life force energy toward ourselves, we sometimes get stuck in an isolation loop. This can happen when our need to receive healing energy conflicts with our power to give it. By directing our power toward others, we allow it to fl

Autumn Seed Meditation

Oct 4th, 2023 21m 25s

As we enter the fall season, nature shows us an example of turning inward. Like plants dropping their leaves to allow their outward selves to fall away, we can also drop the parts of ourselves that no longer nourish us. This is part of a global

Reiki For Fatigue

Aug 1st, 2023 20m 5s

I don't know about you, but I've been feeling exhausted. My energy levels alternate between hyperfocused and hyperalert to lethargic and unmotivated. I go to bed buzzing, and I wake up tired. I need a recharge!

Home Blessing

Jul 5th, 2023 13m 58s

Since 2020, our concept and purpose of 'home' has evolved. For many of us, home has become more of a refuge, a sanctuary, an office, a workspace, and we may have experienced significant changes in where we lay our heads.

Inward Smile

Jun 2nd, 2023 26m 17s

Smiling feels good, calms our stress levels, stimulates the Vagus nerve, and sends a message to our psyche that we are ok. As a mindful practice, smiling disrupts patterns of self-judgment by circulating kindness and unconditional love to ourse

Eye of the Hurricane

May 1st, 2023 14m 13s

Modern life is full of distractions. Our jobs, screens, and apps all pull our attention by design. Environmental noise from people, animals, and machines can all distract our focus and affect our mood. We tend to shift our attention to whatever

Experience Your Divine Nature

Apr 2nd, 2023 16m 7s

A paradox of human existence: when I turn my attention upon myself, am I the self being observed, or am I the Self that is observing? The idea of a 'higher self' is one way to experience the part of ourselves that exists both within and outside

Peaceful Heart

Feb 6th, 2023 20m

When we raise our inner voices of self-loathing, criticism, and doubt, the noise can grow into chaos. We need a consistent inner voice - the quiet internal rhythm that literally pumps life through our bodies.In

Healing Frequency

Feb 6th, 2023 29m 10s

Being human is naturally resilient. I believe that our natural state is health and wholeness. It is also a natural human process to lose track of our wholeness, to 'forget' who we are. When we forget our nature we are often tempted to 'try' to

Should Compassion

Jan 3rd, 2023 21m 37s

Last Friday I slipped on ice, hit my head on a stone stair, and got a concussion. It affected my thought process quite a lot. I was tired, had splitting headaches, and had trouble comprehending and speaking words. Until yesterday I felt strange

Grieving and Healing

Dec 4th, 2022 23m 19s

Welcome to The Meditation Podcast. This is Jesse Stern with Episode 109, Grieving and Healing.My oldest friend died last week. We were born 6 months apart, friends since birth. He was like a brother to me. He w

Raise Your Spirits

Nov 2nd, 2022 20m 54s

Happy Halloween, Samhain, and Dia de los Muertos. During this season we traditionally honor our ancestors, and those loved ones who are no longer with us.In today's meditation we honor our ancestors ... and rai

Burnout Ignition Reiki

Oct 4th, 2022 20m 7s

As the world stumbles its way through our third year in a global pandemic, many of us have experienced major changes in our work lives, our relationships, our routines, and our travel patterns. This may have left us feeling tired, uninspired, b

Meditation in Movement

Sep 8th, 2022 20m 49s

Here at The Meditation Podcast, we have often described meditation as sitting still and breathing. While this is one way to practice meditaiton, it is not the only way. Movement in meditation is useful when our bodies want to move. It can also

En-joy Meditation

Aug 2nd, 2022 16m 1s

Our self-care practice is an important antidote to the pressures of production and improvement and optimization. However, sometimes even our self-care can feel like a chore or a means to a different end.In toda

Chakra Meditation

Jul 2nd, 2022 25m 11s

Chakras are the traditional Sanskrit name for energy centers in the body. If you prefer, you may think of them simply as energy centers, electromagnetic poles, or source points of tension and release. Like any form of energy, when our chakras b

Ground on Down

Jun 4th, 2022 20m 39s

Is your life 'up in the air'? Are you 'on Cloud 9', walking around with your 'head in the clouds'? While cliche, these expressions may indicate a loss of grounding. As we navigate the ups and downs of our lives and circumstances, it may be usef

Being Acceptable

May 1st, 2022 26m 39s

Work hard! Lose weight! Fight aging! We live in a culture of self improvement. Advertising encourages us to strive toward an ideal that is impossible to attain. Whether related to body image, how we earn or create income, or how we fit in to so

Sleep

Apr 4th, 2022 31m 9s

Many of us are experiencing disturbed sleep. We have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, dreaming, and waking up refreshed. Many of us feel anxiety, stress, and uncertainty in our daily lives. Sleep, designed to restore our bodies and minds

Myself

Mar 2nd, 2022 22m 1s

Over fifteen years of the Meditation Podcast, many listeners have shared their profound life transformations, physical mental and emotional healing, relief from anxiety, and being able to fall asleep. Serving others in this way has been some of