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Mountain Zen Den Podcast
by Brett Wilson
Self-Development & Simplicity for Nature LoversThe Mountain Zen Den Podcast is the place to connect with Nature for Personal Growth & Simple Living ~ offering daily motivation, inspiration and meditations all inspired by the natural world to help you achieve success in having the life you've always wanted.
Episodes
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Ep 137 30-Day Nature Reset Introduction
Welcome to the mountain! How are your New Year's goals and resolutions holding up? No cause for guilt or shame. No need to feel bad. On the journey toward wholeness, every day is Day 1. A fresh start. Every day offers an opportunity to learn and grow and begin again. Abraham Maslow, (you know…
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Ep 135 Wild Embrace
Welcome to the Mountain! The end of winter and the onset of summer has brought a beautiful lush, green world to us here on the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies. With more rain than usual, followed by cool mornings and incredible sunny days in between, Nature has given the gift of Paradise…
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Ep 134 Awaken to Mindfulness in Nature
It's been awhile. Glad to see you back here. Today is a new day. A fresh start to a new you. A great time to ask the question, "Am I awake to this moment? To the here and now? To this moment?" Henry David Thoreau reminds us that the vast majority of civilization leads quiet lives of desperation.…
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Ep 133 Nature Immersion Through Art Therapy with Sherri Phibbs
No Comments MZD Podcast – Ep. 133 – Nature Immersion Through Art Therapy Since 2009, facilitator, author, and artist Sherri Phibbs has been gaining a wealth of experience in Nature immersion, and to date, has written three books which, among other things, teach the hungry and willing student how…
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Ep 132 The Big Quiet with Lisa Stewart
Can you hear "The Call" to a Great Adventure in your life? Something you know you were meant to do? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a setting where it was just you and Nature for an extended period of time? Imagine yourself as a woman, alone on a horse, 500 miles from home……
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Ep 131 Calm and Bright
Far too often we pay attention to the loud and brash, which tend to have little meaning, while overlooking the important things that are taking place so quietly and humbly just outside the corner of our eye. ~ Erik Stensland "Whispers in the Wind" At different points in our lives, the Christmas...
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Ep 130 - Mirrors in the Earth with Asia Suler
"Nature is hungry to interact with us. It wants connection…if you take one step, the world rushes in to meet you." ~ Asia Suler One of my favorite aphorisms is "Affirm Truth wherever you find it." It's a philosophy I have more recently come to hold dear and try to live by every day that I'm…
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Ep 129 Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, is the day before Thanksgiving, and as I intentionally stop and breathe and just Be, one word comes to mind. Thankful. This past year has been a year of Growth and Gratitude for us. We just want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for choosing to be on this journey of Mindfulness in...
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Ep 128 - The Forest of Faith with Chris Highland
What does it mean to be a "Freethinker"? Today, we meet with one who calls himself "The Friendly Freethinker" — Chris Highland. A skilled presenter, Chris Highland has given public presentations, taught classes and led retreats for congregations, business groups, high schools, universities…
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Ep 127 - Living an Awakened Life on Planet Earth with Peter Mayer
Welcome to the Mountain, and another Fireside Friday here at MZD where we meet with guests and share heart-to-heart the joys and benefits of the natural world for mindfulness and personal transformation, naturally! Hey Friends, Brett Wilson here – your host and Trail Guide at Mountain Zen Den,...
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Ep 126 Finding Your Purpose
Welcome to the Mountain! Hey Friends, Brett Wilson here – your host and Trail Guide at Mountain Zen Den, encouraging you to connect with Nature for mindfulness and personal growth – naturally! Come on in… How are you? I am so excited to be back with you after an extended hiatus, where we have…
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Ep 125 On the ANT (Autism Nature Trail) with Gail Serventi
Here at MZD we talk all the time about the beautiful healing powers of Nature and the importance of connecting with Nature for mindfulness and personal growth… Well today we're going to take you on a beautiful Nature trail in Letchworth State park about an hour south of Rochester, New York.…
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Ep 124 Cultivating Self Mastery
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." ~ Lao Tzu The ancient philosopher, teacher and Stoic, Epictetus said, "Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are…
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Ep 123 Spring
Welcome to another Walden Wednesday, where we spend a few precious moments of our day to reflect on the beauty and goodness of Nature through some of the most enduring Classics ever written. Literary gems by naturalists, philosophers, poets and thought leaders, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John…
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Ep 122 The Adventures of a Rocky Mountain Tour Guide
Welcome to another Fireside Friday here at Mountain Zen Den, where we take some time to share heart to heart the joys and importance of connecting with the natural world for mindfulness and Personal Transformation. Naturally! Do you smell that? That's the scent of fresh mountain air here in the...
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Ep 121 Finding James Herriot
Welcome to another Fireside Friday here at Mountain Zen Den. Come on in… Today we meet with veterinarian Dr. Michael Suit and author of the books, "Finding James Herriot" and the sequel, "Monkey Bars", as he shares his love for people and animals, along with how he got started as a veterinarian.…
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Ep 120 Cultivating Playfulness
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." ~ Albert Einstein In the art of living a full and beautiful, meaningful life, there is an element we don't talk about nearly enough, or put appropriate value on, or even attribute to personal growth, and dare I say, "Success". And that is, the art of...
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Ep 119 Why We Love the Mountains
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity." ~ John Muir, Our National Parks For this Fireside Friday we talk about why we love the mountains. And about our "Disorder" There is…
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Ep 118 The Beaver and His Work
Today on Walden Wednesday we continue reading Enos Mills' classic, Wild Life On the Rockies. Mills was a huge nature lover and nature guide who lived in the late 1880's, early 1900's. He wrote his experiences and observations of the West, and mostly about his beloved Rocky Mountains. I love the...
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Ep 117 Cultivating Humility
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." ~ C.S. Lewis You are to be thanked and congratulated you for being here! Either as a regular subscriber and part of the MZD community, or maybe a first time listener, chances are, you are here for two reasons — you love...
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Ep 116 Listening to Your Inner Guide
"True well-being is knowing, trusting, and following your inner guidance." ~ Paul Hudon Today we meet with writer, speaker, columnist and author of the book, "Your Inner Guidance – The Path to Discovering Your True Happiness", Paul Hudon. Paul lives just 100 miles or so down the road from us here...
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Ep 115 Story of a Thousand Year Old Pine
Welcome to another Walden Wednesday, where we spend a little time in nature reading the works of some of the greatest thinkers, naturalists, writers, and lovers of Nature the world has ever known. Authors like Emerson, Whitman, Muir and Thoreau. If you are a tree lover, I think you are really…
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Ep 114 The Mindfulness Journey
This Fireside Friday finds us exploring The Mindfulness Journey, and how it shapes who we are and where we wind up in life. We also discuss how Mindfulness and Nature are inseparable for us. The Mindfulness Journey is a return home… A few resources we mention include: "You Are Here" by Thich Naht...
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Ep 113 Cultivating Patience
Today we're going to talk about… …Patience. Did you feel the tension in the pause, as your legs got jittery, your toes began to tap, and you wanted me to fill in the word and get on with today's meditation? Patience is the heart of what mindfulness is all about. It is the embodiment of living in...
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Episode 112 - The Joy of Journaling
"My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects … ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Welcome to another Fireside Friday here at Mountain Zen Den. Come on in… Today we share one of our favorite Personal Growth tools – Journaling. aka – Scribing, memoir writing, keeping a diary… Ideas…
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Ep 111 Colorado Snow Observer (Part 2)
Here are on this Walden Wednesday, we slow down and spend a few precious moments of our day to truly listen, to the thoughts, ideas, and writings of some of the greatest thinkers, naturalists and lovers of Nature the world has ever known. Writers like Emerson, Whitman, Muir and Thoreau. In…
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Ep 110 Meditation Made Simple
Want to learn how to meditate? It's simpler than you may have thought. Today we share a bit about our personal meditation journey and practices, and offer a few practical tips that may help you with yours. We also discuss some ideas from a couple of wonderful books we have been reading lately by...
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Ep 109 Cultivating Compassion
"Along with love, compassion is the face of altruism. It is a feeling deep in the heart that you cannot bear other's suffering without acting to relieve it." ~ The Dalai Lama We come together at MZD to connect with Nature for mindfulness and personal growth. We talk about it all the time. In…
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Ep 108 Why Mindfulness? Why Nature?
"Now is now." ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder We're going to get back to the basics. Can you imagine how awesome it would be to wake up every morning to the amazing beauty and wonderful sounds of nature? We just got back from an amazing hike along Carter Lake and had our senses bombarded by the beauty and...
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Ep 107 Colorado Snow Observer
Welcome to Walden Wednesday! Today we visit with naturalist and nature writer Enos Mills as he shares from the first chapter of his wonderful book, "Wild Life On the Rockies". Relax in the mountain winter solitude and enjoy…
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Ep 106 Human Hibernation
Welcome to the Mountain! Every season has its purpose and has something to teach us. The Dead of Winter – Teaches us about Hibernation & Dormancy Dormancy: The state of having normal physical functions suspended or slowed for a period of time. The state of being temporarily inactive or…
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Ep 105 Cultivating Courage
What are you grateful for today? What's the first thing that comes to mind that you are thankful for? This is always a good place to start our meditation practice. On Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, we celebrate the gift of Courage, for which I am truly grateful. If it weren't for the courage…
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Ep 104 Stay the Course
Great to have you here on a Fireside Friday at Mountain Zen Den. We're almost half way through January! So how are you doing with your goals? Today we discuss the concept of staying on course with your dreams, goals and New Years' resolutions. Here are a few tips and lessons learned from our...
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Ep 103 Cultivating Transcendence
"The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind." ~ Eckhart Tolle´ "The key to growth is the introduction into higher dimensions of consciousness." ~ Lao Tzu It's good to have you here for another Meditation Monday. I know you probably have a very busy schedule, like…
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Ep 102 Getting Your Nature Fix on Ridiculously Cold Winter Days
Great to have you here on a Fireside Friday at Mountain Zen Den. Winter is definitely here! Today Melissa and I discuss and share some tips, thoughts and ideas on how to connect with Nature on really, really ridiculously cold winter days. A few of the ideas we talk about include: How do you…
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Ep 101 Happy Bird Day!
Here are on this Walden Wednesday, we are celebrating National Bird Day by taking a few moments out of our day to slow the heart and mind down enough to truly listen, and absorb the thoughts, ideas, philosophies and writings of great thinkers, naturalists and lovers of Nature like Emerson…
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MZD - Ep 100 Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life Right Now
Hey Gang, so glad you have joined us today, because this is an exciting day for us here at MZD! Not only are we celebrating our 100th episode, but it is also our first Fireside Friday where we sit back here in the Zen Den, as we like to call it, and have a chat with writers, and naturalists,...
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MZD - Ep 99 Cultivating Wisdom
In the most recent series here on Mountain Zen Den we've been talking about cultivating what we call your "Garden of Well-being"… Today we will discuss cultivating Wisdom in our lives. What does this mean? What picture comes to mind when you think of wisdom?... (Socrates, Aristotle, King Solomon,...
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MZD - Ep 98 The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich
Great to have you here on Walden Wednesday at Mountain Zen Den, where we intentionally carve a few moments out of our day in a relaxing nature setting. We do this for the purpose of slowing the heart and mind down enough to truly listen, and absorb the thoughts, ideas, philosophies and writings…
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MZD - Ep 97 Perpetual Morning
Great to have you here for another Walden Wednesday! It's all about intentionally carving a few moments out of your day in a relaxing nature setting in an effort to affect the quality of our lives. We do this by slowing the heart and mind, down enough to absorb the thoughts, ideas, philosophies…
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MZD - Ep 96 Cultivating Abunda
In Episode 82 we introduced the concept of Cultivating Your "Garden of Well-Being". Those qualities in your life that you desire to have more of, and that would help make you a better person. Things like Presence and Gratitude, Hope and Faith, Love and Simplicity, Joy and Tranquility, Beauty and...
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MZD - Ep 95 The Meeting of 2 Eternities
Here at Mountain Zen Den, our Wednesday podcast features passages from Walden and other great classics that relate to cultivating the wisdom, mindfulness and simplicity found in the natural world as offered by some of the most influential naturalists, writers, philosophers and poets of our past....
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MZD - Ep 94 Cultivating Health
MZD Podcast – Ep 94 Welcome to the Mountain! Well how are you feeling today? Are you the picture of health you always dreamed you would be? Today we're going to talk about cultivating one of the most important aspects of your being – Your Health. Our bodies are tied into our entire being and…
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MZD - Ep 93 What Do You Really
Welcome to Walden Wednesday on the Mountain! I want to reward you with something a little different than what we typically experience during our traditional meditation time. In past episodes we have occasionally shared passages from Walden and other great writings and literature, relating to...
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MZD - Ep 92 The Drift
Welcome to Mountain Zen Den! It has been a while, and much has happened since we last met here. The entire world has changed. Dramatically! Yet, while there have been a multitude of anxiety producing events and uncertainty, if you zoom out and look at the big picture, you can see it has actually...
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MZD - Ep 91 Cultivating Wonder
"If I had influence with the good fairy… I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life." ~ Rachel Carson (Nature writer and conservationist) Happy New Year and Welcome to the Mountain! Come on in to Mountain Zen…
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MZD - Ep 90 Cultivating Beauty
"…If you're down to your final dime, can't decide what else to buy to be happy You don't need a credit card to give your heart the beauty of the world..." ~ Peter Mayer Well the hustle and bustle of Christmas has come and gone, and it's the end of another year. Snowflakes are gently falling...
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MZD - Ep 89 Cultivating Tranquility
"Work when there is work to do. Rest when you are tired. One thing done in peace will most likely be better than ten things done in panic…. I am not a hero if I deny rest; I am only tired." ~ Susan McHenry So how are you holding up this holiday season? Are you tired of being told there's only so...
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MZD - Ep 88 Cultivating Joy
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you. A joy." ~ Rumi How are you doing today? Are things going the way you want them to? Are you living the life of your dreams? Are you happy and content with your present state of being? More importantly, is your life filled with joy...
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Self-Development & Simplicity for Nature LoversThe Mountain Zen Den Podcast is the place to connect with Nature for Personal Growth & Simple Living ~ offering daily motivation, inspiration and meditations all inspired by the natural world to help you achieve success in having the life you've always wanted.
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