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Navigating The Modern World

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Kimberly Johnson was mentored by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She loves sharing her experience of working through the tough things that come her way in life. She hopes you enjoy these vulnerable and honest accounts of life and dealing with life. If you want to reach Kimberly you can @ [email protected]

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Episodes

  1. Innate Goodness Meditation

    This is a meditation to help you connect to the goodness that exists in the world.

  2. Episode 194: Why Should I Forgive Them?

    Forgiveness and letting go are always coming up in my life. There are things especially with my family that I am always working through and on. Every once in a while I get clarity about why this is so important. I share some of my insights this morning while driving on the freeway...

  3. Episode 193: Having a Hard Day... Give This a Try

    We all have hard days... Sometimes they are so hard we do not know what to do to help ourselves. I want to say how normal this is. I share about my latest hard day and what happened. If you are having a hard time reach out for help. You are not alone.

  4. Episode 192: Where to Find God...

    Everyone is looking for God? But where can you find them? Where do they live? This podcast explores Where I found god and how you might find them too!

  5. Episode 191: Fear and Uncertainty

    Life right now, but always, has uncertainty. Yet, if we get only caught in fear and uncertainty will be suffer and be imbalanced. A way to balance uncertainty and fear is through finding what is reliable. Mary Oliver explains it best. Enjoy this short but sweet and potent podcast.

  6. Episode 190: Why You People Please and Shape Shift

    This is for all of my shape shifters. You know who you are! Those of you that try and take care of everyone else, people please, have different versions of yourself for different groups of people... Why are you doing this? Here might be a little insight...

  7. Episode 189: Standing at the Kitchen Sink, How to get Clarity...

    Spontaneously clarity arises in our lives if we let it. This is a story about standing at the kitchen sink and being blissfully overcome by presence and truth and clarity.

  8. Episode 188: Insecurities and How to Work with Them

    We all experience insecurities. This podcasts begins to explore our insecurities and how to work with them skillfully so that we can access freedom and peace.

  9. Episode 187: How To Not Be Affected By Others Energy

    We live in a world where we are constantly around other people. At times other people's energy can affect us. Yet, that is a choice that we have control over. This podcast is about how to not let other's energy affect you. It is an important skill if we want to be in the world and make an impact…

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  10. Episode 186: Kindness instead of Hate

    It is a wild time in the world and I have been practicing Metta to be with it all. Here is a description and practice to hopefully support you too! If you love this practice please share it.

  11. Episode 185: What does it mean to be fully alive?

    To be fully alive means to be able to be with and experience all of life. There is pain and there is pleasure. Can you practice fully being with both? Fully let both be here?

  12. Episode 184: Running through puddles

    In life we all have puddles, hard things, challenges that come up. We have some choices. 1. Avoid the puddles 2. Being brave and running right through them! Enjoy!

  13. Episode 183: The magic of pausing

    There are times when if you slow down enough everything magical opens up within you. Wisdom arises and you experience something really special. I had two of those times this week!

  14. Episode 182: Let's Freaking Go

    There are moments that define us... this might be one of them.

  15. Episode 181: Holiday Help - Stay in your lane.

    This time of year is filled with people... being around people, especially family can be hard. This podcast episode is a practice I use to help myself be around people who feel hard to be around. This is for you if you tend to take care of others before you take care of yourself. Enjoy!!

  16. Episode 180: Cultivating Peacefulness

    As I work towards cultivating peace in my day to day life the whole universe unfolds. Come join me!

  17. Episode 179: Whatever You Want Is Possible

    Life is busy and hectic and we can often forget what we want and what we are doing here. This is a moment to pause and remember and reconnect with that feeling deep inside you that knows more than we give it credit for.

  18. Episode 178: Are you feeling stuck?

    We all feel stuck or like we don't know how to change our minds about stuff. We all feel from time to time that life is hard. I have been feeling this way and this is how I am working with it. Please rate and review this podcast if you at all speaks to you!

  19. Episode 177: Are you Lonely?

    This podcast explores loneliness and its opposite deep connection to life and everything in it. There is content about dying in this podcast. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

  20. Episode 176: Suffering Less

    In life things will feel challenging. I believe these are moments of opportunity. Moments to learn. Moments to look. Moments to tell the truth. BUT FIRST you must be in a place you can look and learn from these things. How do we get out of the suffering to gain perspective.

  21. Episode 175: Slowing Down

    Life Ramblings! :)

  22. Episode 174: Balancing the Self

    In this episode I will investigate the quote "the self is required to balance the self". What does this mean and what does it look like in every day life?

  23. Episode 173: What's after the pain?

    I have been thinking a ton about suffering and what it actually means to turn towards it...instead of running away!

  24. Episode 172: Minding Your Own Business

    This is a ramblings of the things I have been thinking about : learning to let go and give more, while also learning to keep my attention on myself in a world that wants to polarize me and have me focus on anything but myself!

  25. Episode 171: Opening Your Heart and Letting Go

    When we let go, something opens up in us that allows us to be fully present and alive in this moment! I ramble for about 30 minutes about this!! Enjoy!

  26. Episode 170: PART 2: Cultivating Relationship with Yourself

    This is Part 2 from the podcast I did last week: it is a continuation of how to build a loving relationship with yourself and ultimately others. I have been reading Non-violent communication and it inspired me so much this week. Also, I cry, don't worry I am okay.

  27. Sitting with Sickness/Pain

    Sitting with Sickness/Pain by Navigating The Modern World

  28. Episode 169: Cultivating Relationship with Yourself

    What does it mean to have a relationship with yourself. What does it mean to have a relationship with yourself while also in relationship with another or with the world. This podcast begins to explore these things...

  29. Episode 168: Spiritual Friendship

    Sometimes, just sometimes you get to have a conversation with one of your best friends and record it! :) This podcast is just a conversation about living and loving and trying to walk the spiritual path! Thanks Sadi!

  30. Episode 167: Working with Negative Thinking

    We all get caught in negative thinking, rumination! Here is some insight into it and how to work with it! Enjoy!

  31. Episode 166: Idealism

    I have a very special guest on this episode! We ramble for a good while about idealism! Such a good time!

  32. Episode 165: Resentment

    In this episode I ramble for quite some time about how to work with resentments in your life! Enjoy!

  33. Episode 164: Learning To Be Balanced

    This episode is a rambling of my curiosity about equanimity and being a physically, emotionally and spiritually balanced person. Enjoy!

  34. Episode 163: Controlling Your Mind

    The mind is a wild thing. To learn to corral it is a practice I think worthy of any life. It is a pathway to peace and it is one I practice daily moment by moment. Enjoy!

  35. Episode 162: How I Learned To Like Myself

    We spend so much of our time worrying about what others will think about us... but what about what we think about us? In life we are born alone and die alone yet we worry more about what others feel about us than what we feel about ourselves. This podcast is about how I learned to like myself.

  36. Episode 161: Letting Go

    Many things have been coming up around death and letting go! I want to keep sharing when I feel inspired!!

  37. Episode 160: Humor

    Humor is one of the most helpful tools we have as humans! So how do we access it?

  38. Episode 159: Thich Nhat Hanh on Living

    Thich Nhat Hanh taught presence and peace like no others. This is one of the most fun and thought provoking things I learned from him. Let's honor him as we explore living in more depth!

  39. Episode 158: Death and Dying

    My grandfather died this week and I was very fortunate to be present for his passing and this is just a moment to reflect and share in the process of death and dying.

  40. Episode 157: Saying YES to Life

    Listen y'all this podcast is one of my favorites! It is all about saying YES to life and saying no to excess. Enjoy!

  41. Episode 156: How to Stop Feeling Frustrated at People

    Listen people are frustrated but we don't have to caught in it! Here is some ramblings about how!

  42. Episode 155: Trick To Make Anything Feel Good

    Happy Holidays y'all!! Here is a trick I use to make things feel good even the things that feel tough! Enjoy!

  43. Episode 154: Silence Is a Superpower

    Episode 154: Silence Is a Superpower by Navigating The Modern World

  44. Episode 153: Greed, Ignorance, and Hatred

    In Buddhism they talk about the 3 Evils: Greed, Ignorance, Hatred and how these are the three things that keep us in suffering. This episode is filmed in three parts, I hope it all goes together! If not please just listen for the golden nuggets that are for you! Enjoy!

  45. Episode 152: Working with Suffering

    So much of life is recognizing when you are suffering and working with that Suffering. This is the shortest and sweetest podcast about just that. Enjoy!

  46. Episode 151: What Change Looks Like

    I want to talk about change and what it actually looks like in my life and I trust many other peoples lives. I think the more honest we can be the more we can free ourselves from perfectionism and self-doubt.

  47. Episode 150: Cultivating What Matters Most

    Sometimes life gives you gifts of wisdom! This podcast feels like nature gifted me massive wisdom and I want to share it!

  48. Episode 149: Learning to Comfort Yourself

    This is a practice to comfort yourself when things feel hard... things can feel hard right now and we need tools to help ourselves!

  49. Episode 148: Taking Care of Yourself

    If you have ever been in a relationship and have been frustrated at the person this podcast is for you ...

  50. Episode 147: Having Preferences is Spiritual

    This episode is all about know what you like and knowing what you prefer as a spiritual practice.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Kimberly Johnson was mentored by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She loves sharing her experience of working through the tough things that come her way in life. She hopes you enjoy these vulnerable and honest accounts of life and dealing with life. If you want to reach Kimberly you can @ [email protected]

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