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Nearly Mindful
by Nearly Mindful
We are all a work in progress, aren't we? Use the #MindfulMonday Mindfulness tips to start your week off right! Learn more about Nearly Mindful at http://www.nearlymindful.com
Episodes
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Just Calm Down!
I was having a cup of chai with a friend when I overheard a conversation at the next table. A young man was getting more and more worked up about voting. Would his ballot arrive? Could he trust the mail? What if it didn’t come? Should he go to the registrar’s office? What if something went wrong...
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What If You Listened Before Deciding What to Say?
Have you ever caught yourself planning what you’re going to say while someone else is still talking? I have. How about you? We hear something that sparks an idea, reminds us of a story, or makes us want to offer advice. Before we know it, we’re putting together our response, and the person in…
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Maybe You're Already Doing It
Back in the 1980s, I tried really hard to learn how to meditate. I’d sit diligently, following my breath, focusing on the flame of a candle, trying to quiet my busy mind. I even tried Transcendental Meditation for a while. I really wanted it to work. The trouble was, I expected something pretty...
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When You’re Stuck, Start Here
You can be stuck deciding whether to go back to school. Stuck in a job you’ve outgrown. Stuck wondering whether it’s time to leave a relationship, move across the country, start something new, or finally do the thing you’ve been talking yourself out of for years. You can definitely be stuck in...
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It Is What It Is
Don’t you hate it when people say that? “It is what it is.” 😏 It sounds dismissive. Flat. Like a shrug. Like we’re supposed to accept whatever is happening, swallow our feelings, and move on. Maybe what bothers me about that phrase is that it’s so often true. Something happened. Something…
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Hope is not a wish
When I was a little girl, I wanted a horse. What little girl doesn’t want something that will love her unconditionally in a challenging world? I wished. I pleaded. I begged, but none of that worked. One day a neighbor needed help caring for a horse, and I was willing to show up. That was the…
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The Cost of Gratitude
Sometimes we use the word gratitude to soothe what aches. We tell ourselves we should be grateful because things could be worse, or because we already have enough. But sometimes that “gratitude” is covering up something else entirely. In this short episode, I’m wondering what happens when we stop...
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Coming Back
Imagine a meditation hall filled with perfectly serene people. Straight backs. Peaceful faces. Not a wandering thought in sight. At least that’s what it looks like. The reality? Most of us are paddling away beneath the surface like swans on a lake, wondering if we’re doing this right while…
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Just Being
Sometimes we forget that we’re allowed to simply BE. Not fixing, planning, solving, or carrying the weight of everything for everyone else. This is your time to step out of the noise and into the simple experience of being alive. To notice the breath, the body, the sounds around you, and the…
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The Wave is One With the Ocean
So much suffering comes from believing we are separate, alone, disconnected. Life shows us again and again that we belong to each other, to this world, to this moment. This meditation explores nonduality in a simple, human way through the metaphor of the wave and the ocean. Together we’ll soften...
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Thinking Wisely
Let's explore how our thoughts shape our experience and how easily we can get pulled into them without realizing it. Using a simple story of a painter and a tiger, I walk you through a grounded way to notice thinking, let it be, and gently set it down so you can stay present without fighting your...
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Honoring MLK day with a wish for peace and dignity
A Meditation for human dignity, compassion, and shared humanity in a time we all need to feel at home on our hearts and minds. Offered on the day we celebrate the words, thoughts and good works of Reverend Martin Luther King. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at...
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Rest is Your Right
Today, we'll explore rest—not as something to earn, but as a basic act of compassion toward yourself. Rest is a right, not a privilege. It's a form of healing. A radical actof self-kindness. When you find yourself caught up in the turmoil and you can escape for just a moment, allow yourself to…
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Manifesting Your Desire
A short meditation from my class on manifesting our intentions. Listen to it a few times as you begin to get comfortable with manifesting your intentions. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Steadying the Heart
In this meditation, we'll explore the art of returning our hearts to steadiness during times of stress. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Accepting What Is: Your Journey To Inner Peace
Life's unpredictability can be challenging, but this guided journey empowers you to find peace within the present moment. Release the grip of frustration and stress as you learn to accept life's circumstances with a sense of calm and resilience Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at...
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Holding Ourselves in Grace
We can find the center of ourselves in a place where grace offers comfort, care, love and the ability to hold space for ourselves as well as others. A meditation on grace from Nearly Mindful and Janet Fouts. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Stop Saying I'm Sorry
Saying "I'm sorry" can become a reflexive response to so many things, but do we really mean it? Saying I’m sorry isn’t always an acceptance of responsibility, or fault, offering to fix it, or taking the blame for something. And yet we say it. So what can we do to express regret for something...
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Getting Centered #MindfulMonday
When we're busy, busy, busy, it's a good idea to take a few breaths to re-center so we can be at our best! Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Sitting With Our Thoughts
Mind too busy to meditate? Yeah, I get it, I've been there too, but my eyes were opened with a little practice, and I see it differently now. So can you. Have a listen and let me know what you think! Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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On Empathy and Burnout
Sometimes we overload ourselves with the worries of others. We want to help, to support, but we also need to take care of ourselves as well as the other person. If you, like me, are a "fixer", wanting to be there for someone to the point we wear ourselves out? Listen to this podcast and let me…
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Ho'oponopono a Forgiveness Practice
This Hawaiian forgiveness practice is about accepting responsibility for wrongs that are done. Not just wrongs by us or to us, but accepting responsibility for what is going on in our world and offering to reconcile with those wrongs on a universal scale. We can heal our fractured world by...
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The thing about meditation is...
Pretty much nobody just sits down, starts meditating, and is immediately changed. Like everything else you aspire to do, you gotta practice to develop your skills. You gotta do the work to reap the rewards. The work is the practice. The joy is in the practice too. Get full access to Microdosed...
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Keeping a Mental Picture
When things get rough on this roller coaster ride we call life, the memories of what brings us happiness or joy can sustain us. This is simply a reminder to be present with matters most. Different for everyone in one way or another, but alike all the same. We are one human race, with similar...
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Automatic thinking- With Dr. Cecilia Lopez
Listen to my dear friend Dr Cecilia Lopez on those automatic thoughts that influence our behaviors in so many ways. Dr. Lopez has been practicing therapy for eight years in California’s South San Francisco Bay Area. She has a doctorate and master’s degree in counseling psychology and is a…
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A New Year Wish
My wish for you for 2021 is to know that you are good enough, strong, enough, smart enough, and to wish for you all that you need to be your best self. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Living IN Gratitude
If we can take just a second or two to appreciate before we move on? We open the door to making appreciation and gratitude an integral part of our lives. We can LIVE in gratitude and enjoy the benefits all the time. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Can you just BE for a minute?
When we allow ourselves the freedom to simply Be, without having to DO, it can be incredibly freeing. Give it a try? Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Finding equanimity in uncertain times
This concept of equanimity, of letting go of struggle and letting what is be– can be challenging and yet, liberating. We can struggle and struggle, or we can change how we approach life and challenge. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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5 things for anxiety
This meditation offers a short 5 step practice to get grounded when you're feeling anxious or stressed. Gi e it a try! Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Happy Monday ?
We have such interesting relationships with the days of the week. Monday is the beginning of the week for most of us, and can have quite a lot of emotion connected to it. Take a listen and let me know how you feel about Mondays! Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at...
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The Path You Choose
Sometimes we feel like a feather on the wind, our emotions ruled by external forces and unable to get grounded. Those are the times when we forget that we have the power to choose our own path. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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One Precious Moment
When we are running so fast we can't even remember how we got here or what we were supposed to be doing? That's a very good time to take a moment to check-in. To just be, even if it's only for a heartbeat. To stop the endless stories in our head and focus on what is truly real, in this present...
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Letting go of self-criticism
These days we are on edge, quick to judge ourselves (and others) and all of that judgment weighs on us. This meditation/journaling exercise is a useful way to let go and move to forgiveness. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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For the trees
I am so grateful for the beauty and gift of trees, so naturally, I wrote this meditation to honor them and Mother Earth. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Finding Your Safety - Querencia
There is a beautiful word in Spanish - querencia. It can loosely be translated as a place where one feels safe, at home, where one draws one’s strength from. WE all have this place inside us, we need only to find it. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at...
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Finding Your Place of Peace- Even in a Pandemic
These are difficult times, CoronaVirus is filling our minds with fear and grief. How do we find that sense of security, wellbeing and peace? It's right here, inside you. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Connecting with Our Emotions
It's not always easy to really connect with emotions just as they are. This meditation can help you turn the microscope of attention, to process the emotion by expressing it more fully. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Learning to train attention - meditate
Learning to meditate is actually much simpler than many think. It's the stories we tell ourselves that are holding us back. Here's an alternative idea in a super-simple meditation practice. Read the script at http://www.nearlymindful.com/blog/training-attention-and-meditation Get full access to...
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Take a break for a mindful moment
It's my belief that becoming a more mindful person is more easily done by taking small actions throughout the day. These mindful moments may help you make mindfulness a bigger part of your life, and that benefits all of us. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at...
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Breathing through the noise
When we are in a stressful, perhaps chaotic space, this meditation can help focus on the present moment and quiet our heart and mind Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Recognizing Judgment
On this Martin Luther King Day, let's talk about how we see through different lenses, how judgment appears and what we can do to see things from a little distance, and a different perspective. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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The things that bug us
It’s so easy to get hung up in rumination about things that we can’t fix right now. The short #meditation might be helpful. #NearlyMindful Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Manage Self-Judgement through Mindful Practice
#MindfulMonday We have been constantly bombarded by judgment since the day we were born. Did we walk soon enough, talk soon enough, excel at school, make our teachers, our friends, our parents happy. Are we successful at business, in love, in life? No wonder we wallow in self judgement most of…
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Mindfulness Tips to Believe in Yourself
#MindfulMonday We are constantly told as we grow up and go through our adult life that we should play to our strengths and that understanding our strengths and our weaknesses can help us to be more successful. But it’s really our approach to those strengths and weaknesses that needs to be...
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Phubbing: Be Mindful of Cell Phone Addiction
#MindfulMonday Do you know what phubbing is? It's the practice of snubbing others, either unconsciously or consciously, with our phones. I know, I know, it’s your communication tool, but bear with me, OK? According to a study by Meredith David and James Roberts of 145 adults, phubbing decreases...
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Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence: Leveraging Inner Resources
#MindfulMonday We encounter emotional triggers throughout our day and sometimes we respond to them more skillfully than others. We can adopt a gentle acceptance of our emotional response. Instead of fighting against the trigger, we can recognize it and by doing so minimize it’s hold on us. This...
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Pause and allow
When we give ourselves time to pause, it can open new doors that we haven't been able to see. We simply need to pause and allow what is to show itse;f. Take 5 minutes to practice with me, won't you? Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Body Scan Techniques to Assess Emotions
#MindfulMonday A body scan meditation helps you get in touch with the physical feelings in your body. Connecting these feelings with your emotions is an important step to self-awareness. Give this a try! Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: Give Yourself Some Love
#MindfulMonday Offering yourself some self-compassion is the best thing you can do for yourself when you're feeling stressed. Get full access to Microdosed Mindfulness at www.microdosedmindfulness.com/subscribe
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We are all a work in progress, aren't we? Use the #MindfulMonday Mindfulness tips to start your week off right! Learn more about Nearly Mindful at http://www.nearlymindful.com
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