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Zen talks
by Victor Padilla
Zen talks is a podcast to help support you in your own self healing life journey. In each episode, Spiritual Meditation Coach, Victor Padilla, mbsr, will share perspective with you on topics like — personal development, mindset, spirituality, mental health, healing, overcoming adversity, trauma, letting go, and so much more, as well as, offer practical, effective tools that you can take on to further help you along your journey. Learn to become your own self healer & start living the life you deserve.
Episodes
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The ONLY New Years Resolutions You Need for 2023 & Beyond
A new year doesn’t mean you have to pressure yourself to be different or to set unrealistic goals/expectations for yourself. You don’t have to make New Years resolutions or force yourself to let something go that you maybe still haven’t fully healed from yet. You get to begin this new year...
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Are you…stuck?
How do you respond when things don’t work out exactly as you planned? Do you lost alll hope? Do you let your emotions get the “best” of you? Do you get down on yourself about it? What do you do? Or is there something in life you’d like to do but haven’t done it yet? And if so, what’s holding you...
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Shifting OUT of SHAME
Shame is one of those emotions that so many of us experience (some of us more than others). And the thing about shame is, it can be debilitating. It’s a “tool” that can hinder our ability to grow & it can keep us stuck. But why does shame come up? And is there a way to shift away from shame so…
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It’s YOUR game now— YOU make the rules
Life doesn’t have to be any particular way…yet so many of us fall into this “trap,” where we believe otherwise. Many of us have a vision of the life we’d like to live but because life is “hard” and has its challenges…many of us also never even get to create that life. We end up settling, self...
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Relationships, Breaking up, Trauma, & Shedding Old Skin w Guest: Tatianna Trotman
Relationships, generally, are not easy. It takes a level of love, acceptance, & willingness to continue to say yes over and over & choosing the same person everyday. What happens though, when it’s 4-7 years into the relationship & you realize it’s not what you want anymore? What happens when you...
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Living Fast and Slow
How often do you time to slow down…to just be? So many of us have so much going on our lives that the idea of trying to slow down may often times feel almost…impossible. But what if we CAN live life on the fast lane (& still have our todo lists, still keep all of our appointments, still have...
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This ONE Thing Is Ruining Your Life
Where in your life do you see yourself latching on to something? Who are ppl or things in your life that you feel you may be clinging on to? What expectations are you holding that gets you to believe that something outside of you can fill the void in side of you? In this episode, I share a...
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Realizing How To Let Go
Ever heard the expression — feel your feelings? Well what happens after we “feel” the feelings? Do they just go away? Or is there a way to actually let them go after they’ve been felt? In this episode, I share a perspective and a few tips/tools you can use to help you release the emotional charge...
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Realizing True Self Care— The importance of taking care of YOU!
What does self care look like to you? Or what does it mean to you to practice self care? From my perspective — I notice that often times, self care is painted to be this idea of something that it really truly isn’t. For instance, like on social media, when I see posts pertaining to self care— it...
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Realizing Intuition — Reconnecting To Your Power
When it comes to your intuition, how attuned or connected are you to this potent energy within you? Do you listen to your intuition when it speaks? What happens when you don’t listen? Or have you lost connection with your intuition? Perhaps you find it challenging to tap into this power within.…
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Realizing Emotions
Emotions essentially are what create our reality — often playing a huge role in how we think & behave; influencing the actions & decisions we make about our life, both big & small. Emotions can be short lived— such as in those moments where you probably felt a burst of agitation after someone cut...
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REALizing Manifestation — how to create your reality
This episode is about realizing manifestation—What is manifestation? And how does one manifest? I share my personal experience of the order of events that had to take place to lead me towards manifesting this episode right here. It was a process of me just being, allowing, acknowledging…
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Remembering who U are is spiritual AF
What if everything you’re seeking is already within you? What if the protection or safety or security you seek is already all within you? What if you don’t need confirmation or validation or approval from some outside source to validate you? You have more choice than you may believe. In this...
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How To Be Okay With Pain & Suffering
Pain & suffering is a natural part of life. It’s something that we will alll experience, if not already, at some point in our lives. And while we can’t escape the pain and the suffering of life, there is a skillful, much more self serving way to navigate through it, so that it doesn’t leave us...
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3 Self Soothing Practices To Restore Safety in the Body
In the episode, I share 3 somatic experiencing based healing tools that I use to help me self sooth & to return back to safety anytime I’m emotionally activated, ungrounded, or really anytime I think I need to use them. These techniques have been & continue to be immensely helpful for me & I...
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New Age Spirituality & Healing — What It Is & What It Isn’t
Welcome to spirituality & healing in this new day of age— 2022! Many of us sought out this path to help ourselves create our own reality, to improve ourselves emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and to heal our whole life. And for those of you who are new to this journey, it’s important to know...
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Living authentically
Here is another new episode where I share what living authentic means to me. It’s a short episode (only 10 minutes & 10 seconds) and it’s an especially helpful listen if you find it challenging to show up authentically in your own life. Let me know what you think and if it resonates with you! I’d...
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How to break a ‘bad’ habit
This is an episode where I simply get on to record, flow, and talk about how to break habits that are no longer serving you. I share these tips and perspective based on my own experiences— I share some of the bad habits I had, how I shifted them, and some of the new habits I replaced them with. I...
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How to INSTANTLY Shift Your Mood From Negative to Positive
In this episode, I share perspective on what we can do to help shift our energy or mood into a positive state when we feel it slipping into a dark or negative one. This is especially helpful if you are dealing with S.A.D, or if you notice that your energy tends to be off with the time…
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Becoming Free From The Judging Mind
Judgment is happening all the time. And most times it’s happening and we’re unconscious of it. In this episode, I share a perspective around why being so judgmental can actually be detrimental to our lives & how it also may be what’s blocking many of us from truly living a life felt with peace,...
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It’s OKAY to be Vulnerable (A Love Note)
In this episode, I share a short message, words of inspiration, a gentle reminder to you that it’s okay to be vulnerable with yourself & that it’s okay to let yourself into your heart. Because the days of you having to pretend like you don’t have a heart so that you can protect yourself are…
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It’s not fair (Meditation for Grief & Loss)
In this episode, I share a recorded audio guided mediation on grief and loss; a practice I led live on insight timer yesterday. The intention is to create & hold space as we move through the difficult processes of life. This is an opportunity for us to sit with the truth that…life is not fair.…
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If you’re losing hope, TRY THIS.
Sometimes life will test us and send us challenges that may seem too unbearable or difficult to face or overcome. And in those moments, we may lose hope, trust, faith in ourselves & in god. And if we don’t seek refuge or retreat to heal ourselves, such circumstances can perpetuate further…
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Fake it until you make it
In this episode, I share what “fake it until you make it,” means to me. In short, it means to allow yourself to be a beginner. Whether you’re starting a new job, new relationship, new path of healing even…in the beginning it’ll feel different, it’ll feel scary. And that’s okay. Still, allow...
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Let Go & Let God
When things in your life don’t go the way you planned, how do you respond? What do you do when you feel like everything is just falling apart? Do you lose faith? Do you lose trust? Do you give up? Or what if there was another way to approach these sort of setbacks? What if you can simply…
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Shift The Focus; Shift Your Life
In this episode, I share a recording that I created earlier last month in October talking about energy & how to play with it. I share a thought I was experiencing that almost brought my whole mood & vibration down, but then once I noticed what happened, it shifted everything for me. Let’s play…
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Be Your Own Healer [Season 2]
Hello & truly thank you so much for being here. This is a brand new season & I feel like I’m back with new energy, really feeling the growth, noticing the love for myself has gotten deeper & I’m so ready to share this energy & new found wisdom with you. This season I’m flowing, doing things...
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Come back to your senses (mindfulness of the prezent moment) Guided Meditation
This is a 20 min focused awareness guided meditation that starts around the 5:00 min mark. This practice focuses on using the 5 senses as a way to help drop us back into our bodies, out of our minds, and into the prezent moment. Often times we’re ruminating thoughts in our mind, thinking of the...
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Blast to the Past — inner child healing meditation
In this episode, I share a short guided meditation that I created around healing the inner child. This is a short practice that aims to first help us cultivate a sense of calm, relaxation, & safety through grounding our energy in the present moment. Then we take a trip to the past to our earliest...
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Crown Chakra Healing — Becoming ONE
In this episode, I share a short guided meditation for crown chakra healing. We are all energy. Everything we say, do, think, & feel affects that of which is around us. And so when our energy is off, this can not only affect ourselves but it can also affect our environment & the people within it....
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Guided (Energy Healing) Meditation— releasing ALL negative energy from within
In this episode, I guide you along a short energy healing meditation with nature sounds in the background (sounds of water, birds) to help us release any energy that we may be holding onto, that may be trapped in our bodies, or lingering in our minds. This practice aims to achieve this goal by...
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Heal Your Throat Chakra — Open Awareness Guided (Mindfulness) Meditation
In this episode, I share a short guided practice that’s intended to support you in healing & opening the throat chakra. It’s a mindfulness based practice where we begin our focus on the breath to help ground & cultivate presence. Then continuing on using the breathe, we open up our awareness to…
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Breathe & Listen: A Guided Meditation To Clear Away Negative Energy & Welcome In Peace & Calm
Healing is intentional. When we sit in meditation with the intention to bring a quality into us that allows us to feel calm, peaceful, alert, & present, the true healing begins. Tuning inward into ourselves, into our bodies, breathing & listening, we become connected to our experience in the here…
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Guided Insight Meditation (Coaching session) — Focus & Inner Clarity
In this (special edition) episode of zen talks, I share a mini session of what meditation coaching looks like. This is a guided practice that integrates coaching with meditation by helping you to cultivate a sense of calm, focus, & inner clarity to then gain the insight you need so that you can...
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Guided Meditation For Calm & Deep Relaxation
This is a short guided meditation (about 10 minutes) to cultivate a sense of calm & deep relaxation. This practice begins with a focus on the breathe to help ground & stabilize the mind, body, & soul. Then it brings you along a short body scan to help deepen your relaxation here in the present...
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Living w intentions — how to create the life you deserve
Living with intention is key to helping you truly create the life you know you deserve. In this episode, I share a personal experience with how I used intentions to help create the kind of day I felt I deserved and share a few tips on what you can do today to start living more intentionally.
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Heart-Centered, Energy Healing, Mindfulness Guided Meditation
In this episode, I share a 20 min heart-centered/energy healing/trauma-sensitive/breath/body awareness guided meditation practice. In this practice, we begin by setting an intention, we then use visualization to help us focus in on the breath, we ground, and we embark on a mindfulness journey...
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An unconventional approach to mindfulness
In this short episode, I share brief insight on what mindfulness truly is without all the fluff. I recorded this episode outside while sitting in my car, so you may a few sounds of cars passing by in the background but it’s very light. Overall I think you’ll enjoy this episode. Let me know what…
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The Answer To Our Suffering Is Found Here
After recording this, editing, then finalizing it, is when I noticed the episode was 3:33 long and I couldn’t help but smile because I’m so BIG on synchronicities, so I loved seeing that. In this episode, I talk about the two most important things I cultivated in my life to help reduce my own...
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Mindfulness Of The Breath (Guided Meditation)
This is a guided meditation, perfect for beginners, where we focus on the simple process of the breath. In this practice, you may experienced a feeling of calm, focus, & clarity.
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Zen talks is a podcast to help support you in your own self healing life journey. In each episode, Spiritual Meditation Coach, Victor Padilla, mbsr, will share perspective with you on topics like — personal development, mindset, spirituality, mental health, healing, overcoming adversity, trauma, letting go, and so much more, as well as, offer practical, effective tools that you can take on to further help you along your journey. Learn to become your own self healer & start living the life you deserve.
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