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Pneuma with Daniel Finneran — 174 episodes

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1

The cellular cleanup you didn’t know you needed | Melanie Icard

2

Maple water is mother’s milk | Nicole Bentler

3

Sweating for a living | Chris Ryan

4

Lumber to slumber | Luke Mickelson

5

In the cell hides the secret | Jason Shumard

6

The diesel man who gives a dram | Paul Lagerstedt

7

A pediatric anesthesiologist’s guide to (never) growing old | Sandra Kaufmann

8

An uncooked marathoner treads his meatless way | Axay Shah

9

A bar mitzvahed barkeep catches a whiff | Craig Goldberg

10

A yogi astride two worlds | Serena Arora

11

Beads in beds | Tara Youngblood

12

The homebuilder who jumped out of his own window | Dave Rossi

13

Seedy business | Cherie Calbom

14

The fiber is in the feathers | Judy Morgan

15

The finest vintage: for the woman still waiting for love

16

To the woman who fears she’s running out of time (a fertility reframe)

17

A quarter million erections | Elliot Justin

18

Harmony, not symmetry, is the essence of beauty | Nicholas Nikolov

19

A radiologist in search of a root | Kavin Mistry

20

George Washington’s peptide cocktail | Regan Archibald

21

A breath away from a better life | Tim Thomas

22

Your mattress, demystified | Derek Hales

23

Can hypnosis heal you? | Peter McLaughlin

24

Good as Goo! | Jodi Scott

25

Fertility - for the sake of our species | Kirsten Karchmer

26

Harmonize your voice. Liberate your soul | Deepak Chari

27

Overcoming AI Anxiety: A 20-Minute Meditation for Tranquility (and Humanity)

28

A will to live. A will to die | Jermaine Ee

29

Give voice to Grief | John Kammer

30

The Safe Harbor: Evening Affirmations to Release Anxiety and Rewire for Inner Peace

31

Are we DOOMED to decline? | Eileen Kopsaftis

32

Regain your focus. Reclaim your life | Steven Puri

33

The Slippery and Viscous: Why you don’t say what you mean

34

The saddest words: “It might have been”

35

How plants can heal you | David Crow

36

Longevity, AI, and the fast-approaching future of preventive health | Hunter Ziesing

37

Eat to Live, Don't Live to Eat: Molière’s Dietary Discipline

38

The Sistine Lesson: How Admiring an Adversary Can Elevate You

39

Luci and I chat about great art

40

Everyone else seems HAPPY. Why aren’t you?

41

Anger does more harm than the injury that caused it

42

Should you live like a SIMPLETON? A lesson from Alyosha the Pot

43

My early morning reflections on ITALY (recorded at 4:00 AM)

44

Does fitness begin in the body? Does wisdom begin in the mind?

45

5 More Easy Ways to Boost your Daily STEPS - Part II

46

For someone who is overweight, where’s the best place to BEGIN — not just physically, but mentally?

47

5 Easy Ways to Boost your Daily STEPS - Part I

48

The spirit of the CHASE. Shakespeare, Dopamine, and the secret of DESIRE

49

Life in the shadow of death - A meditation

50

Avoid these common mistakes when wearing a WEIGHTED VEST

51

Can the KETO diet help relieve menstrual cramps?

52

We met on a dating app. In 2 weeks, we’ll be married.

53

What’s the SINGLE best thing you can do to improve your health?

54

Shakespeare the HERBALIST? How Ophelia’s flowers can heal you

55

How I built my CHEST. Simple, straightforward, actionable advice.

56

The hour of TRUTH is (always) now

57

How to look SNATCHED for your wedding

58

Is fasting a FAD?

59

Grocery Guide - BEEF JERKY - How to Buy, What to Avoid, and How to Make your own

60

Your Intellect is an EMANATION from God.

61

Everything that truly HAPPENS, happens to YOU

62

Why you must MOVE after meals

63

Do you have a DUTY to be happy?

64

Simple exercises for stronger EYES

65

Intermittent Fasting v. The "30-30-30" Protocol: Which is better?

66

Turning water into weight LOSS? The secret about SAUNAS

67

Nutrient timing: It's not only what, but WHEN you eat that matters

68

A Lullaby for Lovers: SEX and sleep

69

The untold PERILS of Protein Powder

70

The MILL and the WATER: A meditation on memory, futility, and FLOW

71

The drain snake of the SOUL

72

Collagen: The protein (literally) holding you together!

73

They never taste, who always DRINK

74

What your BRAIN really thinks about your GUT feelings

75

Welcome to Pneuma

76

How to become UNCLUTTERED

77

Welcome back to Pneuma! (Renewed and Relaunched, 2025)

78

How to Deal with DISTRACTION with TS Eliot

79

The “Burning Babe” Who Makes Your Heart GLOW (Christmas Episode!) | Pneuma Nuggets

80

“A man travels the WORLD in search of what he needs and returns HOME to find it” | Pneuma Nugget

81

Don't Live An IMAGINARY Life In The Mind of Others

82

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Fall Asleep With Me

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A Reflection on FRIENDS & Remembrance of Things PAST

84

A Meditation For A RAINY Day: Tracing The “History Of A Single Raindrop”

85

Four Quartets by TS Eliot | The Great Poems Of All Time

86

“Footfalls Echo In The Memory”: How To Think About And Deal With REGRET

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Fall Asleep With Me

88

How to Think About and Deal with REMORSE, The “Poison Of Life”

89

Alternate Nostril Breathing: Simple and SOOTHING (Tutorial and Practice for BEGINNERS)

90

Middlemarch by George Eliot | Fall Asleep With Me

91

What If You Had to Relive Each Moment Of Your Life Again And Again (Forever?)

92

Hidden Inside Each One of Us Is An Unimaginable “I”. Where Is Yours?

93

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Fall ASLEEP With Me

94

How To Breathe As Nature Intended: (Deeply) With Your DIAPHRAGM!

95

We’ve Surpassed 50k Downloads! And It's All Thanks to YOU!

96

How To MASTER Your EMOTIONS! (It's Easier Than You Think!)

97

A Guided GROUNDING Meditation | My Personal Technique (ADVANCED)

98

A SUPER SLEEPY Countdown From 100 To 0 To Help You Fall Asleep (More Effective Than Counting Sheep!)

99

Savor the Season: Learn How To Live In The HERE And NOW!

100

A DEVIL’S Response to HAMLET’S Big Question: “To Be Or Not To Be”?

101

Where The Wild Things Are | Fall ASLEEP With Me

102

“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s GONE”: How Deprivation Sharpens Our Idea of Value

103

Goodnight Moon | A DREAM-inducing SLEEP STORY (Perfect for *KIDS* and ADULTS!)

104

Nourishment For The Body and Soul: Getting to the MARROW of Life

105

A Meditation on Life's BIGGEST Question: “To be, or not to be?”

106

20-Minute Morning Affirmations To Build Your CONFIDENCE

107

A Guided Meditation For Your TEA Time (As CALMING As Chamomile!)

108

How to Keep Calm in a Crazy World | A Gentle Guided Meditation

109

Life Lessons From YouTube's SLEEP GURU | Jason Stephenson

110

Sailing to Byzantium by WB Yeats | The Great Poems Of All Time

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A Celebration Of The Sun: Gratitude For Our Great Star Above

112

A Simple 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise | On The Beach

113

If-- by Rudyard Kipling | The Great Poems Of All Time

114

A Quick, Calming Breathing Meditation At The Beach

115

Treat Your Feet Right! Basic Strength, Balance, and Grounding For A Healthier Base

116

Momotaro (The Peach Boy) | Fall Asleep With Me

117

A Meditation on Human Nature with Machiavelli and The Buddha

118

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Fall Asleep With Me

119

Guided Meditation For When You're On An Airplane

120

How To Lose Weight Like a Stoic

121

Is Happiness Attainable in THIS Life?

122

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey | Fall Asleep With Me

123

How To Think About The Sublime And Beautiful: A Lesson In Aesthetics For Everyone

124

Gentle Stretches for the Relief of Neck Pain and Tension (Delivered to You by a Buttery-Smooth Voice!)

125

Food, Shelter, Clothing - How Our Most Basic Needs Become Our Undoing

126

Learn to Love and Celebrate the Morning! It's the Most Memorable Season of the Day

127

Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Fall Asleep With Me

128

Wisdom is The Mother of all Good Things: Let us Befriend Her

129

Guided Beach Meditation: The Sea, The Sand, And The Sublime

130

The Bible: Genesis | Fall Asleep with Me

131

The Promethean Diet | Eat Like a Titan!

132

Czeslaw Milosz; Unity in Multiplicity; E Pluribus Unum; Art; Personality; the Divine; Parmenides| Jog Your Mind - Episode 3

133

Works and Days by Hesiod | Fall Asleep with Me

134

Worldly Possessions: Do You Possess Them? Or Do THEY Possess You?

135

How to Perfect Your Posture - From Your Toes to Your Tongue

136

Why You Should Grow Into a Child; Jesus’ advice to do so; Nietzsche’s Three Stages of Spiritual Development, Ending in Childhood | Jog Your Mind - Episode 2

137

Faust by Goethe | Fall Asleep With Me

138

Perfect Happiness; Sublime Felicity; The Eternal; God and the Devil; Goethe; and the Faustian Pact | Jog Your Mind - Episode 1

139

Sun Yourself Like a Cynic - A Philosopher's Guide to Sunbathing

140

Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli | Fall Asleep With Me

141

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Fall Asleep With Me

142

“An Honest Heart and a Knowing Head” | Lessons from Thomas Jefferson on How to Live Well

143

In The Garden Of Life, Sow Great Thoughts. A Great Destiny Will Blossom

144

Do You Want a Transcendent Experience? (For Free?!) Go Out Into Nature, and Connect with a Tree

145

Your Complete Guide to Sleep: From Sunrise to Sunset, How to Prepare for and Enjoy a Blissful, Restful Night

146

Shhhhh...For When You Awake In The Middle Of The Night, And You Can't Fall Back Asleep

147

How To Live A "Good Life", The Epicurean Way

148

Some Reflections on Mass Shootings - A Somber, But Necessary Meditation

149

Join Me! A Walking Meditation For a Beautiful Spring Day

150

To What Lofty Summits We Shall Climb! A Guided Hiking Meditation

151

Eudaimonia, the Secret to Happiness: What is it? And Where is it Found?

152

Thoughts in a Garden - A Meditation with Andrew Marvell

153

Guided Meditation for When You’re in the Checkout Aisle at the Grocery Store

154

O Walden, Where Art Thou? A Guided Walking Meditation, With Henry David Thoreau

155

How To Become A Morning Person

156

How to be Pure of Mind

157

Guided Meditation For When You're In the Shower

158

How To Be Unbothered By External Things

159

Why Are We Consumed By Stress?

160

How To Respond To Failure

161

Five Minute Morning Meditation

162

Guided Meditation For When You've Overeaten

163

Guided Meditation - Body Scan - Bedtime

164

Guided Meditation For When You're Driving

165

Guided Meditation For Gratitude

166

Guided Meditation For Dealing With Hunger

167

How To Benefit From Mean People

168

Join Me! A Walking Meditation on a Crisp, Autumn's Day

169

Tired of Political Bickering? Uncomfortable with the Hostility You Feel for an "Enemy" on the Other Side? Here's How To Think About Politics Without Becoming Angry

170

Guided Meditation For Mindful Eating

171

Guided Moderate Morning Stretch

172

How To Deal With Difficult People

173

How To Stop Fretting About Others

174

Guided Gentle Morning Stretch