Mindful Moments with Shirley Archer
Like green tea, this podcast is filled with goodness just for you. Join me, the Wellness Sensei aka Shirley Archer -Eichenberger on the path to optimizing your health and wellness with my special blend of Japanese wisdom and Modern science.
Episodes
January 6, 2021 • 15 mins
15 minute guided meditation for self care, self love, self acceptance, forgiveness and positive good will. Practicing metta will improve your mood and help you to feel peaceful, grounded and centered. This meditation focuses on offering yourself compassion and care and then extending those feelings of good will to all beings that you want to share kindness with. May love and kindness travel with you today and always.
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September 15, 2020 • 8 mins
Enjoy a 5 minute meditation to relieve stress, clear your mind and reduce racing thoughts. Even 5 minutes can lower stress levels fast that impact your mental and physical well-being. Boost benefits more by listening when you're outside and enjoying some fresh air
I lead you through a 5 minute meditation for busy people. You will experience awareness of breath, physical sensations, sounds and thoughts. Enjoy this guided 5 minute p...
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September 15, 2020 • 7 mins
Want a break right at your computer -- a short easy guided breaktime meditation? This simple 5 minute body awareness meditation is for YOU or for those who say, "I've never meditated before." Relaxing and focusing on your body is a great way how to improve your mind body connection. This is a 5 minute guided meditation to increase mindfulness of the body.
This short easy guided meditation is an effective body awareness hack. Pra...
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September 2, 2020 • 11 mins
In this 10 minute gratitude meditation, you will experience feeling grateful. Practicing this is one way how to improve mindfulness. We focus on feelings of gratitude and appreciation as the object of our attention. We 'mindfully' notice what thoughts, feelings and sensations come up when we focus on gratitude and appreciation. This meditation is informed by principles of neuroscience to increase positivity.
Gratitude practice is ...
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August 17, 2020 • 14 mins
This is a 15 minute meditation that focuses on connecting with gratitude in my series of meditations to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. It's important to find calm in the storm.
A guided meditation that focuses on gratitude and all the good...
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August 17, 2020 • 7 mins
This is a 5 minute guided meditation to feel better. When you pause to send love and care to those important to you, it feels good and boosts your mood. This also is a 5 minute meditation for self care. It helps you to connect with feelings of loving kindness and self compassion and helps you avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety and to allow you to find calm in the storm. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your...
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August 17, 2020 • 8 mins
Enjoy a 5 minute meditation to relieve stress, clear your mind and reduce racing thoughts. Even 5 minutes can lower stress levels fast that impact your mental and physical well-being. Boost benefits more by listening when you're outside and enjoying some fresh air
I lead you through a 5 minute meditation for busy people. You will experience awareness of breath, physical sensations, sounds and thoughts. Enjoy this guided 5 minute p...
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August 17, 2020 • 12 mins
Enjoy this a tree meditation to feel grounded and uplifted. The Tree Meditation for centering and grounding is a way to enhance your connection with nature and experience the scientific benefits of green exercise. Through meditation and visualization, you can enjoy a virtual nature experience and enjoy natural stress reduction, peace and inner calm.
In this 10 minute guided tree meditation for calming, you will visualize the quali...
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June 22, 2020 • 8 mins
Do you want to stress less and avoid feeling overwhelmed by life's unpredictability? Are you wondering how meditation reduces stress and if meditation can help you change your life? If yes, this video helps.
In this podcast, I explain how and why meditation helps you to lower stress, increase calm, boost self-confidence and enjoy a more stable life. Meditation is a proven technique to reduce feelings of fear and anxiety and helps ...
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June 22, 2020 • 1 min
Meditation saved my life and helped me recover from rape trauma. I was required in a meditation teacher training course to create a podcast explaining why I meditate and I decided I should share the complete truth, because meditation is a powerful source of healing. It's difficult to put into words how meditation has changed my life.
Through meditation, I connected with my Higher Self. I realized I'm much more than this body. Ther...
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June 22, 2020 • 8 mins
Listening to sounds is an excellent introduction to meditation practice. By heightening and focusing awareness on the sense of sound, you begin the process of paying attention on purpose. In this podcast, Shirley leads a 5 minute mindfulness meditation on sounds for beginners. She provides you with a direct experience of how to relax and stress less with sound meditation. The Sound Meditation is a way to enhance mindfulness. By inc...
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June 22, 2020 • 3 mins
Learn what is "green exercise" and the scientific benefits of outdoor green exercise - what scientific research tells us about how exercising outdoors is good for mood, mental health, brain fitness, and physical fitness and is a natural way to reduce stress.
Why do green exercise? Green exercise has many mind body benefits. Green exercise can increase mindfulness, reduce blood pressure and improve sleep quality, among other benefi...
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June 22, 2020 • 5 mins
8 Mind and Body Ways to Reduce Colds and Flus
In this podcast, Shirley shares 8 ways you can prevent colds and flus, or, if you get sick, to reduce symptom severity. You’re excited to achieve your new goals. But, nothing gets in the way of finishing your to-do list than getting sick. And, it’s no fun. People are counting on you—you need to get back in shape.
These mind body tips and tricks to stop colds and flus are proven ways t...
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June 22, 2020 • 11 mins
Did you know that indoor air is 12x more polluted than outdoor air? And, shoes can carry tons of germs indoors?
In this podcast, I share 10 ways you can prevent colds and flu at home by making your home healthier. These all natural tips to make your home healthy reduce household germs, boost your immune system and improve life quality by making your home life healthier and happier.
Research supports each of these practices that m...
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June 22, 2020 • 8 mins
In this podcast, Shirley explains what are telomeres and why telomeres matter. Telomeres and telomerase are associated with preserving youthfulness, longevity and healthy aging. Learn the relationship between telomeres and beauty and the latest research overview on what you can do to improve your lifestyle habits based on proven factors.
Shirley also explains the link between research on telomeres and the mind body connection and ...
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June 22, 2020 • 8 mins
Relieve neck and shoulder tension while sitting at your desk with this quick and easy stress busting, tension relieving shoulder self-massage that you can do seated in front of your computer. Get instant neck and shoulder relief. Learn how to massage away your shoulder pain, neck pain, stress and tension. Enjoy a quick and easy scalp massage. The self-massage takes only 5 minutes. Shirley has over 25 years as a health educator and ...
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June 22, 2020 • 9 mins
Enjoy a quick and easy 5 minute office workout with these exercises you can do at your desk. Go to :30 to start exercising immediately. Shirley is an internationally acclaimed award-winning instructor and wrote 15 books, including Fitness 9 to 5: Easy Exercises for the Working Week.
Featuring back toning exercises and stretches and a bonus neck strengthener, stretch and massage, these are the best exercises for office workers. The...
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June 22, 2020 • 2 mins
Want a break right at your computer -- a short easy guided meditation to increase kindness and self acceptance? This simple 2 minute loving kindness meditation is for YOU or for those who say, "I've never meditated before."
Relax, release stress and feel more peaceful. This short easy guided meditation encourages you to have more self-compassion, to accept yourself as you are and to let go of what no longer serves you. Give yourse...
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June 22, 2020 • 14 mins
This is a 15 minute meditation to avoid emotional overwhelm and anxiety and to allow you to find calm in the storm. When current events are upsetting, meditating can calm your mind, quiet racing thoughts, settle anxiety and help you to feel more grounded and centered. Emotions can start to overwhelm. A guided meditation that focuses on present-moment awareness and that supports being, rather than doing, can create calm during unres...
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June 22, 2020 • 3 mins
Learn how to observe thoughts WITHOUT reacting or getting caught up can help you, particularly if you tend to replay the same types of thoughts in your head over and over. What do I mean by that? Let's say you tend to replay a negative experience - making a bad experience last much longer. That habit doesn't help you. Learn how to observe through meditation to reveal these mental habits--like replaying bad experiences, worrying abo...
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