December 14, 2024 • 37 mins
What happens when the holiday season is both magical and profoundly challenging? Join us as we explore the paradox of The Holiday Season where joy and grief can coexist. Discover how speaking from the heart fosters deeper connections, even during the busiest season of the year. We'll also offer tips on how to navigate holiday stress with creativity and joy, encouraging you to embrace your personal "masterpiece," whether through writing, painting, or supporting small businesses while maintaining that Christmas sparkle all year long.
Plus, experience a special gift of peace and reflection with a soothing sound meditation from Lindsay Markovits, a talented sound healer and yoga teacher. Let the calming sounds of a stream guide you on a meditative journey to release tension and find tranquility, inspired by the sacred site of St Necton's Glen. Whether you seek relaxation or a festive film marathon, we've got you covered this holiday season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is a Christmas special?
I was thinking of that earlier.
What is a Christmas special?
Usually it follows some sort ofChristmassy theme and something
magical which isn't too far off, in many ways as podcasts, but
yeah, we kind of dig deep and gointo things and hopefully, if
(00:21):
you live in an area where it isdark, you've got used to the
light by now, but it can make usfeel a little bit more kind of
sensitive.
So I'm here to bring you a bitof sparkle into the world.
So how is that going to happen?
First of all, I'm going toremind you of that magic feeling
(00:43):
that many of us may get at thistime of the year, and I'm not
blind to the fact that somepeople are going through a
different time.
I've got two funerals in twodays time, so I am not blinkered
to the suffering that somepeople may feel at this time of
(01:04):
year, but I found that the wayto kind of navigate through this
is to kind of really, first ofall, speak from your heart.
So when you're speaking topeople you care about, try and
speak from your heart, becausewe're always taught in so many
ways that we need to keepeverything in and not share who
we really are.
We fear that vulnerability ofletting people really see us.
(01:27):
And, yeah, people do sometimestake advantage of that.
And also, just because you'veallowed yourself to be
vulnerable doesn't mean thatit's going to be received.
However, most people reallywant to be vulnerable themselves
.
If you allow yourself to showyourself and allow them to see
that vulnerable side I have, Ifeel that then kind of makes
(01:50):
everything work out in a sensethat if they see and they can,
you can be vulnerable, they canbe vulnerable.
The more that we can take offour armor and speak and see each
other, the better the worldwill be and how much we will
feel better.
And as an added component tomake that more kind of sparkly
is to try and get out of the rutof doing the same things.
(02:13):
I know like Christmas time.
It is crazy, it's like theworld's going to end if
everything isn't off.
Our entry on Christmas we findChristmas and it's a little bit
silly, but also it's supposed tobe a time we're going deep
within and yet society has madethis thing where we have to rush
around and, okay, there's thatexciting flurry of stuff, but
(02:34):
there's also kind of a lot ofstress.
So I'm going to help youde-stress and the theme, as well
as trying to learn to bevulnerable and share who we are
in front of the people.
I wanted to also add a littlebit, something completely
different.
At the same time, and just toremind us, I got this wonderful,
I got this wonderful paper fromthe shop and it so inspired me.
(02:57):
Um, it shows like a night, anighttime scene, with beautiful
animals like deers and owls andall the creatures, but it's got
that kind of really it's like amasterpiece and I thought what
is our masterpiece going to befor this next period?
And masterpiece is justsomething that we want to do,
(03:22):
that we've always wanted to do,something that you can do by
yourself, I would say, to startwith, and something that is free
and can we bring thatmasterpiece into our world?
So maybe you've always dreamedof writing something or painting
something, or doing something.
(03:44):
Something or painting somethingor doing something.
Can you bring that masterpiecewith that magical energy of this
Christmas sparkle, beyond allthe stress?
That is that loving energy, andI just my hope for the world is
that could we not have thatenergy all the time, where we're
having this sense of connectionand love and we're allowing
ourselves, like I said, to bevulnerable when, when it's
(04:05):
needed to be, etc.
And can we allow that to be inourselves, to be in this
beautiful world in a way that wecan see each other, feel each
other and respect?
So you know, the front up tochris, everyone's like really
nice and hello, or maybe notsometimes if you're in a busy
shopping center, but generally.
(04:25):
Then, come January, when I feellike this wave of like kind of
depression from everyone, and Iget it like if you're not in
jobs that you enjoy, or you'reskint because society's dictated
that you have to kind of runyour credit cards dry because of
this thing called Christmas,where the real winners are the,
(04:47):
the retail businesses in manyways.
And I won't get even started bysaying try and buy from smaller
shops, like we don't want tokind of make it so that people
can't do their their own littlebusinesses, which have usually
have nicer things anyway.
Um, so don't forget to supportthe small businesses, but I
digress.
So, yeah, that bringing thatmagical sparkle into the rest of
(05:10):
the year and you know it's, itcan, it's, it's a task in itself
and it's a great test of ourconsciousness, but also knowing
what makes us happy how to bringmore of that into our life,
learning to deal with thingswhen they're not quite going as
well as we want them.
So, christmas, maybe you're notdoing what you want to do.
(05:33):
I know from so many people thatrarely do you get to do exactly
what you want to do.
Um, there's all different typesof reasons.
But even if you're doingsomething that you don't want to
do on Christmas day like you'regoing somewhere you don't
necessarily want to be can youfind a bit of Christmas sparkle
and that, but also putboundaries, like it is your
Christmas time as well, and justbecause everyone wants to sit
(05:55):
around and do stuff that youdon't necessarily want to do,
you find pockets of time whenyou can do what you want to do.
You know, like over the holidayseason, like maybe you want to
just read a book, do somethingquiet, get yourself off early to
a local cafe and just tell thefamily that you're not going to
be about for a bit.
Um, and then you can go back tothem.
(06:16):
And you know, just like I'm notsaying like go off for the
whole week, but just spend likethese pockets of time where we
can really appreciate them andourselves.
You might hear a bit of paperrustling because I'm opening up
this poster.
I just think it's so beautiful.
What it reminds me is thatthere is this beautiful, magical
(06:37):
world that is at night and forsome reason we used to spend a
bit more time out at night.
I'm not talking about going tonightclubs, I mean, I like
nature at night and there isthis mystical spirit.
I think at this time of year,whatever you believe in, there's
this beautiful spirit of loveand joy and abundance.
(06:58):
And because in this poster it'sa full, full moon, there is
slivers of light.
So that's how I see it as wenavigate through this time is
that there will be dark times,but there will always be slivers
of light within that and we canchoose to focus just on the
(07:19):
dark, where sometimes we needthe darkness just to be, still
and be, or when we're feelinglike we're a bit flat.
We can choose to focus on thelight and allow that light to
flow and be beautiful, just asyou can flow and be beautiful.
More rustling paper.
But yeah, that's how I'mfeeling it this time of year and
(07:44):
what one can do.
I wonder, could you decide onsomething really nice that you
would like to eat on ChristmasDay, because I hear this quite
often you don't always get toeat the food you want and could
you make it for everybody andjust take it along to where
(08:07):
you're going, or yeah, somethinglike that.
And could you do like, ifyou're struggling with your to
buy presents and stuff, couldyou give someone your time so
maybe you could put in the carand give you half an hour to
clear your garage or somethingwhere it's going to help someone
(08:28):
.
I'm going to go out in a minuteon a nice crisp, wintry walk
where the last remnants of theleaves are, and the mistletoes
(08:48):
and the bare skeletons of thetrees, the ones that dropped
their leaves, look so beautifulto me.
I think birch trees just looklike beautiful pillars of light,
especially when you get one ofthose grey, miserable days, the
(09:08):
ones that everyone mourns about.
I can see the beauty in thatsuch joy if you look for the
slivers of light and you knowthe world here in this
particular area of the world,needs the darkness, it needs the
time to regenerate.
(09:29):
I heard this awful story that Idon't know where it was, but
someone had decided to injectredwoods with adrenaline so that
they didn't like.
It was something like redwoodsor some tree like that with
adrenaline so that they didn'tget.
It was something like redwoods,or once some tree like that was
adrenaline so they didn't goget to go to sleep for the
(09:49):
winter.
Um, I'm not sure if it wasn'tredwoods, but anyway it didn't
matter.
What happened was the treesdied because they didn't have
that, that time to kind of be,and in many ways if we're not
making time to be, then we'regoing to make ourselves sick.
So it's finding the slivers oftime to be within all this chaos
(10:12):
.
It wouldn't be a Christmasspecial if I didn't share a few
Christmas things, a fewChristmas things.
So just imagine you're stuckindoors and you're with your
(10:32):
family, which you love verydearly, but you've kind of spent
hours with them and there's notreally much more for you to say
Well, what could you do instead?
Perhaps you want to watchsomething, but you don't want to
watch too much.
So I thought to make itChristmas specially and
(10:52):
completely change it as well.
I know this podcast this weekhas got lots of different things
in, but I like that.
I'm going to give you my topfive classic Christmas movies.
I'm talking about classics, sokind of not stuff that's come
out really recently but classic.
So I'm going to do them inreverse order, but they're all
(11:14):
brilliant.
So from 1982, the Snowman,which is a timeless animated
film.
It has no dialogue in it, sojust to warn you, but it doesn't
need it.
It's got beautiful singing Ithink ala jones was the singer
when yes, which makes you wishyou could fly if you still
(11:34):
remember how you felt as a childon christmas eve or if you
don't celebrate christmas on theeve of a big celebration and
then so, so that's really good,that's kind of universal for all
.
And then the 1993 Tim Burton,the Nightmare Before Christmas,
and that's a very beautiful butalso kind of gothic-y mix blend
(12:01):
of both Halloween and Christmas,beautifully emanated in the
only way that Tim Burton can do,in that really kind of magical
gothic way.
And again, I think that's agood film to watch with the
family.
And, as always, it wouldn't beChristmas without Charles
Dickens, when when I remember,when I read about Charles
(12:24):
Dickens a while ago and that hehad been really successful and
he had a few flops and then hewrote he wrote, um, the
Christmas Carol, and that Ibelieve that came out on
Christmas Eve and it basicallysold out and it is such a
beautiful, beautiful story thatit works well as a movie.
(12:44):
Like, by all means read thebook, but it works well as a
movie.
Just a little bit of trivia foryou since around 1935 there has
been at least 19 versions ofthe Christmas Carol as a movie
and I know even the Muppets havedone a version.
I loved it in the Muppets whenBob Cratchit loved it in the
(13:06):
Muppets.
When um, um, bob Cratchit andum, the head of a people are
little creatures around him wassaying that they were cold, and
then the person that playedScrooge I can't remember which
Muppet was said how would theylike to be suddenly unemployed?
And then the little, little umcreatures were going hot sun and
they'll pretend it's likereally warm.
Um, you had to be there.
It's kind of lost on a podcast.
(13:26):
Forgive me for that.
Number two, macaulay Culkin inthe 1990 classic comedy Home
Alone.
Now that puts a smile on mostpeople's face.
Most parents would not forgetthe children, but I like the way
they kind of did this.
A A boy.
He's a boy who accidentallyleft at home by his parents
(13:47):
because they're all travelingoff and it's chaos in the
morning and he's forced out withthese burglars, who aren't the
brightest of burglars butpersistent, and his family gets
stuck and they're trying to getback to him.
So that's really good.
But number one in this Christmasspecial of my all-time
(14:07):
Christmas movies, which has somekind of themes, a little bit
like the Christmas Carol, butdone in a completely different
way and it's got its own newthing.
So I don't want to say it.
It is like it's like theChristmas Carol, but completely
different at the same time isit's a Wonderful Life.
(14:27):
This explores love, hope andredemption.
It's from 1990, sorry, 1945,and it's a classic starring the
legend James Stewart and he wasan amazing actor and other
people as well, brilliant femaleroles as well.
I just off the top of my head,I can't remember their names.
(14:49):
Anyway, this film teaches usthat every single life matters
and we should neverunderestimate how much we can
make a difference to others inthis world.
So how much we can make adifference to others in this
world.
So that was a little bit of funfor Christmas.
(15:10):
So what would I like to leaveyou with?
I would like to leave you witha beautiful meditation which was
recorded by my friend Lindsay acouple of Christmases ago, and
it's a sound meditation.
It's absolutely beautiful andI'm giving you this or rather,
(15:32):
I'm attaching this wonderfulmeditation that she did as a
gift for this show, because Ithink it's a nice thing to do if
you get a few moments toyourself over the Christmas
period.
So listen out, this is going tobe spectacular.
So happy Christmas, special,happy Hanukkah Whatever festival
(15:55):
you are celebrating and here wego.
Yay, I'm so excited.
I want to do this myself.
I'm your host, the Gentle YogaWarrior, and please welcome
today sound healing practitionerand gifted yoga teacher,
(16:15):
lindsay Markovits.
Lindsay Markovits is a leveltwo sound practitioner, having
spent 18 months studying soundhealing practitioner.
Having spent 18 months studyingsound healing, she's also an
open-hearted, passionate hafaand kundalini yoga teacher and
practitioner, specializing inall levels of yoga and sound
(16:36):
journeys, with an exploratoryapproach to yoga and sound.
Lindsay very kindly recorded asound healing session and I'm
just about to share that withyou now.
She did say at the beginningit's best to practice lying down
, be comfortable with a blanket,etc.
But of course, if you prefer todo it seated, then that's fine.
(16:58):
Just make sure you arecomfortable and that you won't
be disturbed.
But I remember her saying thatthere's this amazing place in
Cornwall in the UK called TingeTangle.
Right, it's a really kind ofmagical, mystical place.
There's legends of King Arthur,but there's also a fairy forest
(17:18):
down there and it's just gotamazing sounds and I remember
her saying that she took some ofthe sounds from there.
But I'm as excited as you areto hear this amazing meditation.
So, without further ado, hereis Lindsay Markovits's amazing
sound healing session.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
This meditation is not suitable for people with
sound-induced epilepsy.
Please use headphones or a goodquality speaker to listen to
this meditation.
You are listening to the soundsof a stream that leads to St
(19:11):
Necton's Glen, an ancient sitein Cornwall which is considered
a sacred place by many.
Listen deeply to these sounds,let them rush over you and
through you.
Allow the sounds to conjureimages of water, a beautiful
stream, perhaps glistening,dancing in the sunlight, and
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allow these images and sounds toinspire feelings of flow.
How does it feel to let go andflow?
(20:25):
Bringing your attention now toyour breath, breathing, noticing
the rhythm of your breath.
There's no need to try andadjust its rhythm.
(20:49):
You may be able to hear thesound of your breath or just
(21:11):
sense the vibrations with theinhale and the exhale, a soft
oceanic vibration, much like thedistant sound of waves against
(21:39):
the shore, breathing into everycorner of your torso, belly,
(22:19):
chest, sides of the body, backof the body.
Exhale, letting that breath goentirely and on two, regulate
(22:45):
the breath now.
Well, inhale for five, four,three, two one.
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Inhale five, four, three, two,one, one.
(23:54):
Exhale six, five, four, three,two, one.
Inhale five, four, three, two,one.
Exhale six, five, four, three,two, one.
Inhale, exhale, exhale, inhale.
No-transcript.
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Notice the distant sounds andthe sounds within your space.
Notice the singular sounds, therepetitive sounds and the
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continuous sounds and thecontinuous sounds and perhaps,
if you listen very carefully,you might be able to hear that
(33:26):
distant oceanic sound of yourbreath, beginning to breathe a
little bit deeper now, taking areally big inhale and exhale.
(33:58):
Perhaps make a sound of yourown, if you like.
Couple more deep breaths likethis.
Use your exhales to releaseanything that you would like to
let go of before you continuewith your day or evening.
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Make some sound, if you like,with your exhales.
Be expressive, just mindfullynow easing yourself back into
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your day or your evening.
What is a Christmas special?
I was thinking of that earlier.
What is a Christmas special?
Usually it follows some sort ofChristmassy theme and something
magical which isn't too far off, in many ways as podcasts, but
yeah, we kind of dig deep and gointo things and hopefully, if
(00:21):
you live in an area where it isdark, you've got used to the
light by now, but it can make usfeel a little bit more kind of
sensitive.
So I'm here to bring you a bitof sparkle into the world.
So how is that going to happen?
First of all, I'm going toremind you of that magic feeling
(00:43):
that many of us may get at thistime of the year, and I'm not
blind to the fact that somepeople are going through a
different time.
I've got two funerals in twodays time, so I am not blinkered
to the suffering that somepeople may feel at this time of
(01:04):
year, but I found that the wayto kind of navigate through this
is to kind of really, first ofall, speak from your heart.
So when you're speaking topeople you care about, try and
speak from your heart, becausewe're always taught in so many
ways that we need to keepeverything in and not share who
we really are.
We fear that vulnerability ofletting people really see us.
(01:27):
And, yeah, people do sometimestake advantage of that.
And also, just because you'veallowed yourself to be
vulnerable doesn't mean thatit's going to be received.
However, most people reallywant to be vulnerable themselves
.
If you allow yourself to showyourself and allow them to see
that vulnerable side I have, Ifeel that then kind of makes
(01:50):
everything work out in a sensethat if they see and they can,
you can be vulnerable, they canbe vulnerable.
The more that we can take offour armor and speak and see each
other, the better the worldwill be and how much we will
feel better.
And as an added component tomake that more kind of sparkly
is to try and get out of the rutof doing the same things.
(02:13):
I know like Christmas time.
It is crazy, it's like theworld's going to end if
everything isn't off.
Our entry on Christmas we findChristmas and it's a little bit
silly, but also it's supposed tobe a time we're going deep
within and yet society has madethis thing where we have to rush
around and, okay, there's thatexciting flurry of stuff, but
(02:34):
there's also kind of a lot ofstress.
So I'm going to help youde-stress and the theme, as well
as trying to learn to bevulnerable and share who we are
in front of the people.
I wanted to also add a littlebit, something completely
different.
At the same time, and just toremind us, I got this wonderful,
I got this wonderful paper fromthe shop and it so inspired me.
(02:57):
Um, it shows like a night, anighttime scene, with beautiful
animals like deers and owls andall the creatures, but it's got
that kind of really it's like amasterpiece and I thought what
is our masterpiece going to befor this next period?
And masterpiece is justsomething that we want to do,
(03:22):
that we've always wanted to do,something that you can do by
yourself, I would say, to startwith, and something that is free
and can we bring thatmasterpiece into our world?
So maybe you've always dreamedof writing something or painting
something, or doing something.
(03:44):
Something or painting somethingor doing something.
Can you bring that masterpiecewith that magical energy of this
Christmas sparkle, beyond allthe stress?
That is that loving energy, andI just my hope for the world is
that could we not have thatenergy all the time, where we're
having this sense of connectionand love and we're allowing
ourselves, like I said, to bevulnerable when, when it's
(04:05):
needed to be, etc.
And can we allow that to be inourselves, to be in this
beautiful world in a way that wecan see each other, feel each
other and respect?
So you know, the front up tochris, everyone's like really
nice and hello, or maybe notsometimes if you're in a busy
shopping center, but generally.
(04:25):
Then, come January, when I feellike this wave of like kind of
depression from everyone, and Iget it like if you're not in
jobs that you enjoy, or you'reskint because society's dictated
that you have to kind of runyour credit cards dry because of
this thing called Christmas,where the real winners are the,
(04:47):
the retail businesses in manyways.
And I won't get even started bysaying try and buy from smaller
shops, like we don't want tokind of make it so that people
can't do their their own littlebusinesses, which have usually
have nicer things anyway.
Um, so don't forget to supportthe small businesses, but I
digress.
So, yeah, that bringing thatmagical sparkle into the rest of
(05:10):
the year and you know it's, itcan, it's, it's a task in itself
and it's a great test of ourconsciousness, but also knowing
what makes us happy how to bringmore of that into our life,
learning to deal with thingswhen they're not quite going as
well as we want them.
So, christmas, maybe you're notdoing what you want to do.
(05:33):
I know from so many people thatrarely do you get to do exactly
what you want to do.
Um, there's all different typesof reasons.
But even if you're doingsomething that you don't want to
do on Christmas day like you'regoing somewhere you don't
necessarily want to be can youfind a bit of Christmas sparkle
and that, but also putboundaries, like it is your
Christmas time as well, and justbecause everyone wants to sit
(05:55):
around and do stuff that youdon't necessarily want to do,
you find pockets of time whenyou can do what you want to do.
You know, like over the holidayseason, like maybe you want to
just read a book, do somethingquiet, get yourself off early to
a local cafe and just tell thefamily that you're not going to
be about for a bit.
Um, and then you can go back tothem.
(06:16):
And you know, just like I'm notsaying like go off for the
whole week, but just spend likethese pockets of time where we
can really appreciate them andourselves.
You might hear a bit of paperrustling because I'm opening up
this poster.
I just think it's so beautiful.
What it reminds me is thatthere is this beautiful, magical
(06:37):
world that is at night and forsome reason we used to spend a
bit more time out at night.
I'm not talking about going tonightclubs, I mean, I like
nature at night and there isthis mystical spirit.
I think at this time of year,whatever you believe in, there's
this beautiful spirit of loveand joy and abundance.
(06:58):
And because in this poster it'sa full, full moon, there is
slivers of light.
So that's how I see it as wenavigate through this time is
that there will be dark times,but there will always be slivers
of light within that and we canchoose to focus just on the
(07:19):
dark, where sometimes we needthe darkness just to be, still
and be, or when we're feelinglike we're a bit flat.
We can choose to focus on thelight and allow that light to
flow and be beautiful, just asyou can flow and be beautiful.
More rustling paper.
But yeah, that's how I'mfeeling it this time of year and
(07:44):
what one can do.
I wonder, could you decide onsomething really nice that you
would like to eat on ChristmasDay, because I hear this quite
often you don't always get toeat the food you want and could
you make it for everybody andjust take it along to where
(08:07):
you're going, or yeah, somethinglike that.
And could you do like, ifyou're struggling with your to
buy presents and stuff, couldyou give someone your time so
maybe you could put in the carand give you half an hour to
clear your garage or somethingwhere it's going to help someone
(08:28):
.
I'm going to go out in a minuteon a nice crisp, wintry walk
where the last remnants of theleaves are, and the mistletoes
(08:48):
and the bare skeletons of thetrees, the ones that dropped
their leaves, look so beautifulto me.
I think birch trees just looklike beautiful pillars of light,
especially when you get one ofthose grey, miserable days, the
(09:08):
ones that everyone mourns about.
I can see the beauty in thatsuch joy if you look for the
slivers of light and you knowthe world here in this
particular area of the world,needs the darkness, it needs the
time to regenerate.
(09:29):
I heard this awful story that Idon't know where it was, but
someone had decided to injectredwoods with adrenaline so that
they didn't like.
It was something like redwoodsor some tree like that with
adrenaline so that they didn'tget.
It was something like redwoods,or once some tree like that was
adrenaline so they didn't goget to go to sleep for the
(09:49):
winter.
Um, I'm not sure if it wasn'tredwoods, but anyway it didn't
matter.
What happened was the treesdied because they didn't have
that, that time to kind of be,and in many ways if we're not
making time to be, then we'regoing to make ourselves sick.
So it's finding the slivers oftime to be within all this chaos
(10:12):
.
It wouldn't be a Christmasspecial if I didn't share a few
Christmas things, a fewChristmas things.
So just imagine you're stuckindoors and you're with your
(10:32):
family, which you love verydearly, but you've kind of spent
hours with them and there's notreally much more for you to say
Well, what could you do instead?
Perhaps you want to watchsomething, but you don't want to
watch too much.
So I thought to make itChristmas specially and
(10:52):
completely change it as well.
I know this podcast this weekhas got lots of different things
in, but I like that.
I'm going to give you my topfive classic Christmas movies.
I'm talking about classics, sokind of not stuff that's come
out really recently but classic.
So I'm going to do them inreverse order, but they're all
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brilliant.
So from 1982, the Snowman,which is a timeless animated
film.
It has no dialogue in it, sojust to warn you, but it doesn't
need it.
It's got beautiful singing Ithink ala jones was the singer
when yes, which makes you wishyou could fly if you still
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remember how you felt as a childon christmas eve or if you
don't celebrate christmas on theeve of a big celebration and
then so, so that's really good,that's kind of universal for all
.
And then the 1993 Tim Burton,the Nightmare Before Christmas,
and that's a very beautiful butalso kind of gothic-y mix blend
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of both Halloween and Christmas,beautifully emanated in the
only way that Tim Burton can do,in that really kind of magical
gothic way.
And again, I think that's agood film to watch with the
family.
And, as always, it wouldn't beChristmas without Charles
Dickens, when when I remember,when I read about Charles
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Dickens a while ago and that hehad been really successful and
he had a few flops and then hewrote he wrote, um, the
Christmas Carol, and that Ibelieve that came out on
Christmas Eve and it basicallysold out and it is such a
beautiful, beautiful story thatit works well as a movie.
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Like, by all means read thebook, but it works well as a
movie.
Just a little bit of trivia foryou since around 1935 there has
been at least 19 versions ofthe Christmas Carol as a movie
and I know even the Muppets havedone a version.
I loved it in the Muppets whenBob Cratchit loved it in the
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Muppets.
When um, um, bob Cratchit andum, the head of a people are
little creatures around him wassaying that they were cold, and
then the person that playedScrooge I can't remember which
Muppet was said how would theylike to be suddenly unemployed?
And then the little, little umcreatures were going hot sun and
they'll pretend it's likereally warm.
Um, you had to be there.
It's kind of lost on a podcast.
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Forgive me for that.
Number two, macaulay Culkin inthe 1990 classic comedy Home
Alone.
Now that puts a smile on mostpeople's face.
Most parents would not forgetthe children, but I like the way
they kind of did this.
A A boy.
He's a boy who accidentallyleft at home by his parents
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because they're all travelingoff and it's chaos in the
morning and he's forced out withthese burglars, who aren't the
brightest of burglars butpersistent, and his family gets
stuck and they're trying to getback to him.
So that's really good.
But number one in this Christmasspecial of my all-time
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Christmas movies, which has somekind of themes, a little bit
like the Christmas Carol, butdone in a completely different
way and it's got its own newthing.
So I don't want to say it.
It is like it's like theChristmas Carol, but completely
different at the same time isit's a Wonderful Life.
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This explores love, hope andredemption.
It's from 1990, sorry, 1945,and it's a classic starring the
legend James Stewart and he wasan amazing actor and other
people as well, brilliant femaleroles as well.
I just off the top of my head,I can't remember their names.
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Anyway, this film teaches usthat every single life matters
and we should neverunderestimate how much we can
make a difference to others inthis world.
So how much we can make adifference to others in this
world.
So that was a little bit of funfor Christmas.
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So what would I like to leaveyou with?
I would like to leave you witha beautiful meditation which was
recorded by my friend Lindsay acouple of Christmases ago, and
it's a sound meditation.
It's absolutely beautiful andI'm giving you this or rather,
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I'm attaching this wonderfulmeditation that she did as a
gift for this show, because Ithink it's a nice thing to do if
you get a few moments toyourself over the Christmas
period.
So listen out, this is going tobe spectacular.
So happy Christmas, special,happy Hanukkah Whatever festival
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you are celebrating and here wego.
Yay, I'm so excited.
I want to do this myself.
I'm your host, the Gentle YogaWarrior, and please welcome
today sound healing practitionerand gifted yoga teacher,
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lindsay Markovits.
Lindsay Markovits is a leveltwo sound practitioner, having
spent 18 months studying soundhealing practitioner.
Having spent 18 months studyingsound healing, she's also an
open-hearted, passionate hafaand kundalini yoga teacher and
practitioner, specializing inall levels of yoga and sound
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journeys, with an exploratoryapproach to yoga and sound.
Lindsay very kindly recorded asound healing session and I'm
just about to share that withyou now.
She did say at the beginningit's best to practice lying down
, be comfortable with a blanket,etc.
But of course, if you prefer todo it seated, then that's fine.
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Just make sure you arecomfortable and that you won't
be disturbed.
But I remember her saying thatthere's this amazing place in
Cornwall in the UK called TingeTangle.
Right, it's a really kind ofmagical, mystical place.
There's legends of King Arthur,but there's also a fairy forest
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down there and it's just gotamazing sounds and I remember
her saying that she took some ofthe sounds from there.
But I'm as excited as you areto hear this amazing meditation.
So, without further ado, hereis Lindsay Markovits's amazing
sound healing session.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
This meditation is not suitable for people with
sound-induced epilepsy.
Please use headphones or a goodquality speaker to listen to
this meditation.
You are listening to the soundsof a stream that leads to St
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Necton's Glen, an ancient sitein Cornwall which is considered
a sacred place by many.
Listen deeply to these sounds,let them rush over you and
through you.
Allow the sounds to conjureimages of water, a beautiful
stream, perhaps glistening,dancing in the sunlight, and
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allow these images and sounds toinspire feelings of flow.
How does it feel to let go andflow?
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Bringing your attention now toyour breath, breathing, noticing
the rhythm of your breath.
There's no need to try andadjust its rhythm.
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You may be able to hear thesound of your breath or just
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sense the vibrations with theinhale and the exhale, a soft
oceanic vibration, much like thedistant sound of waves against
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the shore, breathing into everycorner of your torso, belly,
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chest, sides of the body, backof the body.
Exhale, letting that breath goentirely and on two, regulate
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the breath now.
Well, inhale for five, four,three, two one.
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Inhale five, four, three, two,one, one.
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Exhale six, five, four, three,two, one.
Inhale five, four, three, two,one.
Exhale six, five, four, three,two, one.
Inhale, exhale, exhale, inhale.
No-transcript.
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Notice the distant sounds andthe sounds within your space.
Notice the singular sounds, therepetitive sounds and the
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continuous sounds and thecontinuous sounds and perhaps,
if you listen very carefully,you might be able to hear that
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distant oceanic sound of yourbreath, beginning to breathe a
little bit deeper now, taking areally big inhale and exhale.
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Perhaps make a sound of yourown, if you like.
Couple more deep breaths likethis.
Use your exhales to releaseanything that you would like to
let go of before you continuewith your day or evening.
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Make some sound, if you like,with your exhales.
Be expressive, just mindfullynow easing yourself back into
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your day or your evening.
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