June 4, 2025 • 39 mins
We're living through unprecedented technological acceleration, where AI threatens jobs, privacy vanishes, and digital distractions fragment our attention. Yet amid this shifting terrain, our internal compass remains our most reliable guide—if we know how to calibrate it.
Drawing from decades of practice, I share my personal approach to maintaining centered awareness in chaotic times. While quick morning routines have their place, the transformative power comes from being a bit more.
Many resist longer practices, finding endless excuses to avoid confronting themselves. But that resistance precisely highlights why extended sessions matter—they break through barriers smaller practices cannot touch.
The guided 20-minute meditation included offers a starting point, focusing on breath awareness and simple mantras. Remember that thoughts will arise—meditation isn't about stopping thoughts (a myth) but developing awareness of when you've drifted. Picture thoughts as soft rags bouncing harmlessly off you rather than obstacles to overcome.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I am delighted today to finally be able to
share this week's edition withyou.
Technical issues got in the waywhere I had to do several
software updates, my mic wasn'tspeaking to my system and all
very good systems, but they justdid not want to talk to each
other today.
So, several hours down the line, I am now this, and the lesson
(00:25):
today was perseverance.
Sometimes we try and persevereand if it's not working then the
best thing to do is to walkaway and try something later.
But today it felt right topersevere and it means I've got
my system hopefully set up in away that is good and is going to
work, set up in a way that isgood and is going to work.
(00:52):
And today we are all about howwe can serve ourselves in this
ever-changing difficult terrainof life and the gems in which,
the gifts that we can giveourselves to help us to do this.
And I think life is only goingto get faster.
As we know, ai technology iskind of taking over the world.
(01:12):
Many predict that there will bea big shortage of jobs in the
future because of the fact thatAI is doing stuff, and there's
also been talk that how, when weuse.
Use it for creative ventures.
It's going to take the soul outof things.
Who knows?
It's like whenever there's anynew technology, there is a lot
of fear around it.
I'm not afraid of technology,it's more I'm afraid of those in
(01:36):
power who will use it tomanipulate people.
But I'm also hopeful that therewill be some goodness as well.
Who knows?
It's a very new terrain and in50 years' time, when I probably
won't be here anymore, theworld's going to be an extremely
(01:57):
different place.
And who knows?
People might look back andthink actually we wanted a time
before technology, when onecould just pick up a book, one
could walk down the road withoutbeing tracked by satellite 24 7
, one could have boring privateconversations with our loved
ones without ai listening in andtailoring adverts to kind of
(02:20):
manipulate us into buying stuffthat we think we need, and that
is a very cynical kind of viewin some so many ways.
But then just to say justbecause we can doesn't mean we
have to.
Equally, it's not all aboutbeing frightened of stuff.
It's about kind of having ourour feet firmly planted on the
(02:41):
ground, because there is changesthat we just do not have any
power over, and that is a fact.
I've seen how much the worldhas changed since I was a young
kid, running around in flaresand um, and how, how it was so
much nicer to go out in manyways when I was, when I was a
young woman, where we went outand everyone wasn't looking at
(03:04):
the phone or thinking I need tocapture this moment to please
people in this imaginary worldof social media, etc.
So what are anchors and how canwe use them in our everyday
lives, and why is this anydifferent from other podcasts
that you're listening to?
(03:24):
First of all, I honor myself bytrying to be as authentic as I
possibly can, letting you knowthat I am not perfect.
There are many ways in which Ifail in life and will continue
to do so.
I do try and learn as much aspossible from my mistakes and I
do have a mission.
I feel not from a place where,oh, I feel like I'm special
(03:47):
because I think each and everyone of us has got a mission, but
my mission is to help othersfind this sense of ease, love,
joy, fulfillment in their life,but in a way that is more
tangible but more joyful, butalso more of a bridge between
the connection of nature and um,this modern world which we are,
(04:09):
we have all been thrust intoand, um, in many ways, where to
tell the truth can be a sinsometimes and, um, yeah, it's a
crazy world.
People can go so far down therabbit hole that I think they
kind of lose the plot of it.
So I think the best thing to dois just to stay centered within
(04:33):
ourselves and whatever peoplethink that's their right to do
so.
In the same way, I think theonly compass that we can have
these days, dear listener, isourself.
And the best way to make sureour compass is in balance and
pointing in the right direction,so that it's it's pointing
north or um, we're not trying tofind east when the when the
(04:55):
compass isn't tuned to north, ifthat makes sense.
So we need to kind of know, um,where we are.
So if our compass is pointingthe right direction, when we're
looking for north, east, southwest, wherever we're going, it's
going to unfold for us.
And the number one tip that Ican give you is if you can
dedicate, so people say, oh, youneed to do all these long
things in the morning.
(05:16):
I know people don't have timeto do that these days, but I
think make some time.
What I do is I have like a kindof more condensed morning
practice which I do on the daysthat I'm working quite hard, and
then, once or twice a week Ireally go for it and have a long
meditation, a long sequence orsome kind of thing.
(05:37):
And I think the length thingonce a week is really important
because that is where you'regoing to cross over from just
being a kind of average to theextraordinary, and the
extraordinary comes from thisimmense amount of surrender.
And you can only do this, Ifeel, if you dedicate a really
(06:02):
strong practice, you do a reallystrong sequence once a month.
And I'm not saying like it hasto be physically strong or
anything like this.
I'll give you an idea.
So I got up like super earlybecause I'm lucky, because it's
light at the moment a bit moreof a challenge when it's dark
but I went out, I went out for awalk to collect spring water.
(06:22):
Um, I think I only saw oneperson in the distance it was.
So it was so early in themorning.
Um, and it's just because it'swarm weather.
I was able to do that.
But I really used my connectionwith nature, which I've had
since a very young child toreally connect with the nature
all around me.
Then I came back and I did anhour and a half kundalini yoga,
(06:46):
which is a type of yoga, it'sparticular sequence which I like
, it's a green energyopportunity sequence, um, and
it's got very, very powerfulenergetics, I feel, and I did
that.
And then I did some of my otherpersonal stuff that I do to
help me through the day.
And then, um, it put me in aplace that I felt balanced to do
(07:11):
this podcast.
And then I was challenged againby the universe, by the
technology not working.
And then, prior to that, I hada really difficult day.
I was doing some freelance workand I was doing stuff in a
certain way and I misunderstood.
And then it was supposed to bethe way around and I had had a
very difficult family situationa few days prior to this and
(07:36):
even though I had thesechallenges, yesterday I kind of
ended up in tears, which youthink, oh why, but it was so
cathartic in the sense that itjust released and then it made
me realize the big picturebeyond like all these trials and
tribulations.
I remember when I was a veryyoung girl that I had I worked
in this office for a bit andworking in an office in them
(07:58):
days was a lot more difficult um, he didn't have like the
protections that he did.
Now there was a member of seniormember staff and they always
said that what you have to haveyour information down.
So that they used to say to me,if they got knocked down by a
trolley bus which I wasn'treally sure what that meant so I
just thought the meaner bus,that you can still carry on, and
(08:21):
it makes me think that we allthink we're so indispensable and
to some people we really are.
But also life will always go on, because we're here for a short
period of time and life willalways go on.
So these things that we can'tcatastrophize in our mind, it's
kind of how to say.
It's a kind of way of kind ofkeeping us slow, small and slow,
(08:47):
but small is what I meant tosay and we can choose to see
these things as all bad or seeas learning.
So that the key thing in thiswas I didn't disallow my
feelings, allow myself to feelupset, allow myself to feel a
little bit frustrated earlier,but I felt so much more kind of
(09:11):
able to navigate it because Ihad this long practice that I
had done this morning in my bankand that practice will then be
like kind of like thefoundations between the many
practices that I do in betweenbecause of work commitments.
But I I really think it'sreally worth doing.
(09:31):
So I'm not saying everyone needsto do this particular sequence,
um, I mean, find somethingthat's meaningful for you,
dedicate like a long practice,but try and do something that's
kind of nurturing and holistic.
So there's there's yoga, buttry and once you've been to yoga
(09:52):
classes and you know whatyou're doing, I really invite
you to just set your alarm foran hour, an hour and a half once
a week when you've got the time, or, if you can't quite do that
, at least 40 minutes and justdo a practice where you're
completely within you're, you'rekind of in tune with your being
(10:12):
, and then some people do.
You can do that by doing.
Maybe you do a long walk, butyou're not doing a walk while
you're chatting on the phone,you listen to music, you are
completely aware of everything.
Meditation it makes a bigdifference if we, when you get
to kind of a certain amount ofyears of practicing, that doing
(10:33):
these longer meditations isgoing to have a real big change
and it is because there's somuch resistance.
We can find so many ways inwhich we um don't want to do
stuff.
We have all these excuses oh Ihaven't got time, this is, I
need to do this, I need to dothat all these kind of ways in
(10:55):
which we um find excuses not to.
And, of course, if you're aboutto go to work and you've just
got up and you've had to getyour, your kids, ready, um, help
your partner find something.
It is quite a short window toget to that place and of course
you're not going to do a longthing.
But honor yourself and tellyour family, say, like, just say
(11:17):
, on the weekend, just say thatfor an hour a bit you're doing
your own thing, and be that ofsomething that you do inside.
Or you find a really spiritualclass, not like a yoga class
where it's a fitness thing,because obviously they do have
their places, but not where it'skind of been westernized and
you've pulled out the bits thatfeel to make it more of a
(11:38):
fitness routine.
Instead, try and find, if youcan't do it at home, a really
spiritual, moving class wherethe teacher recognizes all the
eight limbs of Logar or thingslike Tai Chi.
I read somewhere that was it amenopausal woman who were doing
Tai Chi ended up with a flatterstomach than compared to
(12:00):
aerobics and things.
I don't know why that was.
I think it's probably to dowith the stress thing, but Tai
Chi some sort of thing and Iknow we're all financially
strapped a lot these days, somaybe you could find like an
online class, because a lot oftime online classes are cheaper
and it depends how you get on.
I personally get on really wellwith online classes because I I
(12:24):
obviously I've got a lot ofknowledge in a sense that I've
been doing this for a long time,but I also find that I'm able
to find that space, but Iunderstand that not everyone can
.
I do offer like online energyhealing sessions and I also can
do a tailored meditation or yogaplan.
(12:44):
If that is something that youwould find useful, just go to
shamanichealingsorg and justclick contact there and you can
find details there.
Other ways you can do it is um,you just you sit down, you
listen to a really goodmeditation.
So I think the best kind ofmeditation if you're going to do
a long meditation, you want onethat's got more space, these
(13:08):
shorter recorded meditationswhere someone talking are great
for when you've got less time,but I'm talking about when
you've got more time.
It's good to have that space,and the biggest fake thing I
ever heard was that you can stopyour thoughts.
You can find a space of innerbeing and calm and beauty.
(13:32):
So just imagine that thethoughts are just like someone
throwing a really soft rag atyou, right, so okay, so they
might come at you, but they'renot actually going to hurt you.
But you could choose to look atthe rag or you could just allow
them just to bounce off, andthat's the way to do it, because
, also, not to tell yourself offif you suddenly have thoughts.
(13:53):
I was doing a really deepmeditation and I realized I'd
then suddenly gone into thisinternal monologue, so I could
have dissed my whole meditationsession, think, oh, I've ruined
this.
But actually I had thatawareness and I came back out of
it.
So what is the thing that youcan do once a week where you can
really go deep in something?
And I think the best thing todo is gradually, because we're
(14:15):
not going to be able to runbefore we can walk or it's not
going to be the best solution.
So can you start off by doinglike a five minute meditation
each day and then on the weekend, could you make that longer?
That is a way to do it, andthen each weekend you just add
an extra 10 minutes and then youcan go up to an hour, an hour
(14:36):
and a half, and you will reallyconfront yourself because you'll
be sat there, sometimeswiggling and thinking I don't
really feel like I want to dothis today and I will come up
with a million excuses why Idon't always want to get on the
mat.
But I never regret when I geton that mat.
When I say I get on that mat,the map signifies to me
(14:58):
connection with nature yoga,meditation, shamanic work, the
energetic healing systems thatI've done decades ago and all
that stuff.
And I'm working on something nowbecause I used to be a very I
wouldn't say like obsessivewriter, but I used to write a
(15:19):
lot more, and my mind, becauseI'm doing these courses, finding
the space to do that at themoment.
But as soon as I finish thesecourses I want to get back on
and do the writing.
I'll do a whole podcast editionon that.
So it's all about this masteryand the reason why this is so
important these days, dearlisteners, is there's going to
(15:41):
be so many distractions.
There's going to be even moredistractions.
We don't have any privacyanymore.
Every conversation we have islistening to by an apple device
or an android device, or we walkalong the road, even if to go
and pay and shopping in shops,these days, they video on you.
Like why do they need to videoyou?
It's just the lack of privacy.
(16:03):
So what I mean is we're goingto be bombarded all the time.
Everything about us is going tobe known what kind of food we
buy, where we go, who we'refriends with, how we think, how
we speak, and that isunfortunately, something we have
no control of.
The only thing that we cancontrol is ourselves, and our
only way we can it's not a senseof control ourselves, but
(16:25):
connecting to our higher selves,and I feel so passionate about
this is to kind of do somethinglike this for yourself.
Try and do a thing where you dosomething of real mastery,
because that will take you fromum the learner pool to um the
adult pool.
You know, when you were a kid,you were learning to swim and
you were in the kiddie pool andthen you managed to get into the
(16:48):
adult pool.
Eventually, you could do theselong lengths and feel a bit more
free.
That is what it's going tooffer you.
So I'm really would love tohear from you, dear listeners,
and how, what you do as yoursense of mastery once a week and
have you managed to stick tothis?
So I'm going to do a meditationtoday.
(17:08):
I'm going to make it a bitlonger.
It's going to be a 20-minutemeditation.
I'm not going to speak all theway through it because I want it
to be an experience where youcan lengthen this and once you
feel comfortable with this, thenperhaps you could set your
alarm for an hour and use someof the similar techniques in it.
(17:29):
So I hope this is of help toyou.
Top tips for the meditation iseither sit nice and cross-legged
on the floor with a nice,straight back always nice to sit
on a block or a cushion,although that's not available
for you.
You sit in a chair with theback nice and straight.
The important thing is you'renot slouching, and if you're
(17:51):
doing something that requiresyour concentration, all you need
to do is just pause this andyou can reconvene the meditation
at a time that is good for you.
If you're doing the meditation.
Let's begin A masterymeditation for 20 minutes of our
own inner well-being.
So, as you sit where you are,either in a nice tall back chair
(18:13):
or cross-legged, just feel asif the spine is really nice and
long.
Doing the best you can scan thebody for places where you might
be clenching, like the jaw, theface, the hands, the body, the
toes, the feet, and can youallow yourself to feel a bit
(18:38):
more relaxed, a bit more in themoment, a bit more in the now?
(19:29):
A bit more of inner peace.
So and we'll start off with thefirst part as a focused, a
focused meditation.
(19:50):
So as you breathe in, think inyour imagination, in, and as you
breathe out, think out, try andmake the breath long, calm,
deep and relaxed.
So you're not forcing thebreath, but it's kind of like a
(20:10):
natural rhythm of inhalation,exhalation, breathing from the
diaphragm.
So you're not just breathing inthe upper chest, you're
breathing below.
So breathe in and out.
(20:52):
The mind may have wandered, butinstead can you just bring it
back to thinking I'm breathingin, I'm breathing out, in and
out, in and out, in Out,choosing In, out, in out,
(21:44):
choosing a breath rhythm that isappropriate to you so you can
be faster or slower, neverbreathe so you feel out of
breath, but instead a sense ofpeace and calm as you inhale and
you exhale, breathing in andout, thank you, in, in and out.
(23:06):
And we can now change this toanother internal mantra, so you
can just continue to breathenaturally, I am bliss, I am love
(23:28):
.
So in your head you startsaying internally, I am bliss, I
am love.
And you can have gaps betweensaying this.
But watch your thoughts,because you will try and flip
(23:51):
off somewhere.
So just come back to thatinternal mantra I am bliss, I am
love.
And even if you don't fullyrealise this yet, just by
reminding yourself and continueto do so I am bliss.
I am love, thank you and we'lljust continue.
(24:48):
Don't worry if this sounds quietno-transcript knowing that all
(37:27):
is well.
And I am delighted today to finally be able to
share this week's edition withyou.
Technical issues got in the waywhere I had to do several
software updates, my mic wasn'tspeaking to my system and all
very good systems, but they justdid not want to talk to each
other today.
So, several hours down the line, I am now this, and the lesson
(00:25):
today was perseverance.
Sometimes we try and persevereand if it's not working then the
best thing to do is to walkaway and try something later.
But today it felt right topersevere and it means I've got
my system hopefully set up in away that is good and is going to
work, set up in a way that isgood and is going to work.
(00:52):
And today we are all about howwe can serve ourselves in this
ever-changing difficult terrainof life and the gems in which,
the gifts that we can giveourselves to help us to do this.
And I think life is only goingto get faster.
As we know, ai technology iskind of taking over the world.
(01:12):
Many predict that there will bea big shortage of jobs in the
future because of the fact thatAI is doing stuff, and there's
also been talk that how, when weuse.
Use it for creative ventures.
It's going to take the soul outof things.
Who knows?
It's like whenever there's anynew technology, there is a lot
of fear around it.
I'm not afraid of technology,it's more I'm afraid of those in
(01:36):
power who will use it tomanipulate people.
But I'm also hopeful that therewill be some goodness as well.
Who knows?
It's a very new terrain and in50 years' time, when I probably
won't be here anymore, theworld's going to be an extremely
(01:57):
different place.
And who knows?
People might look back andthink actually we wanted a time
before technology, when onecould just pick up a book, one
could walk down the road withoutbeing tracked by satellite 24 7
, one could have boring privateconversations with our loved
ones without ai listening in andtailoring adverts to kind of
(02:20):
manipulate us into buying stuffthat we think we need, and that
is a very cynical kind of viewin some so many ways.
But then just to say justbecause we can doesn't mean we
have to.
Equally, it's not all aboutbeing frightened of stuff.
It's about kind of having ourour feet firmly planted on the
(02:41):
ground, because there is changesthat we just do not have any
power over, and that is a fact.
I've seen how much the worldhas changed since I was a young
kid, running around in flaresand um, and how, how it was so
much nicer to go out in manyways when I was, when I was a
young woman, where we went outand everyone wasn't looking at
(03:04):
the phone or thinking I need tocapture this moment to please
people in this imaginary worldof social media, etc.
So what are anchors and how canwe use them in our everyday
lives, and why is this anydifferent from other podcasts
that you're listening to?
(03:24):
First of all, I honor myself bytrying to be as authentic as I
possibly can, letting you knowthat I am not perfect.
There are many ways in which Ifail in life and will continue
to do so.
I do try and learn as much aspossible from my mistakes and I
do have a mission.
I feel not from a place where,oh, I feel like I'm special
(03:47):
because I think each and everyone of us has got a mission, but
my mission is to help othersfind this sense of ease, love,
joy, fulfillment in their life,but in a way that is more
tangible but more joyful, butalso more of a bridge between
the connection of nature and um,this modern world which we are,
(04:09):
we have all been thrust intoand, um, in many ways, where to
tell the truth can be a sinsometimes and, um, yeah, it's a
crazy world.
People can go so far down therabbit hole that I think they
kind of lose the plot of it.
So I think the best thing to dois just to stay centered within
(04:33):
ourselves and whatever peoplethink that's their right to do
so.
In the same way, I think theonly compass that we can have
these days, dear listener, isourself.
And the best way to make sureour compass is in balance and
pointing in the right direction,so that it's it's pointing
north or um, we're not trying tofind east when the when the
(04:55):
compass isn't tuned to north, ifthat makes sense.
So we need to kind of know, um,where we are.
So if our compass is pointingthe right direction, when we're
looking for north, east, southwest, wherever we're going, it's
going to unfold for us.
And the number one tip that Ican give you is if you can
dedicate, so people say, oh, youneed to do all these long
things in the morning.
(05:16):
I know people don't have timeto do that these days, but I
think make some time.
What I do is I have like a kindof more condensed morning
practice which I do on the daysthat I'm working quite hard, and
then, once or twice a week Ireally go for it and have a long
meditation, a long sequence orsome kind of thing.
(05:37):
And I think the length thingonce a week is really important
because that is where you'regoing to cross over from just
being a kind of average to theextraordinary, and the
extraordinary comes from thisimmense amount of surrender.
And you can only do this, Ifeel, if you dedicate a really
(06:02):
strong practice, you do a reallystrong sequence once a month.
And I'm not saying like it hasto be physically strong or
anything like this.
I'll give you an idea.
So I got up like super earlybecause I'm lucky, because it's
light at the moment a bit moreof a challenge when it's dark
but I went out, I went out for awalk to collect spring water.
(06:22):
Um, I think I only saw oneperson in the distance it was.
So it was so early in themorning.
Um, and it's just because it'swarm weather.
I was able to do that.
But I really used my connectionwith nature, which I've had
since a very young child toreally connect with the nature
all around me.
Then I came back and I did anhour and a half kundalini yoga,
(06:46):
which is a type of yoga, it'sparticular sequence which I like
, it's a green energyopportunity sequence, um, and
it's got very, very powerfulenergetics, I feel, and I did
that.
And then I did some of my otherpersonal stuff that I do to
help me through the day.
And then, um, it put me in aplace that I felt balanced to do
(07:11):
this podcast.
And then I was challenged againby the universe, by the
technology not working.
And then, prior to that, I hada really difficult day.
I was doing some freelance workand I was doing stuff in a
certain way and I misunderstood.
And then it was supposed to bethe way around and I had had a
very difficult family situationa few days prior to this and
(07:36):
even though I had thesechallenges, yesterday I kind of
ended up in tears, which youthink, oh why, but it was so
cathartic in the sense that itjust released and then it made
me realize the big picturebeyond like all these trials and
tribulations.
I remember when I was a veryyoung girl that I had I worked
in this office for a bit andworking in an office in them
(07:58):
days was a lot more difficult um, he didn't have like the
protections that he did.
Now there was a member of seniormember staff and they always
said that what you have to haveyour information down.
So that they used to say to me,if they got knocked down by a
trolley bus which I wasn'treally sure what that meant so I
just thought the meaner bus,that you can still carry on, and
(08:21):
it makes me think that we allthink we're so indispensable and
to some people we really are.
But also life will always go on, because we're here for a short
period of time and life willalways go on.
So these things that we can'tcatastrophize in our mind, it's
kind of how to say.
It's a kind of way of kind ofkeeping us slow, small and slow,
(08:47):
but small is what I meant tosay and we can choose to see
these things as all bad or seeas learning.
So that the key thing in thiswas I didn't disallow my
feelings, allow myself to feelupset, allow myself to feel a
little bit frustrated earlier,but I felt so much more kind of
(09:11):
able to navigate it because Ihad this long practice that I
had done this morning in my bankand that practice will then be
like kind of like thefoundations between the many
practices that I do in betweenbecause of work commitments.
But I I really think it'sreally worth doing.
(09:31):
So I'm not saying everyone needsto do this particular sequence,
um, I mean, find somethingthat's meaningful for you,
dedicate like a long practice,but try and do something that's
kind of nurturing and holistic.
So there's there's yoga, buttry and once you've been to yoga
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classes and you know whatyou're doing, I really invite
you to just set your alarm foran hour, an hour and a half once
a week when you've got the time, or, if you can't quite do that
, at least 40 minutes and justdo a practice where you're
completely within you're, you'rekind of in tune with your being
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, and then some people do.
You can do that by doing.
Maybe you do a long walk, butyou're not doing a walk while
you're chatting on the phone,you listen to music, you are
completely aware of everything.
Meditation it makes a bigdifference if we, when you get
to kind of a certain amount ofyears of practicing, that doing
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these longer meditations isgoing to have a real big change
and it is because there's somuch resistance.
We can find so many ways inwhich we um don't want to do
stuff.
We have all these excuses oh Ihaven't got time, this is, I
need to do this, I need to dothat all these kind of ways in
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which we um find excuses not to.
And, of course, if you're aboutto go to work and you've just
got up and you've had to getyour, your kids, ready, um, help
your partner find something.
It is quite a short window toget to that place and of course
you're not going to do a longthing.
But honor yourself and tellyour family, say, like, just say
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, on the weekend, just say thatfor an hour a bit you're doing
your own thing, and be that ofsomething that you do inside.
Or you find a really spiritualclass, not like a yoga class
where it's a fitness thing,because obviously they do have
their places, but not where it'skind of been westernized and
you've pulled out the bits thatfeel to make it more of a
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fitness routine.
Instead, try and find, if youcan't do it at home, a really
spiritual, moving class wherethe teacher recognizes all the
eight limbs of Logar or thingslike Tai Chi.
I read somewhere that was it amenopausal woman who were doing
Tai Chi ended up with a flatterstomach than compared to
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aerobics and things.
I don't know why that was.
I think it's probably to dowith the stress thing, but Tai
Chi some sort of thing and Iknow we're all financially
strapped a lot these days, somaybe you could find like an
online class, because a lot oftime online classes are cheaper
and it depends how you get on.
I personally get on really wellwith online classes because I I
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obviously I've got a lot ofknowledge in a sense that I've
been doing this for a long time,but I also find that I'm able
to find that space, but Iunderstand that not everyone can
.
I do offer like online energyhealing sessions and I also can
do a tailored meditation or yogaplan.
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If that is something that youwould find useful, just go to
shamanichealingsorg and justclick contact there and you can
find details there.
Other ways you can do it is um,you just you sit down, you
listen to a really goodmeditation.
So I think the best kind ofmeditation if you're going to do
a long meditation, you want onethat's got more space, these
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shorter recorded meditationswhere someone talking are great
for when you've got less time,but I'm talking about when
you've got more time.
It's good to have that space,and the biggest fake thing I
ever heard was that you can stopyour thoughts.
You can find a space of innerbeing and calm and beauty.
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So just imagine that thethoughts are just like someone
throwing a really soft rag atyou, right, so okay, so they
might come at you, but they'renot actually going to hurt you.
But you could choose to look atthe rag or you could just allow
them just to bounce off, andthat's the way to do it, because
, also, not to tell yourself offif you suddenly have thoughts.
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I was doing a really deepmeditation and I realized I'd
then suddenly gone into thisinternal monologue, so I could
have dissed my whole meditationsession, think, oh, I've ruined
this.
But actually I had thatawareness and I came back out of
it.
So what is the thing that youcan do once a week where you can
really go deep in something?
And I think the best thing todo is gradually, because we're
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not going to be able to runbefore we can walk or it's not
going to be the best solution.
So can you start off by doinglike a five minute meditation
each day and then on the weekend, could you make that longer?
That is a way to do it, andthen each weekend you just add
an extra 10 minutes and then youcan go up to an hour, an hour
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and a half, and you will reallyconfront yourself because you'll
be sat there, sometimeswiggling and thinking I don't
really feel like I want to dothis today and I will come up
with a million excuses why Idon't always want to get on the
mat.
But I never regret when I geton that mat.
When I say I get on that mat,the map signifies to me
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connection with nature yoga,meditation, shamanic work, the
energetic healing systems thatI've done decades ago and all
that stuff.
And I'm working on something nowbecause I used to be a very I
wouldn't say like obsessivewriter, but I used to write a
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lot more, and my mind, becauseI'm doing these courses, finding
the space to do that at themoment.
But as soon as I finish thesecourses I want to get back on
and do the writing.
I'll do a whole podcast editionon that.
So it's all about this masteryand the reason why this is so
important these days, dearlisteners, is there's going to
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be so many distractions.
There's going to be even moredistractions.
We don't have any privacyanymore.
Every conversation we have islistening to by an apple device
or an android device, or we walkalong the road, even if to go
and pay and shopping in shops,these days, they video on you.
Like why do they need to videoyou?
It's just the lack of privacy.
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So what I mean is we're goingto be bombarded all the time.
Everything about us is going tobe known what kind of food we
buy, where we go, who we'refriends with, how we think, how
we speak, and that isunfortunately, something we have
no control of.
The only thing that we cancontrol is ourselves, and our
only way we can it's not a senseof control ourselves, but
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connecting to our higher selves,and I feel so passionate about
this is to kind of do somethinglike this for yourself.
Try and do a thing where you dosomething of real mastery,
because that will take you fromum the learner pool to um the
adult pool.
You know, when you were a kid,you were learning to swim and
you were in the kiddie pool andthen you managed to get into the
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adult pool.
Eventually, you could do theselong lengths and feel a bit more
free.
That is what it's going tooffer you.
So I'm really would love tohear from you, dear listeners,
and how, what you do as yoursense of mastery once a week and
have you managed to stick tothis?
So I'm going to do a meditationtoday.
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I'm going to make it a bitlonger.
It's going to be a 20-minutemeditation.
I'm not going to speak all theway through it because I want it
to be an experience where youcan lengthen this and once you
feel comfortable with this, thenperhaps you could set your
alarm for an hour and use someof the similar techniques in it.
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So I hope this is of help toyou.
Top tips for the meditation iseither sit nice and cross-legged
on the floor with a nice,straight back always nice to sit
on a block or a cushion,although that's not available
for you.
You sit in a chair with theback nice and straight.
The important thing is you'renot slouching, and if you're
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doing something that requiresyour concentration, all you need
to do is just pause this andyou can reconvene the meditation
at a time that is good for you.
If you're doing the meditation.
Let's begin A masterymeditation for 20 minutes of our
own inner well-being.
So, as you sit where you are,either in a nice tall back chair
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or cross-legged, just feel asif the spine is really nice and
long.
Doing the best you can scan thebody for places where you might
be clenching, like the jaw, theface, the hands, the body, the
toes, the feet, and can youallow yourself to feel a bit
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more relaxed, a bit more in themoment, a bit more in the now?
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A bit more of inner peace.
So and we'll start off with thefirst part as a focused, a
focused meditation.
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So as you breathe in, think inyour imagination, in, and as you
breathe out, think out, try andmake the breath long, calm,
deep and relaxed.
So you're not forcing thebreath, but it's kind of like a
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natural rhythm of inhalation,exhalation, breathing from the
diaphragm.
So you're not just breathing inthe upper chest, you're
breathing below.
So breathe in and out.
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The mind may have wandered, butinstead can you just bring it
back to thinking I'm breathingin, I'm breathing out, in and
out, in and out, in Out,choosing In, out, in out,
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choosing a breath rhythm that isappropriate to you so you can
be faster or slower, neverbreathe so you feel out of
breath, but instead a sense ofpeace and calm as you inhale and
you exhale, breathing in andout, thank you, in, in and out.
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And we can now change this toanother internal mantra, so you
can just continue to breathenaturally, I am bliss, I am love
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.
So in your head you startsaying internally, I am bliss, I
am love.
And you can have gaps betweensaying this.
But watch your thoughts,because you will try and flip
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off somewhere.
So just come back to thatinternal mantra I am bliss, I am
love.
And even if you don't fullyrealise this yet, just by
reminding yourself and continueto do so I am bliss.
I am love, thank you and we'lljust continue.
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Don't worry if this sounds quietno-transcript knowing that all
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is well.
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