Making death your friend to awake to your life. Contemplating death is a powerful pointer to what is really important. Celebrate your life by remembering death. 

Celebrating Life By Contemplating Death

This episode aired on June 10th, 2015. Today’s guest on Flourish is Dr. Raphael Kellman, an internist who practices integrative medicine and who is an expert on assisting people alleviate the root causes of their ailments. Chief among these root causes is what’s known as your microbiome— the bacteria in your gut, your genitals, and your mouth and throat. Indeed 80% of our immune system is at the openings of the body. Tune in and listen to how you can disease-proof yourself by cultivating your inner garden! 

You And Your Microbiome

Three minutes breathing space

Become available for healing, forgiveness and a deeper connection with others.

This 15 minute guided meditation asks you to smile! This may seem an unusual practice however it is a rather beautiful way to open a connection to your heart which is the centre for healing and forgiveness. The intention of this meditation is to open your heart which allows you to connect more deeply to your own truth and to open lines of communication with others.

Open Heart Meditation

2019-12-20 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Oren Jay Sofer

Mindfulness of Thinking

A conversation with  Liz Stanley.

This episode's guest is Elizabeth Stanley, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book "Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma." Liz is a U.S. Army veteran who came to practice (in part) to help her with PTSD. In their conversation, David and Liz discuss contemporary definitions of trauma and how this relates to the current moment; the neurophysiology of trauma, including the relationship between what Liz terms the “thinking brain” and “survival brain”; and their current assessments of the impacts of COVID-19, it’s impact on social windows of tolerance, and their hopes for the path ahead.

Episode 14 | Widening the Window of Tolerance

Your spacious mind is the natural awareness that knows and accommodates everything. My meditation teacher in the forests of Thailand, Ajahn Chah, called it “the One Who Knows.” He said this is the original nature of mind, the silent witness, spacious consciousness. His instructions were simple: become witness to it all, the person with perspective, the One Who Knows. - Jack Kornfield

The One who knows - Part 1

A commentary on the 8 point attitude training.

Lojong - Transforming Problems - Part 1

Lojong - Transforming Problems - Part 8

Rely on Silence - Part 1

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Lojong - Transforming Problems - Part 1

Natural Meditation podcast