Beautiful <3 feels like sunset on the mountain :)

Shadows on the Mountain, Track 7 from the album Sacred Spaces. If you like this track, consider buying the album on iTunes! 

I wrote Shadows on the Mountain for my mom, thinking about a remote farm where I spent my early childhood (4-7 years old). It was on a mountain, at the end of a 5-mile dirt driveway. The nearest neighbor was a mile away, and there were no other people in sight. We had goats and chickens, and a huge vegetable garden, and an occasional trip to the store — at the nearest town, 45 miles away. It was truly quiet, and the nights were completely dark. I'm not sure if people get the opportunity to experience complete silence or complete darkness anymore, but it's a beautiful thing. I was too young to appreciate the beauty of it, but the serenity of that place has stayed with me, and I'm grateful for it now. 

I used to sit on our mountain, watching the trees and shadows dance on the other mountain. Sometimes they looked like animals, and sometimes I could see the same animals in the same trees. Shadows on the Mountain. 

It features my old no-name guitar (my very first guitar, which I've had since I was 4 years old), and also has fretless bass and orchestral strings. 

The form is ABAB C ABAB, so AB (the two melody sections), AB again (add strings), C (the bridge), ABAB (bass playing the “A” melody both times).

Sacred Spaces

Shadows on the Mountain

Morning Travelers

We're often our own worst critics. The negative self-talk can be cruel, it gives depression power and eventually, we start to believe the things we tell ourselves.

We invited one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, Dr Kristin Neff, to teach us a thing, or two, about being kind to ourselves.

Some questions we ask:

Why is self-compassion important and what role does in play in our mental health?
Why do some people find it so hard to practice self-compassion?
How do we work through, and breakdown, the resistance we feel?

Want to learn more about Dr Kristin Neff? Here you go:

Kristin studied communications as an undergraduate at the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1988). She did her graduate work at University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1997), studying moral development with Dr. Elliot Turiel. Her dissertation research was conducted in Mysore, India, where she examined children’s moral reasoning. She then spent two years of post-doctoral study with Dr. Susan Harter at Denver University, studying issues of authenticity and self-concept development. Her current position at the University of Texas at Austin started in 1999, and she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006.

During Kristin’s last year of graduate school in 1997 she became interested in Buddhism, and has been practicing meditation in the Insight Meditation tradition ever since. While doing her post-doctoral work she decided to conduct research on self-compassion – a central construct in Buddhist psychology and one that had not yet been examined empirically.

In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an 8-week program to teach self-compassion skills. The program, co-created with her colleague Chris Germer, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is called Mindful Self-Compassion. Her book, Self-Compassion, was published by William Morrow in April, 2011.

Website: http://self-compassion.org/
Twitter: @self_compassion
Facebook: /selfcompassion

Episode 5: Dr Kristin Neff - Getting to Grips with Self-Compassion

In Maintenance Meditations Series One we begin with a chakra balancing meditation to realign your energy. 

The second meditation takes you on a journey to clear your heart space and lighten the load.

The third and final meditation in this series teaches you how you can release attachments to other people or spirits in order to move forward with your life.

Feathers Healing brings you these Maintenance Meditations for your personal development. Please visit us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/FeathersHealing?ref=br_rs

 

Cutting Cords of Attachment

The Biggest Obstacle To Mindful Living (& A Short Powerful Exercise That Will Help You Overcome It).

These episodes are a 5 -15 minute exploration into some aspect of mindful living. In these audio episodes I’ll share with you a poem, quote or story and then we’ll unpack the wisdom within it and I’ll give you a method to integrate that wisdom into your life.

In this episode we explore what is often referred to as the biggest obstacle to mindful living and I give you a way to begin to break free from this obstacle in your daily life.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences with this exploration so feel free to share them with me and the community on  Facebook.com/mrsmindfulness & Twitter.com/mrsmindfulness I always love hearing from you.

The Biggest Obstacle To Mindful Living

This visualisation guides you into the meditative space which inspired the series of paintings 'Butterflies of Metatron' by Artist Carla Fletcher.
Guided by Uma Spender www.yogawithjessie.com
Recording and live piano by Tom Spender www.spender.com.au
www.carlafletcher.com

Butterflies of Metatron - Visualisation.  Guided by Uma Spender.

This is the Relax and Retune 30-Minute Meditation from A Course in Mindful Living by Elisha Goldstein, PhD http://acourseinmindfulliving.com/

A Course in Mindful Living

Relax and Retune 30 Minutes

Self-Compassion Break (Kristen Neff)

This practice from Bob Stahl involves deep investigation into the causes of anxious feelings so you can discover the story lines that trigger and drive your emotions.

Read more: https://www.mindful.org/meditation-anxious-emotions/

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety

Meditation on Anxious Emotions (20 min)

Three minutes breathing space

This is a basic neurosensory exercise that guides you through the essentials of biological embodiment. Consider it a hybrid of mindfulness, self-awareness work and simply being in the present moment connected to yourself and your environment. Enjoy.

Enjoy more sample neurosensory exercises over on my YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tIcR-r0CU5Xss_Mq1buU-tWdYVQksjI

Photo Credit: Lindyn Williams.

A 15 Minute Neurosensory Exercise. The Basics

The Meditation Podcast is a free podcast designed to help you benefit from meditation in your everyday life. It is produced by Jesse Stern & Jeane July-Stern.

Our podcast is unique because it uses binaural beats in the audio that actually affect the brain waves, inducing a deep state of relaxation, and a brain pattern similar to REM sleep. This has the potential to bring about profound healing. We have received emails from people all over the world who have suffered from strokes, emotional losses, trauma, anxiety and insomnia, all of whom have benefitted from our podcast.*

We decided to make this podcast to help regular people who want to learn and practice meditation. This style of meditation is non-denominational, and we believe it can be used in conjunction with – or separate from – any church, temple or any set of religious or spiritual beliefs.

(*Please note that we are not licensed health-care practictioners, and we do not claim any specific health benefits from using this podcast. You are responsible for your own health.)

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