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Mindful Meditation or Back Yard TV

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Ahhh, meditation. Every “expert” I know sings the praises of mindful meditation along with the many health benefits including stress management, reducing negative emotions, and increasing patience and tolerance. I have often been told by multiple experts, “You need to meditate. You’re so high strung, and it’s the only way to calm your mind.” To say I’m high strung is an understatement, but I prefer to think of it as high energy. One of my ballet teachers once said that I had “big energy.” I took it as a compliment until one of the dancers said, “That’s a nice way of putting it.” Hmmm….I wondered what she meant by that. The look on her face indicated it wasn’t a compliment. Along with having high energy, I...

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Episode #22: Breathe….Inspiring Insights To Better Health

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Breathing and visualization are powerful tools to help relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, and can even prevent and cure disease. A daily breathing practice can improve your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This episode features renowned wellness educator, professional yoga therapist, reiki master, and breathing coach, Sharon Harvey Alexander. Sharon shares how a daily breathing practice can improve the quality of your life and give you a new sense of health and vitality. She shares how a heartbreaking loss led her to look for comfort in unhealthy ways, but found her way to peace, health, and happiness through yoga, reiki, self-awareness, and breathing. Learn how this practice helped her reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro as a way to celebrate her 50th...

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Episode 11: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

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The ability to change our mind is our God-given right. But happens when you change your mind, or more specifically, your mindset? The results can be miraculous, and this miracle of nature is in each and every one of us. It is called neuroplasticity, which simply means that our brain, body, and nervous system can change during the course of our entire lifetime. We are capable of interrupting habits and patterns which may not be serving us well, and causing pain or dysfunction. We can actually change the way we move, think, feel, and sense. Which sounds like a no-brainer (pun intended). However, as recently as twenty-five years ago, conventional wisdom was that this neuroplasticity disappeared around the age of fourteen. Which is really crazy when you think about it. Because there are many...

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