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A chance to do the basic version of mindfulness meditation together to start your Wednesday. 

The differences between actual mindfulness vs. pop culture mindfulness. Mindfulness is more than just being present. It is HOW we are present. 

A teaching and meditation around the simple truth that until something is allowed to be broken, it can't be fixed. When we are the only one propping something up or filling in a gap, we often enable things that need to be fixed or need to end to continue on indefinitely into the future. There are times when the healthiest and most helpful option is to let it break. 

Instructions for creating your own mix-and-match self-guided meditation to use at night time to help fall asleep and remember your dreams.

Mindfulness and Sleep Month continues and we add in a bedtime meditation to aid in dream recall as well as falling asleep.

A meditation designed for use at bed time to help you fall asleep and maintain awareness into sleep. Begin listening to this meditation in bed and eight hours before your wake up time.

In this brief welcome to Mindfulness and Sleep Month, I talk about what to expect during the month. The first activity for the month is to determine the best bedtime for you as you do mindfulness work each night ahead of sleep. Participants are also encouraged to keep a dream journal this month to help with the lucid dreaming practice coming up. 

The official launch of Mindfulness and Sleep Month occurs later today. In this podcast, we go over just how mindfulness benefits things like insomnia, falling asleep, anxiety, racing thoughts, and an over-active mind at bedtime. A practice audio to use at bedtime will be posted separately.

Instruction and practice time to cover one of the oldest of the meditations: Samatha aka Mindfulness of the Breath.

One of the more popular meditations to do in nature, today we go back to the basics for listening meditation instruction and practice together.

In mindfulness, regret is a virtue. It is an acknowledgment that we have hurt ourselves or another person and it reflects our commitment to repair and ongoing changed behavior. 

Today, we start moving beyond the basics of the practice and go one level deeper in the emotional awareness training. We look at where your emotions are stemming from and introduce the concept of second tier emotions. 

Today, we examine two core teachings, "You Are Not Your Possessions" and that "At Our Core, We Are the Same" and how they relate to me saying, "If it makes you feel superior, it's not the right path." There is a difference between saying a BELIEF is better and saying WE are better at our core than another. Website Link: http://filtod.com Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/filtodwalker  

Join in to do a a full midweek basic mindfulness practice together. 

Recorded on 2/23/2020, this podcast delves into ways we falsely attribute our success to the things we are succeeding "inspite of" vs. "because of." 

Recorded on 2/17/2020, this episode is a brief contemplation about what it means to really listen and stay relevant as the torch is passed from one generation to the next. 

Recorded on 2/9/2020, we review the difference between what you possess vs. who you are. Quite often, people don't understand that opinions and points of view are just as much a possession or something they own as the living room furniture.

Previously recorded on 2/2/20, we review what Attack Thoughts are and how they impact our mental state, why we use the words "letting go" over "forgiveness," and what it means to take back our power from the people who've hurt us.

Back to the basics today as we review and learn the technique of breath counting. We emphasize two things: (1) that every meditation has a home and (2) the purpose of this basic form of meditation is to learn to focus, notice when we are lost and distracted, and then refocus our attention.

It's back to the basics today as we cover the standard body scan with pain mapping technique as one of the ways to practice the embodiment piece of your mindfulness practice. 

Today we dive into display rules and the research saying we are at an increased risk for depression, fatigue, and bodily aches and pains when our outside face doesn't match what we are actually feeling and experiencing on the inside. 

We often readily see how we have personally changed from even a week ago yet cling to our opinions about who others are from 10 to 20 years ago. Today, we talk about what it means to give yourself and others the gift of being new.

Today is a teaching and meditation on the two traits I've noticed in movement leaders who last from generation to generation and are able to have an impact throughout their lives. 

Today, we talk about the Bottle and Blast Technique when you keep a record of wrongs that come out all at once and also what it means to create a safe environment for people to speak up in.

Today, we release the anger, bitterness, and hurt around our more damaging relationships. 

In Session 3, we look at reasonable vs. unreasonable expectations, the ways we poison our thoughts, and our fears around confrontation and difficult conversations. The session concludes with a releasing meditation designed to also help shift our thinking around how we view and deal with our hurts, disappointments, and conflicts. 

Today, we talk about acknowledging, apologizing, repairing, and changing behavior as a way to make amends for the harm we've caused other people.

Today is Session One of Letting Go of Anger and Resentment Week where we dive into the ways we've hurt ourselves. The talk and meditation explore our own ignorance, our culture's Doctrine of Deservedness, the myth of perfection, and Inner Saboteur. 

Today, we review and practice one of the ways to modify the mindfulness practice to help with anxiety. 

Today, we do the full basic practice and a brief explanation about cultivating the observer self.

In this episode, we talk about one of the underlying principles of mindfulness: that we befriend rather than battle the parts of ourselves that are difficult or problematic. 

Today, we do a brief sitting and talk about this idea of Emotional Shrapnel -- where the practice creates the space for all those things we've been suppressing, repressing, and denying the light of day in our minds to emerge.

Back to basics today as we go over the first part of emotional awareness training as we sit on the cushion together. 

As you do the thought labeling part of the basic practice, the label of 'Story Story' becomes an important one. Today, we look at the difference between objective reality and our subjective perception and start giving those types of interpretative thoughts a label. 

Relax and listen to 45 Power Thoughts and Affirmations. Let the words wash over you, paying attention to the teachings you most need to hear right now. If you notice any resistance to certain thoughts, let those go for now. Keep what works for you. Let go of the rest.

Today, we look at how we tend to stick with the first version of any belief, story, or account that we hear with everything that comes second, third, or there after needing to defend against that first version. The Primacy Effect talks about the staying power of the first version of anything we learn.

A brief meditation for the stress that comes with Monday. Join me for some time together to re-center, breathe, and express some love for yourself.

This month's Facebook Live event was for Walking Meditation instruction. Join in and learn the basics. This video was recorded live. Please excuse the occasional audio fluctuation.

This week we cover a flaw in thinking called the Rites of Passage Fallacy and how often unintentionally, we become preservers of systems of passage that are harmful, unhealthy, and damage ourselves or other people.

This week's contemplation and meditation is on how simply doing the work will lead the meditator into naturally seeing the difference between personal and universal truths. 

A guided mindfulness meditation to use during the week to check-in with yourself and recenter.

Often goal setting starts with what we want to do instead of who do we want to be. In mindfulness, goal setting starts with, "Who do I want to be in the world?" Not in terms of status or titles but in terms of virtues. It becomes a question first of, "What virtues do I want to embody?"

Prepare your cup and join the group for afternoon slow tea and meditation. Recorded from live broadcast on 3-27-2021. Please excuse the occasional audio or video fluctuation.

Welcome to Mindfulness: Slow Living, Connection, and the Ordinary Life. This is full theme song for the podcast.

Recorded in 2018, this talk is about the difference between someone who is toxic and someone who is difficult. Difficult people can help us with our growth and self-awareness. Toxic people have behavior that crosses the line into bullying and abuse. We can really allow the hurt and anger caused by toxic people to move into some deep levels of bitterness and resentment if we aren't careful. Today's talk and meditation helps to let the hurt and bitterness go.

A flashback from 2018 with a good message about accepting and releasing our disappointment in the people around us before it builds up and poisons our relationships.

A flashback from 2018 with a good message about accepting our own role in the conflict in our lives. It's also a reminder that none of us are perfect and we are all humans in the end.

This is the full webcast theme song created via the Garageband sound library. Composer/Assembler: Filtod Walker

March 1, 2020. This episode label of the series is about highlighting Mindfulness-related Teachings and Instructions. TEACHING TOPICMindfulness Origins: The Root of Suffering is Attachment DESCRIPTIONMindfulness's origins are important to understand -- even when doing the work as a secular practice. The idea of attachment and letting go of our clinging, grasping, and need to control is an important concept in Mindfulness itself.  UPCOMING EVENTS  Check out the upcoming events list at https://www.filtod.com/coming-up.html. SUPPORT THE PODCAST Like what you hear? Please support the work through Patreon. Patrons receive special benefits based on their level of support.Check out the link to learn more. http://patreon.com/filtodwalker

February 23, 2020. This episode label of the series is about highlighting Mindfulness-related Teachings and Instructions. TEACHING TOPICOver-Identifying with Your Dysfunction DESCRIPTIONWhen you see yourself as creative or successful BECAUSE of your negative traits instead of IN SPITE of those traits, you can find yourself stuck and unwilling to let go of what isn't working because you are afraid it will also mean losing something that is. UPCOMING EVENTS  Check out the upcoming events list at https://www.filtod.com/coming-up.html. SUPPORT THE PODCAST Like what you hear? Please support the work through Patreon. Patrons receive special benefits based on their level of support.Check out the link to learn more. http://patreon.com/filtodwalker

February 16, 2020. This episode label of the series is about highlighting Mindfulness-related Teachings and Instructions. TEACHING TOPICA New Generation Speaks Truth to Power DESCRIPTIONOnly those who know how to really listen, know how to stay relevant. The moment you stop listening is the moment you have lost your right to lead. BACKGROUND SOUNDSBrought to you by a February night in Louisiana.  UPCOMING EVENTS  Check out the upcoming events list at https://www.filtod.com/coming-up.html. SUPPORT THE PODCAST Like what you hear? Please support the work through Patreon. Patrons receive special benefits based on their level of support.Check out the link to learn more. http://patreon.com/filtodwalker