Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

If you travel a lot, you can use this meditation as a way to help your jet lagged body overcome the lag and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! The meditation will also help if you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you can use it as an everyday tonic to sooth your mind and body, slowing you down from the fast pace of modern life. This is a 30 minute version of the "Use the ground" meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many people in modern times suffer from anxiety, fear, anger, sometimes even outright panic in a way that is disproportionate to the actual threats to their life. It is in those moments that grounding yourself can be a true blessing. This guided meditation walks you through simple meditation to do just that. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! This is a 20 minute version of the 'Use the ground' meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you are suffering from jet-lag or are feeling unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help. Even conditions like insomnia, panic attacks, depression, anger and other psychological episodes can be helped with this simple exercise. Or you can use it as an everyday tonic to sooth your mind and body, slowing you down from the fast pace of modern life. You will also find that it is a salve to the jet lagged body and will help accelerate your adaptation to the new time zone. You can even begin working on shifting your body's clock before you leave! This is a 10 minute version of the "Use the ground" meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Feeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored? If so, you can use this meditation to help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 30 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you are feeling jet lagged, scattered, discombobulated or unmoored for whatever reason, this meditation will help ground you. By consolidating your energies and harmonizing yourself internally and externally, you will feel better and find that you have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings you. It is a 10 minute version of the Use Your Location to ground yourself meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When our mind and our body is out of joint and we’re not sure why, sometimes a simple meditation on grounding oneself in the place where we are right now is all that is needed to feel better. By consolidating our energies and harmonizing ourselves internally and externally, we find that we have the strength and positivity to handle what life brings us. This is a simple meditation that will allow you ground yourself where you are (or where you will soon be if you are traveling). This meditation is especially useful if you are jet-lagged or feeling scattered or unmoored. It is a 10 minute version of the Use Your Location meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Using your breath as the anchor and the dualistic nature of the phenomenal or physical world as your medium. You can use this guided meditation to release suffering of any kind. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonglen works almost like they that jet black coal is consumed in a white hot furnace and transformed into light. You can think of the practice as though the universe is using you as a forge. By accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are purified and your true loving nature is revealed. Contrary to what you might think, your willingness to accept another's suffering allows you to become the smithy for the creation of joy and light, both for them and within yourself as well. This is a 1 hour version of the Tonglen for Others meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonglen, the Buddhist meditation practice of 'sending and receiving' works in an almost alchemical way to relieve the suffering of others and your personal pain at the same time. The practice of Tonglen fires up a boiler or a smithy within the soul and then guides you to shovel the jet black coal of suffering into the white hot flames in the furnace. Through the practice, the universe uses you as a forge. As paradoxical as it sounds, by accepting the negativity or anguish or others you are purified and your true loving nature is revealed. Your willingness to accept their suffering allows you to become the anvil for the creation of joy and light with your own heart and others as well. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Tonglen for Others' meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many of us suffer terribly. Whether it is physical or psychological pain, the suffering deep down within us can be unbearable. And we often know others who struggle with their own demons. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen is a simple practice that allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. Using the alchemy of light and dark, you can use this practice to connect with the suffering of others and through that connection, forge a happier, lighter experience of life. You can use your body and your mind as a kind of crucible where you can transform the darkness and pain of someone else into light and joy. And by doing it for another, almost magically your own clouds will lift too. This is a 30 minute version of the Tonglen for Others practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. This ancient Buddhist technique is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. The method is to just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering within ourselves ceases, or at least reduces, and almost magically, we help alleviate the suffering in others at the same time. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 20 minute version of the 'Tonglen for Others' practice.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The age-old Buddhist practice of Tonglen can be used to help another person or people who are in pain. If there is someone who is suffering, or some group of people, and you would like to help and support them with your love, you can use this technique to do just that. Tonglen means giving and receiving and in this meditation you will do just that, receiving their suffering and giving your love.Note: This is a 10 minute version of the Tonglen for Others guided meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a one hour version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There is hardly a person that doesn't have emotional wounds from the past. Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal them. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 45 minute version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal old emotional wounds. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 30 minute version of the Past Regrets Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.