softening

Mollie Birney is here in an honest conversation about what’s hard, what’s beautiful, and what’s educating us as parents.

• Learning to soften and embrace gentleness
• The new, refreshing attitude about parenting
• What we're discovering in the hardest moments
• Making space for loss and the impermanence of childhood
• How are children are educating us as humans
• What we're working toward in the culture of parenting 
  
  

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About Mollie Birney:
Mollie Birney is a Clinical Life Coach in private practice, she works with high-achieving professionals seeking efficient, authentic transitions and behavioral change. Her coaching style has been described as “compassionate straight-talk with therapeutic roots” and draws upon her years as therapist in a variety of treatment environments, as a private consultant and interventionist for families in crisis. These clinical underpinnings are now the foundation of her work as a personal coach for folks looking for a clearer understanding of the mechanics of their mind. She holds a masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University with a specialization in Addiction Studies.
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Additional Notes:
An article on "The Good Enough Mother" via Medium

It's a privilege to bring to you Elena Brower. I had a wonderful time talking with Elena on this episode titled Softening Time with Deep Reflections.

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Elena is a mother, mentor, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. After graduating Cornell University in 1992, she designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before focusing on yoga, meditation, art and writing. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages; her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Both Practice You and Being You are utilized as teaching tools in a variety of settings.

During this podcast we discuss topics like:

• Elena’s upcoming book. 
• How to prioritize self-empathy. 
• Smoothing the edges of misunderstandings. 
• What her first entry into yoga and meditation was like? 
• Dropping it all and sitting still. 
• How her transition from East to West has evolved?

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In this guided meditation, Anne offers an introduction inspired by an interview conducted years ago of school kids who had been introduced to mindfulness. One of them, when asked what mindfulness means, quipped: 

‘It means not hitting someone in the mouth.’ 

This funny and direct response implies that a mindfulness practice teaches us the ability to pause before we act, or react. 

We explore in this meditation how shining a light inwards — learning to be with the body’s sensations moment by moment  — helps us become in touch with ourselves so that we can feel our emotions as they arise and subside. By learning to notice first, we become less likely to identify with the emotions. That means we will switch from ‘I am angry’ to ‘I am feeling anger and frustration’, for example. This distance between the emotion and the self gives us a new vantage point from which, when we feel reactive, there is the option to pause and choose the next action, rather than simply react. 

With mindfulness anchored in the body, we feel what’s happening and we get to choose how we respond to our relationships with others and our environments. Anne also shares that while mindfulness is a great tool to notice upset, frustration, sadness or anger, it’s also a tool to connect more directly with positive emotions like joy, love or awe. And in this meditation, while we are exploring sensations scanning down the body, we also invite a sense of decompression, softening and letting go, in various areas of the body, to find a soothing and balanced attention. 

Enjoy!

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Summary: Your cohosts share the practices they are returning to this winter season and explore important questions like: is it possible to take yourself seriously while rebounding? Is not remembering things a potential sign that you've realized a higher state of consciousness? And is yin yoga only for losers?

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Iron John - A Book about Men by Robert Bly
• The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece by Christopher Wallis
• Hyperion
• Shantaram: A Novel
• Link to buy rebounder

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• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

Are you listening to yourself? Are you giving yourself your own time, love, and presence to tune into and acknowledge and learn from you? 

Many people say they're such good listeners and friends. Though we can often feel resentful when we feel that is not reciprocated. And my question is, are you listening to yourself? Because if you are, then I bet you wouldn't find yourself in situations where you feel subtly resentful of your life or the people around you. Your body and your soul are always trying to speak to you and let you in on more of yourself. You are wise. You have everything you need within you and you have the answers to that which you are seeking.

When you gift yourself with the ability to stop and listen to you, you can bring in profound insights and clarity on the different areas of your life. Maybe you're over extending yourself in work, and your body wants you to hone in and give yourself more time to be with you. Maybe you just need some more rest! Maybe it's time to start practicing your sacred no, and trying that on for once!

What are you telling you? And what are you going to do with that information?

Giving someone our time and presence is one of the greatest gifts we can ever offer. And that is felt and remembered, wether it is acknowledged or not. Continue being a light in the world by being yourself, and offering your loving presence. It's quite simple. I promise you, you will not only learn a lot about yourself and who you are relating with, but you will feel grateful for the gift you extend by just being present with and open to another. It goes a long way.

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Ana offers a gentle meditation on loving and softening from the inside out.

Summary: Today we talk with our friend Erica who joined us in our Guatemalan New Year's Eve retreat and followed up with a Kambo initiation. Together we unpack her journey of reconnecting with intuition, the difference between boundaries and discernment and the deep reclaiming of softness. 

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• Erica's instagram: @eleckel
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

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• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
• Podcast photo taken by Celeste during Wild Within's recent Guatemala retreat

What if any moment of anxiety, anger, or tension could actually be a direct portal to a deeply felt sense of groundedness in yourself?

In this episode, we explore the practice of softening into our innate groundedness—the part of us that is always steady beneath the noise and chaos.

As Pema Chödrön said, “…behind all the hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there’s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot…”

As we cultivate greater awareness of our inner worlds, we can begin to notice and approach moments of “rigidity of the heart” with curiosity. When we do so, any moment of anxiety, tension, anger, resistance, etc. becomes a portal back to ourselves.

Ariel shares her experience of exploring this practice and offers a simple meditation to help you come back to your groundedness amidst those active moments of rigidity.

Join us for inner work conversation and meditation at doyouhave.space or follow the journey @doyouhave.space

Music by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena

Stages of meditative understanding, jhanas, are based on direct experience that unfolds into nibbana.  In meditation, jhanas provide arbitrary markers for gradual transitions to nibbana.  With uplifted qualities and softening in meditation, we can be clear about the quality of awareness that we cultivate.   What liberates is seeing with clear, open, and sensitive awareness.
This episode with Doug Kraft is a dhamma talk recorded with the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group in Sacramento, California. 

Feeling a little unsettled or uneasy? Join me in this 15 minute grounding meditation to help you tune in, arrive in your body & breathe in some ease. Get cozy and settle in!

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