Simple Daily Practice Radio with Peggy Freeh – Détails, épisodes et analyse

• Divine Light Vibrations website - courses, meditations, and one-on-one sessions

• Vibrational Voyages website - Go-To Guides for Spiritual Beings

• her book How to Make the Most of Your Earth Experience

• her class Meet the Infinite You

• Glenn on Facebook

• Divine Light Vibrations on Facebook

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Google+

Glenn had been on a spiritual path for a long time.  She started meditating in college with her roommate.  She studied with amazing teachers, learning to trust her intuition more and more.

She found herself letting go over and over again.  She let go of control and listened more to her inner guidance.  She let go of her fears and limitations.  During one particular meditation, she let go of everything and met her Divine Soul.  

It had a profound effect on her inner and outer life.  Inwardly, she experienced a deep love and connection beyond anything she had known before.  Outwardly, she travelled the world and became a spiritual teacher.  

Listen to Glenn’s story of what this process has been like for her, what shifted because of that connection to her Divine Soul, and how she is now helping other people connect to their Divine Souls.

• her experience seeing the world in its divine light form

• the question she asks herself to see if something is right for her

• her process to release her blocks

• the moment she met her Divine Soul

• how her life has shifted because of that meeting

• how she is helping other people connect to their Divine Souls

• Divine Light Vibrations website - courses, meditations, and one-on-one sessions

• Vibrational Voyages website - Go-To Guides for Spiritual Beings

• her book How to Make the Most of Your Earth Experience

• her class Meet the Infinite You

• Glenn on Facebook

• Divine Light Vibrations on Facebook

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Google+

• Transcendental Meditation

• Jim Goure and the Light Center

As a young adult, Wendy Battino went backpacking in New Zealand.  She was intrigued when she met a group of people going to a 10 day retreat to learn Vipassana, so she decided to join them.  It was a powerful experience for her, and she left feeling very connected to the people and world around her.

When she got back home, she wasn’t consistent with her practice.  She resisted the urge to force herself to do it and instead treated it like an experiment.  She just kept coming back to it, and it gradually became a daily practice for her.

Now Vipassana influences much of her day.  She meditates an hour a day.  She uses it in her life coaching.  She started a local meditation group in her community. It has become a consistent thread in her life, and brought her brought her many gifts.

Learn all the ways Vipassana has became woven into Wendy’s life, how her practice has changed for her over time, and all the ways she has benefitted from this practice for almost 25 years.

• the meditation she created for herself before she studied Vipassana meditation

• what is was like to talk again after her 10 day silent Vipassana retreat

• why she doesn’t beat herself up if she doesn’t meditate every day

• how studying with Thich Nhat Hanh changed her practice

• her favorite Pema Chodron story about not being perfect

• why she says she’s an addicted, selfish meditator

• how her experience has shifted over time

• how consistently meditating in a group has supported her

• her best advice for creating a daily practice (with or without Vipassana)

• website

• YouTube

• Vipassana

• Thich Nhat Hanh

Simple Daily Practice Community group on Facebook

Aine Mac Dermott had been on a spiritual journey for a long time.  She had a sense that she wanted to meditate, but she hadn’t worked out the details.  She would try sometimes, going into her bedroom after work and tuning in, but she never found anything she would stick with.

She went to a week long class at the Chopra Center, and learned Primordial Sound Meditation.  She was given a mantra to repeat to herself, and practiced during the week of the retreat.  In just that week, she could tell that she resonated with this meditation.

When she got home, she continued to meditate every day.  She felt the shifts in her experience.  Other people noticed changes in her, and she was able to connect in a deeper, more energetic way with her interior design clients.

Listen to Aine’s story of how she learned Primordial Sound Meditation, what that experience was like for her and the shifts she’s experienced from her practice.

• the important shift in her understanding about how to work with a mantra meditation

• the feedback she got from other people about how she changed after she started meditating

• how her work in the world is supported by her meditation practice

• what happens when she tries to force something to happen now

• her best advice to start a practice like hers

• the visual component she added to her practice to help her focus

• what it feels like to carry her practice in her body throughout her day

• website

• Instagram

• LinkedIn

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Pinterest

• Seduction of Spirit retreat

• Primordial Sound Meditation

• Jean Houston - entelechy

• Deepak Chopra - SynchroDestiny

• Simple Daily Practice Community on Facebook

Peggy had been a stay at home mom for 9 years.  She was at a breaking point, focusing all her time and energy on her kids and none on herself.

She signed up for a life coach training program, and threw herself their recommended daily practice to notice and dissolve her painful thoughts.  But after a year, she realized that it wasn’t very effective for her.  Even though she learned the technique and could use it effectively with other people, it wasn’t causing many shifts in her life.

So she tried another practice - yoga.  This was a completely different experience.  She felt genuinely inspired to do this practice. She felt the benefits right away and continued to feel them as she practiced more.  She was so inspired that she went on to create this podcast to find out how other people create their own transformative daily practices they love.

Listen to Peggy’s story of how daily practice has changed her life, and what she has learned about creating a daily practice from all the people she has interviewed.

• the three questions to ask to see if a practice is working for you

• her favorite analogy to think about daily practice

• how many days to try a practice to see if it resonates with you

• the number of days is really takes to form a habit

• guidelines for checking in with yourself about your practice

• how much time you need every day to start a daily practice

• what it’s like to feel inspired to start a new practice

• the value of connecting with a group when you start a practice

• the benefits of having multiple practices

• her best advice to start a daily practice

• website

• Facebook page

• Facebook Simple Daily Practice Community group

• Twitter

• Instagram

• website

• The Work of Byron Katie

• this blog post and this one talk about how a study explores how long it takes to create a new habit

• guests mentioned in the show:

• Natanya Lara - identifying one thing she’s grateful for before she gets out of bed

• Elena Lipson - setting her alarm 10 minutes earlier and hitting the snooze button

Sharon Alexander - how her 24 year yoga practice has changed over time

At the age of 20, Patsie was so depressed, she took an overdose of painkillers.  She ended up in the hospital, floating in and out of conscious.  During that time, she connected with something that astonished her - a profound sense of total peace and love, beyond thought.  

After she left the hospital, that peace was only a memory, so she started to explore meditation to find her way back to it.  The first place she found it was practicing chi kung.  She was able to let go of her mind and find that peace again.

She explored other practices - visualizations, yoga, breath work - and was able to connect with and maintain that sense of peace throughout her day. She continued to explore other forms of meditation and find other benefits even beyond that sense of peace. She was able to disconnect from her thoughts and deeply connect with who she truly is.

Today, Patsie has an amazing collection of meditation techniques she draws on every day as she needs to keep connected to her moment by moment experience and her soul.  Listen to her story of all the techniques she’s used and the different benefits she has found with each one.

• how she continued her practice when she had children

• how she experiences that sense of peace in her body

• the type of Buddhist meditation she used to disengage from her thoughts

• her experience working with Zen koans

• how her search has ended AND another journey has begun

• why her whole life feels like meditation now (and why she still meditates every morning)

• her favorite mantras and when she finds them most helpful

• her best advice to get started with a meditation practice

• the rewards of meditation practice beyond more calm and peace

• website

• Facebook page

• free Facebook Meditation group

• Twitter

• free presentation - Make Peace with Your Life on the Gingko Journey

• free presentation - How to Self-Heal Your Depression

• The Om Mani Padme Hum Tibetan mantra

• The Durga Mantra

Vivian remembers the dark years.  Between moving, changing jobs, her husband retiring and her sons leaving home, her life was turned upside down.  She knew she needed to do something different so she decided to simply stop and pay more attention.

She started with daily journaling, asking questions and listening for the answers.  She sat outside every morning at sunrise, watching the light come from the darkness so she could trust that the light would come back into her life, too.

While her practices were helping her, they came with a catch.  She was treating them like other items on her to do list, and if she ever missed a practice, she beat herself up.  She wanted to find a way to be consistent with her practices in a way that felt kind and loving.

Listen to Vivian’s story of how she approaches her daily practice now so it does feel loving and supportive (even when she misses a few days), and how her practice is an ever evolving part of her life.

• her favorite, favorite practice

• why she sleeps with the curtains open

• the practice she does before she goes to sleep to receive answers to her questions

• how daily practice is like water (and what to do about it)

• how she’s being called to release her current practice that she loves

• how she’s finding peace with the word “discipline”

• how her relationship to daily practice is like walking her dog

• her favorite meditation app

• why falling asleep when you are meditating is good

• how daily practice is still changing her life

• website

• Turning Inward podcast on iTunes and Stitcher

• Facebook

• Twitter

• LinkedIn

• Pinterest

• Google+

• Mary Oliver - “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” - from the poem “Upstream”

• Rainer Maria Rilke - “Be attentive to what is arising within you and place that above everything else."  - from Letters to a Young Poet

• Steve Pressfield - “an appointment with the muse” - I couldn’t find a specific source for this quote, but he does discuss muses in his book The War of Art

• Headspace meditation app

• Simple Daily Practice Community on Facebook

Caren Baginski shares a 5 minute meditation to clear the mind of worries and promote a deep sense of security and safety.  This meditation also opens and energizes your root chakra.

• website

• all of Caren’s 5 minute meditations to activate your true spirit

• Twitter

Caren had a long history of depression.  During college, she kept very busy and her depression was lessened.  After graduating, she got a new job, moved to a new city and started a new relationship.

Even with all that, she had more time to stop and reflect and her depression came back.  One night, she contemplated suicide. The next day, she went to a doctor and started taking Zoloft.  While it helped with her depression, she felt anxious, nauseated, and she couldn’t sleep.

She wanted to find a way to feel better without taking drugs, so she started doing yoga.  She noticed a difference, and she continued to practice.  There were some parts of her experience that yoga wasn’t shifting, so she starting meditating as well. The combination was exactly what she needed.  She was eventually able to stop taking her medication and fully recover from her depression.

Listen to her story of how she worked with both yoga and meditation to heal herself, her favorite mantra to shift her mindset and the current challenge she is facing.  Also try her guided meditation to clear the mind of worries and activate trust.

• the simple breathing technique that helped her sleep

• how her first daily practice before yoga and meditation was shifting her mindset

• the role her dog Willow played in her healing

• how she decided to do a yoga teacher training

• why her practice has shifted now more towards meditation and less towards yoga

• why she meditates with her fiance

• what she considers the greatest accomplishment of her life

• the challenge she’s facing now and how her practices are supporting her

• her best advice for starting a daily practice

• website

• all of Caren’s 5 minute meditations to activate your true spirit

• Twitter

• Yoga for Depression

• Iyengar yoga

• Samadhi Center for Yoga in Denver

• Misophona - misophonia.com and misophonia-association.org

• VIpassana

• Yoga nidra

• Simple Daily Practice Community group on Facebook

Sarahjoy’s first daily practices were not kind ones.  She compulsively weighed herself, obsessed about food, and exercised all the time.  Making art was her only escape from thinking about her body and food.

She went on a solo backpacking trip.  She struggled up the trail with an overloaded backpack.  When she got above the treeline, she put down her pack.  As she looked around, she experienced an expansiveness and freedom that she had totally lost touch with in her obsession with food.

She started to move her body and connect with how her body actually felt.  Soon after she arrived home, she discovered that the movements she spontaneously did had a name - yoga.   She started practicing yoga and meditation, and she was able to recover from her food addiction.

She continued her own practices, and became a yoga teacher and yoga therapist.  She has gone on to create a 360 degree life, one where she is able to fully embrace and express all aspects of herself.  Listen to her story of the practices she used to heal herself, and thrive in the world.

• her advice for picking a style of yoga to meet you where you are

• why she recommends looking for a yoga teacher with yoga therapy training

• the first unnerving thing that shifted for her when she began practicing yoga

• how she shifted her relationship to food as she practiced

• the importance of connecting to community on her journey

• how the thought “I have to do it” shaped her experience

• what living a 360 degree life means to her

• her best advice for starting a daily practice (she’s the first guest who has shared this advice)

• website

• her bookHunger, Hope and Healing: A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Insight Meditation Society

• Breitenbush Hot Springs

• Ram Dass

• Joseph Goldstein

• Jack Kornfield

• Pema Chodron

• Eckhart Tolle

• Eknath Easwaran

• Kripalu Yoga Center

• DAYA Foundation

• Living Yoga

• Conscious Mornings Challenge