Tune out and relax into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Swan", by Mary Oliver.Mary Oliver - Swan: Poems and Prose PoemsOrdinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must loveyou very much.”Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life.You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. 

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Peaceful Compassion Meditation with poem, "Swan", by Mary Oliver

Bring kindness and peace to yourself and others through this loving-kindness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Come to Dust", by Ursula K. Le GuinCome to Dust – by Ursula K. Le GuinSpirit, rehearse the journeys of the bodythat are to come, the motionsof the matter that held you.Rise up in the smoke of palo santo.Fall to the earth in the falling rain.Sink in, sink down to the farthest roots.Mount slowly in the rising sapto the branches, the crown, the leaf-tips.Come down to earth as leaves in autumnto lie in the patient rot of winter.Rise again in spring's green fountains.Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollento fall in blessing.All earth's dust has been life, held soul, is holy.Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life.You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. 

Loving Kindness Meditation with poem "Come to Dust"

Slip into Fall with this Cozy Peaceful Meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes this guided meditation with the poem "The Sun," by Mary Oliver.The Sun, by Mary Oliver.Have you ever seen anything in your lifemore wonderful than the way the sun, every evening,relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the cloudsor the hills, or the rumpled sea,and is gone--and how it slides again out of the blackness,every morning, on the other side of the world,like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oils,say, on a morning in early summer,at its perfect imperial distance--and have you ever feltfor anything such wild love--do you think there is anywhere, in any language,a word billowing enough for the pleasure that fills you,as the sun reached out, as it warms you as you stand thereempty-handed--or have you too turnedfrom this world-- or have you too gone crazy for power, for things?Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life.You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Cozy Peaceful Meditation with poem, The Sun, by Mary Oliver

Sit back and relax into autumn in this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the poem with a reading of, "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", by Maggie Smith."Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," by Maggie SmithJust look—nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see—the way the changed leaves,flapping their yellow underbelliesin the wind, glitter. The treelooks sequined whereverthe sun touches. Does anyonenot see it? Driving by a fieldof spray-painted sheep, I thinkthe world is not all changed.The air still ruffles woolthe way a mother’s handbusies itself lovingly in the hairof her small boy. The sunlifts itself up, grows heavytreading there then lets itselfoff the hook. Just look at itleaving—the sky a tiger eyebanded five kinds of goldand bronze—and the sequin treeshaking its spangles like a girlon the high school drill team,nothing but sincerity. It glitterswhether we’re looking or not.Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life.You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

One for Me; One for You, with Poem for Autumn

Julie Potiker leads a forgiveness meditation for Yom Kippur, incorporating the Hawaiian Ho'oponopono Affirmation Meditation.Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life.You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Forgiveness Meditation - with Ho'oponopono Affirmation

Feel strength, compassion and grounding through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "I Carry Your Heart", by E.E. Cummings. I Carry Your Heart, by E.E. Cummings i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts. 

Grounding Compassion Meditation -with poem, "I Carry Your Heart"

Find your safe place through this compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Untitled", by Willow Harth "Untitled", by Willow Harth This poem is not meant for you unless you too have been underground choking on your life's debris, and playing peek-a-boo with death seriously then the surprise of ten thousand buttercups out of nowhere on every side where they'd never been before on my daily walk might have had the effect on you it did on me because suddenly I wanted to understand how these particular flowers came to be—the whole evolutionary history of mosses, ferns and angiosperms, the miracle of photosynthesis and DNA, not to mention the longings of the Milky Way to reflect itself in the form called flowers and in these buttercups, which seemed like a visitation from the sun, urging me to tell you, in case like me you had forgotten we are the universe's latest way of blooming.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Compassion Meditation - Safe Place

Settle in and find your calm through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation by reading a self-composed poem, "Morning Mind".   Morning Mind Flow, by Julie Potiker The first thing  I notice is the sound. A wall of high fidelity sound. I fold myself into the pale turquoise cushion on the chair and let it in: There’s twilling, tweeting, and something that sounds like call and response singing, an octave above high C. Underneath, or on top of all that sound is the constant gentle roar, yes, a roar but sweet, of the river - sort of like a white noise machine, or maybe it’s pink noise, or brown noise. I feel my palms and the underside of my fingers getting hot, wrapped around my white ceramic mug, with the artist rendering of an elk, his antlers partially covered by my thumbs. The next thing to come online is my vision. The bright green heart shaped leaves of the Aspen Trees are shimmering and quaking on their delicate stems. Bugs, flying things, butterflies and bees are flitting around in the sunlight slanting through the shadows of the trees. I rest my mug on the arm of the chair and pull my cozy flannel pajama top around me in a hug. The thin bamboo hot flash preventing nightgown isn’t enough to keep off the chill of an Idaho summer morning. My fleece lined slippers enclose my feet, as I notice where the fresh cool air is making contact with my skin. I’m reminded of summer camp, cool mornings in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, using a rake to make patterns in the dirt in front of our cabin at Interlochen National Music Camp, red knee socks pulled all the way up to my worn navy corduroy knickers (pants that button below the knee, not underwear for my U.K. friends!), hoping to win the best cabin award each week. My mind back now to the present, a carpenter ant, running across the rough stones. How does he move so fast? There must be some small animal in the eaves, because there are crumpled dry leaves and stems arranged haphazardly on the stones below the roof, right next to the sliding doors to the breakfast room. Perhaps a soft furry little house guest is joining me for breakfast, while I enjoy my coffee in her world.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Calm and Settle Meditation - Morning Mind

Take the time to find compassion for yourself and others in this relaxing compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "A Collection of Atoms", by Daniel Baylis.   A Collection of Atoms, by Daniel Baylis Working together In temporary harmony Before being dispersed Back into the universe Your earthly task Is to help those atoms radiate Imagine the simplicity You need not Achieve anything but Gently glow -Daniel Baylis   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Relaxing Compassion Meditation with poem by Daniel Baylis

In this guided meditation you'll visualize a majestic tree - and ground yourself through its roots into the earth. In celebration of Pride month, held every June, Julie Potiker completes the meditation with the poem "I love you to the moon and..." by Chen Chen.   I Love You To The Moon And by Chen Chen   Not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of  queer zest & stay up  there & get ourselves a little  moon cottage (so pretty), then start a moon garden with lots of moon veggies (so healthy), i mean  i was already moonlighting  as an online moonologist  most weekends, so this is the immensely logical next step, are you  packing your bags yet, don’t forget your  sailor moon jean jacket, let’s wear  our sailor moon jean jackets while twirling in that lighter, queerer moon gravity, let’s love each other  (so good) on the moon, let’s love  the moon         on the moon   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts. 

Tree Meditation with poem "I Love You To The Moon And..."

Feel your body release and relax as you melt into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Safe Resourced Connected - Compassion Meditation

Scan your body and breathe in love and appreciation through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker.  She completes the meditation with timely words from Rabbi Jordan Braunig, "A Prayer for Peace".   A Prayer for Peace, Rabbi Jordan Braunig It is possible to pray for peace. Our prayer life need not know our boundaries. No green lines, no dashes, no subtle demarcations. Our longings can transcend our political ideologies, cut across our keen analyses. Earnestness, cast out of our public discourse, still has a place in the language of our hearts. We have the capacity to pray for the old couple crouched in their stairwell in Ashkelon and the terrified child in his pajamas in Gaza. We can spread our prayer like a tattered shawl like a billowing canopy like a sparkling firmament over the tired shoulders of these and across the narrow frames of those. We are not naive, not cowards, nor traitors to pray for peace. We are told to get in line, to stand with them or to stand with the other, but we pray to a Holy One who resides in the space between, diminished by their missiles, laid low by their rockets, exhausted, but still listening for our prayers.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Loving Body Scan with Prayer for Peace in Israel

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll focus on compassion - for yourself an others.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Compassion Meditation - I Will Catch Me

Connect to yourself  - and others through this loving kindness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading by Hafiz, "With That Moon Language". With That Moon Language, by Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky) Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise, someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon language, what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?​ Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms. 

Moon Eyes Meditation - with Poem by Hafiz

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll breathe in what you need right now - and breathe out what no longer serves you. She completes the meditation with a poem by Franciscan Brother Richard, Ordinary Miracles. Ordinary Miracles by Brother Richard, a Capuchin Franciscan priest-friar, living and working in Ireland.   Today I am so tired - I have no space in me for big. I must return to the small ordinary miracles; to the way the cup and the bowl laid upon this table, once earth themselves, now, after fire's touch, are something else entirely, and give themselves freely with the simple symmetry of their curved line to the holding of emptiness or fullness. Or I will drink tea, and follow it's warmth and healing touch within and without, and mingle my breath with its vapor and touch the journey of its essence from faraway lands to here, to now, to me. Or spend time simply remembering that between the covers of the books upon my shelves are held minds, lives, worlds, stories, wisdom that will all last longer than this little body of mine. Or marvel at the striped stones upon the shore that tell deep time, layer by layer and recall wild days of disaster and dancing in their still sea vigil, slowly loosing their grains and building beaches for children's hands to make sand castles with until the next tide sets them swimming again. Or just knowing that already I have seen a seed become a tree become a log become a fire become dust and become soil for seed's planting. Or watch the sky and know that the blue is still behind the clouds and the stars still shine even in the day. Or simply sit with the slow rhythm of breath knowing its biology as blessing, its divine anchoring as presence and prayer. Today, I am so tired I have no space in me for big questions, queries, feelings, problems, pains, plans, whether mine or others, so I will just sit with the small ordinary miracles of being; breathing, watching, touching, tasting the now, and in the now knowing the love from which all that is, is. I will dwell there, today, in the wonder of it all, in the wildness of the small ordinary miracles of being. Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms. 

Breathing In What Your Need - Releasing What You No Longer Need

Individual meditations to help ease you through the stresses of everyday life and improve your health. Set to calming music hear guided visualizations, mantra meditations and meditations that focus on breathing.

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