Mid-Day Mindfulness: Breathwork

Dr. Evelyn Moseley is a Chiropractor in California who offers weekly Mind/Body discussions giving us understanding of how to integrate and care for our being. For more mental health support, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020. If you would like to become a patreon, you can do so at patreon.com/wwgtt.

Greg Weber is the creator of Driving Peace. He works to support people with driving anxiety and helps them find ways to manage their fears. For more information about Greg's work, please go to drivingpeace.com.  For more mental health support, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020 To become a patreon, you can go to patreon.com/wwgtt

THE STATE OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS IN A CONTINUUM: THERE IS NO ACTUAL BREAK OR DISRUPTION OF THE TRUE CORE OF THAT CONSCIOUSNESS.    Oftentimes, the differentiation between one state and another can seemingly appear as this and then as that. For example, I am awake (alert, here, present) compared to I am asleep (unalert, passed out, away). If we can start to bridge the gap between the superficial perception of separation, we can expand the sense of our awareness and in doing so become more present in the moments that compile to make up our life.     THE PRACTICE OF YOGA NIDRA HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE TOOL IN EXPANDING MY CONSCIOUSNESS IN BECOMING AWARE OF ITS OWN CONTINUOUS NATURE.    Yoga Nidra is a type of guided meditation practice. During the practice of Yoga Nidra, one appears to be asleep, but the consciousness is functioning at a deeper level of awareness, activating an awareness that is in the liminal state between waking and sleeping. In this practice, the body-mind accesses a deep relaxation through the expansion of inner awareness with one’s own consciousness.    When the attention of one’s self draws its focus upon itself, the consciousness seemingly softens in recognition of what’s there, while simultaneously expanding as the depths of what’s occupying one’s self come online. As you can imagine, through doing this practice, the mind naturally falls into a quiet rhythm of sweet relaxation. When the body is relaxed, the body is receptive. When the body is receptive, awareness expands, the expansion of awareness brings greater relaxation, which brings more receptivity and so on.     “Meditation connects me into the quietness of my existence and the sensitivity of my awareness.” -Dr. Alandi Stec, DC, Reiki Master     Through my experience, the expansion of my own awareness through Yoga Nidra, has unlocked the observation of the continuation of my consciousness. In my past, there use to be times when I felt breaks in my state of being as I was doing one thing and then clearly doing another, gear shifting to this and then to that. As I’ve engaged with this practice, the perceived barriers of my state have melted away, and all that is left is just me, a continuous state of I Am and an awareness of the occupation of experiences that this state occupies. For more mental health support, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020 To become a patreon, you can go to patreon.com/wwgtt

In this episode, Anita Barrows and I discuss Rilke's perception of God, his connection with darkness and read various poems by both Rilke and Anita. Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1966. She holds Master’s degrees in English and Italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology. Her translations of poetry, plays, fiction and non-fiction from the French, German and Italian have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently, she has collaborated with Joanna Macy on translations of three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke. Six volumes of her poetry have been published, including a previous book, Exile, by The Aldrich Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Tikkun, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Bark, and Bridges. Barrows lives in Berkeley, where she is a professor at The Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and birds. For more mental health resources, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org To become a patreon, you can go to patreon.com/wwgtt

Amy spent over thirty five years working as an advocate for victims of crime. In 2015 she retired from the Vermont Department of Corrections where she served as the Director of Victim Services during which time she worked directly with crime victim survivors and offenders. She developed programs to address their needs using many Positive Psychology and restorative justice principles. Before assuming that role, she spent twenty years as the Executive Director of several different domestic violence/sexual assault agencies in Tennessee and North Carolina where she also and worked as a victim’s advocate in police departments in Nashville and Chapel Hill. After “retirement” Amy became an adjunct professor of psychology at Northern Vermont University where she teaches Positive Psychology. She is also an assistant instructor for the Masters in Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition she is the Bat/Bar Mitzvah coordinator of her synagogue where she gets to incorporate positive education principles while working with students and parents during the preparation process. She is currently the chair of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union School board, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont where she is working to incorporate positive educational principles into administrative/leadership practices. Amy graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Religion and received her MSW from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work with a specialization in criminal and juvenile justice. She received her Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Her masters capstone focused how survivors of adverse events, such as a crime, can thrive in the aftermath through a process called post-traumatic growth. She developed a practical approach to post conviction victim services that shifts the focus from trauma to resilience and growth. For more mental health support, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020

Taylor Short continues her series for Mid-Day Mindfulness.  This week's episode is on Authentic Movement. For more mental health resources, please visit wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020.

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics LLC and the developer of the Empathy Academy online learning site. For more mental health support, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020

Taylor Short continues her series for Mid-Day Mindfulness.  This week's episode is on breath-work. For more mental health resources, please visit wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020.

Dr. Evelyn Moseley offers another MindBody Moment.  In this episode she offers a body scan appreciation meditation. For more mental health resources, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020.

Sarah Henry brings us another Yin Nidra class for the root chakra. For more mental health resources, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org or facebook.com/wewillgetthroughthis2020.