BBM 9: A Conversation About Meditation
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
Release Date: 05/03/2021
BBM 10: Definitions, Labels, and Self-Awareness
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
This is a lively and sometimes controversial conversation with the amazing Amy Bliefnick. In this episode I talk about my life as a labeler, self-labeler to be exact.
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BBM 9: A Conversation About Meditation
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
In this episode, Amy and I have a fun discussion about my journey from someone who had no appreciation for meditation, to someone who now gets up early before the sun is up, to begin my day in deep stillness.
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BBM 8: Reykjavik’s Freedom Day
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
This is a very special episode. It’s the very personal recounting of the intentional transitioning of my beloved Great Dane Alexander Reykjavik, and how it turned into a more heartfelt and celebratory transition than I could have imagined.
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BBM 7: Using your Inner Voice To Live Intuitively
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
This episode is about how I have gradually adopted a style of intuitive living through greater attention to what my inner voice is saying, instead of following the mind and external cues.
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BBM 6: Learning How To Hear My Inner Voice
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
I am now a Certified Inner Voice Facilitator!
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BBM 5: Consciously Coping with a Crisis
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
This is not my normal storytelling podcast episode. This is Amy and I having a conversation about life in the time of COVID-19, in direct response to what is happening in the world right now. For once, there is no question that we are all in this together. And yet, we are all individuals, and we all have different ways of coping with upheavals in our life.
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BBM 4: My Great Dane’s Resume - Fashion Model, Service Dog, Spiritual Teacher
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
Why an episode about my dog? Because as it turns out, he dramatically changed the way I live my life. He is also the catalyst for many of the magical podcast episodes to follow. This first story shows the beginnings of the depth and beauty that can be found in the animal-human connection.
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BBM 3: Consciously Joining Up With The House on the Hill
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
I now live in an amazing house on Diamond Head in Hawaii that I was not even looking for. I set out to find a condo, and then fell in love with a graceful old Hawaiian home. It was too big, more than we were going to spend, and already in escrow with someone else by the time we went after it. And yet through a lot of focus on abundance and pure intention, and desire just to bring the house back to it former glory, one by one the obstacles disappeared.
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BBM 2: Unconsciously Manifesting a move from New York City to Hawaii
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
Manifestation is really a fairly new word to me. Episodes #2 and #3 of this podcast are about big things I manifested without even knowing the term. This episode, #2, explains how I came to love Hawai’i as a vacation destination and how much angst I would always have about leaving. By listening to my intuition, I developed a sense of calm about the situation, and learned to not focus on the leaving end of the vacation. I made peace with where I was at, and where I was at eventually changed.
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BBM 1: Welcome to Bright Blue Moment!
Bright Blue Moments: Stories of Sensing Soul
This episode is about why I finally decided after much nudging, to do a podcast. I talk about what it was like to spend a weekend fleshing out the creation of my podcast with my marketing partner Amy Bliefnick, and the messages that came to me afterwards.
info_outlineIn this episode, Amy and I have a fun discussion about my journey from someone who had no appreciation for meditation, to someone who now gets up early before the sun is up, to begin my day in deep stillness.
I start out the show describing my lack of appreciation for all things meditation, and all things stillness, and even all things sitting still.
A true skeptic.
I talk about a number of different things that moved me toward the meditation path, and all the starts and stops along the way.
It’s probably the slowest integration of a solid meditation practice that you’ll ever hear about, literally years in the making.
(No, you are not the only one!)
Eventually I realized the time I put into quieting my mind was worth more than the time it took to do it. So much more . . .
My advice on Stillness practice:
- Develop your own practice
- Don’t try to do it right
- Do what feels good to you
- Just as this is your life to create, this is your practice to create
Towards the end, Amy and I get into an interesting discussion about animal communication and heart coherence. Magical!
I’ll share how Reykjavik guided me, even during the last part of his journey, to understand the beauty of stillness and how much a quiet mind could actually hear. He communicated with me patiently, until I finally understood that meditation is really listening to your soul.
Show notes:
Martha Beck Steering by Starlight
Oprah and Deepak Chopra 21 day meditation series
Xenia Splewinsky Yoga Nidra on Audible