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Untangle, is the podcast from the 5-star app, Meditation Studio and Muse, the Brain Sensing Headband. Experts and ‘real people’ share stories about how mindfulness practices have changed their lives. Hear experiences from business leaders, psychologists, neuroscientists, nutritionists, authors, mindfulness teachers, storytellers and more. We cover everything from why it’s important to meditate to how self-compassion practices change us from the inside out to why meditation helps with anxiety ...
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Nina Grae - How To Create a Powerful 2021
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Nina Grae is an exceptional singer song-writer who in this episode inspires us with her wisdom and moves us with her music, to recognize that we have the power to be the creators of our own life. Nina shows us how to “cut through the noise” of 2021 to find our own voice.By Muse Meditation Studio
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Nina Grae - How To Create Your 2021 That Resonates
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Nina Grae is an exceptional singer song-writer who, in this episode, inspires us with her wisdom and moves us with her music, to recognize that we have the power to be the creators of our own life. Nina shows us how to “cut through the noise” of 2021 to find our own voice.By Muse Meditation Studio
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Elisha Goldstein - Top 3 Practical Tools (and More) for Making Real Change in 2021
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Dr. Elisha Goldstein is a psychologist, author, speaker, and the co-founder of the center for mindful living in LA. He's also one of our top teachers on Muse and Meditation Studio. Elisha shares some jewels from his new Life Shift program designed to help us make more graceful and lasting transitions — and life changes this year. He talks about the…
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Patricia Karpas - The Untangle 2020 Top Five and a Meditation to Welcome 2021
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Each year we like to reflect on the top five things we’ve learned from our wise and inspiring Untangle guests. This year has been unusually hard to navigate, so our guests have focused on helping us to stay more grounded and they have inspired us to learn new ways to care for ourselves and our families. 2020 has also underscored the importance of c…
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Shannon Harvey - Living Mindfully: What Happens When You Meditate Every Day for a Full Year?
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Shannon Harvey is an award-winning Australian health journalist, author, and filmmaker. In her film (and now a book, My Year of Living Mindfully), Shannon committed to meditating every day for 365 days. She enlisted a team of top scientists from around the world to track everything from her stress hormones to her immune function to her cellular agi…
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Encore - Father John Markey - Finding Mystery in the Holidays
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As children, the holidays hold an undeniable sense of magic. As adults, we can lose our sense of that magic in the busyness and obligation of the season. In this special holiday episode of Untangle, we learn that we can uncover the magic and mystery that is there for us all to savor--if we can get quiet enough to listen. This beautiful episode insp…
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Chad Lawson - Self-Reflection, Clarity, Authenticity, and Calm Inspired by Beautiful Solo Piano
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Musician Chad Lawson recently released his debut solo piano album, You Finally Knew, which was recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios and was inspired by his favorite poet, Mary Oliver. The album features ten pieces he wrote to inspire listeners to take time every day to consciously be still, to improve our mental clarity and overall calm. Chad …
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Encore - Stu Fuchs - The Mindfulness of Music and the Sound of the Soul
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Sometimes the most amazing things can happen effortlessly when you surrender to the moment and let it flow. That's the kind of music that Grammy-nominated instrumentalist Stu Fuchs plays on his ukulele--the kind of music you get lost and find peace in. Just listening can lighten up even the darkest parts of your soul. Stu leads an annual music and …
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Dr. Ron Epstein - A Perspective on Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity for Better Healthcare
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Dr. Epstein is a family physician, palliative care Dr., author, researcher, and teacher of communication and mindful practice in medicine. His book, Attending, Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity explores how the foundations of mindfulness can help clinicians expand their capacity to provide high-quality care, and how doctors, patients, and their f…
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Taylor White Moffitt — A Thanksgiving Day Gratitude Meditation
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Today we’re wishing you a very happy Thanksgiving. We’re grateful for you, our listeners! We may or may not be physically with the people we love today, but this Positive Reflection meditation invites us to remember them and to feel grateful that they are in our lives. It also invites us to reflect on what’s good in our lives at this moment and to …
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Lisa Feldman - What Your Brain Needs Right Now
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A fascinating brain-based perspective on why we are feeling and acting the way we are as a society right now, and what we can do to replenish ourselves at this moment. Dr. Feldman-Barrett helps us understand the cultural context of uncertainty and echo-chambers that we are experiencing, and directs us to the right self-care practices our brains nee…
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Encore - Dr. Shelby Harris - A Women's Guide to Getting a Good Nights Sleep
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Dr. Shelby Harris is a Clinical Psychologist, Board Certified in Behavioural Sleep Disorders, and the former Director of the Behavior Sleep Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center. Her new book is called The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia — Get a Good Night Sleep Without Relying on Medication. Shelby covers the nuts and bolts of a good …
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Encore - Dr. Chris Winter - Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It
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Chris Winter is a neurologist, sleep specialist, and author of the book, "The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It." He explains why we’re a culture of poor sleepers and how we got that way, and includes five things we can do to improve our sleep right now. Spoiler alert: an attitude change might be the best tactic of all...…
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Kern Beare — How to Have a Difficult Conversation — #4 in the SOS Election Series.
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Kern Beare is the author of the book, Difficult Conversations, the Art and Science of Working Together. He shares strategies to help us have more productive dialogues and to resolve differences when it matters most. Whether in relationship, work, or political conversations, he discusses the importance of dropping our egos, letting go of feeling lik…
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Dan Harris - How to Keep your Sanity Right Now - #3 in the SOS Election Series.
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Todays Guest is Dan Harris, ABC News journalist and author of 10% Happier and Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. Dan has a humorous way of turning ancient wisdom into useful everyday tools for staying sane. In this interview, we talk about Election Sanity (or lack thereof) and trainable mental skills and practices that can give us a bit of a boost ri…
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Daryl Davis - Healing Hate with Friendship - #2 in the SOS Election Series
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One of our most important podcasts ever, a riveting story that teaches us how to overcome our divides through respect, patience, and recognition of shared humanity. Daryl Davis is a black man who has gotten over 200 KKK clansmen to leave the KKK by becoming friends with them. Daryl tells incredible stories of these meetings and shares his powerful …
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Koshin Paley Ellison - Living Mindfully in Times of Upheaval - #1 in the SOS Election Series
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Koshin is a zen teacher, monk, author, and the founder of the Zen Center for Contemplative Care in NY. He's also a favorite teacher on Muse and Meditation Studio.Koshin helps us deal with stressful reactions, especially those triggered by the US election and the many other events we’re all experiencing. He shares some tools, practices, and inner re…
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Encore - Yung Pueblo - How to Connect to Your Humanity and Change the World
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Want to be free? The journey begins within. Diego Perez, aka "Yung Pueblo", talks about understanding your mind to set yourself free, find contentment, connection--and maybe even save the world! Get inside the head of this incredible poet, meditator, and speaker who inspires hundreds of thousands of people daily on Instagram.…
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Encore - Dr. Robert Brooks - The Power of Resilience and Bouncing Back More Easily
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Dr. Robert Brooks is a clinical psychologist and author of over 17 books, including the one we discuss in this interview, "The Power of Resilience". He shares some of the characteristics of those who believe we have control over our lives versus those who are quickly overwhelmed by challenges. Hear how gratitude, making a difference, practicing emp…
Jim Donovan is a drummer for the 2x platinum band Rusty Root. He's also a Music Therapist and co-wrote the first song played on Mars (!). In this episode, we learn all about sound and how it helps us heal, how to use it to stimulate our vagus nerve, and how to harness the power of sound to get us through the best - and worst- times. Jim gives us th…
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Sebene Selassie - Bring Mindfulness into Every Part of Our Lives
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Sebene is a renowned meditation teacher, speaker, and author of the new book, You Belong, A Call for Connection. She talks about how meditation has transformed her world and how we can bring these teachings into every part of our lives. She believes that we are all inherently interconnected and shares how meditation has been a catalyst to expand aw…
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Reverend Angel - How These Crazy Times Can Make Us Better Humans
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Reverend Angel has extraordinary and actionable insights on how to stay grounded and sane through these trying times, and transform ourselves for the better as the world around us transforms. She is an activist, a Zen Buddhist priest, and the second only Black woman to be ordained as a Zen Buddhist teacher. She shares powerful techniques to find li…
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Natalie Zises - Intuitive Eating Expert Shares How to Transform Your Relationship With Food
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Intuitive Eating Expert, Natalie Zises shares why our hidden food 'rules' and body image standards wreak havoc on how we eat. She shares the many emotional ties we have around our food decisions and that 95% of diets don't work because we so easily fall back into our old habits and patterns. When we begin intuitive eating, she says, we learn to sel…
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Mark Coleman - Quiet the Ruminations, Story Spinning & Judgments for Good
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Mark Coleman is a therapist, coach, author of 3 books, and an amazing mindfulness teacher and trainer. His newest book, "From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness," gets to the heart of what mindfulness really is and defines it in pretty simple but powerful terms: “A depth of awareness that we bring to life...and the clarity that we …
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Amy Baglan — Building Genuine Connection and Better Social Habits
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Amy Baglan is back on Untangle! She’s an entrepreneur with a personal mission to give people the tools they need to make meaningful connections and to live with purpose, joy, and a sense of belonging. Her new company is called Fabriq, a platform intended to help us prioritize, track and reconnect regularly with the people who matter most to us. We …
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James Nestor - The Art and Science of Breath
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Did you know that the way you breathe can energize or relax you? That a simple hack can help with snoring and sleep apnea? That your lung volume can relate to your longevity, and that your lung volume can be expanded with simple exercises? James Nestor takes us on a fascinating trip into the breath, explains how and why different breath techniques …
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Emily Fletcher - It’s Time to Reset and Examine What Matters Most
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Emily Fletcher is back on Untangle! Emily is the founder of Ziva Meditation, author of Stress Less, Accomplish More, Meditation for Extraordinary Performance and a meditation teacher on Muse and Meditation Studio. She’s an amazing fountain of wisdom and inspiration. Today she talks about her life in New York, why the pandemic is giving us an opport…
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Siyabulela Mandela - Personal Lessons from History
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Siyabulela Mandela is a scholar-activist and Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson. He speaks to us from South Sudan, where he trains journalists to advocate for human rights. He speaks to us about the structural and historical situation that has led to racism in the US, and the opportunity for each of us to “decolonize our mind”, and shares the characte…
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Maureen Pelton - Developing a Stronger Sense of Self and Relationships
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Maureen is a Social Scientist with 35 years of professional experience as an Integrative Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Organizational Consultant, Spiritual Teacher, and Mystic. She’s the Co-Founder of ShiftIt Institute and a pioneer in the field of embodiment. She shares how we can use embodiment practices as a way to do the deep work of develo…
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Aubrey Marcus - Optimization, Pandemic-Style: Emotions and Fear Show Us What We Are Truly Capable Of
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Aubrey Marcus is the author of “Own the Day”, and the philosophy of Total Human Optimization. What does that look like in a pandemic? Processing emotions and accepting where we are at. Aubrey shares practical tools and wisdom to accept where we’re at in these unprecedented times, and gets real about his own emotional experiences and how he works th…
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Encore - Spring Washam - Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in any Moment
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Spring Washam is the author of an amazing book called "A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in any Moment." She shares her thoughts on how we can emerge from the darkest moments in our lives--and even use our suffering as a catalyst for growth She talks about things like Divine Patience and using humour as a resource for when we’re …
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Encore - Jeff Warren - A Consciousness Explorer Takes You On A Tour Through Your Mind
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Jeff Warren is a meditation teacher and founder of The Consciousness Explorers Club. He’s the co-author of NYT Best Seller "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics" and "The Head Trip." In the episode, Jeff explains different states of consciousness we all experience and guides exercises to enhance 3 useful states: insight, equanimity, and compassion.…
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Encore - Joan Halifax - Defining Moments In Our Lives Where Fear And Courage Meet
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Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, medical anthropologist, author, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. Her new book, "Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet," is brilliant. The potential for transformation, she believes, exists within all of us and we often discover this in our most difficult …
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Anu Gutpa - Transforming Deeply Ingrained Stereotypes and Unconscious Bias
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Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu, an ed-tech company advancing equity and belonging by addressing the root causes of racial and gender disparities. He shares insights and practical tools for how we can transform deeply ingrained stereotypes and biases in ourselves and in organizations, healthcare, educ…
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Encore - Ruth King - Can We Change The Way We Feel About Race?
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Author, Activist, Educator and Meditation Teacher, Ruth King, shares how important it is that we transform racism from the inside out. Her book, Mindful of Race, implores us to look at our conscious and unconscious biases, our racial history and to deeply explore how we’ve been conditioned to think about race. It’s time for us to ask ourselves the …
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Sekou Andrews - The Power of Speaking Love Right Now
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In this powerful and deeply moving episode, inspirational spoken word poet Sekou Andrews shares his upbringing as the child of 2 Black college professors, his perspective on social justice, and the power of Love to overcome Hate. Sekou shares extraordinary performances of his poetry during the interview, inspiring and empowering listeners to find t…
Nahko Bear is a wildly popular musician and activist whose indiginous ancestors come from Puerto Rican, Filipino, Mohawk and Apache roots. His lyrics sing of hard truths and an optimism for a better world.In this episode Ariel Garten has the pleasure of speaking and singing with him just 3 days after his new album "Take Your Power Back", released.H…
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Shelby Harris - A Women’s Guide to Getting a Good Night Sleep
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Dr. Shelby Harris is a Clinical Psychologist, Board Certified in Behavioural Sleep Disorders and the former Director of the Behavior Sleep Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center. Her new book is called The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia — Get a Good Night Sleep Without Relying on Medication. Shelby covers the nuts and bolts of a good n…
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Stan Tatkin - Finding Love and Relieving Relationship Tension During Covid
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Relationship stress has been growing as we're cooped up together, here are amazing tools to ease the tension with your partner. Dr Stan Tatkin, legendary relationship therapist and author of Wired for Dating and Wired for Love, teaches us techniques to break the tension and return to a place of caring for each other. Valuable relationship insights …
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Dr. Rick Hanson - NEW! Seven Practices to Reach the Highest Levels of Happiness
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Dr. Hanson is a psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. He delivers wisdom from the worlds of psychology, neuroscience, and buddhism. He is one of the leading experts in the world on happiness and resilience, and his brand new book is called Neurodharma, New Science, Ancient Wisdom and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. In today…
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Nataly Kogan - Emotional Health @ Work During Challenge and Uncertainty
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Nataly Kogan is an author, former VC and the founder of Happier, a global technology and learning platform helping individuals and organizations to realize their full potential by adopting scientifically-proven practices and tools to improve their well-being. In this interview, we talk about emotional health at work during challenge and uncertainty…
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Dr. Jeffrey Rubin - The Art of Flourishing; Mindfulness, Self Care and Love in a Chaotic World
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Dr. Jeffrey Rubin is a psychotherapist and author of the book, The Art of Flourishing, a Guide to Mindfulness, Self Care and Love in a Chaotic World. His pioneering approach combines psychotherapy and mindfulness. He shares that flourishing is all about the choices we make and how we live our lives. His book covers wisdom for both self-care and rel…
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Encore - Frank Ostaseski - Inspiring Truths on How We Can Live Our Lives More Fully
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Our guest Frank Ostaseski shares comforting and inspiring truths on how we live and die and on what matters most. When we get to the end of our lives, he says, the two questions most often asked are: "Did I love well?" and "Am I loved?" His teachings show us that we can live with joy and sorrow, and live a rich life filled with love…
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Diana Winston - Slowing Down, Living Peacefully and Finding Calm Despite Our Circumstances
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Diana Winston is one of the top Mindfulness educators in the country. She is the director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She’s also the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness and co-author of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. …
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SOS Calm #3 - An 8 Minute Meditation to Inspire Hope in the Midst of Overwhelming News
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In this meditation, Chrissy Carter will guide you to a more balanced place. She invites you to let go of news overwhelm and to embrace the positive, shifting your perspective to a place of calm awareness.By Muse Meditation Studio
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Lynn Himmelman - How Laughter will get you through stressful times
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Laughter boosts your immunity and gets your body out of fight or flight. Laughter is not a frivolous act in these times, it's a valuable tool to have in your tool chest. Come laugh along with us, learn the science of laughter, and how to regularly bring laughter into your house even during these times.…
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SOS Calm #2 - A 13-Minute Meditation to Help you Stay Grounded Right Now
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This guided meditation by Kate Johnson will help you find love and equanimity to stay grounded even during the most challenging times.By Muse Meditation Studio
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Encore - Michaela Haas - Turning Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs
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Michaela Haas is the author of "Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks Into Breakthroughs". She explores how we find healing and resilience after major setbacks and emerge even stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. She shares some of the proven methods that we can use to survive and thrive in the face of challenges.…
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SOS Calm #1 — A 16 Minute Meditation to Help you Feel Calm and Grounded
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Ashley Turner guides us through this meditation to help us find balance and peace on the inside even when things are chaotic on the outside. Tune in with your breath and embrace change while listening to Ashley's soothing voice.By Muse Meditation Studio
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Encore- Lisa Mosconi- Best Foods for Brain Health
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This is Brain Awareness Week. In this episode, you can learn more about what you eat affects the health of your brain. Dr. Lisa Mosconi, Alzheimer's researcher, and nutritionist gives us a step by step guide to what foods to eat and what foods to avoid for best brain health.By Muse Meditation Studio
