Mindfulness with an Edge

Evicting Emotional Squatters: A talk and meditation

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:49:50 GMT

In this podcast episode, the host explores the deep connection between emotions and physical health. Emphasizing that unresolved emotions can manifest as illnesses, the episode delves into the importance of recognizing and releasing these emotional burdens. Using insights from research, emotions are described as waveforms that can cause widespread disruptions if not managed. Through guided meditation, listeners are encouraged to identify and address their feelings, aiming for a harmonious balance between mind and body. The host shares personal stories and advocates for being mindful, bringing a fresh perspective on how emotional well-being impacts overall health.

Unpacking 'Mindfulness with an Edge': Awareness Meets Action

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:32:17 GMT

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge,' host Darlene explores the theme of growth by introducing the idea of living at one's 'edge'—the boundary between where you are and where you grow. Mindfulness is presented as awareness, and awareness leads to action, enabling intentional change. Through guided meditation and reflection, listeners are encouraged to regularly interact with their edges, exploring personal growth and transformation. The podcast emphasizes being in tune with one's emotions and judgments while fostering a connection with the broader world. Are you growing or dying? Join us to explore your personal and mindful edges.

2.12 Esprit de Corps: The Veteran's Oath Never to Walk Alone

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:42:56 GMT

On Veterans Day 2024, a military veteran fondly known as Lucky, shared her remarkable experience about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with a fellow veteran, who was blinded in combat. She reflected on their shared military service and the challenges of their post-service life. The journey required resilience, grit, and mutual support, and served to underscore her appreciation for the brotherhood and sisterhood of the military.

2.11 Guided Affirmations: Love, Money, and Health

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:10:00 GMT

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge', the host guides listeners through a meditation focused on life's top priorities: love, money, and health. With affirmations centered on building strong relationships, achieving financial prosperity, and attaining better health, participants are encouraged to reflect on their personal values. Listeners are invited to express gratitude and manifest positive changes in their lives, enhancing both personal and professional wellbeing.

2.10 Meditation: Dancing with Conflict: The Porcupine Parable

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:12:59 GMT

This podcast episode delves into the nature of interpersonal conflicts, using the parable of porcupines during a cold winter as a metaphor. Despite the inevitable injuries from each other's quills, the porcupines learn to stay together for warmth, symbolizing how people can choose to navigate disagreements and emotional wounds in relationships. The discussion emphasizes pausing to understand one's reactions and those of others, fostering compassion and mindful communication. With guided meditation, listeners are encouraged to examine recent conflicts, recognize unmet needs, and approach resolution with empathy, highlighting the human condition's challenges and the importance of staying connected.

2.8 Meditation: Stop for Frustration

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:27:41 GMT

In this meditation-focused episode, listeners are guided through a journey of addressing daily frustrations using mindfulness. The host emphasize the importance of observing one's thoughts and physical sensations to understand the root of stress. Through a guided mindfulness meditation, she offers strategies for growing through frustrations. The discussion encourages accepting annoyances as a part of life and learning from them rather than being consumed by them. The session concludes with a compassionate reminder to hold one's emotions with love and gratitude, inviting transformation and personal growth through the experience of frustration.

2.7 Short "I'm Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You, I Love You" Meditation

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:36:00 GMT

In this podcast episode, immerse yourself in the Hawaiian spiritual practice of Ho'Oponopono, a transformative ritual for healing and reconciliation. Through guided meditation, the practice focuses on forgiveness, gratitude, and unconditional love. Listeners are invited to sit with issues they are responsible for and seek forgiveness by repeating the powerful mantra: 'I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.' The session aims to cultivate peace within oneself and improve relationships by radiating compassion and love, offering a profound personal journey towards emotional healing.

2.6 The Magic of 'I'm Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You, I Love You'

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:48:14 GMT

In this episode, we delve into the Hawaiian spiritual practice of Ho'oponopono, an approach centered around healing through repentance, forgiveness, gratitude, and love. The host discusses how she was repeatedly introduced to the practice by unrelated individuals, leading her to explore it further. Through a guided meditation, listeners are invited to bring issues to mind, offer the key phrases, and focus on self-healing and improved relationships. The practice is presented as a personal journey, adaptable to anyone ready to embrace its transformative power.

2.5 From Dreams to Decisions: Trusting Your Heart's Guidance

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:23:46 GMT

In this episode of 'Mindfulness with an Edge: Mastering Your Mind for Peak Performance,' host Darlene Budzinski explores the profound impact of making decisions from the heart. The guided meditation focuses on stillness and clarity, encouraging listeners to align their choices with their core values and beliefs. By fostering mindfulness, individuals can enhance resilience, improve decision-making skills, and strengthen their focus and relationships. The episode emphasizes that heartfelt decisions boost confidence and lead to meaningful actions, helping people achieve their goals and navigate life's crossroads with purpose and passion.

2.4 Skeletons in the Rain: A Meditation on Compassion and Pain

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:35:19 GMT

In this episode, the host recounts a poignant experience at a Cinco de Mayo parade where she dressed in a full-body skeleton body suit. Despite feeling claustrophobic and distressed, the host finds solace in a shared moment of vulnerability with a young skeleton princess. The episode delves into the essence of compassion, offering a guided meditation to help listeners cultivate connectedness, especially in times of shared suffering.

1.23 The Heart and Soul of Compassion: A Family Tale

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:26:19 GMT

In this podcast episode, the host delves into contrasting life lessons learned from her parents. The father's motto, 'What are you telling me for?' teaches self-reliance and resilience. In stark contrast, the mother's embodiment of compassion, helping prisoners, the homeless, and troubled individuals, illuminates the power of selfless love. The host discusses the broader concept of compassion, its importance in improving lives, and ways to cultivate it daily. She also explains how understanding personal histories can deepen our capacity to empathize and connect with others.

2.3 Greeting the Day with an Open Heart

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:33:00 GMT

This guided meditation invites you to start your day with an open heart and a calm mind. By focusing on your breath and resting in your heart you can become aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. The meditation encourages you to acknowledge your heart's desires and to greet the new day with gratitude and intention, emphasizing that each day is a new beginning and a precious gift.

2.1 Meditation: Inviting Powerful and Positive Sleep

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:00:00 GMT

This recording guides listeners through a meditation aimed at achieving restorative sleep. By emphasizing the role of subconscious plantings before sleep, the meditation helps in shifting from a state of doing to a state of simply being. Listeners are encouraged to focus on the rhythmic cycle of their breath, allowing their muscles to relax and their mind to quiet. The practice underscores the concept of breathing in positive energy and exhaling what does not serve them, ultimately resting in the heart's unlimited strength. It invites a night of peaceful sleep and an empowered, magnificent tomorrow.

2.1 Finding our Blessings

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 01:19:09 GMT

In this podcast episode, the speaker shares their personal journey through a challenging year, marked by significant achievements and deep losses, including the passing of loved ones and the end of a marriage. The speaker discusses the practice of meditation as a means to connect with their blessings and maintain focus on the positive aspects of life. By using rocks as physical reminders during meditation, they highlight the importance of gratitude and the impact of acknowledging life's blessings, from the people who care for them to everyday experiences like seeing the sunrise.

1.22 Mountain Meditation for Stability, Resolve, and Stillness

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:50:15 GMT

By becoming the mountain in our meditation practice, we can identify with its strength and stability and adopt them for our own. We can use its energies to support our energy; to encounter each moment with mindfulness and equanimity and clarity.

1.21 Letting Go Meditation

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:12:17 GMT

In this guided meditation, begin to let go of negative emotions, beliefs, and attitudes that no longer serve you. By releasing the tight grip on these harmful elements, you can create space for freedom and love.

1.20 Unleash the Power of Laughter

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:04:00 GMT

Laugh with Darlene for 10 minutes today. This episode is designed to cultivate your ability to experience unconditional laughter. Through a series of laughter exercises, the host guides listeners to laugh for no reason other than laughter itself. Laughter is know as a powerful medicine that can boost spirits, enhance overall well-being, release stress, and elevate energy levels with the side effect of peace of mind. Fun is guaranteed.

1.19 Embracing Your Emotions: A Guided Meditation

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:34:04 GMT

This meditation offers a practice that navigates personal difficulties with kindness: Through guided reflection and mindfulness, you are invited to explore an unwanted or unpleasant situation or issue in your lie with compassion and curiosity. By acknowledging and accepting challenging emotions, you may cultivate resilience and emotional intelligence. This meditation encourages you to recognize life as it is, acknowledge how is for you, soften around difficulties and treat yourself with kindness. By finding harmony within, you are able to navigate life's challenges with grace and resilience.

1.17 Walking Meditation: Cultivating Mindfulness Through Movement

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:00:00 GMT

The practice of walking meditation serves as a powerful tool to nurture mindfulness, awareness, and peace within oneself. Through the simple act of walking, individuals can cultivate a deeper connection with their surroundings and their inner self. This transcript outlines a step-by-step guide to engaging in walking meditation, emphasizing the importance of being present and attuned to the sensations in the body while walking. By practicing mindful walking, individuals can experience a sense of calmness, connectedness, and wakeful presence. Whether used as a standalone practice or in conjunction with sitting meditation, walking meditation offers an accessible way to enhance mindfulness and find moments of stillness in a busy world.

1.18 The Power of Loving-Kindness: A Guided Meditation

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:44:36 GMT

This guided meditation focuses on cultivating feelings of goodwill, kindness, and warmth towards oneself and others. By extending wishes of well-being to loved ones, difficult individuals, and ultimately to oneself, participants experience the power of unconditional love and healing. Through the art of loving-kindness meditation, one can nurture inner peace, foster connection with others, and cultivate a sense of belonging and aliveness.

1.16 Body awareness meditation for growth and healing - 20 Minutes

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:52:34 GMT

The purpose of this meditation practice is to slow down and listen to the messages the body is sending us regarding recovery, healing and athletic performance. Regular formal body scanning practices teach us to automatically tune in to the felt sense of the body and hear the messages it sends. When we learn to do this naturally we can respond to what the body is telling us In the moment - if we are capable of more intensity OR recognizing if something is out of balance and we need to proceed with caution. If we don’t hear the feedback the body sends or we ignore cues regarding a need for recovery and healing we run the risk of more serious problems later on.

1.15 Body awareness meditation for growth and healing - 30 Minutes

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:39:56 GMT

1.14 One Small Improvement Meditation for Sports Performance

Thu, 30 May 2024 02:21:42 GMT

This meditation is designed to help you recognize your inner strength and your inner capacity for performance in sports. It invites you to turn towards your mind and heart in relation to your current and future sports performance.

1.13 Mindfulness of Thoughts Meditation

Thu, 30 May 2024 02:17:54 GMT

This meditation is designed to help you be aware of thoughts as they occur. When we are aware of our thoughts, as just thoughts, we are then consciously able to appropriate actions that are skillful and serve our heart. That is the ultimate purpose of a Mindfulness Of Thoughts practice.

When you notice thoughts are happening, you can see common patterns of thought without being caught in them. You can step out of the story the thought tells and choose which thoughts to hold and which thoughts to let go of. A Mindfulness Of Thoughts practice reminds us that thoughts are things. They are not us. They are real but not necessarily true. Thoughts are have no power except what we give them.

1.12 Short Version - Releasing Limiting Beliefs For Performance

Thu, 23 May 2024 01:27:24 GMT

This meditation is designed to help you identify limiting thoughts and beliefs that may impede performance. At times we can all get caught in a story that holds us back or a there is a belief outside of our awareness that keeps us from moving to the next level. We could desire different results in sport, a job, weight management, a relationship, health, our financial situation and so many other things. When we can recognize thoughts and beliefs that hold us back we can turn toward them, look them up and down, investigate their power, and skillfully begin to release their grip. Today we consider your future role as a quiet professional.

1.11 Releasing Limiting Beliefs for Performance

Thu, 23 May 2024 00:43:23 GMT

1.10 Mantra Meditation for Performance

Tue, 21 May 2024 09:33:31 GMT

This meditation is designed to help you tap into your inner strength and your inner capacity for performance. It uses western mantras to quiet the busy mind and invites you to focus and listen to your heart. The words of these mantras are offered as a technique to help reach into the heart and tap into the power of your soul. Mantras can be a useful technique when the mind is restless or generating limiting thoughts.

1.8 Body Scan Meditation - 15 Minutes

Thu, 16 May 2024 10:05:08 GMT

Body scan meditation designed to bring greater awareness to the felt sensations of the body and to the activity of the mind.

1.7 Sitting Meditation - 20 minutes - Awareness of Breath

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:07:00 GMT

This is a guided mindfulness meditation with breath as the object of awareness.

1.6 Sitting Meditation - 15 Minutes - Awareness of Breath

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:01:00 GMT

This recording guides you through a 15 minute sitting meditation with breath as the primary object of awareness.

1.5 Counting Meditation - 9 minutes

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:49:00 GMT

This recording guides you through a sittting meditation. It uses the technique of counting breath cycles to transition from anchoring on numbers to anchoring on the breath. The ending is intentionally soft so that the listener may continue to sit riding the breath without interruption.

1.4 Sitting Meditation - 10 Minutes - Awareness of Breath

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:47:00 GMT

This segment guides you through a 10 minute sitting meditation with breath as the primary object of awareness.

1.3 Counting Meditation - 6 Minutes - NO Instruction

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:48:00 GMT

This recording guides you through a sittting meditation. It jumps right in WITHOUT instruction. It uses the technique of counting breath cycles to transition from anchoring on numbers to anchoring on the breath. The ending is intentionally soft so that the listener may continue to sit riding the breath without interruption.

1.2 Introduction to the Power of Mindfulness followed by a Sitting Meditation

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:45:00 GMT

This episode offers a conceptual introduction to mindfulness meditation with the perspective that the human spirit is where true strength and resilience originate. An 8 minute talk is followed by a 14 minute guided mindfulness meditation.

1.1 Mindfulness - The Key to Living an Intentional Life

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:35:00 GMT

Mindfulness is the key to awareness. Awareness is the key to living an intentional life. A mindfulness meditation practice may be the secret to thinning the wall between the unconscious and the conscious mind.