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Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

Ancient meditation techniques from wisdom teachers who are lost in the mists of time are made available to you in accessible, bite-sized or longer guided meditations. Each episode is largely inspired by the original teachings of Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu masters like Lao Tzu, Buddha and “Krishna”, Christian masters like Mary Magdalene, Jesus and Teresa of Avila, Greek masters like Plotinus, Plato and Pythagoras, Islamic masters like Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Attar, and Hafez, and pre-historic masters from Polynesia, Australia and the Americas. From Buddhism to Taoism, from Astrology to Platonism, from Medieval Alchemists to Central Asian poets of yore, (and more), this podcast provides an easy way to access the simple meditation and happy life practices developed by the wisest masters to have graced this planet. Zebediah Rice guides you in an easy and free way to learn to meditate, become more mindful, energetic, happy, peaceful, and mentally sharp. Just sit back, relax, and let me do the work for you.

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The Well Digger & The Sapphire 💎(30 min) Apr 27, 2020

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The fifth chakra is located in the throat area and is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure") in the Hindu tantric tradition. The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self.

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The Well Digger & The Sapphire 💎(20 min) Apr 27, 2020

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The fifth, or throat chakra is called the Vishuddhi (in English: "especially pure") in the Hindu tantric tradition. The gift of this chakra is an intuitive knowing which gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of this practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self.

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The Well Digger & The Sapphire 💎(10 min) Apr 26, 2020

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The gift of the fifth chakra is an intuitive knowing. It is the kind of knowing that gives you the power follow the path to your perfect life and the courage to express your authentic truth. These gifts belong to you but they must be earned through patience and stillness. Allow this guided meditation to be part of your practice of unlocking access to your intuitive self.

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The King 🤴🏻 (Heart Chakra ❤️30 min) Apr 25, 2020

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Across time and culture and geography, the heart is repeatedly represented as the bridge between our higher, divine self and our lower, physical and mental self. Because it makes this bridge it is the mythical kings of ancient times in that it has knowledge of the divine wisdom of our higher self. But it won’t assert its power and dominance unless we invite it to speak and to guide us and to rule us. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart.

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The King 🤴🏻 (Heart Chakra ❤️20 min) Apr 24, 2020

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The heart represents the bridge between our higher, divine self and our lower, physical and mental self. Because it makes this bridge it is the mythical kings of ancient times in that it has knowledge of the divine wisdom of our higher self. But it won’t assert its power and dominance unless we invite it to speak and to guide us and to rule us. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart.

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The King 🤴🏻 (Heart Chakra ❤️10 min) Apr 22, 2020

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The heart is the place where information and power that is beyond time and space can be received by our conscious, thinking self. It is said to be the temple of the divine or the throne of the god within us. And it's job is to rule. Unfortunately it makes a reluctant, quiet ruler. But it pays to heed its guidance. It is at the center of the human body and is the point around which everything else circulates. The heart pumps life sustaining blood to every corner of the body and this circulation is not just energetic or spiritual but also is physical. It is important to ensure that our heart chakra is open and healthy because when the center goes, everything is thrown off balance. If the king isn't permitted to rule, the kingdom will begin to fall apart.

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Use Colors 🎨(Fourth Chakra - 30 min) Apr 21, 2020

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In traditional Buddhist or Hindu tantric traditions the Fourth Chakra is called the Anahata Chakra. Anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten". As the translation suggests, Anahata is associated with balance, calmness, and serenity. The Fourth Chakra is also sometimes labeled the Air Chakra: the foundation of your life giving breath, lungs, heart (oxygen), and your sense of spaciousness. It is even credited with hormone production and playing an important role in the regulation of the immune system. The heart carries a special significance in cultures and spiritual traditions throughout the world. Your Heart Chakra is located in the center of your chest towards your spine, behind your sternum. Blockage of this chakra will manifest in your life as dysfunction in your relationships with others (think codependency, marital or friendship difficulties, jealousy, neediness or withdrawal, loneliness, etc.). Relatedly, it is said to govern the love of oneself and others, as well as the important sensibilities of compassion, forgiveness, grief, and wisdom.

How can you imagine what the Heart Chakra is like? One way that humans perceive and talk about physical energy is through the form of energy we call light. Thanks to the principle of "as above, so below" we can use a similar framework when talking about the parts of your energetic body. When a prism splits a ray of light you see the familiar spread of colors: the fast, tight bandwidth of violet on the top of the rainbow stack, followed by indigo and then blue, green and yellow and then finally down on the very bottom, orange light fading into the slow, wide band wavelengths of the color red. Your energetic body is like this rainbow of light. In this way of visualizing your energetic body, the heart chakra lies at the center of this light body just as green lies in the center of the rainbow. The root, naval, and solar plexus chakras lie below your heart chakra and correspond to the red, orange and yellow colors of the rainbow spectrum. Your throat, third eye and crown chakra lie above it and correspond to blue, indigo and violet or white light.

From the perspective of the human brain, something strange happens in the center of the light spectrum. And the same goes with your energetic body. The heart chakra is the gateway between the higher and lower self, i.e. the physical world most of us experience as all there is and the spiritual dimensions that lie above. Thanks to this special positioning, the heart chakra not only bears the color green in typical understandings and visualizations of your energetic body, but it also can be described as pink. Strangely enough, pink doesn’t exist as a color in the light spectrum; that is to say it doesn’t have a frequency like the other colors or appear in a rainbow. Pink is the mixture of the Red light dominance of your first chakras and the white light dominance of your crown chakra. The center reflects the mixing of the two ends. The energetic realm is difficult to comprehend and doesn't precisely correspond with the physical form of light but using rainbow colors helps visualize our energetic bodies For example, the way that there is not top or bottom or middle or higher or lower when it comes to light helps you not get stuck on dimensionality of our energetic body. The radical and confusing nature of this truth pops out in this strange combination of green and pink in the fourth chakra. Let’s call pink green’s secret twin. You can play with these features of your heart chakra in this guided meditation.

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Use Colors 🎨 (Fourth Chakra - 20 min) Apr 20, 2020

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Your Heart Chakra is located in the center of your chest towards your spine, behind your sternum. Blockage of this chakra will manifest in your life as dysfunction in your relationships with others (think codependency, marital or friendship difficulties, jealousy, neediness or withdrawal, loneliness, etc.). Relatedly, it is said to govern the love of oneself and others, as well as the important sensibilities of compassion, forgiveness, grief, and wisdom. In traditional Buddhist or Hindu tantric traditions the Fourth Chakra is called the Anahata Chakra. Anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten". As the translation suggests, Anahata is associated with balance, calmness, and serenity. The Fourth Chakra is also sometimes labeled the Air Chakra: the foundation of your life giving breath, lungs, heart (oxygen), and your sense of spaciousness. It is even credited with hormone production and playing an important role in the regulation of the immune system.

How can you imagine what the Heart Chakra is like? One way that humans perceive and talk about physical energy is through the form of energy we call light. Thanks to the principle of "as above, so below" we can use a similar framework when talking about the parts of your energetic body. When a prism splits a ray of light you see the familiar spread of colors: the fast, tight bandwidth of violet on the top of the rainbow stack, followed by indigo and then blue, green and yellow and then finally down on the very bottom, orange light fading into the slow, wide band wavelengths of the color red. Your energetic body is like this rainbow of light. In this way of visualizing your energetic body, the heart chakra lies at the center of this light body just as green lies in the center of the rainbow. The root, naval, and solar plexus chakras lie below your heart chakra and correspond to the red, orange and yellow colors of the rainbow spectrum. Your throat, third eye and crown chakra lie above it and correspond to blue, indigo and violet or white light.

From the perspective of the human brain, something strange happens in the center of the light spectrum. And the same goes with your energetic body. The heart chakra is the gateway between the higher and lower self, i.e. the physical world most of us experience as all there is and the spiritual dimensions that lie above. Thanks to this special positioning, the heart chakra not only bears the color green in typical understandings and visualizations of your energetic body, but it also can be described as pink. Strangely enough, pink doesn’t exist as a color in the light spectrum; that is to say it doesn’t have a frequency like the other colors or appear in a rainbow. Pink is the mixture of the Red light dominance of your first chakras and the white light dominance of your crown chakra. The center reflects the mixing of the two ends. The energetic realm is difficult to comprehend and doesn't precisely correspond with the physical form of light but using rainbow colors helps visualize our energetic bodies For example, the way that there is not top or bottom or middle or higher or lower when it comes to light helps you not get stuck on dimensionality of our energetic body. The radical and confusing nature of this truth pops out in this strange combination of green and pink in the fourth chakra. Let’s call pink green’s secret twin. You can play with these features of your heart chakra in this guided meditation.

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The Unstruck Bell (30 min) Apr 19, 2020

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Every major spiritual tradition has this same metaphor of the heart as the point of connection with God or the higher self. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions this heart-bridge is called the Anahata or Fourth Chakra. In the Koran the heart or Qalb is referred to over 100 times and in the Bible, heart or Lebab, is mentioned over 1000 times and is also seen as the seat of intuition or the throne of God. It clearly isn't the physical heart that is being referenced. So what are they talking about? Each of these great traditions recognized that if we want to get in touch with our higher self the best place to turn is the energetic bridge to that connects our higher and lower selves: our heart. But to do that you can't just read about it. You have to silence your emotions and still your thoughts long enough to hear your heart’s wisdom. it will speak to you if you are still enough and patient enough--and courageous enough to hear what it has to say (which is often not what you want or expect). You have to let go of needing to be right or wanting to be heard or needing to control situations or expecting your version of justice to prevail. Slowing down and handing over your decisions to the wisdom of your heart will unlock your best life. But you have to let go and trust in its wisdom. This is not easy.

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The Unstruck Bell 🔔 (20 min) Apr 18, 2020

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Everyone has heard the phrase "follow your heart". But what does that mean? And where does it come from? It turns out that regardless of place or time, all the major spiritual traditions have this same metaphor of the heart as the point of connection with God or the higher self. In the Hindu and Buddhist tantric traditions this heart-bridge is called the Anahata or Fourth Chakra. In the Koran the heart or Qalb is referred to over 100 times and in the Bible, heart or Lebab, is mentioned over 1000 times and is also seen as the seat of intuition or the throne of God. It clearly isn't the physical heart that is being referenced. So what are they talking about? Each of these great traditions recognized that if we want to get in touch with our higher self the best place to turn is the energetic bridge to that connects our higher and lower selves: our heart. But to do that you can't just read about it. You have to silence your emotions and still your thoughts long enough to hear your heart’s wisdom. it will speak to you if you are still enough and patient enough--and courageous enough to hear what it has to say (which is often not what you want or expect). You have to let go of needing to be right or wanting to be heard or needing to control situations or expecting your version of justice to prevail. Slowing down and handing over your decisions to the wisdom of your heart will unlock your best life. But you have to let go and trust in its wisdom. This is not easy. This guided meditation will help you.

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