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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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Roses & Garbage (Cognitive Dissonance - 10 min) Apr 04, 2020

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The mind naturally holds onto energies. It uses emotions to unconsciously sustain tension and fear as a basic survival mechanism. It is doing this to keep us at the ready, to protect us from harm in the short term. This has been an evolutionarily successful strategy. But over time, this tension or fear can result in ill health and harmful negativity in our life. Evolution selected for more genes produced over happier, more contented minds. Fortunately, the mind and the body can also let go. It’s just that sometimes it takes a little coaxing, a little bit of brain hacking. ‘Cognitive dissonance’ is just such a technique. The mind can’t hold on to two opposite ideas or instructions simultaneously. This is why in this meditation we instruct it in these opposites. Try it and experience your tension melt away. Like a gentle massage back and forth on knotted muscles, this guided meditation will help release the tension in your emotional and physical self.

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Thus Wakes Zarathustra (60 min) Mar 29, 2020

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The great masters of old taught that each of us has a divine self within us. It is a beautiful, bountiful, and joyful part of our self that awaits awakening. One of these great masters, harkening from Persia in the second millennium BCE, was Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). The wisdom he gained from his awakening resonates with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 60 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self.

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Thus Wakes Zarathustra (45 min) Mar 29, 2020

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In the lands of Eastern Iran, sometime in the second millennium BCE, a great spiritual master named Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) awakened to the true nature of reality and uncovered the meaning of life itself. The wisdom he gained from his illumination resonate with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 45 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self.

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Thus Wakes Zarathustra (30 min) Mar 29, 2020

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Walking the lands of Eastern Iranian plateau sometime in the second millennium BCE, ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was one of humanity's greatest mystics and spiritual masters. The wisdom he gained from his awakening resonate with us even today, thousands of years after he penned the famous "Gathas" tome. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 30 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true, beautiful self.

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Thus Wakes Zarathustra (20 min) Mar 29, 2020

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The Gathas, traditionally attributed to ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) himself, is one of humanity's greatest literary and mystical monuments. Its author is on a mission to share the truth about reality and human's true nature and in the verses, preserved since the second millennium BCE, he sets down this profound wisdom from ancient Persia. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 20 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true self.

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Thus Wakes Zarathustra (10 min) Mar 28, 2020

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Ancient Iran's Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) was one of humanity's greatest mystics and spiritual masters. Walking the lands of Eastern Iranian plateau sometime in the second millennium BCE, he experienced a profound awakening and shared his insights which even today, thousands of years after his death, are practiced by nearly two hundred thousands Zoroastrians around the world. While this meditation is not at all religious, it is Zarathustra's wisdom that undergirds and inspires this 10 minute guided meditation. The imagery and fundamental truths expounded in the Gathas are set here in the context of a personalized journey that allows you to experience and identify with your higher self, your true self.

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Fire And The Well (60 Min) Mar 24, 2020

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This 60 minute guided meditation will help you to break the pattern of negative emotions that impact your life. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved differently. It is designed for situations in life where it seems like your emotions are out of hand and you feel out of control of what you are doing or how you are feeling. Maybe you yelled at your spouse or got angry at work or you are eating too much or drinking more than you should. Maybe you keep waking up in the night or can’t go to sleep in the first place because you are anxious about something going on in your life. Or perhaps you just feel sad and lonely all the time and there is no good reason for it. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, that’s ok, we can use that.

This technique starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command.

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Fire And The Well (45 Min) Mar 22, 2020

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The premise behind this 45 minute guided meditation is the fact that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command.

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Fire And The Well (30 Min) Mar 20, 2020

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The training method we will be using in this 30 minute guided meditation is for anyone that is ready to let go of unwanted feelings or emotional responses that don’t fit the situation. It starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. Your subconscious or emotional self, is confused and doesn’t understand something. So we are going to be doing a series of exercises in this guided meditation that will help your emotional self disconnect some incorrectly made associations. In a way, we could think of these negative feelings as our subconscious mind’s way of asking us for our help. If the feelings are bad enough, maybe we’ll pay attention and slow down enough to listen to what the problem is so that we can release it and our higher self can take command.

Before we get started, you are going to need a specific situation to work with. We are going to be working with this one memory for the whole session so make sure you have a specific, very recent or very vivid incident in mind. Unless the incident is pressing on your mind or has just happened, generally speaking it is best to do this exercise when you are fresh and alert. So if the incident isn’t fresh in your mind and it is late and you are feeling sleepy or you have just had a big meal or a couple of drinks, now may not be the time for this technique. A nap might be better therapy in that case!

You will need to think of a time when you were feeling overly worried relative to what was happening in your life or a memory of when you got angry or you were hurt by someone; where you felt unhappy, fearful, anxious, lonely, betrayed, trapped or overwhelmed by disappointment or hopelessness or shame.

If your life really was in danger, then that is something different. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved differently. It is designed for situations in life where it seems like your emotions are out of hand and you feel out of control of what you are doing or how you are feeling. Maybe you yelled at your spouse or got angry at work or you are eating too much or drinking more than you should. Maybe you keep waking up in the night or can’t go to sleep in the first place because you are anxious about something going on in your life. Or perhaps you just feel sad and lonely all the time and there is no good reason for it. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, that’s ok, we can use that.

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Fire And The Well (20 Min) Mar 20, 2020

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This 20 minute guided meditation / mind training exercise starts from the premise that your life experience can change and that the change begins inside your own mind. If you can change what is happening on the inside, almost as by a miracle, you will witness the outside start to change around you. The idea is that if you are feeling any negative emotions, there is a bug in your software, a set of connections in your mind that are wired incorrectly. So can listen to this guided training meditation to be taken through a series of exercises that are designed to help your subconscious mind disconnect some incorrect associations. A word of caution: these meditations can bring up some very strong past emotions. Please proceed with care and seek professional help if you do have serious traumas to deal with. For the companion podcast covering the theory behind why these meditations work, check out the Serena Happy Life podcast.

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