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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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Fire And The Well (10 Min) Mar 18, 2020

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The purpose of this 10 minute guided meditation is to break the pattern of negative emotions that afflict you. 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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Hawaiian Letting Go (Kala) Meditation (60 min) Mar 18, 2020

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Your power to heal yourself is extraordinary. For example, much suffering comes from unconscious holding on to painful personal histories. One method is to simply let go of that holding. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala"), discord or neuroses would manifest in the person's body or life. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 60 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is called a Kala meditation or also sometimes an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.)

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Hawaiian Letting Go (Kala) Meditation (45 min) Mar 17, 2020

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After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala"), discord or neuroses would manifest in the person's body or life. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 45 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is called a Kala meditation or also sometimes an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.)

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Hawaiian Letting Go (Kala) Meditation (30 min) Mar 16, 2020

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Ritual practice has provided a means of releasing suffering and ending emotional or physical distress for millenia. Hawaiian traditions preserve soe of these ancient practices and the Kala Meditation is a very powerful one that has been handed down to us through the memories of Hawaiian elders. Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a shadow (or "aka") cord until the cord was consciously severed or untied. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 30 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.)

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Hawaiian Letting Go (Kala) Meditation (20 min) Mar 15, 2020

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Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord until the cord was consciously severed or untied. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 20 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.)

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Hawaiian Letting Go (Kala) Meditation (10 min) Mar 14, 2020

Show notes

Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord. Until the cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala") discord or neuroses would manifest. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and the "sinned" is untied and released, pain, neuroses, general unpleasantness and even ill health will persist in one’s life, often appearing in unexpected and difficult ways. The imbalance can manifest in sickness, mental anguish, relationship problems, energy deficiencies and many other ways. So take the time now to cut that cable for good with this 10 minute version of the Kala Guided Meditation. (This is also sometimes called an ‘oki meditation. ‘Oki means to cut or sever in Hawaiian.)

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Love & Emptiness (60 min) Feb 27, 2020

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We can use the breath as our guide to our higher chakras. In our lives, each of us is born and then we grow up, and then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, our bodies expand with life giving air as we breathe in and contract as we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 60 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect).

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Love & Emptiness (45 min) Feb 26, 2020

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The human life follows a predictable pattern, varying only in the details. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 45 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect).

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Love & Emptiness (30 min) Feb 25, 2020

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The breath is our teacher. Just as our breath is born, grows, shrinks and dies, we are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 30 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect).

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Love & Emptiness (20 min) Feb 24, 2020

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The breath is like a microcosm for life. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 20 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect).

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