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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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An Emotional Reset: I Am Confident (45 min) Nov 07, 2018

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We can claim an air of self confidence whenever we choose, and that is what this meditation is about. The truth is, however, that sustainable self confidence only arises when we realize that we actually have no control over anything and that there is a benevolent force that does have this control. Everything that happens is an expression of what the ancient masters might call the Divine Will, or as might be expressed today, what we could call the Physical Laws of Nature. We can't argue with what is. What has happened or is happening just is. You can stick a supernatural being in there as the prime mover or just call it physics or whatever but there is little basis to argue that any one of us individually as a human or even all of us collectively as a species can actually control what happens in every detail. I tell my arm to move, yes, and it moves, but the chain of causation that led to me having that thought and that ability I had nothing to do with and it is infinitely complex and goes back in time indefinitely. And modern neuroscience is producing more and more evidence supporting the claim that our actions emerge prior to us even being conscious of our intentions. So we don't control it. Our freedom of choice in the actions of bodies in the world of form is an illusion. A useful illusion for maximizing the propagation of our genes. Fine. But wait, there's more! There is this recipe for navigating through this life of ours, of adapting the electrical and chemical activity of the brain to create a sense of happiness and abundance and peace. We can short-circuit the more typical pattern of endless dissatisfaction. THAT is where we DO have control, where we CAN exercise our free will. We can choose to follow this recipe or we can choose to ignore it. Meditations like this one will help you along the path to realizing this true self-confidence; a self-confidence that is rooted in the notion that the Universe controls the Universe but you get to choose how you react to it and what emotions and thoughts you have in response.

This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Confident (30 min) Nov 06, 2018

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If you struggle with self-doubt, low self-esteem, or lack of confidence in some important dimension of your self or life, this meditation will be of help. You don't need to look outside yourself for affirmation or compliments or reassurance. As comforting as the reassurance and approval of others can be, you don't need to rely on other people to remove your doubts or fears or validate your choices. We are self-existing, self-maintaining, and self-sustaining organisms. So your confidence comes from within. You can't control what happens out in the world but you can control your mental and emotional response to those changes around you. And one important response is your degree of confidence. Your self-doubt or low self-esteem is rooted in a confusion about who you are and the nature of your true self. So self-assurance is a choice. For some of you it will be more natural than others but regardless, it is always a choice. This meditation will help you make that choice.

This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Confident (20 min) Nov 05, 2018

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You can't be aware of not being. This must be, because you are. You were. And you will always be. It is up to you to choose your state of mind. No one can choose for you. Today you might be feeling self-doubt or lacking in confidence so the question is, are you going to choose freedom over wanting approval, love, or reassurance? What could be more important to you than freedom and inner peace? Perhaps there is something or things that are more important today. That is fine but until there is nothing more important than realizing that right now, right here, you are free you are just going to delay the realization of this truth. The longer you put off remembering who you really are, you are delaying the dawning of a new life of confidence, joy and peace. Why is it not obvious who you really are? Why does it seem to you that having someone else's approval is necessary? Because you believe yourself to be what it is not. As long as you spend your time preserving that which you are not, instead of celebrating that which you are, you are going to be stuck in your old life of uncertainty, confusion, and self-doubt. Or you can shift your attention to who you really are and do the work to recover the sensibilities, like self-confidence, that belong to you already.

This is a 20 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Confident (10 min) Nov 04, 2018

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Many people suffer from self-doubt, low self-esteem, or lack of confidence in some important dimension of their self or their life. In these cases, often you will look outside yourself for affirmation or compliments or reassurance. As comforting as the reassurance and approval of others can be, you don't need to rely on other people to remove your doubts or fears or validate your choices. We are self-existing, self-maintaining, and self-sustaining organisms. So your confidence comes from within. Your self-doubt or low self-esteem is rooted in a confusion about who you are and the nature of your true self. So self-assurance is a choice. For some of you it will be more natural than others but regardless, it is always a choice. This meditation will help you make that choice.

This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Confident guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Energized (1 hr) Nov 01, 2018

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Your body, your mind and your self are just energies in a particular pattern. Part of mastery involves an understanding that mastering these energies serves a purpose. Technically, there really is no need to ‘master’ them because you are already a master. You have just forgotten. Think about it like this. On the one hand we say that God is good, love, all powerful and omnipresent. We say that we are all one. But was your day an experience of perfection, power, goodness, oneness and love? And if we are all one (or, if you are religious, you might say that ‘god is omnipresent’) then shouldn’t that have been your experience today? So, the practical question is then why wasn’t your day like that? What does omnipresent mean? Always there, everywhere, in a cell, in an atom. In this meditation you are going to practice being aware of your energy and sensing your connection to all energies; you will feel the flow and the natural connection between your energy and the energy in the world around you. If you don’t start exercising your power, if you don’t start paying attention to energy, how are you going to know how much power you really have? If your body is relaxed at a cellular level, you can choose to move your attention from the darkness to the light. If you don’t become aware of the light how shall you ever conclude that you are light? If you don’t make that conclusion how will it become apparent that light is limitless? How then shall you conclude that you are limitless? One conclusion serves as the floor for the next one. If you remember that you are eternal and unlimited, why would you fret about your body? Of course, once you realize this, then you have to let go of that realization too…

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Energized (45 min) Oct 31, 2018

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Are you feeling sad, or anxious, or lonely? Or do you get angry or scattered? All these states of mind are nothing more than energy in a particular pattern. You are a self-existing and self-maintaining organism. Your energy is one with the energy all around you and throughout the universe. And this energy wants to move. That is the natural order of things. It takes a lot of energy to prevent energy from moving or to hold it in a particular pattern. For you to be upset or unhappy in any way for more than a moment you must be holding on, for it is the nature of energy is to change. How do you know if you are holding? How do you know it is time to let go? It is not an intellectual process. It has to be something that you experience and therefore know. The body doesn’t lie. It just reports. You choose whether to listen to those reports and you choose what value and valence you attach to those reports. In this meditation, you will connect with your breath and your heartbeat and use it to sense the light and the energy that is your true nature. The more you master the very simple technique of slowing down and controlling your awareness, the better you will get at sensing the light and power that belongs to you. This is how you become aware of your energy and how it flows. The old stories about “Falling from Grace” or getting booted out of the Garden of Eden are really metaphors for humans forgetting how to awaken to their own power and energy and light. Being cast out of Eden just means that you are unconsciously blocking the free-flowing universal life force from moving into and through your body. So you can use this meditation to help you reconnect with your inherent energy and power and light.

This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Energized (30 min) Oct 29, 2018

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If you want to feel energized, you have to move to the level of consciousness where you uncover the inherent energy and power of your true self, your best self. If you try to generate it using coffee or pills or some other foreign stimulus, you will may reap a short term gain but it either won't last or it may have some negative side effect. When you develop that awareness that you have a direct connection to the energy and power of the whole universe, in addition to feeling energized, there is this delicious sensibility that will belong to you in those moments. Once you realize that you *are* energy, you can’t get rid of that sensibility. If you are energized and powerful you don’t need to pursue energy or power. You just are it. But people are looking for energy and power in the wrong place. They pursue whatever they thought created energy or gave them power. They believed that energy and power was something they lacked so they pursued it outside themselves. But you know better now. Move out of this dualistic perspective into the consciousness where energy and power are inherent.

This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Energized (20 min) Oct 28, 2018

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Don’t let anything come between you and your energy. Thinking and feeling disturb your connection to the steady flow of energy in the universe. If you are aware of yourself emoting or thinking then your lower self is activated. Don’t let anything come between you and unlimited energy, including your thoughts, memories or feelings. By believing in these thoughts and feelings and memories and sensations, you are just delaying your direct connection to the universal flow, to your bliss. But you have another choice. You can appropriate your bliss and your energy right now. This meditation is a start.

This is a 20 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Energized (10 min) Oct 27, 2018

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One way to define bliss and vitality is a an open and free flow of light and energy through your body. Holding, resistance, and wanting stifle this flow and block the light. But you can open the channels that guide this flow within you. And when you do that, you will feel energized and blissful.

This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Energized guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Healthy (1 hr) Oct 24, 2018

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You can have a tangible impact on the health of your body simply by changing the way you think. Dedicate the time to remodeling the structures of your brain that control the health of your body. This meditation helps you do that.

This is a one hour version of the I Am Healthy guided meditation.

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