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Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity — Alternative Health
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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Latest Episodes:

An Emotional Reset: I Am Healthy (45 min) Oct 23, 2018

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Your body is very susceptible to suggestion. If you think negative thoughts or believe the negative things people say about you sometimes, your body might take you or them seriously. Unfortunately, that negativity can affect your health and wellbeing. Fortunately you can take advantage of that same susceptibility to influence your body in the other direction, too. You can remind yourself of your inner potential for vitality, power, fitness and health. So do that right now!

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

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Healthy (30 min) Oct 22, 2018

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If you think negative thoughts or believe the negative things people say about you sometimes, your body might take you or them seriously. Unfortunately, that negativity can affect your health and wellbeing. Fortunately, this works in both directions so you can take advantage of that same susceptibility to influence your body towards health instead. You can remind yourself of your inner potential for vitality, power, fitness and health. So do that right now!

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

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Healthy (20 min) Oct 21, 2018

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If you have an injury or are sick or are in pain for any reason, you can use the vast powers of your mind to mitigate your suffering and support your natural immune and healing processes. This meditation will guide you through this simple yet powerful process.

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

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Healthy (10 min) Oct 20, 2018

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Illness and pain are a natural part of life. Outside of the obvious things like eating right, getting enough sleep, washing our hands and reducing stress in our life, are there other techniques we can use to maximize our health and our strength? It turns out the body responds to positive thinking and can be healed by the presence of an otherworldly light. This light has been called prank, qi, and mana. But the point isn't the name. The point is to learn how to marshal this light in the service of your health and your vitality. So give it a try!

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

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Safe (1 hr) Oct 17, 2018

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Feelings of anxiety or sadness or anger or any other negative feeling are premised on the notion that there is something missing in your life. You sense that you are going to fail at something or that something bad will happen. In a word, you are living with wanting of some kind. You want approval or safety or love or companionship or to know or whatever it is. But you already have everything you need. The most fundamental want that you probably face, the one that often underlies other wants, is the desire for safety. Ultimately, the biggest risk is that we die. And based on the stress and anxiety you sometimes feel, or the level of anger or sadness that you might struggle with, your emotional self fears that there is a risk to your life. What is the antidote to these fears and the negative feelings that come up? The truth. The truth is that you are safe, and things are ok. You've just convinced yourself that this isn't the case. So this is a simple meditation to help remind your emotional self of the truth that you are going to be ok.

Note: This is a one hour version of the I Am Safe guided meditation

As with any meditation, but especially with these longer ones, make sure you are in a regular habit of getting enough sleep. Some master will say that meditation is better than sleep. And maybe for their genetic make-up it is or maybe for advanced meditation masters their biochemistry really has changed. But for the vast majority of Homo Sapiens, 7-8 hours night after night after night is the minimum needed not just for a healthy body but also for the attentional powers necessary to embark on the transformative journey of self-mastery.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Safe (45 min) Oct 16, 2018

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When you experience negative feelings, whatever kind they are, this means that you are perceiving some sort of lack in your life. There is something missing that you want to fill in. Maybe you want control or safety, approval or love, or maybe you just want to know or understand. Whatever it is, you have the power to cut to the chase and simply let go of wanting. An age old method of doing this is to just let the breath relax. You'll do that in this meditation but it is all too easy to slip back into the little circle you are stuck in, to get yourself into turmoil for days. Eventually, the opposite energy will finally take over but the suffering along the way can be tremendous and the 'eventually' can seem to last forever. So one simple technique to short circuit this loop of wanting and suffering is to remind your emotional self that everything is going to be ok, that everything actually IS ok already. And the first step to proving that to your emotional self is to point out the seemingly obvious fact that you are safe. With that foundation stabilized, all the good stuff can be built on top of that: joy, abundance, peace, purpose and flourishing can find solid footing again.

Note: This is a 45 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Safe (30 min) Oct 15, 2018

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The strange nature of the human experience is that your thoughts and feelings aren't truth. They don't represent what is really happening in the world. They neither accurately reflect the nature of our physical reality (as Relativity and Quantum physics have proven), nor do they provide us access to the many other dimensions that make up consciousness. So until you get to the point that you look at what you think and feel as a lie, you will not progress beyond the yo-yo of feelings that probably characterizes your life right now. Until you look at your feelings -- whether the feeling is wanting control or safety, being filled with anger, fear or sadness -- as lies, you are sentenced to continue to feel them. You are sentencing yourself to this kind of a life because you continue to believe that thinking and feeling are indices of reality. As you start to let go, as you start to work on exposing the lies that you have lived with for so long to the light of day, all the beliefs and feelings that were stored start to come up to the surface so this can make progress difficult and, especially if you are in therapy, can become a huge distraction. But you can just cut to the chase. You are free. Right here and right now. But you don’t behave that way. You still do what you think. You still do what you feel. You still believe the lies so feelings and thoughts still color what you think is actually happening in your life. But you are fine right now. Happiness, peace, flourishing and a sense of purpose and fulfillment are available to you right now. And you can start becoming comfortable with this truth by building a foundation of safety and security, by acquainting yourself with the truth of your physical safety right now, in this moment. That is what this meditation is all about.

Note: This is a 30 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation.

As always, more important than meditation is sleep. So if you are sleepy, use this time to nap and adjust your sleep routine so that you secure sufficient sleep (normally 7-8 hours) each night so that meditation can become as powerful as possible.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Safe (20 min) Oct 14, 2018

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Take a moment right now and think about what happened in the last few days. Were there any disturbing feelings? You're reading this so there probably were, or are still. In this meditation you will take a hard look at the reality of your situation. Where is your body right now? What is your body doing? What is really going on? In reality, isn’t your body in a safe, friendly, even hospitable environment? So isn’t that how you should be feeling? Safe and friendly and taken care of. If that isn't how you feel, give this mediation a try.

NOTE: This is a 20 minute version of the "I Am Safe" guided meditation.

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An Emotional Reset: I Am Safe (10 min) Oct 14, 2018

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Your emotional self sometimes gets out ahead of the facts on the ground. You could be playing a board game or in a simple work situation and suddenly feel an enormous pit in your stomach, perhaps even a sense of panic. Or perhaps you are simply plagued by some other negative emotion like loneliness, anger, sadness, anxiety or any of the other terrible feeling flavors that are all too familiar. Sometimes those feelings are appropriate and you can let them run their course but most of the time they are disproportionate to the situation at hand. In either case, there are some very simple techniques we can use to help reset our emotional baseline. One of the best ways of performing this reset is to reestablish your foundation on the fact that you are safe and protected right now. You need to remind your emotional self, using pictures and very simple, repeated phrases, that everything is ok, right now. You will be amazed by the effect that pointing out these seemingly obvious facts can have.

Note: This is a 10 minute version of the I Am Safe guided meditation.

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Breath-based meditation (30 min) Oct 08, 2018

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This simple breathing meditation guides you through one of the most basic but most powerful meditation techniques. And keep in mind that if you want to retrain your mind and your body to be responsive to your guidance and commands, you need to start with simple techniques like following your breath so when the big moments come along, it is second nature to keep focused on what is important in life. This meditation guides you through the counting breaths up to ten practice. (If you lose count just restart at one again).

NOTE: This is a 30 minute version of the counting breaths to ten practice.

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