What does compassion have to do with mindful leadership?  Compassion and empathy are great tools to develop and maintain personal relationships.  What happens when leaders encourage the development of compassionate actions in the managerial staff?  The leader becomes a visionary.  Tune in for a controversial discussion about compassion and empathy in the workplace. 

Take the Compassion Quiz and get a full transcript handout at The Mindstream Center.  This episode is an excerpt from a chapter in the upcoming book GETTING TO GAMMA: A Journey for Those Who Didn't Expect to Take One.  Visit the Book Portal for more information or Subscribe at the Mindstream Center to be notified when it's published.  

This podcast is a live, relaxation technique. Imagery you should download and listen to and use while in a safe and comfortable setting.  DO NOT LISTEN to this Podcast while driving, operating machinery or anything that requires your full attention. 

SIT STILL LIKE A MOUNTAIN: 
What happens when you combine yoga, hiking and meditation?  This is our first #relaxationUnderground  "on location meditation."   We are taking our meditation recordings "on the road."   This meditation was recorded on top of a mountain along the Appalachian Trail in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. 

Meditators are often troubled by the appearances of thoughts while practicing. Other times, silence or stillness itself can be agitating. It is designed to help meditators use the natural stillness of a mountain to deal with turbulence in the mind. It uses three breathing techniques and three yoga poses (Easy Pose, Prayer Pose and Seated Mountain Pose) to help the body and mind enter into peace and solitude. 

Enjoy!

Join Host Janet Doucette for a humorous interview with drone pilot and outdoor enthusiast John Winchell, founder of HEALING THROUGH NATURE.  He is also the web portal designer and book editor for her upcoming self-help book GETTING TO GAMMA.  Listen to a behind-the-scenes discussion between the writer and her editor as they approach the end of the book production. 

Janet describes grounding and meditating in nature as necessary elements to the process of re-inventing a successful life.  John offers his personal insights to that very process and the means to  experience a connection to nature using a variety of methods.   SEE HIS VIDEO

"Conventional medicine stresses the importance of good diet and regular exercise for a long healthy life. However, many people tend to head indoors for their workouts at a gym instead of going outside in Nature.

 At first, the benefits of exercising outdoors are not readily apparent. However, once you grasp our elemental connection with the Earth, they quickly become crystal clear. Key to this understanding is the silent bond of consciousness shared by all living things. Our resting state within that awareness is still attention.

 Still attention is when your mind stops, and you suddenly observe everything around you with total clarity of perception. It’s the space between thoughts, the gap between notes in a song, and the silent pause between words on a page." -  John Winchell

Welcome to an interview with the author of Getting to Gamma: A Journey for Those Who Didn't Expect to Take One.   This book combines the science of mind-body medicine and biofeedback with the wisdom of meditation.   Author and psychotherapist Janet Ware-Doucette discusses the Kickstarter Launch for her new book.  Two chapters away from completion, with a resource portal website at  https://janetdoucette.com, she discusses the timeliness of this book with the need to re-examine our lives and re-invent our means for success in a post pandemic world.

To Learn more, contribute, or watch a video about her book, visit her Kickstarter webpage. If she is fully funded, her supporters will receive advance editions in PDF, e-Book or print edition along with a limited edition "Official Blue Lotus Supporter" coffee mug. 

This Podcast is a live, relaxation technique.  Imagery you should download and use while in a safe and comfortable setting.  DO NOT LISTEN to this Podcast while driving, operating machinery or anything that requires your full attention.

STRESS RELIEF IMAGERY:
Enter a place of peace and contentment far away from stress, worry or frustration.  Let the Guide's voice bring you to a serene landscape of inner resources and quietude. RUNTIME 18 minutes

Most of us believe inner peace is best discovered by removing stress.  Since that is pretty difficult to achieve, we reach for anti-anxiety or anti-depressant  medications instead.  Actually the biochemicals of peace, tranquility, calmness and contentedness are held within your body, just waiting to be activated.

In this short podcast learn two things you can do each day that will help your body release those chemicals dependably.  Our bodies have  a secret ability.  Many of us experience our physical bodies as being stressful and painful,  so we naturally distance ourselves from cultivating these secrets.  Pleasure, peace and contentment are not thoughts.  They are not a product of our mind, alone.  They are a product of our bodies' responses to specific actions.  Wouldn't you like to learn those secrets and get back in your body where all the good stuff is?

Join me for this podcast!
Janet Doucette

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There are a great deal of confusing ideas about mindfulness; what it is and what it is not.  Listen to this "splash" in The Mindstream discussion about mindfulness meditation.  As any good medicine, informed consent means learning about the side effects.  In this case, compassion, patience, wellbeing and clarity are both benefits and side-effects of developing your observer mind.

Enjoy :)
Janet

From a mind-body perspective, strong emotions can be a guide to a greater sense of awareness.  We all look forward to comfortable emotions like happiness and affection.  We like to push away uncomfortable feelings like sadness, fear or anger.  Listen to a discussion that reveals the wisdom behind "feeling" your feelings.

Enjoy
Janet