Meditation– Here’s Where To Start!
Stress Therapy Episode 124“Ya BASIC! Where to start!”October 22, 2024
In this episode we will: Covers the simplest solution to many of life’s problems: a simple 3 minute meditation. The Stress Therapist goes into the steps to make it habitual, no matter what the circumstance.
Meditation Music by http://sonicyogi.com
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Interesting Mentions:
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https://www.jekyllisland.com: Location for Cheri’s seaside retreat
Davidji Website:
https://davidji.com/Skeptic Metaphysicians Podcast: Fun podcast that covers “if the WOO is true!”
You Can Heal Your Life: Book by Louise Hay that offers a message of self-love, forgiveness, and the power to create positive change in your life.https://davidji.com/: Davidji’s website
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Transcript
Stress Therapist: Hey, beautiful people.
It’s time for some stress therapy. A podcast about how to meditate and get better at stress for people living.
Stress Therapist: In the real world.
Finally, a place to park my 25 plus years of experience of working as a psychotherapist in the mental health field. And now your host, me, the stress therapy therapist, sherry flake.
Stress Therapist: Hey, beautiful people. What’s up? Okay, so we talk about so many things on this show, right? We’re talking about our mental health. We’re talking about how to not get too stressed out. We’re talking about how to meditate every day so we can get all of those wonderful benefits. But wherever do we start? Sometimes we gotta go back to the basics and just figure out, how do I even start? It seems like a mountain. And how I just need to take my first step in a journey of 1000 miles. Let’s do that today. So relax and settle in and listen up because your stress therapy session is about to begin right now. Hey, beautiful people, what’s up? Okay, so I was just a guest on a podcast. Oh, it’s like one of my favorite ones. You have to check it out. The skeptic metaphysicians. These guys are awesome. They are like, looking into all of the woo to see if it’s true, you know what I’m saying? And it is so cool. And they are just the best couple, and I just love them to pieces. They’re super cool. Anyway, you have to check it out. It’s wonderful. So every single question that they asked me was a podcast episode, pretty much. Because of course, they’re trying to figure out, you know, what I do and how I work and what works and how to get to meditate all the time. That was their basic agenda. We can talk about mental health. We can talk about hard conversations. We can talk about personality problems or how your personal reality creates your personality. In the wise words of Joe Dispenza, we can talk about how to stay motivated. We can talk about how to create healthy habits. All these lovely things that I love to talk about. But sometimes every 20 or 25 episodes or so, we need to come back to the basics and talk about where to start. Okay, so I want to be better. I want to be a little bit better and a little bit better and a little bit better. So I’m a lot better later. But how do I start with just a little bit better, right? I mean, that can be really hard. I totally get it. And we’re all starting there with something. Even if it’s pickleball, even if it’s I don’t know. Like, my boy’s killing it at pre calculus. Even if it’s whatever it is, whatever new thing you want to do, learning to play chess, playing ping pong, getting better at Spanish, whatever it is that you want to do and get a little bit better, where do you start, you know? And so you got to kind of think about it, about other habits that you have in your life that are true and steadfast and in place, and you don’t even think about them. And that’s the rub, right? Like, we’re not thinking about what we’re doing right? Obsessed with what we’re doing wrong. We’re obsessed with feeling bad about what we’re not doing rather than feeling good about what we’re working on. Right? And you gotta change that around. If I could make a big billboard, okay. I used to have my business on a billboard, and it was so awesome. It was right in this really high traffic area, and it said, stressed, start living now. And I got so much business from that billboard. It was amazing. If I could make another billboard, it would say, if you want to change anything, you have to feel good about it. Okay? And so that’s why Louise hay, her birthday was this week, and, I mean, I just love her to pieces. She’s the queen of affirmations. Look up her book. It’s called you can heal your life. She’s got a very beautiful version of it that you could just put on your coffee table for the rest of your life. It is lovely. And it’s how you think about your body, how you think about your life, how you think about your even your ailments, your aches, your pains, your physical problems, your diagnoses, you know, and how you could change your thoughts and how that can change your life. And it’s just a magical, magical book. So this week, I put a picture of me and Louise on my instagram page, and you can take a look at it. She was just delicious. Most wonderful person to meet. We went on an I can do it cruise with her. My husband was very tolerant. It was one of his first little insights into how I think, you know, we’d only been married a couple years, and we learned so much from that cruise and from Louise and her people and her authors and her, you know, she has the biggest self help publishing house in the world, you know, and she started with just a pamphlet when she was, like, 54. She has an amazing story. Anyway, Louise Hayes, the one that taught me not to use should, don’t should on yourself. Don’t constantly be saying what you should be doing because you make yourself wrong and you make yourself feel bad 100% of the time. And side note, aughts are just shoulds in disguise, right? So you want to think about the way that you’re talking to yourself, right. And she’s the person that I learned this from. And one of the ways that you can do that and trick yourself into feeling good about something that you haven’t accomplished or that isn’t going well or that’s super hard is just, you know, forgive yourself a little bit, man. I mean, I think when people think about meditating, especially there’s like this goal they want to get to. Like, yes, we all want to be meditating an hour, twice a day or whatever it is, whatever lofty goal you have, because, yes, the more you do it, the better you feel all of those things,
