Podcasts from Manzanita Village: Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki
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“Do you have any idea how many people walk around kicking themselves everyday because they don’t meet their own best standards?”
“We can help you fix that!
“Picture a world in which the voices you hear inside your own head are expressing words of appreciation and inspiration, and you are feeling great about what you do.”
Intention and focus are central to meditation, and to live. It’s important to have both a big picture, an idea of our destination, as well as a sense of the smaller steps we will take in order to arrive there.
… My Japanese sword teacher taught non-violence. His movement looked so simple and fluid. But when I slowed down film I had taken of his kata movements I began to see the myriad deliberate subtle movements which together gave the appearance of simplicity and fluidity.
Clear Intention is More Important than you may Imagine [18:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
There are four “dignities’ or ‘noble postures’ in which it is possible to usefully engage in meditation: Sitting, Standing, Walking, and Lying Down.
Standing with your feet firmly placed, the body upright, balanced, aware of your breath and of the space above you, below you, and around you . . . .
This guided meditation, like the majority of these recordings was made at a Sunday morning meditation at Manzanita Village Retreat in Southern California.
… bring awareness to the subtle movement that you notice …
… the adjustments that the body makes to allow you to balance easily…
.. notice the fluidity in the joints of the the ankles, the knees, the hips …
.. notice each detail … and have awareness of the body as a whole, standing upright on the planet today …
“Seeing – hearing – sitting – touching” a traditional meditation which helps develop clarity and concentration. The focus shifts from the activity of seeing, to hearing, to the sense of the whole body sitting, to a specific sensation of contact, cycling through the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic representation systems.
Once you get the general sense of each point of focus you can actually move quickly through each, just spending a moment to establish contact with the object of focus.
NLP-Meditation. Making use of anchors in meditation can allow you to change your experience, by changing how you process the associated internal images. Meditation doesn’t have to be hard. It’s actually as easy as you choose to make it.
Caitriona Reed: Meditation Instructions using Visual Submodalities [8:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Here are 18 ways that meditation can help you. There’s more ! A lot more, actually. This list forms the basis of an upcoming class I will be doing.
This list of 18 is the ‘Why’. The ‘What’ and the ‘How’ will be covered in the upcoming class. Note: The class will be a teleseminar, so you can attend regardless of whether or not you are in Southern California. All you need is a telephone and a commitment to start putting the tools you will learn over the course of the six-week class into practice. Join our list to be sure you receive registration info.
For information on the class Click Here
Be yourself fully with no restraints and then start making the choices that you need to make. Anger is often not the most useful emotional state, but neither is repression without deliberation and congruency.
Moving away from being a victim of your emotions, moving away from being at effect to being at cause, is key here.
Michele Benzamin-Miki speaks of her experience teaching a People of Color retreat in the summer of 2009 and the NLP training at Manzanita Village.
Michele Benzamin-Miki on the Buddha's Instructions on Overcoming Anger. [23:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Claude Chabrol. Les Noces Rouges.
This short podcast excerpt from a ten day NLP training at Manzanita Village touches on the difference between content and context within any healing, transformation, or change work.
In it is mentioned Claude Chabrol’s 1973 film Les Noces Rouges. (Blood Wedding).
NLP Training. Content, context, and Boundary Conditions [9:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This podcast is from our ten day NLP training. It’s a brief overview on the formation of parts when innate wholeness is fragmented by negative emotions, values conflicts, incongruities, limiting beliefs and limiting decisions.
There’s no such thing as Buddhism. There is however a metaphor and instructions towards the sort of focus that can transform your life. How we choose the stories and how we use capacity our capacity to focus are key, and we can become, and do, and have, all we dream.
It’s important that we choose storiies and metaphors that empower us. Our capacity to focus allows us to do so.
