In today’s episode of the podcast, I am sharing Brené Brown’s Ten Guideposts for Wholehearted Living, as described in her book, The Gifts of Imperfection. I am also telling you which Business Mamas Podcast episodes relate to each of the ten guideposts. I hope that you will review the ten guideposts, and that as you are working on the guideposts, you will also listen to The Business Mamas Podcast episodes I’ve done that are geared to that particular guidepost. 

Towards the end of this episode, I let you know that I am going to be spending some of my time working on Guidepost #7- Cultivating Play and Rest: Letting go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self-Worth. As I lean into creating more play and allowing more rest in my life, I hope that this latest episode of my podcast will provide you with useful tools. 

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In this season, which is Season 4 of the podcast, I am sharing with you about my journey with meditation. I'm also sharing a particular meditation in each episode that I love, and that I hope you will love too.

The meditation that I'm talking about in today's episode is a body scan. In case you haven't done a body scan before, I'll tell you a little bit about my experience. You're guided by the person doing the meditation to give attention to different parts of your body, usually starting with one end of your body and ending with another end of your body. 

It's a really special experience to be still and to give your body that much attention, which is part of doing a body scan.

Resting your awareness on each part of your body is a special experience.

When I am engaged in a body scan, what comes up for me is this immense gratitude for:

• how my body takes care of me,
• how it functions in a way that allows me to be in this world in a way that I want to be in this world, and
• how it allows me to be active to run up hills, to play with my children, and to do all these beautiful things that having a healthy body allows me to do.

By engaging in a body scan, for me it’s a gratitude practice of being appreciative for my body as a whole, and also being appreciative of every little aspect of my body.

Are you ready to develop more love for your body? 

Are you ready to develop deep appreciation of your body? 

When you develop love and appreciation for your body, and for all aspects of you, you will experience more peace, more presence, and more joy in your life, and I hold all those hopes in my heart for you. 

The meditation I am sharing  with you today, that is a twenty-four minute meditation that I love, is called Bodyscan With Rumi and it’s by Schalk Neethling.  

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In this season, which is Season 4 of the podcast, I am sharing with you about my journey with meditation. I'm also sharing a particular meditation in each episode that I love, and that I hope you will love too.

I'm excited to have this conversation with you about meditation, and what I have seen as the benefits of meditation in my life since I've started practicing slowing down my mind.

If you are like me, then sometimes you feel like you are moving so quickly through your day that you barely have time to breathe, and you certainly aren't making the time to take deep breaths, where you observe yourself breathing the air in and you observe yourself breathing the air out.

Being a person who has spent much of my life to-date working at a very fast pace, slowing down my mind is something that if you would have talked with me about it a few years ago, I'm not sure that I would have seen the value in it.

As professionals, and career people, we value our minds. We value our minds’ ability to process information quickly, to make decisions, to weigh advantages and disadvantages of different situations that we come across.

Thinking about slowing down our minds isn't something that might immediately sound like it has value. But it does.

Now, having practiced meditation for some years now, I have found immense value in being able to slow down my mind.

You may have heard the term ‘Namaste’ before as being used in meditation. It's commonly translated as “the light in me honors the light in you.” By choosing to meditate, you are honoring the light within yourself, and it also naturally leads to you honoring the light in others. The more we see our own light, and the more we honor the light in others, by doing this internal work, we not only make our internal experience of our lives more beautiful, but we also make the world a better place.

Are you ready to give yourself the gift of slowing down your mind? 

Are you ready to accept the beauty that unfolds when you give yourself that gift? 

I hope you'll take the time to tune into this episode and learn about the value of slowing down your mind.

The meditation I am sharing  with you today, that is a twenty minute meditation that I love, is called Slowing Down Your Mind and it’s by davidji.

For more information and to learn more about Kara Stein-Conaway please visit The Business Mamas Podcast.

Follow @karasteinconaway on Instagram. If you try out this meditation, I’d love for you to send me a message on Instagram and let me know if you enjoyed it, or let me know if you have any feedback about the podcast. I’d love to hear from you. 

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