Peaceful Wellness with Deb

Do you find mindfulness or meditation a challenge? Are you hesitant or unsure how to start your practice? Join me for this talk as I share steps you can take if you are resistant to starting your mindfulness meditation practice. Fear of change can hold us back and I'll give you steps that you can take to make a smooth transition. This talk was originally streamed to Facebook on May 12th , 2023 --- Arrange your free exploration session to discover how private mindfulness coaching, meditation instruction, or sound healing can support you on your life journey. Learn more at https://debphelps.com/private-sessions-with-deb/ --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/peacefulwellnesswithdeb Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/peacefulwellnesswithdeb/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this session, we learn a simple mindfulness meditation. Remember that mindfulness is a skill that takes time and practice to develop. Be patient with yourself and try to maintain a regular meditation practice, even if it's just a few minutes each day. Over time, you'll find that the benefits of mindfulness begin to permeate all aspects of your life. Join my 31 Day Mindfulness Program for May at https://31daysofmindfulness.com --- Arrange your free exploration session to discover how private mindfulness coaching, meditation instruction, or sound healing can support you on your life journey. Learn more at https://debphelps.com/private-sessions-with-deb/ --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/peacefulwellnesswithdeb Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/peacefulwellnesswithdeb/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this talk, we will explore the history of sound healing, the benefits it provides for the mind, body, and spirit, and how to use sound healing for your meditation or yoga practice. Arrange your free exploration session to discover how private sound healing, mindfulness coaching, or meditation instruction can support you on your life journey. Learn more at https://debphelps.com/private-sessions-with-deb/ Become a supporting member for either the Madison studio or online studio and receive either a 30 minute or 60 minute private session every month. Plus you will be supporting a woman-owned small business! https://debphelps.com/2023/01/peaceful-wellness-memberships/ --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

You can use sound healing to address specific issues whether it's for stress relief, improved sleep or emotional healing. Learn how this can benefit you in your life. Watch my introduction to sound meditation with a sound bath at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrxc9FB4KM Arrange your free exploration session to discover how private sound healing, mindfulness coaching, or meditation instruction can support you on your life journey. Learn more at https://debphelps.com/private-sessions-with-deb/ --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this dharma talk: As we bring this month to a close, I share the importance of meditation in your life if you truly want peace from stress, anxiety, insomnia, pain and other challenges. I share my own experience with meditation and how it has helped me with all of those challenges. I also give a few tips and encouragement to continue to maintain your meditation practice. I am here to support you, so reach out to me if you need assistance with your meditation practice. Here are the links for the mentioned items in talk: Website - https://debphelps.com Madison, WI - https://peacefulwellnessmadison.com Meditation Classes - https://www.momoyoga.com/peaceful-wellness/schedule Meditation Library - https://www.momoyoga.com/peaceful-wellness/videos/recent Meditation Blog - https://debphelps.com/blog/ Private Sessions - https://debphelps.com/private-sessions-with-deb/ Meditation Starter Kit - http://eepurl.com/ilPIbY 21 Day Meditation Challenge - https://www.momoyoga.com/peaceful-wellness/video-playlist/1517 Breathing Buddha Light - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Z9S569D/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A short dharma talk on how to work with these challenges that arise in your meditation practice. Those of your emotions and finding motivation and discipline and what you can do about it. To read the blog post to learn about the five common challenges you may encounter in your meditation practice, go to https://debphelps.com/2023/03/5-challenges-people-encounter-with-meditation/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

3rd Challenge to Meditation: Impatience and Frustration A short dharma talk on how to work with this challenge of impatience and frustration in your meditation practice. It's easier than you think! To read the blog post to learn about the five common challenges you may encounter in your meditation practice, go to https://debphelps.com/2023/03/5-challenges-people-encounter-with-meditation/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

Another short talk for you on the next challenge that people may have with their meditation practice: Physical Discomfort. To read the blog post, go to https://debphelps.com/2023/03/5-challenges-people-encounter-with-meditation/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this short dharma talk, I share on one of the first challenges that meditation practitioners may experience.

To read the blog post, go to https://debphelps.com/2023/03/5-challenges-people-encounter-with-meditation/ --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

If cannot treat your own heart with tenderness, understanding, love and compassion, how can you treat a family member or friend with the same? Insight Meditation 2/1/23 --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

A Peaceful Journey Sound Bath recorded live at my studio, Peaceful Wellness in Madison, Wisconsin on 1/16/23. --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this first session, we start with a couple of minutes just arriving in our space. I present an overview of what we will be learning in this 5 session series. The reasons and benefits are shared on why we meditate. The different types of meditation methods are shared. We move into our first meditation of a relaxation style, take a pause and then our second meditation which is a focus meditation. At the end, I share comments that I made to students in the live online class.You can find more of these sessions in the On-Demand Library. If you have any questions, contact me at deb@peacefulwellness.org --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

This meditation is to support us in identifying our self-judgment and then bringing self- compassion to meet it. --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

Urge surfing is a technique for managing your unwanted behaviors. While practicing, you will ride out an urge, like a surfer riding a wave. Psychologist Dr. Alan Marlatt developed the concept of urge surfing as a metaphor to visualize the art of resisting cravings in addiction recovery but it can be used in any situation even with managing your anger. Just as waves can be intense, cravings can be intense, too. But like waves, they usually don’t last very long. In a study of smokers, Dr. Marlatt found that those practicing urge surfing were able to reduce their smoking by twice as much as those using willpower alone. Just as in other mindfulness practices, the goal isn’t to distract yourself from your thoughts and cravings. Rather, it’s to accept your thoughts and feelings while giving yourself time to manage them so they don’t control you. --- 🧘🏻‍♂️I share a few classes for free every month on YouTube as samples of my meditation classes and sound baths. 🙏🏻See my website https://debphelps.com for the On-Demand Library with hundreds of classes, meditations and sound baths designed to help you relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 🧘🏻‍♂️Join me live online via Zoom or in person in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find the schedule on my website. All of my online classes are recorded throughout the week. 🤲🏻Join our Peaceful Wellness Sangha Facebook Group and meet with like-minded people at https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacefulwellnesssangha 🧘🏻‍♂️Want to learn to teach meditation? Get your training as a meditation teacher or deepen your practice with courses at https://peacefulwellnessinstitute.com --- Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing at https://debphelps.com

In this 30-minute session, we enter the Sanctuary of Calm. I’ll be playing the handheld practitioner crystal singing bowls aligned to the chakras for this session. These are the only instruments except a chime at the very end. May it bring you peace and calm in your day. Learn more at debphelps.com and peacefulwellness.org

In this episode, Deb shares a short history and benefits about sound healing and how she came to this modality. We learn how on all levels of being, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually how sound healing can assist those with deep anxiety. The science of brainwaves and sound waves proves fascinating and we learn how relaxing sound vibrations can synchronize our mind and body. Deb offers online and in person private sound healing sessions, online and in person sound baths, workshops and more. There is a free online workshop to be held on Sunday, October 23rd at 4:00 pm Central Time. Learn more how sound healing can help you with anxiety, PTSD, stress, insomnia, grief and chronic pain at debphelps.com and peacefulwellness.org

In this episode which starts a second season and the month of October, the theme for the month is "Calm Your Anxiety. Here, Deb proceeds to dispel misunderstandings about mindfulness by example of eight ways of what mindfulness is not. She includes a simple practice that she uses with her clients in working with empowering them to start the process of calming their anxiety. Practicing with others, either in a group or with Deb in a private session, can strengthen your work with your anxiety. Learn more at peacefulwellness.org or debphelps.com

In this episode, Deb shares on the book, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön. This will be the next book in the Peaceful Wellness Mindful Book Group. In the book, Pema Chödrön offers guidance for coping with the difficult moments in our lives--showing us how we can soften our hearts and open us to greater kindness. Deb cites her own protective walls that were built tightly around her from prior abuse, trauma, hurt, betrayal, grief and more. She realized that not only did the walls keep her safe but also it kept others outside. Through practice, she realized how precious her own heart really was. Once the heart is liberated by compassion, we can begin to treat our suffering with gentleness and tenderness. Are you ready to cultivated kindness? Included in this episode is a Metta (Loving-Kindness) meditation. Learn more at peacefulwellness.org and mindfulbookgroup.com

In this episode, Deb looks at the myths and mistaken beliefs around meditation and mindfulness. She discusses the benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice as well as an opportunity to learn with a short practice. When you can be fully aware of the present moment, you are able to release judgments, practice compassion, get out of the auto-pilot mind and its overreactions, and find a sense of calm abiding. Join Deb for the February 28 Days of Insight as she teaches and provides the practice of Insight (also known as Vipassana) Meditation. You can join daily or as often as you like. Additionally, there is an Insight Retreat scheduled on February 26th. Practicing with others, either in a group or private session, can increase your accountability and strengthen your practice. Learn more at peacefulwellness.org

In this episode, Deb reveals her recent loss and shares the tools she is using to work with her grief. Grief can arrive from the death of a loved one, a divorce or betrayal, an end to a relationship, a job loss or other loss of income, and health and lifestyle changes due to cancer or addiction. Mindfulness, RAIN, and movement are keys to self-care as one walks the journey of grief, no matter the form. Deb is helping herself and others through her practices and includes in this episode a meditation that is a Yoga Nidra (Guided Rest) for Grief. May it bring you great benefit and comfort to your current grief.

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In this episode, Deb shares insights on wisdom. We find that happiness is not based on what is external to us, but can only be found within. From Paul Denniston, founder of Grief Yoga, she mentions his Self-Care During the Holidays ideas, featuring the following aspects of Awareness, Expression, Connection, Surrender, and Evolution. He is the author of a new book in January "Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment." Finally, Deb shares the support of a community connection, called a "sangha." Included in this episode is a Anytime Calming Meditation to assist you during the holidays to find a place of calm whenever you need it.

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In this mini-5-minute episode, learn about the support of a community, also called sangha and how you can join the Peaceful Wellness Sangha.

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In this episode, Deb shares just as we are give wonderful support to family and friends by helping them feel more at ease, bring comfort, kindness and compassion, we too, can befriend ourselves with the same. We no longer need to compare ourselves to others but we can see how we all have the same desire for happiness and well-being. Included is a Self-Love Loving-Kindness meditation to assist us to find peace within and take gentle care of ourselves.

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