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Julie Potiker brings you a compassion meditation marking three years since the tremendous loss and heartbreak of October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led attacks on Israel. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. "We have been bent, but not broken, and we carry forward the light of a people who generation after generation continue to remember, to love, to gather, and to live."Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Julie Potiker brings you a compassion meditation marking three years since the tremendous loss and heartbreak of October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led attacks on Israel."We have been bent, but not broken, and we carry forward the light of a people who generation after generation continue to remember, to love, to gather, and to live."Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Settle into this deep relaxation meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a poem by Betzy Lynch. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep In the days leading to the New Year,I have been feeling the heat.How it lingered,how it dried the earth,how after enough days of iteven my bones began to feel dry.I found myself longing for somethingto break through the heaviness,to reach those dry placesand breathe life into them again.But this year,the New Year arrived quietly.Rosh Hashanah entered with Shabbat.The gates opened.The work of teshuvah began.And the shofar waited.Perhaps I needed that silencebefore I could truly hear the sound.Because when the shofar finally sounded today,I did not hear only a call.I felt the breath.Breath pushed through a narrow place,an ancient crythat seemed to travel deeperall the way into the marrow.Tekiah.Wake us up.Shevarim.Help us hear what is broken.Teruah.Give us courage not to turn away.May we carry these soundsthrough the days ahead,softening what has hardened,awakening what has grown tired,breathing Divine breath into our dry places.Hadesh yameinu k’kedemmake fresh our days.Not by erasing the year behind us,but by helping us carry its lessons forward.May regret deepen into wisdom,failure open us to humility,and gratitude teach us to noticethe blessings already before us.And perhaps this is how we make roomfor shalom.Not peace that asks us to forgetwhat is broken or unfinished,but peace spacious enough to hold it all.For shalom is not simply another blessing.It is the vessel that holds our blessingsjoy and sorrow,what is whole and what is broken,who we have beenand who we are still becoming.May we cultivate that vessel within ourselves,making room to recognize what is good,to hold what is precious,and to receive the blessingsthat have been there all along.As the echo of the shofar carries ustoward Yom Kippur,may it put new marrow in our dry bonesand new breath within us.May we enter the year aheadnot beginning over,but beginning again.-Betzy Lynch, CEO, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Settle into this deep relaxation meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a poem by Betzy Lynch. In the days leading to the New Year,I have been feeling the heat.How it lingered,how it dried the earth,how after enough days of iteven my bones began to feel dry.I found myself longing for somethingto break through the heaviness,to reach those dry placesand breathe life into them again.But this year,the New Year arrived quietly.Rosh Hashanah entered with Shabbat.The gates opened.The work of teshuvah began.And the shofar waited.Perhaps I needed that silencebefore I could truly hear the sound.Because when the shofar finally sounded today,I did not hear only a call.I felt the breath.Breath pushed through a narrow place,an ancient crythat seemed to travel deeperall the way into the marrow.Tekiah.Wake us up.Shevarim.Help us hear what is broken.Teruah.Give us courage not to turn away.May we carry these soundsthrough the days ahead,softening what has hardened,awakening what has grown tired,breathing Divine breath into our dry places.Hadesh yameinu k’kedemmake fresh our days.Not by erasing the year behind us,but by helping us carry its lessons forward.May regret deepen into wisdom,failure open us to humility,and gratitude teach us to noticethe blessings already before us.And perhaps this is how we make roomfor shalom.Not peace that asks us to forgetwhat is broken or unfinished,but peace spacious enough to hold it all.For shalom is not simply another blessing.It is the vessel that holds our blessingsjoy and sorrow,what is whole and what is broken,who we have beenand who we are still becoming.May we cultivate that vessel within ourselves,making room to recognize what is good,to hold what is precious,and to receive the blessingsthat have been there all along.As the echo of the shofar carries ustoward Yom Kippur,may it put new marrow in our dry bonesand new breath within us.May we enter the year aheadnot beginning over,but beginning again.-Betzy Lynch, CEO, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Julie Potiker guides you through this meditation focusing on compassion. She completes the meditation with the poem,"Wordless", by Julia Fehrenbacher, from her book, "This Too, Words to Walk You Home". This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. WordlessThe blank page keeps calling to me,but when I arrive here with pen in hand,words do not come. Or, when they docome, I swat them away,call them names like inadequate,stupid, cliche. I look out the windowand notice the sun has made her waythrough days and days of gray,and everything is dancing with aliveness.Birds sail and swoop, irises sway,trees with their green, green leaveswave their long arms at me and say:Come, Love, open the door,stroll out into the sunshine,the whole world is waiting -and every single sliver of it is poetry,hold out your hand, write id down.Leave nothing out.-Julia Fehrenbacher Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Julie Potiker guides you through this meditation focusing on compassion. She completes the meditation with the poem,"Wordless", by Julia Fehrenbacher, from her book, "This Too, Words to Walk You Home". WordlessThe blank page keeps calling to me,but when I arrive here with pen in hand,words do not come. Or, when they docome, I swat them away,call them names like inadequate,stupid, cliche. I look out the windowand notice the sun has made her waythrough days and days of gray,and everything is dancing with aliveness.Birds sail and swoop, irises sway,trees with their green, green leaveswave their long arms at me and say:Come, Love, open the door,stroll out into the sunshine,the whole world is waiting -and every single sliver of it is poetry,hold out your hand, write id down.Leave nothing out.-Julia Fehrenbacher Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Use your breath to breathe in what you need right now as Julie Potiker leads you in this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Perseid Star Party, Julian, California".This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Perseid Star Party, Julian, California.Am I in your way?No, it’s straight up in the sky, she said.But my spirit is huge, I say. No worries, the jacketed person replied,folded into her black canvas camping chair,I can see right through it.How did she know my spirit is translucent?Tower of Babel.I hear chips of Chinese, Spanish, Englishseeking the divine throughout space and time.Incredible telescopes - all different -hooked up to gizmos, red light doohickies. A community that does this - monthly or more…Us, first timers fearlessly wading intothe night sky. My down jacket zipped upto the neck, head tipped back in this camping chairto witness meteors streaking through the dark sky.Seeking Awe.-Julie Potiker, from her book,"Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace". Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Use your breath to breathe in what you need right now as Julie Potiker leads you in this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Perseid Star Party, Julian, California".Perseid Star Party, Julian, California.Am I in your way?No, it’s straight up in the sky, she said.But my spirit is huge, I say. No worries, the jacketed person replied,folded into her black canvas camping chair,I can see right through it.How did she know my spirit is translucent?Tower of Babel.I hear chips of Chinese, Spanish, Englishseeking the divine throughout space and time.Incredible telescopes - all different -hooked up to gizmos, red light doohickies. A community that does this - monthly or more…Us, first timers fearlessly wading intothe night sky. My down jacket zipped upto the neck, head tipped back in this camping chairto witness meteors streaking through the dark sky.Seeking Awe.-Julie Potiker, from her book,"Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace". Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Quiet your mind and find inner peace through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "What the Heart Says", by James Crews. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. What the Heart Says The mind may leap five steps ahead,devices pinging with new messages,alerts, alarms. But the heart says,There is no emergency. That musclewanting to unclench, aching to flexas free as the monarch nectaringon a Mexican sunflower at the cuspof autumn. Don't we all long forspace to pause and draw sweetnessfrom each bright thing in our path?Don't we crave the slowness of thatbutterfly perched on orange petals,coming alive in a way it never canwhile in mid-air, wings folding andunfolding their own form of prayer?-James Crews Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Quiet your mind and find inner peace through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "What the Heart Says", by James Crews. What the Heart Says The mind may leap five steps ahead,devices pinging with new messages,alerts, alarms. But the heart says,There is no emergency. That musclewanting to unclench, aching to flexas free as the monarch nectaringon a Mexican sunflower at the cuspof autumn. Don't we all long forspace to pause and draw sweetnessfrom each bright thing in our path?Don't we crave the slowness of thatbutterfly perched on orange petals,coming alive in a way it never canwhile in mid-air, wings folding andunfolding their own form of prayer?-James Crews Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Place your focus on kindness - for yourself and others - through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "The Peace", by James Crews. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. The PeachBy James CrewsIt is almost enough, even betterthan biting into it—holdingthis ripe peach to your noseand breathing in its perfume,like entering a room of abundanceand sweetness, filled with latesummer sun slanting in throughthe shifting trees. But you don’thave to stop there—you can staywith the soft moment, and closeboth eyes, sending the peach onto someone else who desperatelyneeds to be fed. Is it enough justto hope and pray? No, it is not.But the ache will bloom inside youand spread, until the wish forthe whole world to have enoughbecomes truth, becomes the lawwe all choose to live by. -James Crews Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Place your focus on kindness - for yourself and others - through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "The Peace", by James Crews. The PeachBy James CrewsIt is almost enough, even betterthan biting into it—holdingthis ripe peach to your noseand breathing in its perfume,like entering a room of abundanceand sweetness, filled with latesummer sun slanting in throughthe shifting trees. But you don’thave to stop there—you can staywith the soft moment, and closeboth eyes, sending the peach onto someone else who desperatelyneeds to be fed. Is it enough justto hope and pray? No, it is not.But the ache will bloom inside youand spread, until the wish forthe whole world to have enoughbecomes truth, becomes the lawwe all choose to live by. -James Crews Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Feel grounded through this compassionate breath meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Hope Watches", by James Crews. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Hope WatchesHope watches from the windowlike a small child waitingfor his parents to come home.His eyes are the lightshope keeps burninglong into the night, even whenit seems no one will return.Hope breathes on the glass,asks each of us to write our name,leave some sign that we were herethat we cared enoughto keep searching. -James Crews, from his book, Breathing Room, Poems of Rest and Retreat. Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Feel grounded through this compassionate breath meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Hope Watches", by James Crews. Hope WatchesHope watches from the windowlike a small child waitingfor his parents to come home.His eyes are the lightshope keeps burninglong into the night, even whenit seems no one will return.Hope breathes on the glass,asks each of us to write our name,leave some sign that we were herethat we cared enoughto keep searching. -James Crews, from his book, Breathing Room, Poems of Rest and Retreat. Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Join Julie Potiker as she leads this open awareness meditation. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Before Dawn". This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Before Dawn, by Julie Potiker.Even with fences, even with locks, I’m not always safe from the thoughts in my head. The second sleep—that strange, lucid hour before dawn—can be a dangerous place. My mind unspools anxieties, wild and uninvited.I climb out from under the dogs and tangled covers, pour a strong brew, and step into the courtyard. The air is cool, the sky still a deep indigo. Somewhere a robin begins, then a towhee joins in, and soon the whole chorus is at work as the light rises. Slowly, I begin to breathe in rhythm with them. The chatter inside softens. The morning expands. I remember that peace is not the absence of thought, but the practice of returning—again and again. Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.