Balanced Mind With Julie Potiker

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll focus on compassion - for yourself an others.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Connect to yourself  - and others through this loving kindness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading by Hafiz, "With That Moon Language". With That Moon Language, by Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky) Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise, someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon language, what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?​ Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll breathe in what you need right now - and breathe out what no longer serves you. She completes the meditation with a poem by Franciscan Brother Richard, Ordinary Miracles. Ordinary Miracles by Brother Richard, a Capuchin Franciscan priest-friar, living and working in Ireland.   Today I am so tired - I have no space in me for big. I must return to the small ordinary miracles; to the way the cup and the bowl laid upon this table, once earth themselves, now, after fire's touch, are something else entirely, and give themselves freely with the simple symmetry of their curved line to the holding of emptiness or fullness. Or I will drink tea, and follow it's warmth and healing touch within and without, and mingle my breath with its vapor and touch the journey of its essence from faraway lands to here, to now, to me. Or spend time simply remembering that between the covers of the books upon my shelves are held minds, lives, worlds, stories, wisdom that will all

Are there any words that would describe what you need to hear right now? Such as, " I am worthy? It's okay? I've got this?  Join Julie Potiker in this guided meditation where you'll focus on breathing in those words and phrases while also sending them out to others.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker",

Who is it that puts a smile on your face and warms your heart?  In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker, you'll bring this being on a journey with you to your favorite place - feeling the warmth, affection and love you have in your heart for your them.  Julie Potiker completes the meditation with a reading of a poem by Ed Crowley.   "I asked many Masters how I should sit in formal meditation. I naturally received countless answers, all deeply sincere from experienced Masters..."   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For St

Contemplate your link in the chain of history - as you settle into this meditation led by Julie Potiker, marking Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. She completes the meditation by combining quotes from Paul Tsongas and Rabbi Tarfon. Quotes: "We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching", Paul Tsongas In Pirkei Avot -  Ethics of Our Father’s, Rabbi Tarfon taught, "It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either".   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also

Settle into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potker. She completes the meditation with a passage from the the book ,“Wintering: The power of rest and Retreat in Difficult Times”, by Katherine May.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms

We mark Passover 2021 - with a meditation of love and being loved in a pandemic. Join Julie Potiker for this guided meditation where she brings you comforting words from poet Ralph Waldo Emerson to inspire and help you make it through difficult days. “This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life."  From Ralph Waldo Emerson. Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also

In this guided meditation, Julie Potiker helps you bring the warm, golden light of Spring into focus. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem "Poppies", by Mary Oliver. Poppies by Mary Oliver The poppies send up their orange flares; swaying in the wind, their congregations are a levitation of bright dust, of thin and lacy leaves. There isn’t a place in this world that doesn’t sooner or later drown in the indigo's of darkness, but now, for a while, the roughage shines like a miracle as it floats above everything with its yellow hair. Of course nothing stops the cold, black, curved blade from hooking forward— of course loss is the great lesson. But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. Inside the bright fields, touched by their rough and spongy gold, I am washed and washed in the river of earthly delight— and what are you going to do— what can you do about it— deep, blue night?   Get t

Sit into your own space, your imagination, your peace - as Julie Potiker leads you through this relaxing guided meditation. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "You Have Become a Forest", by Nikita Gill. One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest. You have grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had. You have become stronger and more beautiful, full of life giving qualities. You have learned to take all the negativity around you and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing. A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories. A variety of beautiful birds rest inside your mind and you call them memories. You have become an incredible self sustaining thing of epic proportions. And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be. – Nikita Gill, You Have Become a Forest Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube cha

Take a journey into a garden, sit under a tree, and bring an umbrella -  because it might rain - as you listen to this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem," The Breather", by Billy Collins.   The Breather, by Billy Collins Just as in the horror movies when someone discovers that the phone calls are coming from inside the house so too, I realized that our tender overlapping has been taking place only inside me. All that sweetness, the love and desire— it’s just been me dialing myself then following the ringing to another room to find no one on the line, well, sometimes a little breathing but more often than not, nothing. To think that all this time— which would include the boat rides, the airport embraces, and all the drinks— it’s been only me and the two telephones, the one on the wall in the kitchen and the extension in the darkened guest room upstairs.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie

Bring in the cosmos, the night sky, the planets and constellations as you consider the vastness of the universe while sitting in meditation in your safe space.  Julie Potiker completes this guided meditation with a reading of the poem, "Antidotes to Fear of Death", by Rebecca Elson. ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH by Rebecca Elson   Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.   Get the latest on

Breathe in, breathe out...and connect to your inner-self and the world around you as Julie Potiker leads you through this guided meditation. She finishes the meditation with a reading of the poem,"Sojourns in the Parallel World" by Denise Levertoy.Sojourns in the Parallel World, by Denise LevertoyWe live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension—though affected, certainly, by our actions. A world parallel to our own though overlapping. We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too. Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions, our self-concerns, because we drift for a minute, an hour even, of pure (almost pure) response to that insouciant life: cloud, bird, fox, the flow of light, the dancing pilgrimage of water, vast stillness of spellbound ephemerae on a lit windowpane, animal voices, mineral hum, wind conversing with rain, ocean with rock, stuttering of

Enjoy this moment of self care as Julie Potiker leads you through this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, At My Window", by Mark Nepo." At the Window, By Mark Nepo I was at the window when a fly near the latch was on its back spinning — legs furious, going nowhere. I thought to swat it but something in its struggle was too much my own. It kept spinning and began to tire. Without moving closer, I exhaled steadily, my breath a sudden wind, and the fly found its legs, rubbed its face and flew away. I continued to stare at the latch hoping that someday, the breath of something incomprehensible would right me and enable me to fly.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly

Julie Potiker leads this Metta meditation helping you bring love, compassion, positive energy and kindness to yourself and others. The meditation concludes with a reading of the poem, "Your Mind Feels Big Today", by Ying Choon Wu.   Your Mind Feels Big Today, by Ying Choon Wu You watch as leaves skate off on a gust of wind. When you were five, you galloped—because you were a pony; because the sun made streaks across the floor; because your legs could bend and lips could whinny; because your thoughts were always flowing, flying— tail and mane—through clouds and rainbows as you tied your shoes. And now you ponder metaphors. It’s August, and the clouds are fat like jellyfish, or cupolas. You see distant sky over rust-red hills. All your life, you’ve felt you’re headed somewhere. You watch two sycamore leaves turn cartwheels side by side along the sidewalk. You still have far to go.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Min

Sit back, close your eyes and feel your connection to everything around you through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. Julie completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Speaking Tree", by Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate. (Tu'Bishvat is the New Year for the Trees in Israel)   Speaking Tree, by Joy Harjo Some things on this earth are unspeakable:Genealogy of the broken—A shy wind threading leaves after a massacre,Or the smell of coffee and no one there— Some humans say trees are not sentient beings,But they do not understand poetry— Nor can they hear the singing of trees when they are fed byWind, or water music—Or hear their cries of anguish when they are broken and bereft— Now I am a woman longing to be a tree, planted in a moist, dark earthBetween sunrise and sunset— I cannot walk through all realms—I carry a yearning I cannot bear alone in the dark— What shall I do with all this heartache? The deepest-rooted dream of a tree is to walkEven just a little ways, from the place next to the doorwa

This guided meditation takes you on a journey through the galaxy, wherever you want to go, while in the safety of an orb. Julie Potker leads you through this guided meditation ending with a reading of the poem, "Singularity" by Marie Howe,which was composed in tribute to Stephen Hawking. SINGULARITY by Marie Howe Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody needed a bed, or food or money — nobody hiding in the school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are kept. For every atom belonging to me as good Belongs to you. Remember? There was no   Nature.    No them.   No tests to determine if the elephant grieves her calf    or if the coral reef feels pain.    Trashed oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French; would that we could wake up   to what we were — when we were ocean    and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe hum

Use this guided meditation to heal the anger, sadness or confusion you may be feeling after watching the siege unfold at the U.S. Capitol. Julie Potiker finishes the meditation with a reading of  "The Cure of Troy", Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. THE CURE OF TROYHuman beings sufferThey torture one another,They get hurt and get hard.No poem or play or songCan fully right a wrongInflicted and endured.The innocent in gaolsBeat on their bars together.A hunger-striker’s fatherStands in the graveyard dumb.The police widow in veilsFaints at the funeral home.History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave…But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme.So hope for a great sea-changeOn the far side of revenge.Believe that a further shoreIs reachable from here.Believe in miraclesAnd cures and healing wells.Call miracle self-healing:The utter, self-revealingDouble-take of feeling.If there’s fire on the mountainOr lightning and stormAnd a god sp

A gift for you on this last night of Chanukah. Julie Potiker leads this guided meditation where you'll visualize beams of love moving through your body to radiate, love, peace, ease.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms.

Visualize light, white light golden light to help bring healing to those around you - and also yourself. Julie Potiker ends this guided meditation with a reading of the poem, "Home Alone," by Innarenko.   Home Alone, by Innarenko My family's gone, there's no one home; It's only me - who's home alone. I should not hear a single squeak, There shouldn't even be a creak, So what's that thumping that I hear? It must mean one thing: death is near. "You're an adult, you'll be just fine", I tell myself as I dial "nine".. Was that a knock upon the door? My heart beats faster than before. I know it's closed, I've checked the lock, At least my killer knows to knock. I cannot sleep, though I'm in bed, I've made amends with God instead. If He decides that it's my time, Then this will be my very last rhyme. I hear a bang, and then a break, My head shoots up; there's no mistake! I turn my music volume high So I won't hear the way I die. I run upstairs, desk lamp in hand Over my head, ready to land.. And right before it