Good morning and welcome to your seventy-fourth meditation. How do you console a friend? Do you say everything’s going to be alright or that everything happens for a reason? Or do you say you can’t imagine what it must feel like, or that what t

How to Think about Making Money

May 2nd, 2022 4m 40s

Good morning and welcome to your seventy-third meditation. The global system in which we live is a capitalist one. Countries jostle for ever-better economic standing, just as the corporations and individuals within them do. And this worldwide o

Whither Religion?

Apr 11th, 2022 4m 33s

Good morning and welcome to your seventy-second meditation. We are, for the most part, living in a post-god world. The Washington Post cites a Gallup survey that tells us that in 1937 church membership in America was at 73% where now the number

What You Feel, What You Need

Mar 29th, 2022 3m 40s

Good morning and welcome to your seventy-first meditation. For a relationship to be successful it is important to focus on your needs and how you feel, rather than what the other person has done wrong or what they have failed to do. Rather than

On a Role

Mar 21st, 2022 4m 30s

Good morning and welcome to your seventieth meditation. It is impossible to live in a society without assuming certain roles. As much as we like to fetishize originality, we do not generally invent roles for ourselves. Rather they tend to be la

RECAST: Chores

Mar 14th, 2022 4m 54s

A recast of one of our popular episodes! Do you ever put off cleaning the house for so long that it’s actually more work to navigate your cluttered space on a daily basis than it would be to clean it on a weekly one? Do you ever do your laundry

Sex and Agency

Mar 7th, 2022 4m 21s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-ninth meditation. Sex. Sex takes so many forms in our society. It can be an expression of love or an expression of power. It can be a recreational activity or it can be a currency that confers a certain ki

Allow Yourself Joy

Feb 28th, 2022 3m 48s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-eighth meditation. Do you ever have a tendency to overthink? Have you ever spoiled your own enjoyment of something by considering all the ways in which your expectations weren’t being met? Or by judging yo

Awkward Conversations on Critical Topics

Feb 21st, 2022 4m 26s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-seventh mediation. Do you have any beliefs or values that seem to make others uncomfortable? We’re not talking about actual harmful beliefs like those based on misinformation or racist ideologies, but just

Loving Skepticism

Feb 15th, 2022 4m 34s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-sixth meditation. In the past couple years, amongst lockdowns and limitations on our social mobility, many of us have found ourselves with more time on our hands than before. It may not always feel that wa

Hang Out With Kids

Feb 7th, 2022 4m 44s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-fifth meditation. Do you have kids in your life? You should. Don’t worry, this podcast is not going to be like those parents who insist that you owe them a grandchild, or those friends whose sanctimoniousn

Ready Aim Focus

Jan 31st, 2022 4m 31s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-fourth mediation. Are you listening to this right now? Of course you are. But are you really listening? In other words, are you dedicating a degree of your attention to listening that allows you to compreh

Happiness is a Verb

Jan 24th, 2022 4m 54s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-third meditation. Imagine life as a medieval king or queen. You are surrounded by servants. If you ever want a certain kind of food, you send someone to fetch it for you. If you want information you send s

How Do You Eat?

Jan 17th, 2022 5m 12s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-second meditation. How do you eat? You may think this question involves only what you eat and how much, but it’s actually much more complicated than that. Many of us have extremely complex relationships wi

When? Now!

Jan 10th, 2022 4m 18s

Good morning and welcome to your sixty-first meditation. Last week’s meditation was about making resolutions and how to carry them out. Today we’re going to talk about when to carry them out. And you likely won’t be surprised by the answer to t

New Year’s Resolutions

Jan 4th, 2022 4m 17s

Good morning and welcome to your sixtieth meditation. What should your New Year’s resolutions be? Some of us will have a very clear idea of all the wonderful things they want to accomplish this year, while others may be uncertain. But, whatever

REPOST: Own Your Feelings

Dec 27th, 2021 3m 36s

You’re here. Despite everything you’re here. You made the effort. By listening to this podcast you have taken an important step toward attaining the feeling of control and agency that you are seeking in your life. Congratulations. Keep it up.

Acknowledge Your Creativity

Dec 20th, 2021 3m 50s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-ninth meditation. Many people believe that they are not creative. Maybe they think that they didn’t get into any creative pursuit early enough, or that they quit too early, and that it’s too late and their

Getting Injured

Dec 13th, 2021 4m 8s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-eighth meditation. It happens sometimes. You’re weeding the garden and that especially stubborn little plant, after much cajoling, finally, and suddenly, releases itself from the earth, sending you falling

Your Fate is Deciding

Dec 6th, 2021 4m 7s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-seventh meditation. You are in a situation where you are confronted with a decision that you have to make. To avoid the decision altogether is a decision in itself that will be far more likely to yield und

That Place We Sometimes Go

Nov 29th, 2021 4m 32s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-sixth meditation. There is a place that all of us go sometimes that is not located in the world outside of us, but within us. Indeed, it can make the external world feel alien to us or even hostile. It is

Always Reassess

Nov 22nd, 2021 4m 12s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-fifth meditation. Last week we discussed taking the time to make sure that what you are doing in your life aligns with what is fundamentally important to you. This week will act as a kind of sequel to that

Take the Time to Check in with What Matters Most

Nov 15th, 2021 3m 56s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-fourth meditation. Can you just sit and do nothing? Maybe some people will hear that question and think, “I wish I had time to do that! Sounds like a dream!”. Others might think “that sounds like a nightma

Re-release: An Act of Self-Love

Nov 8th, 2021 3m 33s

A re-release of the very first 4 minute meditation podcast. What's so great about this podcast is every meditation is applicable for any day of your life! Today, we'll go back to where it all began! Any mediation or moment of self reflection, i

Get Scared

Nov 1st, 2021 3m 56s

Good morning and welcome to your fifty-third meditation. Do you like to be scared? Some people would scoff and say “of course not! Why would anyone want to be scared”. Well, this is precisely the question that today’s podcast will set out to an