WARNING:  This is a powerful meditation and will cause drowsiness and relax you fully.   You may fall asleep while listening to it.   Ingrid wrote this special Meditation about Inspiration to help you relax your muscles fully and to help you concentrate on goal setting and achieving your goals.   The meditation is so powerful that as I was recording it, I actually fell asleep, and you can hear me snoring in parts of the podcast.  That's why we recommend you avoid listening to this while driving or using heavy machinery.  This meditation is good for helping you relax before going to sleep, when you are feeling extremely stressed out, or when you want to relax and set goals and help lead yourself into positive thinking.  Positive thinking will help you achieve your goals and dreams easily.   Within the Meditation, Ingrid asks you to think about an intention or goal you wish to accomplish.  This goal can be anything you wish to work towards.   i.e.: relax more, spend more time with family, help potty train your child, get your dream home, get back to the mental and physical health you deserve, etc...

Stressed out to the max

Stressed out to the max 

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Laughter is the best medicine a wise man once said. So this is just us having fun setting up the system for live shows that will be broadcast via podbean.com 

Here we just sample the external microphone set up and play around with some of the side effect buttons.

Keep life lite whenever possible.  Sometimes us worrying is our biggest obstacle.

Have fun listening to us having fun, and look forward to having you join our live shows on podbean.com

In our first ever live episode we discuss some simple techniques to help manage anxiety, sleep, and stress.  We had the pleasure of some listeners listening in.  In the future we hope we can get some participants to join us and discuss how stress has affected them in life.

Make sure to check out our podcast website www.stresspodcast.ca and also check it out here on PodBean.  Our next live episode will be later today at 9pm.

Struggling with low motivation.  Trouble getting out of bed?  Procrastinating on your homework or work project.  Feel too lazy to get the mail and open it.   Letting the dishes pile up in the sink?  Loads of clothes to wash, but wear is that motivation?  Motivation is key to a happier life, where we can deal with stress more effectively.  We know that stress is unavoidable, but if we don't have motivation, how do we start that walking program or journal writing each day to help get us better?  Good Motivation is the key foundation brick that we need to work on to start getting better, and to make our life feel more stress-free. In this episode we discuss the importance of motivation, and go over 6 key  strategies that we will incorporate into our stress-management program. We love to hear from you about your challenges with motivation.  Please write to us at covidlifepodcast@gmail.com

Please note that we post our episodes first at Stressed to the Max podcast at www.stresspodcast.ca. and then we post it here.

We do that because its the first year of the podcast, and really our first podcast ever, and we wanted to try out both buzzsprout and podbean as hosts for our podcast.  Once 12 months are over, we'll only go with one of them.  The only difference for now, is that the stressed to the max podcast may have more guided meditation episodes which Ingrid likes to do.  She is a master of mindfulness therapy.

Thanks for listening and please email us your stories.

Using Meditation or relaxation therapy can be a great way to deal with too much stress.

We explore briefly meditation and the types of meditation that exist.  Then Ingrid discusses in detail an intent focused Meditation that is featured in Dr. Joe Dispenza's book "Becoming Supernatural." The episode ends with a guided session of Meditation, that involves setting out a goal or intent, visualizing it as completed, and then following it with the meditation that is taught in this video. In the future, other forms of meditation will be discussed. If you wish to know more about meditation please let us know.   Our email is covidlifepodcast@gmail.com.

In our ongoing series, on helping to fight stress, we add a walking program that includes the use of a Pedometer to help motivate us.  We want your stories about stress and how you are coping.  The first 5 listeners to email us will get a free Journal or Pedometer.   Walking outdoors is Nature's best Stress Buster, and here we discuss ways to use walking as another tool to fight against the daily stress in our lives. We also talk briefly about motivation. 

We talk about what it means to be depressed and anxious.  We talk generally about treatments we can try at home, and talk a bit more about journaling. Future episodes will discuss all this in more detail.  Leave us comments, feedback, and most importantly stories about how you are surviving and thriving during the COVID pandemic. Send us your Mental Health Stories to our email. at covidlifepodcast@gmail.com