We all wish for a positive future; for ourselves, our families, our children, and our community. How about a mindful future that benefits us and the planet? Anne-Marie Emanuelli, Creative Director and founder of Mindful Frontiers, an education-based meditation center, believes it’s important for families to practice mindfulness together. In this podcast, Anne-Marie explains how to bring mindfulness into their family’s routine. Each episode includes wisdom and information about mindfulness and meditation plus a family-oriented guided meditation practice.
Publisher
Anne-Marie Emanuelli, Creative Director and Founder at Mindful Frontiers LLC
The Practice of Patience: Meditation Helps Navigate Uncertainty
One of the most important wisdom truths is that the only constant in life is change. We have all experienced chapters of uncertainty in our lives. How can we navigate these times of fear and confusion? I believe we can learn patience and acceptance as well as the compassion that comes from knowing we’ve made it through each time.
Meditation is a tool that helps to navigate uncertainty by showing us how to find the still quiet heart center that knows all will work out one way to tap into the heart’s ability to respond wisely to life.
Anne-Marie Emanuelli is the founder and Creative Director at Mindful Frontiers LLC, a Benefit Corporation (BCorp) committed to Community Wellness by providing schools and organizations with mindfulness meditation tools that nurture positive social-emotional growth. With over two decades of meditation experience, Anne-Marie provides coaching for children, families, individuals, groups, and classrooms. She is a certified meditation leader and a certified labyrinth facilitator. Featured practices can be found on the Welcoming a Mindful Future (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindful-frontiers) podcast and Insight Timer (https://insighttimer.com/amemanuelli) app. The website is MindfulFrontiers.net (https://mindfulfrontiers.net/).
22 Jun 2024
Meditation Foundational Practices: Breathing, Open Awareness, Mantras and Visualizations.
Most meditation traditions use the breath as a concentration anchor. Counting breaths, following the breath through its entire cycle, and being aware of the sensation of the breath going in and out of the body. The breath is used as a focus anchor in most meditation practices because it is ubiquitous. Additional focus anchors would be sound, sensations, body scanning, and eventually, open awareness where we sit without choosing a specific anchor. As we sit and pay attention to the present moment with the help of an anchor, we recognize, acknowledge, and investigate thoughts, body sensations, and feelings/emotions – without attachment or engagement. When we get distracted, we gently bring our attention back to the anchor over and over again.
The following family meditation practices are effective ways to introduce a mindful moment into your daily routine.
*****************
NOTE: At any time, when you need extra time during the practice, pause the podcast for as long as you'd like and come back to finish up.
Anne-Marie Emanuelli is the founder and Creative Director at Mindful Frontiers LLC. Mindful Frontiers LLC is a Benefit Corporation (BCorp) committed to Community Wellness by providing schools and organizations with mindfulness meditation tools that nurture positive social-emotional growth. With over two decades of meditation experience, Anne-Marie provides coaching for children, families, individuals, groups, and classrooms. She is a certified meditation leader and a certified labyrinth facilitator. Featured practices can be found on the Welcoming a Mindful Future (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindful-frontiers) podcast and Insight Timer (https://insighttimer.com/amemanuelli) app. Our website is MindfulFrontiers.net (https://mindfulfrontiers.net/).
All our links are compiled and can be viewed at Linktr.ee/MindfulFrontiers (Linktr.ee/MindfulFrontiers).
10 Mar 2024
What Does Desire and Boredom Have in Common? Understanding grasping and clinging through meditation.
Sometimes life can be boring, right? Boredom is a feeling we get when we wish things were different – more exciting or engaging – or as children say, more “fun”. Essentially, when we’re bored we have the desire for life to be different than it is right now. Buddhism calls this “grasping” and “clinging” and is said to be caused by thoughts (ideas) of how our mind wants things to be.
In meditation traditions, we are asked to look at the grasping and clinging directly. We practice letting go of expectations and accepting what is right here in this moment – the only reality there is – instead of wishing for things to be different. When we investigate grasping and clinging, we may realize that discontent is a state of unrest. We can calm this through meditation which is being mindful of what is going on right now by following the breath that connects us to reality.
NOTE: At any time, when you need extra time during the practice, pause the podcast for as long as you'd like and come back to finish up.
Anne-Marie Emanuelli is the founder and Creative Director at Mindful Frontiers LLC. Mindful Frontiers LLC is a Benefit Corporation (BCorp) committed to Community Wellness by providing schools and organizations with mindfulness meditation tools that nurture positive social-emotional growth. With over two decades of meditation experience, Anne-Marie provides coaching for children, families, individuals, groups, and classrooms. She is a certified meditation leader and a certified labyrinth facilitator.
Our website is MindfulFrontiers.net (https://mindfulfrontiers.net/).
A compilation of all our links can be found at Linktr.ee/MindfulFrontiers (http://linktr.ee/MindfulFrontiers).
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Spotify
5.0 / 5
1 ratings
Contact Welcoming a Mindful Future
Guest appearances
Books guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Welcoming a Mindful Future?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
