The Heartwood Treehouse

What if being nervous—like having stage fright—wasn’t a statement about what’s wrong with you, but instead was just part of the experience? If you could accept it as normal, would that change things for you? In this episode, we consider the idea that this moment, right now, is perfect.

If you're listing the things you're grateful for each day like you're checking off your to-do list, it's not going to do a whole lot for your happiness. Instead, there's a mindful gratitude technique that can re-train your nervous system and rewire the pathways in your brain so you notice the things you're grateful for more often, and you actually feel grateful in the body. Tune in to experience this powerful self-mastery tool.

Busy people often view their bodies as inconveniences, but the truth is that your body is the vehicle to your consciousness. It is the vehicle to mindfulness and joy. In this episode, host Jacquelyn Fletcher Johnson leads you through a relaxing experience to slow down the nervous system and honor your magnificent body.

What mindfulness, meditation, and other contemplative traditions teach us is how to return. Again and again we learn to return our attention to something. This training is fertile ground for learning to return to our lives, our hearts, our values, whenever we are lost. Get ready to release stress and overwhelm with this traditional vipassana meditation.

Relax this week with a meditation by host Jacquelyn Fletcher Johnson that plugs you in to your own inner knowing. Then try an exercise that helps you reframe any challenges you have with other humans.