Tag: Dean & Dudley Evenson

12 Steps to Living Your Dreams

What are your dreams? What is holding you back from living your dreams? In this new podcast, Dudley shares the 12 steps to Living Your Dreams. Imagine a life where your deepest aspirations are no longer mere fantasies, but vibrant realities that paint the canvas of your existence. Each step is a whisper of guidance, a roadmap to break free from the shackles of doubt and stride towards the luminous horizon of your dreams.

Uncover the secrets to igniting your passions, cultivating unwavering self-belief, and sculpting a path that resonates with your soul’s true calling. Through each step, you’ll unravel the threads of your potential, weaving them into a tapestry of success and fulfillment. Listen and let the symphony of these 12 transformative steps compose the melody of your destiny to embark on this extraordinary odyssey toward the life you deserve.

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How to bring more Nature into Your Life

Connecting with nature is so important for us all. Taking a walk in the forest, sitting by a tree, strolling by the ocean, sunsets and sunrises, fresh flowers, and plants really do fill you with a sense of ease and peace. Being out in nature is the best medicine for escaping the busy rush of our fast paced world.

Modern science also shows us that connecting with nature has an invaluable effect on our mental and physical wellbeing. It’s not possible for all of us to live out in nature and if you live in the city, it becomes more difficult to connect with nature. In this new podcast, Dudley discusses the unique and fun ways you can bring more nature into your daily life.

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How to Deal with Stress in Your Life

In this new podcast, Dudley discusses the topic of dealing with stress. Everyone experiences stress. Do you also know that stress can be very contagious? Have you ever noticed that when you’re with people who are calm and relaxed, you tend to be more calm and relaxed yourself? The same principle is true when you’re with people who are stressed out and wound up. You tend to absorb their stress.

We also know stress can cause serious illnesses. It can also weaken your immune system. With this latest pandemic and worldwide quarantine, many of us are feeling a lot of pressure and abnormal stress. Some may be out of work and feeling financial stress. Others may be trying to work from home and take care of families in a crowded environment. People are getting on each other’s nerves. Some may feel ready to explode. Many are worried about getting sick with the virus or losing a family member. Imagine the effects of parental stress on their children. Young kids don’t necessarily understand what’s happening in the world, but they do feel the stress (or peace) of the adults around them.

There are all kinds of stressors — but here’s something interesting. Two people can experience the same exact situation and have a different reaction. It might have to do with family background. It might have to do with spiritual work they have done or not done. But this fact does indicate that it’s not the stress itself that is causing the problem. It is our individual reaction to stress that can negatively affect us. We hope you enjoy this new episode.

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Dudley Evenson on Benefits of Letting Go of Attachment

In this new podcast, Dudley discusses the topic of letting go of attachment and how that can lead to more happiness in your life. Letting go can be very difficult but it is absolutely essential to moving on. There are many aspects of letting go that we need to address. It may be a relationship, or it may be an expectation, or it may be the loss of a thing, of something we treasured.

It is interesting to note that sometimes when we are truly able to let something go, it may actually return to us. That does not mean we should expect that to happen, but it might help the process. The main thing to understand about releasing is that without truly letting go, we are blocking opportunities and relationships coming to us that could be beneficial to us. Honest releasing makes space for something even better to come into our lives.

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Dudley Evenson on Meditating & Breathing with Nature

In this podcast Dudley Evenson discusses how to best meditate and breathe with nature. Why meditate in nature? There are many benefits of meditation in nature. It has been widely proven that meditating outdoors can have significant benefits on your physical as well as mental health. It’s a place where wisdom and perception come alive.

Meditating outdoors activates our senses, making our practice more alert and wakeful. At the same time, the usual distractions seem far away and somehow less important. Many meditators find it easier to let go of their worries and their electronic devices when they’ve got such a satisfying alternative: mindfully communing with nature. We hope you enjoy this episode.

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Dean & Dudley Evenson Discuss New Album Seeds of Peace

We are happy to release our 66th episode of our Soundings Mindful Media Podcast. In this episode, Dean & Dudley Evenson are interviewed by Kyle Norris from NPR. They discuss their new album Seeds of Peace and how it came to be. It’s a remarkable story that starts back in 1987, when Dean Evenson and Volodymyr Solianyk first met and started performing music together during a Citizen Diplomacy tour in the former Soviet Union. We hope you enjoy this fun and insightful interview.

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6 Steps to Your Miracle Morning

Do you start your day with a dose of news and then find it’s hard to get all that negativity out of your head? Or maybe you feel overwhelmed by a massive ‘to do’ list and can’t seem to complete all the tasks you have set up for yourself. I recently read a great book called The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8 am and I have been implementing the practices that the author, Hal Elrod, has suggested. In this podcast, I will walk you through these practices and explain how you can use them to improve your life.

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Making sense of Dalai Lama’s Teaching on Overcoming Addictions & Aversions Using the Blade Wheel of Transformation

At a teaching by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, he brought ancient Buddhist wisdom into 21st century practical application when he described the Sharp Weapon Blade Wheel of Transformation. He explained that by taking our addictions (desires, wants, cravings, indulgences, etc.) and our aversions (fears, anger, enemies, frustrations, suffering, etc.) we can use their antidotes to overcome them. From his perspective, the antidote to addiction is meditation and emptiness. The antidote to aversion is compassion and love. He pointed out that the best place to begin is with transformation of the heart. This can also be accomplished by putting “others before self.” With so much fear and divisiveness in the world, these ideas are extremely relevant to us today.  

Watch our video Dalai Lama Answers Difficult Question: https://youtu.be/TfaBevPyKNE

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Spiritual Partnership – Successful Relationship

Are you ready for a successful relationship? People have asked Dean Evenson and myself what is the secret of our long and happy marriage. Although there are no quick and easy answers, I want to try to shed some light on that question here and spiritual partnership is an important component of our successful relationship. We hope you enjoy this Soundings Podcast episode.

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Baba Ram Dass, 1976 Lecture

This podcast features a rare, previously unreleased lecture by Baba Ram Dass we recorded in 1976.  Dean Evenson and I videotaped him while we were working with Grassroots TV, the Aspen public access station.  Alongside the podcast, we present the entire video of the lecture on our new Soundings Mindful Media YouTube channel. We hope you will check out the channel and subscribe for more meaningful content coming soon.

With the passing of Baba Ram Dass (aka Richard Albert), we honor his legacy by sharing this lecture that we recently uncovered in our vast video archive. Like so many in our generation, Dean and I were deeply inspired by his book Be Here Now and the stories of meditating with his guru in India. Ram Dass is also part of the reason we started our music label Soundings of the Planet in 1979. Thanks for subscribing to Soundings Mindful Media and for sharing the podcast and video with your friends. May his wit and wisdom live on in our hearts. People who wish to support his memory can donate to his Love Serve Remember Foundation.

To view Ram Dass video on Soundings Mindful Media YouTube channel click here.

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