79 episodes
Touching the Stillness Rev. Paulette Pipe
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- Religion & Spirituality
With serving-sized tips, tools, and teachings, Touching the Stillness makes meditation, mindfulness, and spiritual practice accessible, engaging, and relevant—particularly for those who’ve tried but failed to stick to a consistent daily practice of their own.
At the cornerstone of each episode is a compelling guided meditation led by Rev. Paulette Pipe, using her distinctive soothing and mesmerizing voice to gently draw listeners to a bliss-spot of stillness within. Paulette also demonstrates mindfulness techniques, designed to create present-moment breathing space.
You’ll hear episode-themed songs, be captivated by inspiring meditation music, and may even get chills from the energizing affirmative prayers so powerfully spoken they raise the roof!
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Divine Urgency At Play
Quickened by a soul-longing, urgently pulling her in a temporary new direction, our host is taking to heart this quote from a reflection in a recent Science of Mind magazine: “I am inspired to exemplify a joyful, rich, and playful existence, so I may better serve the world”. And while she's away, getting her groove back, the podcast will be on hiatus for the next few months.
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Nurturing Compassion
How meaningful it would be to live our lives in such a way that others felt safe, protected, and nurtured by warm-hearted compassion—kindled through our meditation practice. That’s the jumping-off point for our 2022 Compassion odyssey, with episode guest Timothy Harrison from the CBCT®️ Emory Center; who also guides listeners in a practice designed to connect us more deeply with nurturing feelings of compassion for ourselves and others.
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Breathing at Compassion's Door
Poised at the threshold of our ‘Living a Life of Compassion' series, we dedicate this episode to the late Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. And, before engaging in his ‘Breathing In, Breathing Out’ meditation, we’ll be inspired by Thay’s beautiful story about a river.
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Sweet Intentions
When our host’s sister passed away unexpectedly last year her deferred dreams died right along with her. So, with a big birthday looming, our host was inspired to designate 2022 as the year of Sweet Intentions and mindfully start checking intentions off her Bucket List...while there's still time.
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Practicing Peace Matters
We’ve engaged in some amazing meditative and mindfulness practices during our year “Living a Life that Matters”. And, as we review the journey, it's amazing to discover just how many of these also happen to be spot-on tools for cultivating 'peace pauses' during the Holiday Season.
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Merry and Light Holy Days
As we sojourn through this year’s season of Holy Days, with its various ‘Festivals of Light’ celebrations, this episode’s candlelighting meditation brings us back to the true meaning of some of the hallmark symbols and icons that make Christmas merry and light.
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For this month's Affirmative Prayer, go to https://www.touchingthestillness.org/affirmative-prayers