soulcandy's podcast Anne Alexander

Enjoy a mindful, heart-focused breathing practice to quiet depleting emotions, restore resiliency, calm your mind, body and spirit with Jenee Johnson, mindfulness expert and thought leader on reclaiming the joy of people of African ancestry.
This PRACTICE-ONLY episode goes with the full conversation in Episode 9 GET RIGHT WITHIN about mindfulness, racial awareness and reclaiming joy with Jenee Johnson talking honestly about transforming the Black experience in America and finding the quiet inside that restores resiliency, inspires and energizes.

Thrive from inside with the power of mindfulness, racial awareness and reclaiming your joy with Jenee Johnson, thought leader, mindfulness expert, talking honestly about transforming the Black experience in America and finding the quiet inside that restores resiliency and inspires calm confidence. 
In this open and honest conversation, Jenee shares insights from her new The Right Within Experience, an experiential mindfulness program committed to the reclamation of humanity, joy and wellbeing for people of African ancestry.
In this episode, Jenee and Anne talk about the power of practicing sankofa, an African word which translates as “retreive” meaning to go back and get or reclaim the complete, exalted right to express your full humanity and thrive and how mindfulness, prayer and spacious contemplation can help along the path.
This includes the ability to pause, taking a moment to reflect and consider how to respond to what is happening around you and to you; know what burdens are yours to carry, and what are those of others to acknowledge and accept.
Jenee and Anne also discuss Jenee’s spiritual practices and beliefs, including getting quiet regularly, opening yourself and finding God’s hand in your life and how to search for “sparkly crumbs” in your path.
PRACTICE: RECLAIM YOUR JOY
This episode closes with Jenee leading a heart-focused breathing practice that quiets depleting emotions, calms mind and body and helps bring about a sense of deep coherence.

Join this peaceful meditative Prayer for Spiritual Connection and feel a deep resonance with the Divine for the good, just and loving, led by psychotherapist and pastor Dr Harv Powers. 
This episode includes only the mediative prayer and can be enjoyed as part of a daily contemplative practice. 
For the full Soul Candy conversation with Dr Harv Powers, tune into EP 8: FINDING YOUR DEEPER PURPOSE on how to go beyond simple life hacks to core transformational change, allowing you to live from a much deeper place, rich with meaning, spiritual insight and attuned to the Divine.
Also, discover how the harmonic frequency of God -- where you can hear and feel the presence of the Divine -- is always available to you on Episode 8: Finding Your Deeper Purpose. 
 
 

Discover real transformational change that takes you to a much deeper place, rich with meaning, spiritual insight and attuned to the Divine.
Psychotherapist and pastor, Dr Harv Powers talks about why growth happens when you hit the bottom, core transformational change and how your worst crisis can reveal your greatest strengths & deeper purpose and how the harmonic frequency of God -- where you can hear and feel the presence of the Divine -- is always available. 
INCLUDES: Prayer for Spiritual Connection as a guided prayer and deeply peaceful meditation, led by Dr Harv Powers.

Enjoy this guided SOUL practice for Listening Deeply. This is a practice-only episode. For all of the benefits of Listening Deeply and the SOUL PRACTIE, tune into EPISODE 7: The SOUL PRACTICE: Listen Deeply, Heal What Hurts.
Let go of old beliefs, pain, shame and step into love with this guided practice developed by Anne Alexander.
SOUL practice
S = sit, settle and sift through your thoughts
O = open-hearted awareness of your feelings, emotions and sensations in your body
U = understand your old beliefs, old patterns, and programming with curiosity and compassion 
L = let go of the old, love yourself and feel divine Love surrounding you, encouraging you to become your highest self 
For the full experience, tune into EPISODE 7: LISTEN DEEPLY, HEAL WHAT HURTS. 
Free your mind from the chaotic junk keeping you stuck in busyness, people-pleasing and playing small.
Explore how to tune into your body, where memories can influence your behavior in ways you don’t realize.
Understand your old beliefs, patterns and habits with curiosity and compassion
and let them go….
Step into love. Love for yourself, your worthiness, your true self. Listen to your inner wisdom. 
Feel the flow of Divine Love awakening your spirit and aligning you with your highest self.
Hear what is calling to you now - those wisps and dreams and visions - and allow your highest good to emerge, your new present and future to unfold.
Discover your authentic self, let go of old beliefs and habits that hurt you, unleash the greatest power, purpose, peace and love you have inside. 
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi
With Listening Deeply and the SOUL practice, dissolve those barriers to love and move towards the highest version of yourself here, now, today. 
Practice Listening Deeply daily and allow SOUL steps to take you on your own life-changing journey.
xxoo
Anne

Join Soul Candy Anne on this amazing journey into your mind, body & spirit as she shares the science and steps of her SOUL Practice to Listen Deeply and Heal What Hurts.
Free your mind from the chaotic junk keeping you stuck in busyness, people-pleasing and playing small. Let go of shame, pain and old beliefs. 
Explore how to tune into your body, where memories can influence your behavior in ways you don’t realize.
Understand your old beliefs, patterns and habits with curiosity and compassion
and let them go….
Step into love. Love for yourself, your worthiness, your true self. Listen to your inner wisdom. 
Feel the flow of Divine Love awakening your spirit and aligning you with your highest self.
Hear what is calling to you now - those wisps and dreams and visions - and allow your highest good to emerge, your new present and future to unfold.
Yes, yes and yes!
Discover your authentic self, let go of old beliefs and habits that hurt you, unleash the greatest power, purpose, peace and love you have inside. 
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi
With Listening Deeply and the SOUL practice, dissolve those barriers to love and move towards the highest version of yourself here, now, today. 
The SOUL Practice
At the end of this episode, Anne leads a 15 minute guided SOUL Practice.
S = sitting, settling and sifting through your thoughts
O = open-hearted awareness for your feelings, emotions and sensations in your body
U = understanding, leaning in with curiosity and compassion
L = letting go, love for you and divine Love
Practice Listening Deeply daily and allow SOUL steps to take you on your own life-changing journey.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Listening Deeply as a practice
We all have hurts. And amazingness inside.
By learning how to listen deeply to your true self, you can stop people pleasing, playing small and shrinking. You can blossom. 
You are all three: mind, body and spirit.
You have a spirit that energizes and animates you.
Listening Deeply allows you to live at a much wider and deeper perspective so your life and your choices become much richer and more meaningful.
One of my favorite quotes from Gandhi is “Happiness is when what you think, say, and do are in harmony”
Feel the kind of love that feels warm, good, nourishing—that many of us growing up never experienced. 
Listening Deeply has allowed me to cure my “love deficit”
Self-love is not arrogance, it's not pride. It's your birthright.
Shift your perspective. Instead of being in the midst of the chaos, become the observer.
Not only can you see a single thought, you can see your whole thought system.
Through this practice of Listening Deeply, you will become free to be who you really are.
The science of Listening Deeply
Most of us are so wired all the time. We don't even know what real rest is.
Slowing your breathing, enables your stress hormones to calm down. Your body enters a state called rest and relax, calm coherence, which is profoundly healing.
When you enter into a very deep kind of meditation, there's a chemical that can be released in your brain that creates this feeling of oneness, like a cosmic runner's high. 
Your body holds memories. Not just your brain.
The stress response in your body can influence what you are thinking and how you're acting without you being aware.
Studies show that 90 to 95% of the time we are operating on autopilot.
Because of neuroplasticity, you can learn new habits. You can develop new grooves in your brain.
When you feel love, it changes the chemistry in your body, changes your outlook. 
Let go of old beliefs
When your purpose, your power, your actions, all line up, you move you forward to get you out of living in the past and into living a future that you really want to live. 
As you offload the old, you feel lighter, peppier, energized because you are directing your lif