# meditation practice (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover meditation practice. Page: Feed: --- ## [Balancing Care for Self & Others: Buddha's Advise](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/balancing-care-for-self-others-buddhas-advise) _2026-02-05 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ A particularly difficult human challenge involves trying to balance a desire to be there for others – both those in our personal lives and in our society in general – and a desire to offer ourselves our own self-care. When these two needs are unbalanced, we and others tend to suffer because of it, largely based on the degree of the imbalance. Gratefully, the Buddha offered us many ways that we… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/care2.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [The Buddha's 'Most Important Practice': Patience](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/the-buddhas-most-important-practice-patience) _2025-12-14 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ The Buddha was once asked "what is the most important thing for us to practice?" He answered: patience (or khanti, in Pali) and assured us that this skill or quality is something we can learn to apply to absolutely everything we struggle with in our lives - every person, situation, and even ourselves - in order to become much more peaceful, self-controlled, compassionate, and undisturbed by life… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/khanti.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [So Special/So Wounded: Navigating Our Hopes & Fears](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/so-specialso-wounded-navigating-our-hopes-fears) _2025-05-24 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ We all tend to seek out and hope for gain, status, praise, and pleasure, and resist or fear loss, disgrace, blame, and pain – even though all are inescapable, and visit each of us in different forms throughout our lives. And how we relate to these hopes and fears – often called the 8 Worldly Winds – often dictates how we experience our entire world. This talk explores how our meditation practice… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/winds_2.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [Just Thinking, Sweetie: Working With Busy Mind](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/just-thinking-sweetie-working-with-busy-mind) _2025-03-30 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ Often during our meditation practice, we encounter a state known as "busy mind," which is when there's a kind of ongoing flow of anxious or repetitive mental chatter that tends to keep us locked in the realm of the past or the future, and therefore, mostly distracted from the reality of the present moment, or … the life we're actually living. This talk explores how this particular mind state is… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/discursive.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [BREATHE: Right Now, It's Like This](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/breathe-right-now-its-like-this) _2025-02-08 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ During difficult times, allowing ourselves to pause, breathe, and come back home to the present moment is exactly how we can regain our footing, become more grounded, and shore up our ability to more wisely respond instead of automatically react to whatever's happening. This talk offers us a variety of ways that our meditation practice can help us learn to rest our attention in awareness itself,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/breathe.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [TRY SOFTER: Working With Change & Grief](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/try-softer-working-with-change-grief) _2025-01-04 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ An essential aspect of our meditation practice involves training ourselves to very consciously and compassionately navigate the truth of constant change, instead of allowing ourselves to become so unconsciously distracted by the swirl of it that we end up missing out on the life we're actually living. This talk explores how we can use our mindfulness practice to discover more kindness, presence,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/soft.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [THIS IS IT: Now What?](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/this-is-it-now-what) _2024-11-23 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ Instead of resisting, denying, or trying to ignore a big change in our lives or in our world, the Buddhist teachings invite us to open up to it and deeply acknowledge: "This Is It," and then ask ourselves: "now what?" Meaning, what's the wisest, most compassionate response to this change? How can I relate in a way that is going to open my heart, rather than shut it down? This talk explores how we… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/this_is_it_1.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [CLAIM YOUR SEAT: Buddha's Teachings on Doubt](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/claim-your-seat-buddhas-teachings-on-doubt) _2024-10-14 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ Our common experience of doubt – in ourselves, and in our ability to make good decisions for ourselves, especially - is actually the very last thing the Buddha himself struggled with just before he became enlightened. In fact, his own awakening was his profound message to us: that we all have the innate capability to discover for ourselves what will lead us towards more happiness, and what will… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/doubt3.mp3?dest-id=448698) ## [Some Things Just Hurt: Allowing Our Pain](https://mindfulvalley.libsyn.com/some-things-just-hurt-allowing-our-pain) _2024-09-02 · Shell Fischer's Podcast_ Whenever we experience pain or suffering, our common tendency is to believe that not only is the cause of our suffering in some way wrong, but that our own response to it is also wrong. And therefore, we tend to surmise that we, ourselves, are also somehow wrong. Happily, the Buddhist teachings are designed to help us notice this common pattern, and learn how we can bravely open up to our own… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/mindfulvalley/hurt1.mp3?dest-id=448698)