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MediMindful Moment: Meet Lynne Hartwell
In this episode of Cloud9 Online’s MediMindful Moments Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Lynne Hartwell, the Founder of L'Unique Realm. Lynne shares the benefits of several energetic healing techniques, including sound vibrational therapy, crystals, gemstones, and natural essences.
In this episode of Cloud9 Online’s MediMindful Moments Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Lynne Hartwell, the Founder of L'Unique Realm. Lynne shares the benefits of several energetic healing techniques, including sound vibrational therapy, crystals, gemstones, and natural essences.
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Episode Highlights:
● Lynne shares her background. (00:53)
● Lynne leads the mindful moment exercise. (2:36)
● From Lynne’s perspective, what do people need to focus on in terms of their mindfulness? (5:51)
● Lynne mentions something significant about uncertainty. (6:03)
● Lynne shares several energetic healing techniques including sound vibrational therapy (7:43)
● Lynne mentions the benefits of using crystals and gemstones for healing. (10:01)
● What are a few gemstones that Lynne recommends using? (12:15)
● Is it more effective to be in physical contact with the stones? (17:18)
● Lynne shares how essences work with our bodies. (26:23)
● Lynne explains the best way to transition between essences for a different vibe. (40:26)
Key Quotes:
● “When we elevate our energy levels, when we allow ourselves to collect and calm ourselves and allow ourselves to rebalance, we're better able to move forward and to face those challenges and to move forward past those challenges.” - Lynne Hartwell
● “Everybody listens to music, except for those that have some hearing impairments, they can still feel the vibrations and the vibrations are felt within the body, which is a therapeutic effect in itself.” - Lynne Hartwell
● “When you allow yourself to take the moment and allow this chemical, this plant into your body, it is not only working on you on the nervous system level, it is also slowing down your circulatory system, which then allows the promotion the release of certain chemicals that are beneficial for your body.” - Lynne Hartwell
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MediMindful Moment: Meet Bradford Tilden
In this episode of Cloud9 Online’s MediMindful Moments Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Bradford Tilden, classically trained composer, pianist, and crystal-sound healer at Crystal Music Healing. Bradford talks about the abilities of crystal healing and how music is utilized as a tool in helping people become mindful.
In this episode of Cloud9 Online’s MediMindful Moments Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Bradford Tilden, classically trained composer, pianist, and crystal-sound healer at Crystal Music Healing. Bradford talks about the abilities of crystal healing and how music is utilized as a tool in helping people become mindful.
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Episode Highlights:
● Judith introduces Bradford Tilden. (00:39)
● Bradford mentions that he’s working a lot in raising consciousness, expanding people's awareness, and empowerment. (1:36)
● Bradford leads the mindful moment exercise. (4:03)
● Bradford thinks that his favorite modality that’s fun to play with is crystal healing. Because crystals are conscious beings and crystals have a lot of information. (11:12)
● Bradford mentions that crystal healing has a lot of potential for charging, raising your vibration, loosening up, clearing negative energy, and expanding your consciousness. (11:28)
● Bradford shares that engaging with the power of your voice is the most profound transformation that he’s been able to create. (12:39)
● Bradford shares that sound has a significant force or energy expression, it can both create and destroy. (15:08)
● Bradford mentions that music is a very powerful tool to help people become mindful or to move on from difficult times or to release emotions. (17:57)
● Bradford shares that he’s currently working on the language of reality being understood as a quantum holographic model, where the attention of the concert, the focus of consciousness is what creates reality. (21:03)
● Bradford mentions that the quality of sound is one of the pure essences of lifeforce in a sense. (25:58)
● Bradford mentions that the breath is the gateway to your higher consciousness. (27:48 )
● Bradford shares that the Amethyst crystal is significant because it’s the universal healing stone. (32:47)
Key Quotes:
● “I always love to inspire people whenever I get the opportunity to teach people. I love seeing that flash of awakening in their eyes and it's just a very wonderful world that I'm envisioning for all of us. And I work a lot with raising consciousness, as a whole of humanity along with Mother Earth.” - Bradford Tilden
● “Meditation takes you out of the 3D, and crystals are multidimensional beings when you feel their energy that's taking you out of the 3D. And I think that's where we're all headed. Mindfulness and being in the present moment ironically takes you out of the 3D because you become so much more aware of everything else beyond the physical.” - Bradford Tilden
● “The sound is just everywhere. You know, just because you can't hear it doesn't mean it's not producing a sort of vibration or frequency. And when you find the right frequency, you can work with it therapeutically, and your music soothes the savage beast and music helps to unlock emotions, and brings back memories.” - Bradford Tilden
● “I believe that when you're enlightened, you're able to maintain that state of centered connectedness, groundedness at all times. But as humans, we oscillate and we're looking for tools to bring us back into that state, to maybe stay in that state a little bit longer, or to have our fundamental vibration within ourselves, rise a notch and be just that little bit higher and stronger.” - Bradford Tilden
● “Just acknowledge within yourself, that you are a being of love and light, that your intentions are pure, loving, and all that you do. And once you get to that mindfulness moment, just say I am a being of love and light and know that you're here now and the best thing that you can do to help with all that noise is to stay positive, have a strong vibration, and share that positivity.” - Bradford Tilden
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MediMindful Moment: Meet Dr. Leesa Sklover
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Leesa Sklover, Ph.D., LPC, MA-CMT, CRC, IKYTA, C-IAYT, ACA, the Director of Sklover LoveLife Productions. Leesa talks about integrating the use of meditation, music, and creative therapies and the significance of vibration in words and music.
In this episode of Cloud9 Online’s MediMindful Moments podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Leesa Sklover, Ph.D., LPC, MA-CMT, CRC, IKYTA, C-IAYT, ACA, the Director of Sklover LoveLife Productions. Leesa talks about integrating the use of meditation, music, and creative therapies and the significance of vibration in words and music.
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Episode Highlights:
● Judith introduces Dr. Leesa Sklover. (00:40)
● Leesa shares that she started her career as a musician and a professional singer-songwriter. (1:16)
● Leesa mentions that most of what she’s doing incorporates the use of meditation, music, and healing through all of the creative therapies. (1:26)
● Leesa leads the mindful moment exercise. (4:10)
● Leesa shares that her music genre is country pop-rock. (9:41)
● Leesa mentions her new single entitled, Throw My Arms All Around You. (9:49)
● Leesa shares that the majority part of our brain is musical rather than verbal, and from her perspective, meditating using sound is the key. (10:05)
● What would Leesa suggest to someone that’s new to meditation? (11:37)
● Leesa shares that she usually gives people a certain kind of meditation, for every session that she does for psychotherapy. (11:44)
● Leesa mentions that vibration is a huge element in creating your own mantra. (12:54)
● Leesa thinks that mindfulness is grounding, and meditation or other types of integrated therapies helps you to open yourself. (13:30)
● How can people carry exercises with them throughout the day, so they can practice mindfulness? (19:40)
● Leesa thinks that meditation is an opportunity to think through what’s bothering you, and to process it, and to figure out what you should do about it. (25:00)
● From a music therapy perspective, Leesa thinks that everything is about the archetype of the heartbeat. Therefore, the whole world is set to the tempo. (25:13)
● Leesa mentions her podcast series entitled, See Me As I Am. (29:13)
Key Quotes:
● “Just think of the idea that at this moment in time, we need to bless ourselves, and bless every single person and being that we see.” - Dr. Leesa Sklover
● “Imagine yourself just singing this in your mind anywhere you are, anywhere you go. Imagine sending that circle to yourself and to those you care about, and to the things in nature that you care about. Just connecting those anchor cords everywhere you go and slowly feel your feet on the floor, feel yourself in the room, and slowly open your eyes.” - Dr. Leesa Sklover
● “Making sure you have the dusk and dawn ritual in your life and making sure that you keep that mindfulness allows people to slow down, and some people who are having a really difficult time, they've had to learn how to be mindful.” - Dr. Leesa Sklover
● “Think about those words, remember, remind. I'm reminding myself, like Humpty Dumpty fell, you had to build them back up, you have to remind yourself all the time to bring yourself back into the moment that you're in.” - Dr. Leesa Sklover
● “Slow yourself down and really breathe too and receive from what's around you and use mantra and chant as part of your mindfulness practice.” - Dr. Leesa Sklover
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What the World Needs Now
What the world needs now, is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there is too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone… Sung by Dionne Warwick
by Judith Dreyer, MS, BSN
What the world needs now, is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there is too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone… Sung by Dionne Warwick
I heard this ‘oldie but goodie’ the other morning in my mind as I began my day. A timeless song so relevant today that it brought a welcome smile. I wondered: what would happen in our world if we approached each day with, “a little more love, a little more mindful love?”
So many of our day-to-day activities can be deemed “mindless.” Not that our actions, work, family responsibilities are unimportant. It is the doing of them that can be so routine they become mind-less. We often find ourselves not fully present but rather in the past or the future. We put the coffee on, get breakfast, dress, and plan the day. We grab breakfast or not and rush out the door while reviewing our mental-to-do list. We take care of the body, family, and obligations as if we are on autopilot. Add in the complexity of the isolation, work-at-home, and sterilize-anything-you-bring-into-the-home situations we find ourselves in, undoubtedly, a measure of anxiety creeps in too. I see parents grab five minutes of text time, answering work calls while getting a snack for a child as they work, school, and play together for long periods. We need to go on an errand, and in a flash, we have entered the “mindless” space as if driving (safely) on autopilot.
Recent studies, conducted about the workweek since COVID-19 forced us to shelter-in-place, show that we are now using that time saved from commuting to put in longer days. Consistent exposure to news and social media reinforces uncertainty. Information concerning the economy, job insecurity, partisan politics, and social unrest weaves its way into our minds and hearts, holding us in a low-grade, more consistent state of fight or flight, our body’s natural response to stresses.
Whew! Mindful awareness is nothing new. All the great religious traditions include some form of mindfulness activity such as prayer and contemplation, even meditation. When we commit to mindful practice, something as simple as taking six deep breaths, we lesson the mind chatter that hops around in our minds all day long. We put our self on a brief pause before we continue.
Science is proving that being present, in the moment, can change brain chemistry. The brain sends many signals through various autonomous pathways that we take for granted. In the moment has power. Power to ease the emotions, feel a moment of peacefulness, get us out of time and into self, and maybe feel a little bit of love in our hearts.
Mindful awareness helps us dive into, explore, quiet down, and become more aware of what is really going on around, and inside, us. Can we understand that by deepening our attention in the now, we develop a healthier attitude towards self? I/we matter. Being present, in turn, can radiate a feeling of a healthier “I.” Can we then share a little bit of that calmness, a little bit of that loving feeling with the world?
I started this blog with a song playing in my mind. Listening to a song that moves us can keep us in the now.
Here at Cloud9 Online.:www:c9ohealth.com, we suggest that yes, we can create more inner calm as we live with and live through these changes. We offer a meditation app, MediMind, for free for a limited time that includes music. This App is easy to find and use on all devices, allows you to have mindful practice in your daily life.
In the meantime, Remember: Breathe in. . . “What the world needs now,”…Breathe out. . .” is love, sweet love.”
Enjoy your day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/04/remote-work-longer-days/
https://www.workingmother.com/remote-work-longer-hours-more-meetings
https://www.apa.org/monitor/jun02/employees
https://genius.com/Dionne-warwick-what-the-world-needs-now-lyrics
Mantras, Sound Vibrations
I met Swami Sivananda Radha through her book, Radha, Diary of a Woman’s Search. Her deep love and devotion, discipline for her practices seemed to reach out to me through the words printed on pages within a humble book. Yet, I cannot deny the experience. She taught me the true value of guru to the student, the purity of that profound connection untethered to the illusions of the Hollywood, media world. Curious, I bought more of her books, delved more deeply into the meaning and energy behind yoga, meditations, and mantra practices.
by Judith Dreyer, MS, BSN
I met Swami Sivananda Radha through her book, Radha, Diary of a Woman’s Search. Her deep love and devotion, discipline for her practices seemed to reach out to me through the words printed on pages within a humble book. Yet, I cannot deny the experience. She taught me the true value of guru to the student, the purity of that profound connection untethered to the illusions of the Hollywood, media world. Curious, I bought more of her books, delved more deeply into the meaning and energy behind yoga, meditations, and mantra practices.
Here at Medi Mind, we seek to bring mindfulness practices into all aspects of life. Our sincere intention is to be of service, to contribute solutions to and for our current world mired in profound challenges. Mantras offer a form of mindful practice when understood in its complexity, practiced and experienced, can dissolve tensions or illusions as our ancient teachers would say. They answer our prayers and heartfelt longings and offer a sense of peace connected to the Divine or something more.
The word Mantra often used in yoga classes, meditation, or mindfulness practices begs the question: do we understand its roots? I find looking at sources, brings me to a depth of understanding that enriches the experience of the practice.
Mantra
It is said that the world formed out of the ether. When a sound was uttered in this void, the Universe was created, Ancient seers or rishis perceived these mantras from Creative Source and brought them into audible form with a precise pattern of syllables, melody, rhythm.
Mantra is part of Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound.
“The root man in the word mantra means in Sanskrit to” to think.; tra comes from trai, meaning to protect or free from the bondage of samsara or the phenomenal world.” But, she cautions, there are many levels of meaning in a Mantra which must be experienced to be truly understood. An intellectual explanation encompasses only a very small part of its meaning.” (Swami Sivananda Radha, Mantras, Words of Power).
A Mantra has six aspects:
1. rishi, or seer
2. Raga or melody
3. Devata, the presiding deity
4. Bija, or seed sound
5. Sadti or power
6. Kilaka or pillar
A Mantra, understood within the context of these aspects, contains the seer who is the messenger, the deity, a seed sound carried within the melody that connects us to this higher generating power. Also, a pillar, which contains the will-power a disciple needs to pursue the Mantra and so much more.
The ancient ones tell us too that Mantras hold all the repetitions that generate a power that activates a spiritual force. And, more than that, they contain all the answers. I don’t know about you, but I find this depth of meaning adds something profound to my understanding. This something cannot easily translate into words. Something that reminds me that what is worthwhile takes time and practice to know, to carry that knowing deep within my cells.
We know that working with sound creates a vibration. Different sound vibrations can bring in a wave that touches us emotionally. Think about the sound of water streaming across stones, or horns honking in traffic, or a story we read, formed of words that take us into our imaginations. Do you sing in the shower, hum in the car? We all resonate with some form of sound, and that’s where the magic and the mystery lies.
We invite you here at Medi Mind, to listen to a Mantra. How did it resonate with you? Where in your body did you feel the sound vibrate? We encourage you to share your experiences with us.