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29. Anton Nordström
Anton Nordström är tillbaka i USA för att i vinter köra Arenacross och Supercross. Anton som i slutet av säsongen 2024 vann sin första SM-deltävling, men har nu en långsiktig plan att etablera sig i USA.
2025-01-10
1h 02
Stilla Meditation
20240827 - Tuning Into Sensitivity
I saw a YouTube short the other day that I thought was really beautiful and a bit eye opening. Imagine that right before you were born you were given a human, And you were told that for the rest of your life you need to take care of this human, My human is called Anton and it’s my responsibility to take care of him Your responsibility is to take care of… insert your human’s name here Your human has thoughts, emotions and the body And they are important because your human is important But they are not you, You ar...
2024-08-27
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220902 - Loving - Kindness
It’s so easy for us to be critical and judgmental about ourselves and others. Hidden underneath those defences lie our true being, the one that is overflowing with love, compassion and understanding. Today we will do a loving-kindness meditation. With this practice we strengthen our connection with this delicate and powerful part and hopefully we can meet ourselves and the world with more love.
2022-09-05
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20220819 - Breathing Anchor
One of the seven pillars of mindfulness is Trust. In this case trusting yourself and your experience. “How am I really feeling today?“, “What are my needs right now?“, “Does this make me happy?” By practicing staying connected to our lived experience moment to moment and being more attuned to what is going on inside, we will develop our emotional compass that guides us towards what we want and need in life. For this to happen we must stop and listen, which is what meditation is about.
2022-08-19
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20220812 - Gratitude
After six days of food poisoning I’m so grateful that my stomach is working again! :pray: I don’t want to go into details, so let’s just say it’s been a shit show... I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist. Anyway. To have my health back inspires me to do a gratitude meditation today. Gratitude has this magical capacity to open our hearts and soften our Being. And there are so many things to be grateful for in every moment. So this is what we will explore together today.
2022-08-12
22 min
Stilla Meditation
2022072 - Breathing Focused And Open
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." - Alan Watts "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Old Proverb
2022-07-22
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20220708 - Breathing Thich Nhat Hanh Style
The Driver's Seat Imagine sitting in a car, next to the driver. You don’t really know where you are going, but the driver seems to know. “I know the way”, he says. So you cruise along for the ride, going wherever the driver decides that you should go. It’s comfortable; you can tilt the seat back, maybe sleep a little, the radio has some pretty cool songs, and you don’t need to pay so much attention to what is happening outside. Sometimes you look out through the window and you see some sideroads that catches your eye. It’s somet...
2022-07-08
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20220617 - Follow The Breath
Excitement; that rush of energy; that “Hell Yes”-feeling in your chest; that’s your compass, and it points straight at what makes You feel Alive. Move towards that. Don’t wait for your nervousness to go away. Don’t wait for the critical voice in your mind to become silent. Don’t wait for the right time. You will wait forever. You live NOW! DO THAT THING!
2022-06-17
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20220610 - Loving Kindness and the inner critic
Loving kindness is one of the most powerful ways to sooth the inner critic. You can read more about the inner critic here: - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/breaking-the-chains-finding-relief-from-harsh-superego-0426175 - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/silencing-the-inner-critic-the-power-of-self-compassion-0608154 - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/working-with-the-inner-critic-essential-to-inner-work-0617155
2022-06-10
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20220506 - Watching The Breath, The Basics
This is one of my favourite lullabies O, I love you O, I love you O, I love you most of all https://open.spotify.com/track/1K18ZkRjuOTFEH0rxo5Zwq?si=e1901528048d4b6f
2022-05-06
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20220429 - Filling The Body From Inside
-A letter to a human- Remember that you are human You are the divine You are the infinite Yes And you are human Your brokenness is not a sin It's the natural state of things Feeling lack and loss and lonely That's what life's about Not all about But parts about A game without restrictions Is not a game at all So play your limitations They are what makes you You
2022-04-29
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20220422 - Watching Breath And Thoughts As Clouds
During the week I watched this video that describes the difference between the Ego self and True self, that I found really useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrkVMCif9M&ab_channel=JuliaKristinaCounselling Here’s a summary: The Ego is like this shield that is trying to protect us from shame. It is There is nothing wrong with it, but acting from it is usually not what we want because it keeps us stuck and unsatisfied. It doesn’t feel good. It has this inherent feeling of not-enoughness. It has this energy of trying to prove that we are smar...
2022-04-22
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220408 - Watching Breath
Mind the gap Mindfulness is the gap between input and response in which we can bring in our wiser parts. If we don’t have this gap, we are merely reacting to life. Auto-pilot mode. Without this gap, you are not aware of why you are thinking and acting the way you are, you are simply letting the automatic internal program run. This is a great way of saving energy, but it’s not a very useful way to live, because those automatic reaction patterns is what is causing much of our suffering in life. If you are like me, you...
2022-04-08
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220325 - Body Scan
Our bodies carry so much of our inner resources; Our strength, our intuition, our compassion, but we tend to lock them down by tensing up. When we allow our bodies to deeply relax and let go, we gain more access to those resources. Body scan meditation can be a nice way of nurturing this kind of relaxation while also growing a deeper connection to the body. There’s magic in our bones A north star in our soul That remembers our way home There’s magic in our bones https://open.spotify.com/track/3Qx00QtPFcbPdu4Yb3shcW?si=12a849fa7f...
2022-03-25
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20220318 - Letting Go
The more I struggle and fight Trying to get it all right I push away the very thing I want Thinking it's all up to me Deciding how it will be Forgetting that I am guided by the One - Fia For me, this song is a reminder to let go and have trust in life. All I can do is to act in alignment with my heart to the best of my ability, and sometimes that ability is great and sometimes it's tiny. When we stop clenching our energetic fists around the results we want in the future and...
2022-03-18
18 min
Stilla Meditation
20220311 - Self - Love
When time pulls lives apart Hold your own When everything is fluid, and when nothing can be known with any certainty Hold your own Hold it 'til you feel it there As dark, and dense, and wet as earth As vast, and bright, and sweet as air When all there is Is knowing that you feel what you are feeling Hold your own Ask your hands to know the things they hold I know the days are reeling past in such squealing blasts But stop for breath and you will know it's yours Swaying like an open door when storms...
2022-03-11
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220304 - Trust Your Body
Trust When we cultivate a deeper intimacy with ourself we also cultivate a trustworthiness with ourself and with our body. When trusting the breath to take care of itself we let go of control and relaxation occurs. When trusting that the ears will hear without us interfering we come into a more receptive and open mode of being. Becoming aware that the organs function to our support without us needing to know or control anything we come into a more symbiotic relationship with our body. In this deeper intimacy and connection with ourself we also become more aware of our...
2022-03-04
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20220225 - Inner Peace
I believe that outer peace comes from inner peace and that inner peace comes from allowing ourselves to be what we are and feel what we feel. To connect with our needs, our deeper nature, is not a small task in the face of war, we need each other. 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡. 𝐷𝑜 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛? 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.
2022-02-25
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220211 - Breathing And Longings
'I remember when I was a kid there was this famous saying in activism —I don’t remember who it's attributed to originally— that says: “if you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention”. And it’s true: If you go to a factory farm, or you go to a sweatshop, or you go to an open-pit mine or a landfill, like, fuck, you’d be pretty outraged. And then it's like, “How do you do your normal stuff, in the face of THAT?” At the same time, I would read Kahlil Gibran or Hafiz, and the artist and the poet and the mystic wou...
2022-02-11
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20220204 - Curiosity And Beginners Mind
"We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are" - Anonymous We see our reality through our preconceived ideas, assumptions and opinions. Between us and the world is a filter created from our past experience, our culture and expertise. It is said that in the mind of the expert there are few possibilities, in the mind of a beginner there are infinite. The expert limits herself by thinking that she knows, and we are all experts in our lives. We think we know what our partner thinks, or how our child will behave. We think we...
2022-02-04
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20220128 - The Inner Trojka
You know the voices inside that says "you are bad" and "you should..." and sets an impossible bar to live up too. I'll try and present a way of understanding them as "The Inner Trojka", which is an understanding that comes from my teacher, Kåre Landfald. The inner Trojka is the inner Critic, the inner Pusher and the inner Perfectionist. They can be experienced as voices in our head, but often we are not directly aware about them. Instead we mostly experience the effect they have on us as shame, guilt and depression. And even when we are aware o...
2022-01-28
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20220114 - Breathing Anchor Fundamentals
Why meditate? I could drop a list of benefits, but I don't think that would move you much. So let me instead try and share my own motivation. "We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." - Confucius This is the only chance I get. I hold in my hand the infinite beauty and mystery of a human life. So much potential for Freedom, Strength, Love, Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Truth, Gratitude, Connection. I will not throw this away. I will sit in the drivers seat of my life. And the more I unlock...
2022-01-14
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20220107 - Breathing Anchor
You are all so warmly welcome to the first Friday meditation of the new year
2022-01-07
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20211217 - Inner Relaxation
Olympic finals, 100m sprint. For the sprinters, this is probably one of the most important moments of their career, perhaps even their lives. They have prepared for this moment for years, basically all their lives, and now they are finally here! And how do they face that? https://youtu.be/2O7K-8G2nwU?t=187 Look at Usain Bolt the last few minutes before the race . He looks laser-focused just like everyone else (as you would expect), but he's also playing around, putting on a show for the audience, smiling, winking, having fun. It reminds me about the importans of...
2021-12-17
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20211210 - Relaxation
For me, admitting to myself that I need to rest is one of the hardest things. The Inner Pusher doesn’t really like it when I’m not being productive and working towards my goals. Is it the same for you, or do you find it easy to take time to rest and recover? The story we tell about a happy life is often equal to a life in constant productivity, action and doing and not so much credit is given to slowing down and recovering from that intensity. The expectation seems to be that we should also be in our...
2021-12-10
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20211203 - Non - Striving
A little something about **Non-striving**, one of the seven attitudes of mindfulness as described by Jon Kabat-Zinn. I find myself leaning forward a lot of the time. I feel my weight more towards the front of my feet than flat across the whole sole. Is it the same for you? The energy in that posture is a "going somewhere"; Forward, onwards, to the next thing, to the result, to the end of whatever is happening Now. I associate it with progress. It feels active, energetic, important and busy. Always on the fly towards something new and exciting or perhaps the...
2021-12-03
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20211126 - Letting Go
We cling to so many things in life, material things, thoughts about how things should be and feel, ideas and views about ourself and others. This is a clinging on the inside, like a contraction, not so different from a closed fist, desperately holding on to what we don’t want to lose. The story goes that you can catch a monkey by putting a banana in a narrowly barred cage. The monkey reaches in and grabs the banana, but the banana is too large to fit through the bars so the monkey is caught with one hand inside the ca...
2021-11-26
26 min
Stilla Meditation
20211119 - Non - Judging Breath
Jon Kabat-Zinn outlines The Seven Attitudes of mindfulness: Non-judging, Non-striving, Acceptance, Trust, Patience, Beginner’s mind and Letting go. This is how he describes Non-judging: Mindfulness is compassionate, openhearted, choice-less awareness. It is cultivated by taking the position of an unbiased attentive witness to your own experience as it happens in the present moment. To do this requires that you begin to relate to the contents of experience, without judgment, as the present moment unfolds. The habit of categorizing and judging experience locks you into patterns of reacting and repeating thoughts, feelings, and behavior. You may not even be aware of...
2021-11-19
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20211112 - Counting The Breath
Today seems like a really good day to delve into the first meditation technique I ever learned; Following the breath. But why? The breath can only be experienced in the present moment, and in that way it act as an anchor in the Now for our attention. And when we practise paying attention on the present moment in a non-judgemental way, over time this gives rise to a greater awareness... and also, some times it feels good.
2021-11-12
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20211105 - Loving Body Scan
Somewhere I’ve picked up the analogy of the body as our dear pet, perhaps a dog. It’s quite happy to serve us and it doesn’t need much; some sleep, good nutrition and healthy movement. But we often treat our body more like a slave than a beloved pet. Demanding more and more from it, pushing it to bend further, stay awake longer, have more energy than it has. Today we’ll take a break from that and give our body some loving attention.
2021-11-05
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20211022 - Relaxing With The Breath
Today we’ll see how we can use our breath as a way to find ease and relaxation.
2021-10-22
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20211008 - Mindfulness Journey
I want to invite you to do a very short exercise with me. Right now when you are reading this, stop what you are doing and feel the breath in your belly. Without any need to change it or wishing it to feel different, just follow three breaths. Do this now. Make a mental note how that was for you. Do you feel any different now compared to before? Today we will experiment with a few different mindfulness exercises. You are all warmly welcome to Friday meditation
2021-10-08
26 min
Stilla Meditation
20211001 - What Do You Want That Is Not Here Now
About sharing. We can share all kinds of things; food, experiences, things. And we can also share ourselves. This is what we do when my let another person know what is going on inside of us, in the moment. “This is what’s alive in me right now.” Sometimes we do it by using words and describing our experience and some times we do it my simply living it fully, this is what young children do, they fully live and express what is alive in them in each moment. For me, this is a fantastically brave thing to do! It can be...
2021-10-01
26 min
Stilla Meditation
20210924 - Labeling Into Space
Disease, dis-ease. Lack of ease. The lack of ease can range from not even noticeable until it goes away (like a kitchen fan) to a perfect hell, but the components are usually the same: - Difficult emotions such as shame, guilt, anger, sadness or fear that we are resisting in subtle ways, most often not consciously - Discomfort in the body in form of tension to various degree - Non-productive thought patterns like judgement, criticism and blame agains self or other, obsession on getting out of the experience and thoughts centered around past of future. In this state it seems...
2021-09-24
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20210917 - Watching The Breath
I went over some notes yesterday and came over this quote from Svagito Liebermeister, Osho therapist and spiritual leader: _Meditation has nothing to do with feeling calm, meditation is about watching_ And with inspiration from that we'll watch our breath today.
2021-09-17
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20210910 - Include Space
Today I want to share my current understanding of what being a human Being means. In my experience there are two modes of being: Personality or Being. *Personality* This is the ego structure that holds our our coping strategies, reactive patterns and compulsive reactions. It’s built on fear for our survival, of abandonment, rejection, loosing autonomy, etc. At its foundation it is the rejection of Self / Being in favour of something in the outside world. The development of the Personality structure happens automatically during childhood as the outside world rejects our Being again and again in different ways, remember th...
2021-09-10
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20210820 - Being In The Body
I had a conversation with a friend some days ago about being a whole human Being and I thought I’d share my experience. I used to experience myself as being something living inside of my skull. If I’d been asked to point to where I was I would have pointed to at the head. I knew I had my body ofc, but it felt like it was “just my body”. Me, my spirit, the sense of “I” was not there. I wasn’t present in my body. It has taken me some time and it’s still a work in progress...
2021-08-20
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20210813 - Breathing Anchor
When the head is spinning, the breath can be the anchor in reality that you need! You can never experience a past or a future breath. The only breath that you can experience is the one happening right in this moment.
2021-08-13
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210709 - Beyond Comparison
I want to invite you to a short exercise. Read this slowly, take it in and notice how you respond. What happens in your body and your mind? The first poison is to believe that you are better than others (paus, feel) The second poison is to believe that you are less than others (paus, feel) The third poison is to believe that you are equal to others (paus, feel) You exist beyond any comparison. Now, let go of any comparison and watch the world from this place. What happens when you just experience this moment without comparing it to...
2021-07-09
32 min
Stilla Meditation
20210702 - Breathing Anchor
John Kabat-Zinn describe the seven pillars of mindfulness: Acceptance, Trust, Patience, Letting go, Beginner’s mind, Non-Judging and Non-Striving. Here’s a little something about Acceptance: Seeing things as they actually are in the present. If you have a headache, accept that you have a headache. In the course of our daily lives, we often waste a lot of energy denying and resisting what is already fact. When we do that, we are basically trying to force situations to be the way we would like them to be, which only makes for more tension, which actually prevents positive change from occu...
2021-07-02
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210618 - Silence In Sound
This meditation was very inspired by Alan Watts. I hope you enjoy listening to your silence!
2021-06-18
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210611 - Breathing Anchor
The breath. There is so much for us to learn and deeply see in our breath. - It reminds us that we are deeply supported - Even though we have no idea how we breath, the body continues to do it for us, without us having to do anything. - Flow of life in contraction and expansion - It mirrors how life constantly flows between contraction and expansion. We see this in nature with the seasons, we see it in life turning to death turing to life again and we see it in ourselves. There are challenging times and times...
2021-06-11
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20210604 - Space Of Awareness
There are a bunch of characters living inside of our mind. The playful one, the lazy, the enthusiastic, the good friend, the one who can deal with family, the hurt and weak, the I-know-best character, etc. A few of them tend to take up a little more space than the rest; the control-gang, let me introduce the them. We have the inner critic, the inner controller, the perfectionist and the pusher (and a few more). They have some things in common: They are very into should and must, right and wrong and they focus only on fixing and doing, never...
2021-06-04
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20210528 - Hello Body
When we get triggered by life there will be a ton of different reactions in the body such as contraction, stress, lots of energy moving. This can be very uncomfortable and for most people, including me, the automatic way to deal with this activation in the body is to go into excessive thinking in the form of blaming, victimhood, passing judgements about others or ourselves, obsessively trying to solve the problem. This is not a conscious choice, it’s an automatic respons. When we are triggered like this it can feel like we are “caught in our mind”, the thoughts go rou...
2021-05-28
25 min
Stilla Meditation
20210521 - Self Love
Today I want to dive into the topic of self love. We’ll practise some self acceptance of all our different parts; the good, the bad, the ugly, the sexy, the smelly. In my experience I feel a lot more free when I’m Being in love with myself. It makes it easier to avoid the ego-conditioning, right/wrong thinking and in general I become less defensive and more giving. How is it for you?
2021-05-21
29 min
Stilla Meditation
20210507 - Gratitude
You are alive! Just feel that as you are reading this. Right in this moment you are living. Through some miracle that you had very little to do with your body woke up this morning and you have the incredible luxury of experiencing another day on this planet, in this life. Whatever is going on in your life, whatever struggles you have currently, whatever joys you are celebrating, you live and you breath and you have no idea about how you do it. It just happens. Life happens in this body and it takes the shape of you. Your heart...
2021-05-07
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20210430 - Breathing Into Earth - Björn Natthiko Lindeblad Style
To turn inwards. Many of us carry a nervousness around taking this step to sit down, take some time for ourselves and turn the attention inwards. Especially if you are the type of person who often is available more for everyone else than for yourself. We might have thoughts such as “Am I really allowed to do this?“, “Isn’t this egoistic?“. There might be a fear that there are responsibilities that you are not fulfilling when you sit with yourself. But we also know that if we just keep on giving without stopping for gas, eventually we run out. Stopping i...
2021-04-30
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210423 - Breathing Anchor
Now is the only time you’ll ever have. Everything you’ve ever experienced has happened Now and you will never experience anything outside of Now. This is where all of your life will take place, in this very moment. Stop chasing and just Be Here Now. That’s better.
2021-04-23
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20210326 - Loving Holding Space
As you read this, observe yourself. I really mean it. Now. Right now. Are you here or are you already on your way to the next thing? Allow yourself to stop. Allow means give permission to. “I give myself permission in this moment to just be here, with this piece of text.” There can still be other things pulling you and you can give yourself permission anyway. “I allow myself to not engage with all the things that are pulling me, so that I can just be in this moment.” Slow down. Be in the body. You know what it means fo...
2021-03-26
26 min
Stilla Meditation
20210312 - Allowing Experience
There is magic in our bones A north star in our souls That remembers our way home There is magic in our bones - Sleeping At Last - Atlas: Body This song reminds me about the importance of staying connected with my body through which I connect with my soul / heart / being / self. Most of us have learned to abandon ourselves, our felt sensations and emotions in childhood. When our caregivers send the message that “if you feel like this I don’t love you” we need to choose between ourselves and the parent and as a child you will choose...
2021-03-12
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210305 - Breathing Anchor
In life, there are very few things we have control over. Other people and external circumstances are obviously outside our control, but also our thoughts and feelings. I don’t actually know what my next thought is going to be. What we do have some control over is our attention. Our world is made up by the things we pay attention to. Whatever we pay attention to will magnify. Do you focus on possibility and creativity or on victimhood and road blocks? Do you give more attention to love or to fear? "We Don't See Things As They Are, We Se...
2021-03-05
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20210226 - Breathing Anchor
Today is Friday and that means you are all warmly welcome to the Friday Meditation group! My hope with this group is - To lower the entry bar for you to try meditation out - Give you a space where you can let go, wind down, re-charge - Inspire you to turn inwards, I promise you it’s beautiful in there! The meditation we focus on mostly is mindfulness which has been proven to - Sharpen your attention - Increase resilience to stress - Increase compassion You are welcome as you are. There is no need to be “good at medi...
2021-02-26
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20210219 - Body Scan
All of us have patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that we follow. They are automatic reactions to our surroundings. We develop those patterns over time based our experiences, how we were received by the world, many of them in early childhood. We can refer to those patterns as our programming or conditioning. The patterns can be positive, empowering, constructive and loving or they can be negative, weakening and destructive. In any case, they is there. I’ll give you some examples to illustrate what I mean by a pattern. - “If I don’t produce any value, I don’t have a...
2021-02-19
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20210212 - Breathing Anchor
As you read this, you have time to close your eyes and take three, slow, deep, breaths. I invite you to do that. Welcome back. How was that for you? Can you feel how your system seem to have slowed down a bit. That it’s easier to focus on what you are currently doing, reading this. Or did this exercise create agitation perhaps? Or maybe a bit of both, calm and agitation? There are thousands of studies that show that mindfulness have a deep positive impact on our sense of happiness and we will continue to explore this is to...
2021-02-12
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20210205 - Awareness
What opinions and believes have you picked up and made into your own? What expectations do you carry about yourself and the world? Is it really true that this is what you are?
2021-02-05
29 min
Stilla Meditation
20210129 - Self Love
There is something inside you that knows you are enough, that knows you are worthy of love and connection, that knows you are already whole and complete. This something inside grows when we see it, feel it and surrender to it.
2021-01-29
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20210122 - Open Space
Is it really true that the peace and the joy that we are seeking is not already here?
2021-01-22
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20210115 - Loving Care
Softness, kindness, care. Those words are with me this morning. Being hard on ourselves, pushing, achieving, striving for our ambition, is easy. Being soft and kind with ourselves, is harder sometimes but it’s something that we all need. Showing ourselves some love and caretaking. We will invite more of this in todays Friday meditation.
2021-01-15
24 min
Stilla Meditation
20210108 - Watching Thought
You are not your thoughts, you have them. You are the observer of them. You are the ever present space of consciousness where the thoughts appear and disappear. When we let go of identifying with our thoughts we are suddenly free to decide for ourselves how we want to act and what thoughts we want to believe in. Welcome to Friday meditation today where we observe our thoughts in a, perhaps, new way.
2021-01-08
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20201218 - Beginner's Mind
Beginner’s mind - Seeing things as if it was for the first time. You can try it now! Look at your hand and look at it as if you’ve never seen your hand or any other hand before. What does this attitude awake in you? For me there is curiosity, wonder, attention, appreciation.
2020-12-18
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20201211 - Body Scan
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have” ― Eckhart Tolle Whatever is experienced in the body, is always experienced in the present moment. So we can use the body to anchor ourselves in what is real when the mind is seducing us into past regrets or future worries.
2020-12-11
27 min
Stilla Meditation
20201204 - Watching Breath
It’s so striking to me how different life is experienced when the nervous system is in stress mode compared to when it’s calm. The one thing I’ve noticed most clearly lately is how relating changes. When I feel safe and calm in myself, relating becomes easy, spontaneous and enjoyable, there is openness for true connection and giving becomes the natural flow in itself. When there is stress in the body I become more guarded and closed and relationships become more transactional. “What do I get out of this?” “Who is giving more?” Do you recognize those patterns in yourself? H...
2020-12-04
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20201127 - Loving Body Scan
When I woke up today I felt heaviness and sadness. Through the morning I tried all the tricks I know to “fix” it, Just feel it, accept it, be curious about what it is. Nothing worked of course because those feeling were not there to be fixed. As I was writing about the body scan that we’ll do today, checking in with the body with love and gratitude, I realised that I was not being loving with myself at all. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself when the thing I really needed was some self-compassion. My hope i...
2020-11-27
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20201120 - Breathing Anchor
Today I feel tired and inadequacy. I find myself believing in the lie that I have to be happy, calm, content and peaceful to have something to contribute with. This is the exact opposite of what I’ve learned and what I try to convey in those Friday meditations. “You are enough. Allow yourself to be where you are and feel what you feel.” Today I need to follow my own advice and show up as I am. You are welcome to join me, as you are, for a moment of awareness.
2020-11-20
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20201113 - Loving - Kindness
It’s so easy for us to be critical and judgmental about ourselves and others. Hidden underneath those defences lie our true being, the one that is overflowing with love, compassion and understanding. With this practice we strengthen our connection with this delicate and powerful part and hopefully we can meet ourselves and the world with more love.
2020-11-17
21 min
Stilla Meditation
20201106 - Breathing Anchor
Watching the breath is one of the fundamental practices in mindfulness. Because your breath is always available to you you can use it whenever you have the need to slow down and be more present in your life.
2020-11-06
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20201030 - Energy Cleansing
Throughout our day we will inevitably collect beliefs, thoughts, emotions, stagnations, blockages, that doesn’t actually belong to us in our body and mind. I find it super useful to clear this space within myself every now and then and I thought I’d share my favourite technique with you.
2020-10-30
18 min
Stilla Meditation
20201016 - Breathing Anchor
Watching the breath with the seven attitudes of mindfulness Non-judging - The constant liking and disliking that we do keep us in a push and pull relationship with our experience. Instead, we practise watching the objective reality of our experience without judgement. Patience - The wisdom to know that some things need time to unfold on their own. Give yourself time to be where you are. Beginners mind - Experience everything as if it was the first time. Trust - Developing the basic trust in yourself, your intuition and your own authority. “It is impossible to be like somebody else. Yo...
2020-10-16
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20201009 - Body Compassion
"What would you life look like without your feet?"
2020-10-09
23 min
Bandkollen
#022: Del 1/2 - David Eugene Edwards(Gäst: Johannes Persson)
Vi är tillbaka åter igen med nytt avsnitt! Denna gång med gäst, och det är ingen mindre än Johannes Persson från band som Cult Of Luna, Riwen och Khoma samt casting director på bolaget Nord Casting. Han har tagit med sig en grym artist som vi fått äran att dissekera. Ingen av oss hade faktiskt hört denna mannens verk och blev överraskade! David Eugene Edwards är mannen som haft superband som 16 Horsepower och Wovenhand tillika en grym solokarriär. Avsnittet spelades in förra året men har blivit liggandes till nu...
2020-10-04
2h 08
Stilla Meditation
20200925 - Letting Go
There is a classic story about how to catch a monkey that illustrates the art of letting go, or rather the suffering in holding on. Make a small hole in a coconut. Hide a banana in it and wire the coconut to a tree. The monkey will reach in and grab the banana but the hole is too small to get his hand with the banana out. Now he’s stuck because he refuses to let go of the banana in order to be free. We do the same thing, although not so often with bananas. Instead we hold on to...
2020-09-25
22 min
Stilla Meditation
20200918 - I Dont Know
Our mind wants to know. But what happens when we step into the Not Knowing? “I don’t know” Just say those words internally and feel how they land. “I don’t know.” Can you allow yourself to not know, just for now? What happens in you when you do? This is what I want to investigate together with you today.
2020-09-18
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20200904 - Breathing Anchor
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. - Marcus Aurelius
2020-09-04
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20200828 - Breathing Anchor
We live in two worlds. The Real world, made of what is actually here, felt through our experience in the present moment. And then there is the dream world of thoughts, existing only in our own mind as an abstraction and interpretation of the Real world. Most of the suffering that we experience in life is created out of this dream world. For example when we worry, we imagine a future that we don’t like, this creates unpleasant feelings in our body and then we react to that as if it was real. And it is real. The reaction to...
2020-08-28
17 min
Stilla Meditation
20200821 - Compassionate Body Scan
When I first started on my path of self-exploration I was pretty skeptical of the “listen to your body”-type of messages. To me, my body was there to move me around. If it wasn’t sick and it did what I wanted it to, walk, run, dance, etc, then what more could there possibly be? The fact is that our body is brilliant feedback system that we can use to guide our actions. When we do things that aligns with our needs, the body feels good, when we do the opposite the body feels uncomfortable. For example: Do you recogn...
2020-08-21
23 min
Stilla Meditation
20200814 - Labelling
Labelling is a great tool for detaching from our believes, opinions and judgements about our experience and stepping into simply experiencing reality as it is in this moment. Those believes, opinions and judgements is what we call our “story”. We all tell those stories about our experience and ourself. “I should not be feeling this way.” “If only my partner would…” “He is so ignorant” “I must…” So why is this useful to step out of those stories? Because that’s where most of our suffering actually comes from, not the experience itself. And so by loosening our grip around the stories and leaving th...
2020-08-14
19 min
Stilla Meditation
20200807 - Breathing Anchor
Allow your mind to take a rest for a few minutes and come back to the present moment. The only place that actually exists. The place where your whole life is happening.
2020-08-07
17 min
Stilla Meditation
20200703 - Breathing Anchor (beginners Mind)
By experiencing everything as if it was the first time, we become more open to new perspectives and receptive to new possibilities. Every moment is unique and from the beginners-mind we treat them as such. A few weeks ago I wrote about a mantra I have; “When the world has stopped being beautiful, it’s because I’ve stopped looking.” This is about beginners-mind. Experiencing nature, the sky, the earth, myself and other people as though it was the first time. Really looking at what is actually there, instead of just watching my own projection of the thing. This is when the...
2020-07-03
18 min
Stilla Meditation
20200626 - Labelling
“Everything that happens, every feeling, every emotion, every thought, it’s all an important part of our learning process in our growth as souls, in the expanding of our beings, because everything is lessons. That’s literally all there is.” This advice was given to me at a point where I was trying to hold on to a past experience of being in connection with my heart. I was desperately trying to re-discover what I thought I’d lost. I’m not sure I buy in 100% to lessons being the only thing that exist, but I’m sure there is a lesson to be...
2020-06-26
20 min
Stilla Meditation
20200612 - Loving Kindness
Loving-Kindness meditation is a very powerful way to nurture a more loving and compassionate way to be with ourselves and with others. We find this compassion through recognising that we all share the same desire to be happy and safe.
2020-06-12
16 min
Stilla Meditation
200605 Breathing Anchor
I thought I’d share a mantra that has been with me for the last couple of weeks. “When the world has stopped being beautiful, it’s because I’ve stopped seeing.” I find that when I come back to the here and now something changes about my experience, I start to see beauty and life in the most mundane things and my attention is drawn to the natural world, the trees and the sky. It feels a lot like coming home, a sense of belonging here.
2020-06-05
16 min
Stilla Meditation
200529 Trust
One of the seven pillars of mindfulness is Trust. In this case trusting yourself and your emotions. By practicing staying connected to your lived experience moment to moment and being more attuned to what is going on inside, you will develop your emotional compass that guides you towards what you want and need in life. Truthfully answering questions like “How am I really feeling today?“, “What are my needs right now?“, “Does this make me happy?” also helps getting more in touch with yourself.
2020-05-29
17 min
Stilla Meditation
200515 Breathing Anchor
Today we reconnect to the present moment using our breath. Sometimes the breath feels comfortable, sometimes not. No matter what it feels like we can always use it to return to what _is_.
2020-05-15
17 min
Stilla Meditation
200424 Sitting With Sounds
Today I thought we’d use sound as our object of meditation, with inspiration from Alan Watts. If you don’t know about him, I thoroughly recommend listening to some of his talks (just search on youtube).
2020-04-24
16 min
Stilla Meditation
200417 Breathing Anchor
Love is the absence of judgement - Dalai Lama When we watch our experience without judging it, that is love in practise. By allowing ourselves to have the experience we are having without judging it we allow ourselves to be as we are in the present moment. That is self love.
2020-04-17
17 min
Stilla Meditation
200403 Letting Go
Today I want to focus on the practise of letting go. We live in a constant stream of change where nothing ever remains how it is right now. Our bodies change, our mind picks up new preferences, our friends and family gradually become new people, our ice cream melts away in the sun that is soon replaced by rain and wind and then sun again. We know this to be true, and yet we cling to the things as if we could keep them forever. We erupt in emotional chaos when our vacation plans are changed and we never stop...
2020-04-03
18 min
Stilla Meditation
200327 Body Scan With Appreciation
We will appreciate the body for all of the things it does for us and exercise our mindfulness muscles by accepting whatever our experience is, without judgement.
2020-03-27
27 min
Stilla Meditation
200320 Loving Kindness In Corona Times
Today's session we focus on loving-kindness. Practising compassion for ourselves and others It think can be of great help in these challenging times. Remember that we are all connected, we all need each other and we all share the same yearning to be happy and loved for who we are
2020-03-20
20 min
Stilla Meditation
200313 Gratitude In Corona Times
Over the last couple of days with intense Coronavirus reports I’ve fallen into the fear trapp over and over again and it’s taken many forms; “Why is the government so weak?!“, “This is nothing to worry about, it’s fine.“, “People are so stupid, they don’t understand how serious this is.“, “How will this affect the world economy?“. “Am I in danger?“, “Are my loved once in danger?” Images of overcrowded hospitals, empty streets and sitting at home without any food to eat pop up. Reality starts to blend with apocalypse fantasies from movies and books. I feel the urge to repost the arti...
2020-03-13
26 min
Stilla Meditation
200306 Breathing Anchor
We all have unconscious patterns that guide our actions, often backed up by fears telling us that we're enough, we're not loveable, we're not worthy. The more we become conscious of those hidden patterns and fears and the more we can face them, the more freedom we get in our lives. A common way of expressing this is "to shine the light of consciousness on..." whatever it is we want to see. With mindfulness, we increase the intensity of this light and practice directing it.
2020-03-06
15 min
Stilla Meditation
200228 Breath Investigation
Behind the persona that we present to the world lies our true self, our essence, a bright light of love and compassion. By listening inwards in silence we strengthen our connection with this essence and it becomes easier and easier to come back to ourselves. Don’t believe this! It is only my experience. Instead, I invite you to investigate it for yourself. An experience belonging to someone else is merely a story to you, your direct experience is your reality.
2020-02-28
17 min
Stilla Meditation
200221 Labelling
Today we’ll try a new meditation technique that I just call “labelling”. I hope you’ll like! 🕉❤️
2020-02-21
14 min
Stilla Meditation
200214 Catching Thoughts
Today we are watching our thoughts, trying to become more aware about how they come and go.
2020-02-14
13 min
Stilla Meditation
200207 Breathing Anchor
Being mindful about what is going on in you makes it easier to stop projecting your reactions and issues onto others. This is a super valuable skill to have when trying to support your loved once. Watching the breath is a great way to practise this skill.
2020-02-07
15 min
Stilla Meditation
200131 Body Scan
Today we'll focus on diving into our experience of being inside this human body that we're driving around in the word. Connecting with your body is a great way to connect to the present moment and can often give you clues about your current needs and desires ❤️
2020-01-31
18 min
Stilla Meditation
200124 Breathing Anchor
Observing the breath with acceptance. We accept reality as it present itself to us in this moment. We don’t have to like it, but we say “ok” anyway, “ok, this is what is.” In this open space of acceptance you have the opportunity to act rather than react. You are no longer a victim of your circumstances, instead you become free to choose your action consciously. You are in charge of your life!
2020-01-24
14 min
SHIFTpodden
Anton Persson
Välkommen till femminuterspodden. I trettioåttonde avsnittet samtalar vi med Anton Persson, butikschef och säljledare på Carlings.
2019-12-06
00 min
Stilla Meditation
Mindful of Sounds
Settling into the world of sounds. Listening beyond labels and judgements.
2019-11-07
11 min
Stilla Meditation
Compassionate Body Scan
Give your body some love and compassion with a soft body scan.
2019-11-07
16 min
Stilla Meditation
Breathing Anchor - Core practice
Take some time and settle into the core practice of mindfulness.
2019-11-07
14 min