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Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness100 ways to find your SelfCongratulations, this is the 100th. published podcast. It's a basic reminder of what we are doing and why. It's around 14 minutes and reviews our basic principles explaining why we do what we do in meditation and mindfulness. I hope you enjoy it. If you have comments or questions they are welcome and I will respond.Initially, I set this as my first goal and having accomplished this I'm evaluating how I can begin doing some video work in conjunction with this mission. A weekly video is what I'm contemplating as my next major goal with a website to su...2025-03-0115 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessIn what direction do you wish to go?thinking, remembering, doing...it can get confusing, even disappointing, so much potentialso many choices,which direction do we wish to go?presented in such a fashion, it's easy, we want to grow...we want more, to nourish our Selves and those close aroundplanting seeds all day, sprinkling love on every one,observing one's Self glowing with the radiance of love be-ing cultivated as we sow seeds of encouragement,watching our garden grow comments or questions?Suppor...2025-01-2912 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessHave a nice day!Between You and the Universe there is a dialogue.I am sharing mine with you. comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2025-01-2710 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessguiding your wayyou are the shop keeper, in charge of all the inventory and it's arriving and leaving, and everything else to keep the shop supplied and prosperousthe shop is actually You comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2025-01-2506 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessthe momentseek and yea shall find, old saying,same truth, it is what we add to the moment, our sense of creativity,in every way we can imagine and most likely, an infinite number morewhich we ignore because it is just too much.But.... how big of a role do you want to play in your world?energy follows attention, practice draws self improvement and increasing awareness and sensitivity to time and space comments or questions?Support the showOur...2025-01-2411 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnesscontinuing, pause, and growwhat is it you are?what have you decided?is it changing already?then you know, you need continuity,how, you need to ask your SelfYou knowremembering whom you are, what, why, when, where, and How is a strong beginning comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2025-01-2213 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessWe could & canwhat is it we can do, jump when we have the opportunity to become more alive comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2025-01-2114 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessDo you remember?It is easy not to do what you've not used to doing, it is to create a new habit, making an intention, and keeping your aspiration before one's Self...knowing it's importance. there isn't anything more important than your Self. It is in the machinations/behavior of this Self that encapsulate whom this person, you or I are.Know, that the energy of creation oscillates and there will be times of change, many, as in 86,400 times each day,stay calm, collected with a sense of mindfulness, equilibrium, and build a consistency in whom yo...2025-01-2014 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessIt's amazingwhat isn't? taken objectively, just as a witness, an observer, what isn't incredible, what doesn't deserve a moment to better understand, why? does this 'whatever it is" exist?you are the culmination of a billion years of evolution, do you think there might be a few bells and whistles about your Self which you are unaware?or, maybe just ignore, down deep you know, but don't invest the time to delve into, to be curious about, to find a sense of joy and understanding, allowing and accepting the complexity of energies naturelook abo...2025-01-1914 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessOrangey glowWe can all be better and knowing this.... strive for improvement.flowing awareness of our breathing and pulsing processes, respiration and circulation, and their creation, "the continuation and celebration we call Life," is our mandatethe purpose of our mindfulness is to fulfill this responsibility in a positive mannerthere is every opportunity to seek improvement, there are 86,400 moments in each day.... is that enough? comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and sel...2025-01-1814 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessbonus, every moment we are alive...Do you find your Self weaving, up and down and all around, remember how flexible we can be, increasing our own abilities, discerning little steps to enhance our Be-ingthey are everywhere, all the time, in each moment, often we don't think of them as the opportunities they are, yet, isn't each moment a miracle in it self... thereby, the party, the celebration of Life is always beginning,how often do you join in? more and more, with every awakening, every breath, every pulse? smile and shout in your heart, hum awe to your Sou...2025-01-1705 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessremember, no one is perfecteveryone makes mistakes, it is part of the process of learning what a success is or means, right? funny, how this world twists and turns!We need one to find the other.so, too, in our day to day, moment to moment world of our (individual, unique) ways... we are constantly getting feedback from our experiences, thoughts, perceptions.How do we interpret them, all of this data, and oftentimes seemingly simultaneously, right?Best way, with all the wisdom and calm one can muster, practice, it is in a sense a mental dr...2025-01-1714 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessHave a nice dayI've seen all good people, have a nice day. Need we remember whom we are, yes, we need to make an effort consciously until it becomes a habit and sense of understanding of the miracle of Life of which we are an infinitesimally small part, yet shiny and cute.It's a learning process these moments flowing by, take advantage and run your fingers through each one, letting the magic of the moment dwell in your spirit as it shimmers in awareness.Put out your hand(s) and feel the current of the Universe, yes, we a...2025-01-1615 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessWho me? BreatheNothing more important than one's next breath.so, how about making your breath your best friend, it will take some time to learn to be remembering it through your day, but well worth the investment. why do you hear so often to be mindful of your breath and how you do it, because of it's importanceit is deeper than just the physical process, though, it is entwined with everything you are, kind of like DNA, and of course, it is500 million years approximately, creatures have been breathing with lungs above the water i...2025-01-1514 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessSee for YourselfBeing judgmental is following a thought in one direction to its conclusion, but doesn't everything have a multi-directional aspect to it? doesn't every thought have possibilities like the rays of the sun radiating outward in all directions? So, too, inside of our Selves, is such a possibility, we also are little suns in our own right. There is nothing wrong in making a determination and following thru with it, a goal or aspiration, are important as a beacon for us to travel to, to focus our energy and attention on. Granted this is valuable, yet, remembering as much as we h...2025-01-1415 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessBits&Piecesshort and sweet, sing along, don't be bashful, it's good to exercise one's vocal chords. there is only goodness coming from the sounds of one's sigh, one's exhalation, be in awe, allow, accept your own possibility for creating, and make this recipe workmy dad, a long time ago, recommended that humming is a great, soothing sound to make and cultivate one's moodhe was right comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to...2025-01-1209 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessGet ReadyWaking up is hard to do, breaking the chains of complacency and glorifying One's existence, i.e. the miracle of Creation. It is a way to begin. Mindfulness and meditation be-ing art forms, moving moments of art, consciousness, perceptions of one's be-ing, "toggling" down the river of nowremember, energy creatures, we need build our edifices, yes, coming with a core, yet, How will you embellish it? Is the question of the morning.Awake, awake our body and minds sigh, sooth me mediator, guiding me into an incredible, exciting day, awe rising thru the cadence of Lif...2025-01-1114 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessOur Practice, rememberan opportunity to just let go and follow along on a gentle journey inside our Selves, remembering one's physicality and character we want to seed, nourish, and grow. There is nothing like investing in the process of nourishing life and having the good fortune to be watching / witnessing its growth. Choosing flowers amplifies our rewards.Be here now, in every breath, in every pulse... as you remember, and smile, when your consciousness says Hello! to you for it is god talking to you from the depths of your Soul comments or questions?Support the...2025-01-0919 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness1/1000 of 1%What do you think I'm talking about, before you listen...there is so much left on the table in everything we do,so much we ignore or can't even comprehend,it is this I'm alluding to. It is the electromagnetic spectrum of energy and it is how much we are "capable" of discerning in this vast range...Gather what you can and journey as best that you ae capable of, be proud, that you are trying and attempting to nourish and grow, where and when so many are not mindful, still, th...2025-01-0516 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessRemember, bundle of miracles, It's YOUIt is our chance to connect, this moment, and as they flow, let and allow us to be harmonious and to gain as much as possible from each moment henceforth in our lives. such a wish is a great blessing for any and all, embrace your be-ing and seek to rise, nourishing your Self with increasing self wisdom. If you've forgotten how, practice is the answer.All need encouragement, understanding, compassion, both you and IBoldly go forth with a smile and the capacity to be kind, patient, to be strong enough to accept and al...2025-01-0320 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessYour Orangey GlowWhat happens when you close your eyes and gaze toward a light source, yep, your optic nerve picks up the light that's passing thru your eye lids and it has an orangey glow...Why is this worthy of notice? Because everything is, do you think that there is anything we should ignore or take for granted? No, everything has a reason, a purpose, can you find it, can you consider it, can you look upon it with a sense of equanimity? Harmony and Grace are not created in a vacuum, but through the assimilation of all things int...2025-01-0220 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessLet it Be, uncutRaw, behind the scenes footage, Let it Be refers to yep, the Beatle song, but more to the content of its meaning. Be your Self is my thinking, this isn't perfect, yet nothing is, everything is changing, what we just thought is gone and inconsequential... Keeping our Selves pressing the arrival of our next instant, heightening awareness of now and the drama as it is unfolding, watching behind and through every port of perception we can.I leave it to you.reverberate with your innate curiosity, intimate awareness and sensitivity, rising sense of character and vi...2024-12-2819 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessBe fruitful, dig downtitle speaks for it Self, fellow gardeners, keep returning to your garden and looking upon it as new every time, I know there is always effort to be made, weeds grow just as quickly as blooms or fruit, sometimes we need extra water or nourishment. I know this to be true from my own experience. Using yours, sink your hands, your be-ing deep in the soil of your own Soul and cleanse your past and prepare for your future. It is all here, pay attention.Be your own best friend. Be kind and generous to your Self, yes...2024-12-2616 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessHere, there, and everywhereIt is important to address our humanity, our foibles, our possibilities. our ways of thinking and responding or reacting to not only our own minds, but those around us. Some ideas here. It is a learning experience this Life and we need to keep noticing and learning from what we see and hear and feel. It is the nourishing of seeds of wisdom which can be sprouted everyday, all day long. But, we need to recognize what is constantly in front of us, to pick the seeds from the chaff, it is why there is a word called discrimination, to h...2024-12-2112 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnesshello!basics to keep uppermost in day to day living, there is never too much coordination between the physical and spiritual elements of our be-ing, there is always a degree of give and take, focus and loss which we can step aside from and view with equanimity and harmony, calm responsiveness to the situation signifying an expanded awareness, "success." Making the choice to self improve includes both successes and "thought of" failures, meaning allow both to be on your path of self improvement, being of compassionate mind, and gentle and kind heart to your Self and diligently practicing a...2024-12-1611 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessCross RoadsReview, what have you experienced and/or learned from practicing?Seeing some insights arising from your Consciousness?Let me know, Send a text = contact ZaranMake some notes, what are the important components to be aware of to begin finding one Self awakening to feelings you have long ignored?Have you planted any seeds of Qualities you are nurturing with self affirmations?The importance of all this is the following: You are alive for X number of years, OK, don't you want as many of them as possible to b...2024-12-1613 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessLuckyLucky is, what lucky does, practice is the key, make your Self succeed comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-12-0113 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessopening our eyesOpening our eyes, with what lens in this moment, with what sense of perspective, in what direction did you say you are looking.We have been woefully under educated by our Society, our civilizations. One needs to continue learning, every day is full of opportunities.Be-ing conscious is our goal, be-ing adaptable, flexible, and positive in our orientation, getting our hands dirty in the soil of our soul garden while planting seeds of encouragement and character.Get busy, no one else can do it for you, you were born as your Self, you g...2024-11-3015 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPrimer, Posture, Thanksgiving!Happy thanksgiving. I wish this for everyone everywhere, regardless of circumstances that hope prevails and wisdom and maturity grow and play a greater role in our "struggling" world. comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-2814 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPrimer, do you have a ticket?It's a little longer than usual, allowing a little time for a moment of immersion in your own silence, otherwise, be forewarned, there is a celebration and you are invited! Come on! comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-2618 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPrimer, adding to our tool chestwho doesn't need help? ideas and concepts which can contribute to our wider sense of perception, I call them tools. Subtleties, asking our Selves to allow and be open, not always easy, But, you can do it! Relax, gentle, calm, kind softens our anxieties and painsbe-ing nice to your Self is most important, be-ing honest is just as much, it's not always easy nor is it always hard, how can I make it better, practicewhom you are, remain balanced, a hand on the rudder of your Soul Ship, please be careful, there...2024-11-2514 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPrimer, where do we begin?Isn't there so much to be-ing alive, so much taken for granted, so much we can learn, life's experiences are infinite! Focusing on beginning our practice is here, let's take little steps together comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-2311 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessBe-ing mind fullHere we go again, remembering, reminding our Selves of our good fortune comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-1915 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnesscelebrate you are a liveTruth be told, it is the way for us to be, wholesome and real. It is what is if we take the opportunity and investigate. Not taking for Granted our Selves for a few moments, might just polish your perspective a little, you might come into contact with your glowing being, hope so, look for the vibration as you realize you are alive, glow, and have the potential to shine with the wisdom you were born with comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow ...2024-11-1816 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessYou know the WayYou know the Way to your heart, you have travelled there so many times. we are looking for simple and honest ways to say hello to our internal processes and ways of thinking, the ways we play with our minds. How we interpret and decide what we are doing. There is a lot going on. Taking little steps of self awareness, at one's own speed, and allowing one Self to be real. Energy doesn't always go in the same direction, it oscillates, as energy, so too, do we! Understanding this and having a little compassion is very important, even critic...2024-11-1711 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessSounds of silenceSweet is our awareness of continuity and vibrancy of being alive, simply, being alive. Listen! When there is no sound, what do you hear? Haha! comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-1610 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessSoul GardenHi! I'm inviting you to our communal soul garden. I've got the spot, and cleaned a nice plot, turned the soil, removed the weeds, and it's ready. It's ready for us to enjoy the view and spend some time nourishing our own be-ings and the qualities we're going to be planting today. So, come on, join the celebration, let's get playing, it's always good to be awake and thankful for what we have, I've got plenty of seeds to share, just come as you are, arrive, you are always welcome here comments or questions?Support the...2024-11-1513 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessfor everyone's parents, moms and dads, siblings, too, for everyone!Hi! Lucky we are to be alive and aware, to be trying to improve and become more. Some ideas about one's meditation and mindfulness, how to find your courage, your strength, your persistence in following your breathing and circulatory processes and vibration. Also know as "your flowing being," cause I know what you want, we are almost the same, 99.6% the same. Open, allow, accept, be humble, look up and rise in your sense of perspective expanding what you are and feel. this is one's practice, to grow, to nourish one Self, to take little steps of self encouragement, that we mi...2024-11-1414 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessSurprise, Wednesday DelightWhen isn't it time to be aware and excited by "just" the presence of one Self.right? such silly creatures we are, I think it's a lack of education as to our capabilities and having an unbiased representation of what Science offers us in a way of expanding a broader sense of Creation. there is room for everything under the Sun, we need allow, accept, be humble, acknowledge with authenticity, find wisdom, and gratitude. I know this is already a bunch of qualities, yet they are in many ways more valuable than gold. If you feel a weakn...2024-11-1314 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessYep, that's You! Quivering Life energy...I am not sure how many of you, including my Self, are aware of "even" some of Life's miracles. It is the Practice of Meditation and Mindfulness to elicit a better understanding of what's possible. Herein, there is a direction and momentum for experiencing this. There are clues for prolonging these salubrious feelings. It is an opportunity for a direct experience into our "more elaborate" nature. It is a key for us to use to heighten the realization of the importance of continual Practice which with increasing experience and use our natural tools elevate our performance, establishing within our Selve...2024-11-1216 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessSunday Lollipop, positive thinkingWhat are we doing, having fun, improving our Selves, learning about how to effect our personalities in a positive way, using psychology to initiate and help foster immediate change. Yes, we need to act as Gardeners and keep planting "fresh" seeds in our hearts and souls so that we can find reinforcement and what we are "practicing," what we are doing to improve our Selves. It is one thing to take a few minutes to listen, it is another thing to begin to move the rudder gently and slowly into new currents and directions for your Life's future. Take you...2024-11-1112 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessReviewIf everything were so easy we wouldn't need to repeat, if we could remember every lesson, we wouldn't need to study, if we instantly became whom we wish to be, it would be a different world. Accepting that it takes time and commitment to change, especially when one has higher goals and aspirations for self improvement...Next pod, we're diving into that pool comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-0916 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessBe Playfulchange is in the air, incessantly, our flowing awareness is the bridge between past and future, there are concepts here which are worthy of your consideration. As always, it is the depth of one's inquiry that leads to an outcome. Dig deep inside your Self, what is your purpose? What do you want to establish in Your Self? How do you determine an outcome? How do you pilot your own ship of Life? With what, how, when, where, why... who are you? comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling...2024-11-0813 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnesslisten to the silenceIt just might surprise you how much of your senses you are missing, not actually missing, but ignoring. Take a few minutes and explore with me, bring your flashlight of discernment and curiosity. comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-0711 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPower 1/4 hour - Election DayNon partisan, hopeful, personal practice is the most important contribution we can make to bridge the differences between us, and there are many, so all of us have a lot of improvement to make, our world is waiting for us to arrive, present and helpful, kind, compassionate, firm & strong, moral, advocating non-violence, and family, more than just mankind, our world. comments or questions?Support the showOur Goal, finding awe, while feeling one's Self aglow Our mission, helping others and self to grow 2024-11-0616 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessI see all good peoplelook in the mirror, it includes you! if we weren't imperfect, what would we do all day? I don't think we have to worry about that. There is always more. If you took a board for building a house, one which is 20 feet long, and took a hair from your head and laid it across the board and took several steps back and looked at the board's length and then looked for the hair you laid down, it is the amount of we can perceive as a homo sapiens of the electromagnetic (energy) spectrum. We miss most of what is tr...2024-11-0520 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessfollow up to commitmentremembering that the most important task one has is to be awareand what does this mean,what can I do to foster this recollection?bonus: utilizing your (born with) physicalityyour breathing process;your heart's pulsing;your body's shimmering majestythis is a great start, but we are not finished, it's only a beginning...because "it is how you remember also!"positive, negative or indifferentyou choose (which) in every moment of your existencenow, now, now, wouldn't it be...2024-11-0308 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnesscommitment to One SelfYeah, there is nothing more important than one's initial commitment to one Self. It is the glue that holds our Practice and really just about everything together or not. Think about it, let me now what you think, let me know how I can improve. How do you want to perceive your Self and how would you like the World? to see you and you see it? It's all attitude and that comes from perception with a sense of positivity, ambivalence, or negativity. Witness all three, determine which fits best in this moment, in this circumstance. You don't think about i...2024-11-0214 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessYou are a bundle of Miracles, forgot? Remember!You and I are what we are thinking. This represents an opportunity. How do we want to pursue this moment's changing "reality?" With as much wisdom and maturity as we can, right? So, the wider one's perspective is, the more one has to consider IN MAKING THE DECISIONS of how we are going to meet this moment that is arriving. More data means there are more nuances to what you can understand and bring to bear on this most important decision which is "what do I do now!"Bringing everything one has to the table is better than...2024-11-0115 min

Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulnessPensive, be! If it is not you doing the research in your own be-ing, then who is?I'm a little sad today, appreciative none the less, and aware of the majesty and awe of Creation, but saddened by our immaturity, individually and as nations. Including me! Humble amidst this Universe, yet, wishing for more integrity and kindness amongst Peoples, cousins, if you will, we need to put into practice and utilize all the tools and skills that we can to further our understanding and action upon this world.Why do you think no one has announced themselves to us, yeah, other alien species, because we are still babies in the perspective of time. Sure, stu...2024-10-3115 min