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The Robert Beatty PodcastI Had a Dream of an Easy Life A Poem by Monica HallPerformed by Robert Beatty with Saffire Bouchellion on hand pan accompaniment
Hey friend — I used to dream of a flawless, straight-line life: honors, applause, zero heartbreak. But every perfect picture felt empty compared to this messy, raw, and strangely beautiful life I actually live.
So here's to the tangled parts, the surprising joy, and the scars that made us: I’m grateful for the chaos that shaped me. Come sit with me — we’ll laugh, ache, and celebrate it together.
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2026-02-0202 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastSit in the One Seat: A Meditation by Ajahn ChahPlease come sit with me for a moment. Imagine you are in a comfortable chair in the middle of a six-sided room and notice the simple invitation: stay here, breathe, and turn your attention to whatever comes through the windows of seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and mind.
No judgments, no chasing thoughts — just gentle reminders to return to the one seat and be here now. It’s small, but it changes everything.
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2026-01-2608 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastI Love You (With Your Name at the End): A Simple Practice to HealHey — take a breath. This practice flips the mind’s old critical tapes by inserting one new, gentle line: “I love you” with your name at the end. Say it to your newborn self, your present body, or in a hard memory — no reasons needed.
It’s small, immediate, and surprisingly powerful. Whisper your name, let the kindness land, and carry that warmth with you through the day.
This practice flips the mind’s old critical tapes by inserting one new, gentle line: “I love you” with your name at the end. Imagine that your hands are...
2026-01-2618 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast6: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Difficult Emotions, Compassion and AwakeningThis is the last of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice.
This session provides guidance in how to work with difficult emotions. We tend to delight in pleasant emotions and struggle to get rid of the unpleasant ones. Mindfulness will allow you to meet emotions of all kinds as guides and teachers. When challenging emotions are present we are guided to turn toward them with love and compassion: to embrace rather than hate them. As we allow ourselves to become intimate with them the...
2025-12-2813 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast5. Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Restlessness Agitation, Sloth and Torpor, and DoubtThis is the fifth of six introductory guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to the final three of the five hindrances: Restlessnes and Agitation, Sloth and Torpor, and Doubt. When the mind is too energized, low energy or filled with doubt, knowing how to bring awareness and wisdom to them is the path to letting them be so they weaken and vanish,
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2025-12-2819 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast4 Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Craving/Desire and Aversion/Disliking The First Two HindrancesThis is the fourth of six introductory guided meditations: Sometimes one can hardly find the breath to use it as a training object. At such times a meditator can up-level the game and become aware of which of the Five Hindrances are present. The first two form a polarity: Craving and Aversion. Rather than struggle to stop or banish these powerful and natural life energies one learns how to acknowledge and accept them and in so doing to reduce their power and capacity to pull us into delusion.
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2025-12-2819 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast3 Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Stress, Anxiety and Coming Home to the BodyThis is the third of six guided meditations. It focuses on stress, anxiety and restlessness and teaches you to you come home to the life of the body in the present moment. The guidance is heart-centered and creates an atmosphere of kindness and compassion to allow awakening to ripen.
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2025-12-2816 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast2: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation; The Wandering Mind is not an EnemyThis is the second of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to how to work with the wandering mind. It will help you escape the pointless and dispiriting battle of trying to silence the mind. The guidance is heart-centered and creates an atmosphere of kindness and compassion to allow awakening to ripen.
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2025-12-2815 minThe Robert Beatty Podcast1: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Breathing and AcceptingThis is the first of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to mindfulness of breathing and teaches that the goal is to accept the nature of the wandering mind rather than trying to achieve a silent mind. It also introduces the practice of "noting".
This guided meditation is the first of a series of six introducing Insight Meditation practices with a heart-centered approach. Perfect for both beginners and experienced meditators.
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2025-12-2818 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastThis Moment Is Enough: A Gentle Guide Back to NowHey — come sit with me for a minute. Notice the breath, the shoulder that aches, the crow outside, and how the mind spins stories while you keep returning to this one true moment.
No pressure, no fixing — just the small, ordinary miracle of breathing in and out, waking up again and again, and opening your heart to the messy, beautiful you. Try saying “I love you” to yourself with your name at the end and see what shifts.
May this little pause steady you for whatever comes next — a meeting, a drive, a walk — and help you car...
2025-12-2625 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastAwakening Through Aimless LoveJoin the Robert Beatty Podcast in this captivating episode as we explore the profound beauty of "Aimless Love" by Billy Collins. We begin with a reflective walk along the lakeshore, immersing ourselves in the simplicity and depth of love without expectations. From nature's wonders to everyday objects, we dive into a deeper understanding of how love manifests in our surroundings.
The discussion then transitions into the realm of meditation and spiritual awakening, where we explore the concept of recognizing the aliveness within our bodies and the boundless awareness that surrounds us. Through a meditative presence, we invite...
2025-05-0716 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastAllowing, Allowing, Allowing.From June 18, 2024: This is a meditation emphasizing love. In love there is room for everything. Every breath sings the same song; every experience sings the same song. Everything is in constant change.
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2024-06-2142 minThe Robert Beatty PodcastConcentration: A guided meditation on one-pointedness of mindFrom June 17, 2024: Concentration and mindfulness are known as the "The Wings of Awakening." In concentration one emphasizes returning to the breath, and pays little attention to "the wandering mind," or other "distractions." Concentration does not require a gritting of the teeth, or tensing of muscles. Instead, awareness lands on the training object with the delicacy of a butterfly landing on a flower.
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