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Blissful Awakening

19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -

Welcome to Blissful Awakening. Join Dr. Julie Clark naturopathic doctor and yoga teacher as she guides you through techniques to bring you a sense of peace in the present moment. Her mission is to help you infuse mindfulness into your everyday life. Learn more at: www.drjulieclark.com

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Guided Meditation for Anxiety & Overthinking | Anxiety Relief | Relax your Mind |

April 20, 2023 03:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB

This guided meditation can help if you are feeling anxious, worried, overwhelmed, and unable to calm your nervous system. Just because you are thinking anxious thoughts does not make them true. This meditation will tune you into your body, calm your nervous system, release anxious thoughts and excessive worrying. Trust the process during this meditation. The first step in managing your anxiety is to acknowledge and understand your anxiety. Overtime, a consistent meditation practice can rewir...

Full Moon Meditation with Binaural Beats

March 08, 2023 03:06 - 12 minutes - 23.8 MB

This full moon meditation will help you to release and let go of what you no longer need in your life. The energetic effects of the full moon can amplify the effects of this guided meditation. This is a perfect time to let go of anything in your life that is no longer in alignment with your future. A cleansing process to release old thought patterns, habits, clutter etc. It's always powerful to check in with yourself and recognize what is no longer serving you. This will allow you space for ...

The Powerful Wisdom of The Heart | Opening Your Heart to Love |

February 14, 2023 19:16 - 10 minutes - 18.5 MB

Tap into the innate wisdom of your heart. This meditation will open up your heart space to LOVE.  More from Dr. Julie:  Instagram: @drjulieclark Website: www.drjulieclark.com

Yoga Nidra | Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR)| Body Relaxation | 20 Minutes

January 26, 2023 21:37 - 18 minutes - 34.1 MB

Yoga Nidra is a form of "yogic sleep" or "deep relaxation." This practice will help your body to relax and access theta brain waves. When in a theta brain wave state, you are able to access and reprogram your subconscious mind. This means healing on a deep level of reprogramming the subconscious limiting beliefs that you picked up during childhood and throughout your life. Our brains have the incredible ability to change throughout our lives. Yoga Nidra can help to start reinforce a positive...

Unblock & Cleanse All 7 Chakras [Guided Meditation]

December 16, 2022 19:51 - 11 minutes - 20.7 MB

This guided meditation will help you to open up and clear all 7 of your chakra energy centers. This meditation will incorporate visualizing chakra colours and mentally chanting sounds correlated with each chakra center.  More from Dr. Julie:  Instagram| @drjulieclark Website| www.drjulieclark.com

Mantra Meditation: I am love, I am light

November 22, 2022 21:00 - 8 minutes - 14.9 MB

Using mantras during a meditation practice is a powerful technique. Each mantra (word or sound) chosen has an energy vibration that can benefit the mind, body and spirit. Mantras help to calm the mind and slow mental chatter by giving your mind something to focus on.   This meditation uses the Sanskrit mantras:  Aham Prema: I am love. This mantra tunes you into your true nature as pure love. Love is the flowing energy that connects us all. Using this mantra can allow us to see ourselves, t...

Deep Sleep Meditation to Fall Asleep Easily

October 23, 2022 19:03 - 15 minutes - 28.2 MB

If you are having difficulty initiating sleep and having a restful night sleep, then this guided meditation is for you! This meditation will calm an overactive/stressed out mind by allowing your body to slow down, relax and prepare for sleep. Allow your mind to release and let go of your day so that you can drift off easily into a deep sleep. You deserve to access a deep healing state during sleep to begin repairing, restoring and rejuvenating your body.  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @d...

Progressive Muscle Relaxation For Improving Sleep, Reducing Stress and Anxiety

October 13, 2022 22:40 - 12 minutes - 22.8 MB

Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) is a deep relaxation technique for learning how to release muscle tension. This relaxation technique has been proven to relieve anxiety, stress, headaches, and insomnia. Working through each muscle group in the body, you will actively contract your muscles to create tension and then progressively release your muscles. Focus on how your muscles feel when they are tensed vs relaxed during this practice. Be mindful to not hurt yourself during the muscle tensi...

Rewire Your Brain With Positive Emotions

September 09, 2022 21:04 - 9 minutes - 18.5 MB

Take a moment to let positive emotions soak into your being. This meditation will allow you to focus on the positive emotions in your life. The more you can focus and remember the positives in your life, the easier you can break out of the habit of being stuck in your negative emotions. This can help rewire pathways in your brain, so overtime you can access good feeling emotions easier. Happy Meditating xx  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Cultivating Gratitude

August 25, 2022 19:57 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MB

This guided meditation practice will leave you feeling more positive and uplifted. Allow the feelings of gratitude to flow through you, while focusing on your heart centre. Mentally you can use "I am grateful for" statements when acknowledging all that you are grateful for in your life.  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Simple and Powerful Box Breathing

August 18, 2022 18:44 - 5 minutes - 9.09 MB

This simple breathing technique is a great choice for whether you need a midday pick me up, looking to relieve stress, or improve your mental clarity and focus. Additional tips during this breathing practice: you can try imagining in your third eye creating each side of a box with each inhale, hold, exhale and hold. Breath through your nostrils and avoid straining your breath. More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Best Morning Meditation Ever

May 07, 2022 21:18 - 8 minutes - 16.3 MB

This meditation can be completed in the morning to set you up for the best day ever. You can repeat this meditation as often as you desire, to cultivate good feeling energy states for your body. Enjoy xx    More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Kirtan Kriya Meditation (SA TA NA MA)

January 01, 2022 00:46 - 11 minutes - 21.3 MB

This singing meditation helps to balance the mind and emotions, reduce stress, break addictive patterns and behaviours, enhance memory and clear the subconscious mind. If you are new to Kirtan Kriya, directions on how to practice this meditation can be found on my blog here: https://www.drjulieclark.com/blog/kirtan-kriya-meditation.  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Smile Meditation

October 22, 2021 22:30 - 4 minutes - 8.66 MB

This meditation is all about Smiling! Use your smile muscles to help your brain release feel good happy chemicals. This meditation will be sure to turn that frown upside down.   More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Manifesting Your Desire

May 25, 2021 19:44 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MB

In this meditation Dr. Julie will guide you through a visualization to help you call in what you desire to manifest in your life right now. You can keep coming back to this practice each time you are in the process of calling in a new desire into your life. Enjoy xx  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Heart Meditation

May 12, 2021 20:13 - 8 minutes - 15.3 MB

In this Heart Meditation, Dr. Julie will guide you on a journey into your heart centre. This is a great meditation to practice if you are experiencing depleting emotions in your body such as frustration, anger, anxiety, or sadness. This mediation will allow you to radiate your light and cultivate renewing energies into your body.  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Right Nostril Breathing

April 30, 2021 23:18 - 4 minutes - 8.06 MB

Right Nostril Breathing is a great technique to use first thing in the morning or if you are experiencing an afternoon slump in energy. This breathing exercise helps to raise you energy by activating your left hemisphere of the brain, which relates to alertness and activity. Enjoy feeling energized post meditation xx  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Left Nostril Breathing

April 30, 2021 22:14 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MB

Left Nostril Breathing is a great technique to use if you are experiencing racing thoughts, restlessness, and difficulty sleeping. Left nostril breathing helps to activate the right hemisphere of the brain for facilitating creativity, calmness, intuition and present moment awareness. It also helps to promote relaxation and is a great technique to use before bedtime as it promotes sleep and rest.  More from Dr. Julie Instagram | @drjulieclark Website | www.drjulieclark.com

Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique (Nadi Shodhana)

April 23, 2021 19:33 - 7 minutes - 6.9 MB

This is a simple yet powerful breathing technique. Alternate nostril breathing can help to settle the mind, body and ease any emotions that are coming up or are currently triggering you. This is a powerful tool to help ease racing thoughts if you are experiencing anxiety, stress, having trouble falling asleep or feeling energetically out of alignment. Benefits of alternate nostril breathing include: improving focus, supporting our lungs and respiratory functions, restores balance in the left...