Open Minds Open Hearts (OMOH) Podcast
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Our mission at Open Minds Open Hearts (OMOH) is to bring healing, inner-peace and joy through mediation and mindfulness practices. Through cultivating non-judgmental awareness practitioners find greater presence, focus and equanimity while reducing stress, anxiety and suffering.OMOH offers free online classes to anyone interested in joining on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 5:00pm PST. Practitioners are not only guided through transformative meditations but they're also informed on the latest research and science around these ancient practices, providing greater context and appreciation for the practice. In addition, participants are welcome to join a community conversation after every session to share their experience with Dustin Guinee, Founder of OMOH and the OMOH community.Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned meditator, there is a little something for everyone in each OMOH session and if you're interested, sign up below to get an invite to the next free, online session: https://openmindsopenhearts.org/free-classes/
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Episodes
Guided Meditation: Fountain of Gratitude Visualization
November 09, 2021 06:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBNeed a little more calm, peace and gratitude in your life? Want to get transported to a beautiful garden sanctuary to reconnect with your head and heart? The following 20 minute fountain of gratitude visualization, takes the practitioner on a journey to discover a place deep inside, over flowing in abundance and thankfulness for life. The session closes with Dustin Guinee's new poem, "Full of Grateful", which expresses the gratitude he has for his family and friends and the moments of connec...
Session 30: Full of Grateful
November 09, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBIn session 30, "Full of Grateful" Dustin Guinee guides practitioners to explore the healing power of gratitude and how fulfilled one's cup becomes, when they focus on the half full part of the glass and count their blessings. The science behind gratitude and the health benefits of being thankful are discussed and Dustin leads the group through a gratitude meditation with a gratitude fountain visualization exercise. The session closes with Dustin's new poem, "Full of Grateful", which expresse...
Guided Meditation: Reduce stress through breath
October 09, 2021 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBNeed to lower your stress and anxiety? You're not alone. In the following guided meditation, "Reduce stress through breath" Dustin Guinee guides meditators through a stress reduction meditation with breathing exercises, such as box breathing, proven to increase calm and relaxation. Slowing down the breath to about 6 breaths per minute (or a 5 second inhale and a 5 second exhale AKA the "365 Method") has been shown to lower the heart rate, blood pressure, and reduce stress and anxiety. Medita...
Session 29: Stress less through breath
October 09, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBAre you feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety? If so then session 29, "Stress less through breath" will help guide you through stress reduction techniques and breathing exercises, proven to increase calm and relaxation. Did you know that slowing down the breath to about 6 breaths per minute (or a 5 second inhale and a 5 second exhale AKA the "365 Method") has been shown to lower the heart rate, blood pressure, and reduce stress and anxiety. Dustin Guinee shares these insights on the late...
Laughing Meditation: Mindful Laughter
September 15, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBFeeling stress and anxiety in your life and just need a reason to laugh again? Imagine if you didn't need jokes or funny stories to laugh but could practice laughing like an exercise, cultivating greater joy from within. In this 18 minute laughter meditation, Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through a variety of laughter meditation/ laughter yoga exercises including: deep breathing with a smile, ho-ho-ha-ha exercise, Aloha exercise and deep belly laughing. While at first, it may seem ridic...
Session 28: Laughter is the Best Medicine
September 15, 2021 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn session 28, "Laughter is the Best Medicine" meditation guide Dustin Guinee tries something a bit different than the typical meditation session. While meditation is often about sitting in silence to find inner peace, laughter meditation and laughter yoga is quite the opposite, in that the goal of the practice is to bust a gut, cracking up. While at first, it may seem ridiculous and contrived to start laughing for no reason, smiling and laughing as part of your meditation practice can trans...
Guided Meditation: Slowing down & cultivating balance
August 07, 2021 17:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBIf you're looking to bring more balance into your life and let go of what is no longer serving you, then this meditation is for you. In this 25 minute meditation, Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through a balancing meditation, incorporating various breathing exercises such as alternate nostril breathing to bring greater balance to the body and brain. Through non-judgmental awareness and reframing "bad" situations into growth opportunities, imbalances become lessons for cultivating greater...
Session 27: Balance in the Middle Way
August 07, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn session 27, "Balance in the Middle Way" participants explore how mindfully seeking balance in ones life can be a beneficial way to cultivate greater peace, insights, creativity and growth. We will discuss the "Middle Way" as described by the Buddha and how the Noble Eightfold Path is one such method for finding balance between body, mind and spirit. An understanding of different sides of the story, the dark and light, the left and right are necessary to gracefully flow with life and ultim...
Session 26: Refining focused attention
July 04, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBWhether at work focusing on tasks and projects, in conversations with co-workers or loved ones or doing monotonous tasks like the dishes or cleaning, each moment is an opportunity to cultivate focused attention. In session 26, "Refining focused attention" Dustin Guinee discusses meditation and mindfulness techniques for limiting distractions and becoming more focused and intentional, throughout the day. Dustin guides practitioners through a focused attention meditation to cultivate greater f...
Guided Meditation: Refining focused attention
July 04, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIf you're trying to cultivate greater focus in your life, studying for an exam, looking to increase productivity at work or striving to be more mindfully present with family and friends, then this meditation is for you. In this 21 minute meditation, Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through a focused attention meditation using 3 powerful techniques: breath awareness, breath counting and a ball of light visualization. At the end of the session Dustin shares his new poem, "On Top the Mountain...
Guided Meditation: Connecting through loving kindness
June 05, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBIf you're looking to cultivate more care and empathy in your life and strengthen the bonds of love you share with not only family and friends but expanding your circle of compassion to your wider community, then this session is for you. In this 22 minute guided metta meditation or loving kindness meditation (LKM) we cultivate compassion for ourselves, partners, friends, parents, little ones, neutral people, difficult people and all sentient beings on the planet. At the end of the session, Du...
Session 25: Connecting through loving kindness
June 05, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBIf you're looking to cultivate more care and empathy in your life and strengthen the bonds of love you share with not only family and friends but expanding your circle of compassion to your wider community, then this session is for you. Session 25 marks one full year of OMOH meditation classes and to honor this journey our theme is, "Connecting through loving kindness". We examine the practice of metta or loving kindness meditation (LKM) and it's power in helping us connect with our selves a...
Session 24: Embracing change and impermanence
May 22, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBIn session 24, "Embracing change and impermanence" we will explore the impermanent nature of life and why change can be so challenging and yet transformative. The Buddha said, "Change is never painful. Only resistance to change is painful." It is the resistance part that often gets us stuck but through meditation and mindfulness practices we can reframe our relationship with challenging changes and learn to find the growth opportunity in each moment. Dustin Guinee guides practitioners throug...
Guided Meditation: Embracing change and impermanence
May 22, 2021 19:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThis meditation is for anyone that is dealing with difficult changes, whether it be the loss of a job, relationship or loved one. In this 23 minute meditation, Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through a meditation on embracing change and reflecting on the 5 Remembrances of the Buddha, compassion and the power to choose our response in any circumstance. He ends the session with a poem he wrote, "Not Broken" dedicated to his cousin who recently lost his mother (Dustin's aunt) in a car accide...
Session 23: Grateful Now
May 08, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIn session 23, "Grateful Now" we discuss the the transformative practice of gratitude and how counting your blessings everyday can improve your mental, emotional and physical health. With so many challenges and stresses in modern day life, it's easy to loose sight of what is most important and what brings us joy, but through a daily gratitude practice every moment is an opportunity to bear witness to what we're thankful for. We explore some of the latest science on the benefits of gratitude ...
Guided Meditation: Body scan with gratitude
May 08, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBLooking to bring more gratitude in your life, while acknowledging and celebrating your incredible body? In this 26 minute guided body scan meditation with gratitude, Dustin Guinee guides practitioners on a journey to bring nonjudgemental awareness to their bodies and blessing each part from head to toe, without guilt or shame but rather cultivating compassion for our bodies with loving kindness. Dustin also shares his new poem, "Sea of Blessings" which is a testament to living a life with gr...
Guided Meditation: Self-inquiry for a growth mindset
April 24, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBThe following self-inquiry meditation uses powerful questions such as, "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?", to peel back the layers of self and uncover the ego-less awareness that lies beneath. In this 17 minute guided meditation, Dustin Guinee creates a space for growth through the transformative process of self-inquiry, reflecting one's self, the ego and ego-less nature of who we truly are. Dustin also shares his new poem, "Time to Grow" a testament to Mother Nature's flawless system of growt...
Session 22: Mindful of my growth mindset
April 24, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBIn session 22, "Mindful of my growth mindset" we explore the power of having a growth mindset and becoming mindful of continuously growing and evolving. This session is inspired by Carol Dweck's classic book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" which illustrates through countless examples how a growth mindset, embracing change, having a spirit of experimentation and looking at failures as learning opportunities for growth can transform an individuals life and set them up for success. The...
Session 21: Bringing awareness to anxiety
April 09, 2021 01:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBIn session 21, "Bringing awareness to anxiety" we will discuss how mindfulness and brining awareness to our anxiety can help us address it before going down the rabbit hole of self inflicted suffering. This session will be helpful for any one with mild to severe anxiety, which is pretty much most of us. While there will always be stresses in life we have the most powerful choice in how we respond to stresses and address them before they become debilitating anxiety and stress. We'll look at D...
Guided RAIN Meditation to calm anxiety
April 09, 2021 01:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThe following RAIN (recognize, allow, investigate, nurture) meditation is for any one with mild to severe anxiety, looking for a way to find greater calm and peace. In this 21 minute guided meditation, Dustin Guinee guides meditators to recognize the anxiety and stress that is coming up for them, allow it to be present, with nonjudgemental awareness, investigate where it is showing up in the body and then note the feeling and nurture the anxiety to ultimately heal and be liberated from it. T...
Guided Meditation: Remember to Breathe
March 20, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBReturning back to the breathe gets us out of our head and back into the present moment where we can be more aware with mindful nonjudgemental awareness, improving the way we handle stressful situations or soaking in inspiring ones. In this 24 minute guided meditation, Dustin Guinee guides meditators in practicing some different breathing techniques including: basic breath awareness, ocean's breath, breathing with head movements, 4x4 box breathing and Om mantra chanting. The session ends with...
Session 20: Remember to Breathe
March 20, 2021 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBIn session 20, "Remember to Breathe" Dustin Guinee leads meditators to return to the foundation of meditation practice, the breath. While focusing on the breath may sound simple it is anything but simplistic. Bringing our awareness to the breath, helps us quiet the mind while connecting with the body and there is plenty of science to back up the health benefits of a regular breathing practice, like meditation. In the guided meditation, Dustin guides meditators in practicing some different br...
Forgiveness meditation with Ho'oponopono
March 06, 2021 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBHo'oponopono is a Hawaiian practice of forgiveness that means to make correct and put right by practicing self healing and mental cleaning of ones self, thereby aiding in the healing of others. In this 24 minute meditation Dustin Guinee leads a forgiveness meditation inspired by Ho'oponopono and guides meditators to focus on self love, forgiveness and gratitude, filling their own cups first and then applying the forgiveness ritual to a challenging person. The session ends with Dustin's poem,...
Session 19: Love, Apologize, Forgive & Thank
March 06, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBIn session 19, "Love, Apologize, Forgive & Thank" Dustin Guinee leads meditators to examine the ancient Hawaiian healing practice of Hoʻoponopono (Ho-oh-po-no-po-no). Ho'oponopono is a practice of reconciliation and forgiveness that means to make correct and put right by practicing self healing and mental cleaning of ones self, thereby aiding in the healing of others. This healing occurs through a powerful mantra, "I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you." combining the powerful ...
Guided RAIN Meditation for racial equity
February 19, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBRAIN stands for recognize, allow, investigate and nurture. In this 20 minute meditation Dustin Guinee guides practitioners of all races and ethnicities, to examine their thoughts and feelings around race, racism, privilege and prejudice. By recognizing what thoughts and feelings come up, allowing those feelings to be present with non-judgement, investigating where those feelings are showing up in the body and nurturing the pain and suffering, meditators are provided an opportunity for self r...
Session 18: Mindful of racial equity
February 19, 2021 16:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBIn session 18, "Mindful of racial equity" we will explore the role that mindfulness and meditation can play in racial equity and healing. Mindfulness is like a mirror, it reflects back what it sees without judgment or agenda and it's a powerful practice when addressing one's own biases and the way that racism, privilege and prejudice have affected one's mental and spiritual health. Science has proven that all humans are 99.9% genetically identical, that the construct of race is a fallacy and...
Session 17: Loving relationships are a practice
February 05, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBIn session 17, "Loving relationships are a practice" Dustin Guinee guides practitioners on a journey to examine the conscious practice of love for ourselves and others. True love is not a conditional feeling that we only provide to others when they check off all our boxes but rather an unconditional love that comes from a deep place within our hearts that we provide to others, regardless of their attitudes and behaviors. This deep work of love starts with ourselves, as we can not fill the cu...
Guided Meditation: Loving kindness for self & relationships
February 05, 2021 01:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBIf you're looking to have a little more loving kindness in your life this meditation is for you. In this 24 minute meditation Dustin Guinee guides practitioners on a journey to examine the conscious practice of love for ourselves and others. In this loving kindness meditation, loving awareness is cultivated for a wide variety of relationships including: ones self, parents, children, partners, spouses, family, friends and even pets. Dustin closes the session with a new poem, "Love is a Practi...
Session 16: Cultivating intention through attention
January 22, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBIn session 16, "Cultivating intention through attention" Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through the transformative power of setting and living with intention. While setting goals is about achieving a specific objective, setting intentions is about aligning one's head and heart to embody the state of being that most fully expresses our authentic self. So if we're trying to attract more love and kindness into our lives, rather than looking to external sources, we cultivate loving kindness ...
Guided Meditation: Cultivating intention through attention
January 22, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this 20 minute meditation Dustin Guinee guides practitioners through the transformative power of setting and living with intention. Dustin guides meditators on a journey of examining who they are, identifying their truest intentions that align with their values, connecting the head and heart through intuition, becoming mindful of the inner connection with all life and using imagination to create new realities for one's self. At the end of the session Dustin shares his latest poem "Intenti...