MEDITATIONS podcast - Episode 01 - WHY do I meditate?

MEDITATIONS is an experimental guided practice podcast exploring personal healing, collective power, and resilience. Nonbinary activist and podcast host Emerson Wolfe has spent years seeking healing tools to manage the effects of debilitating illness, chronic stress, and childhood trauma. Less love and light and more sweat and tears, MEDITATIONS creates a space where friends can come together to do difficult self development work with the help of scientific research and expert interviews. In this episode, Emerson uncovers a series of childhood events and feelings that led them toward the path of meditation. It was those formative experiences that also helped Emerson explore the power of the nervous system - and how it's related to more than we realize. Emerson discusses the importance of establishing a self reflection habit and the mechanics of meditation, and offers a short guided practice based on present moment awareness techniques. Practice begins at 19:10. For subtitles, watch with captions or see the transcript at: https://www.chronicallychillcare.com/podcast/episode-1