
STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what theyβve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David SternπΆ
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Finding Clarity: A Guided Meditation for Purpose and Focus
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Feeling caught in the endless hustle of the "human race" with your true desires and direction clouded by daily noise? This gentle guided meditation creates a sacred space for you to reconnect with what truly matters.
Through careful breathwork and visualization, you'll journey inward to the light of your inner wisdomβthat intuitive center where clarity naturally resides. The practice doesn't demand immediate answers or force revelations. Instead, it offers permission to simply be present, creating the conditions for insights to emerge organically, whether through words, images, feelings, or a deep sense of knowing.
The heart of this meditation invites you to explore profound questions: What is calling you forward? What work or path lights you up? How do you want to show up in this world? As you visualize yourself fully aligned with purpose, you'll experience how it feels to move through life with ease, joy, and certainty. This embodied preview creates a powerful reference point for the clarity you're cultivating.
Anchored with affirming statements like "Clarity is already within me" and "Every breath brings me closer to my highest path," this practice acknowledges that purpose reveals itself one step at a time. You'll finish feeling grounded yet expansive, remembering that you are exactly where you're supposed to be on your journey. Whether you're seeking direction at a crossroads or simply wish to deepen your connection to purpose, this meditation offers a gentle pathway back to your internal guidance system.
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Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! ππ
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Hey there, today we're going to create some space for clarity and connect to our deeper purpose. So often in the noise of daily life, our true desires and direction can feel clouded. We get caught in what I like to call the human race. This meditation will help you quiet the mind, tune into your inner wisdom and gain a sense of clarity about what is calling you forward. There's no need to force an answer. Just allow yourself to be present, open and receptive. Whatever insights come, trust that they are unfolding in perfect timing. Let's begin. Find a comfortable position, either sitting or lying down. When you're ready, close your eyes gently and take a deep breath in through your nose and slowly exhale through your mouth. Let yourself settle into this moment. Release any tension in your shoulders, your jaw, your hands. Take another deep breath in filling your lungs with fresh energy and exhale anything that no longer serves you. And exhale anything that no longer serves you Once again. Inhale deeply and exhale completely. Now bring your awareness to the present, let go of the past, release any thoughts of the future in the space of possibility and as you connect to your inner stillness, I want you to imagine a warm, steady light at the center of your chest. This is the light of your inner wisdom, your intuition, your truth, your purpose. With each inhale, feel this light growing brighter and with each exhale, allow anything that clouds your clarity to simply dissolve. Breathe in clarity, breathe out confusion, breathe in purpose, breathe out doubt. Let this light expand gently, filling your whole body with a.
Speaker 1:Ask yourself a few things and I want you to trust whatever arises. It may come as words, images, emotions or even a deep sense of knowing. And if no clear answer comes, that's perfectly okay. Simply allow space for insight to unfold. Now ask yourself softly, without pressure, without expectation, yourself, softly, without pressure, without expectation, what is calling work, the mission, the path that lights me up, how do I want to be in this world? Trust whatever arises. It may come as a word or an image, or a feeling. If no clear answer comes, that's okay. Simply allow space for the insight to unfold. There may be a glimmer, just an inkling, of a feeling. Allow that to grow inside, nurture it, lead with it.
Speaker 1:Now imagine yourself fully, aligned with your purpose. See yourself moving through life with ease, joy and certainty. It feel like to live with clarity. How do you show up in the world when you are fully? How does this version of you speak, create, lead and inspire? Take a moment to breathe into this vision and let it sink into every cell of your being. Drink it in and now. Let's anchor this energy by gently repeating these affirmations in perfect timing.
Speaker 1:Clarity is already within me. I allow it to new possibilities and, in alignment with my truth, you. Every breath I take brings me closer to my highest path. Let these words settle into your heart and know that it is true. Take a deep breath in holding it at the top and then, with a sigh, exhale you are clear, you are open. You are open, you are here and you have everything you need, slowly bringing your awareness back to your body. Now, wiggle your fingers and toes, feel the surface beneath you. Take one last deep, grounding. Breath in and exhale fully. When you're ready, gently open your eyes. Carry this sense of clarity with you. Today you may not have all the answers you wouldn't be seeking. And then how could you grow? Trust that your purpose is revealing itself, one step at a time. You are exactly where you're supposed to be Namaste.