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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
πβ¨π **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** πβ¨π
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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π **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
π Visit [Wide Open Stages](https://www.wideopenstages.com)
πΈ **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** [@wideopenstages](https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/)
π **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME)
π΅ **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
π [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg)
STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
π Journey Through the Chakras: Awakening Your Creative Spirit β¨
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Struggling to access your creativity? Feeling disconnected from your inner voice? This chakra meditation offers a beautiful journey back to yourself through energy alignment and guided visualization.
We begin by settling into a comfortable position, allowing the breath to naturally deepen as we prepare to travel through each energy center. Starting at the root chakra, we visualize a strong red light grounding us to earth, establishing safety and belonging. This foundation serves as the bedrock for all creative work. Moving upward, we activate the sacral chakra's orange glow, the seat of creative flow and emotional expression, affirming our natural ability to create without resistance.
The journey continues through the golden yellow solar plexus, center of confidence and personal power, where we reclaim trust in ourselves and our creative decisions. We then open the heart's compassionate green light, the throat's expressive blue energy, and the third eye's intuitive indigo wisdom. Each chakra, when aligned, removes another barrier between you and your innate creative potential.
The meditation culminates in a powerful visualization of a light-filled doorway leading to your personal creative sanctuaryβa space within that holds all your inspiration, wisdom, and artistic expression. Here, you can commune with your creative essence, ask questions, and receive guidance directly from your higher self. This sacred inner room remains accessible long after the meditation ends, a permanent resource you can return to whenever creative blocks arise.
Remember that your creativity never leaves youβit's always there, waiting for you to create space and alignment to access it. This 20-minute practice offers not just temporary relief but a sustainable pathway to your creative source. Return to it whenever you need to realign, reconnect, and rediscover the vast wellspring of imagination that lives within you.
πβ¨π **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** πβ¨π
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
π Purchase Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/2UlsmYC
π **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
π Visit Wide Open Stages https://www.wideopenstages.com
πΈ **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
π **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME
π΅ **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
π [Listen on Spotify]
https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg
Hey there, this is a chakra meditation for creativity and alignment, welcome. Let's begin by finding a comfortable seated or lying down position, allowing your spine to lengthen, your shoulders to soften, your eyes to gently close, let your breath arrive slowly and naturally, inhaling through your nose and exhaling softly through the mouth. This is your time, a moment to return to yourself, to realign, replenish and reconnect with the wisdom that already lives inside of you. Take one more deep breath in and let it go with a sigh. Let's begin with the root chakra. Bring your attention to the base of your spine and, as you continue to breathe, nice and easy, I want you to visualize a deep red light glowing there at the base of your spine your root chakra, strong, steady grounding. Feel your connection to the earth beneath you and imagine roots growing from your body into the ground. Take a deep breath in feeling this strength and connectedness to your root chakra, breathing out the color red as you silently affirm I am grounded, I am safe, I belong. Take a moment to embody this feeling and then, when you're ready, we're going to draw our awareness around the sacral chakra. This is the area just below your navel. I want you to focus there as you sense a warm orange light radiating from the space. This is the center of your creativity, pleasure and emotional flow. Gentle waves of orange water here, silently affirm I flow with ease, my creativity is.
Speaker 1:We're going to move now toward the solar plexus chakra, which is the area just around your, your center of personal power. A golden yellow shines brightly here, like a yellow sun. It's warm and pulsing with energy. Breathe into your strength and sense your potential Breathing in this beautiful yellow light while you silently affirm I am confident, I trust myself. Embody this feeling. Breathe it in, staying with your focus on your solar plexus chakra. Just a few more breaths In through the nose and out through the mouth when you're ready. We're going to shift our attention to your heart center, your beautiful heart chakra, and I want you to visualize a green light expanding outward with each breath. This is the home of compassion, this is the home of love and of connection. As you breathe in this beautiful green energy, feel your heart open also to yourself, with tenderness and without judgment, silently affirming I am love, I give and I receive with ease.
Speaker 1:Drawing our awareness now to our throat chakra. See a blue light spinning and swirling here, clear and truth. Breathe in to your ability to speak clearly and listen deeply. Beautiful blue light of the throat chakra, silently affirming I express myself with clarity and authenticity. Moving now, gently, to the third eye chakra, draw your focus on the space between your eyebrows, your focus on the rise to the surface. You don't need to force it, just open yourself, just listen. Beautiful indigo purple light, silently affirming Absolutely knowing. I trust my inner guidance. My intuition is wise and true. Finally, bring your awareness and attention to the ground of your head and imagine a glowing white light spiraling upward, connecting you deeply to something greater your highest self, your inner goddess, your source energy or divine wisdom. Feel yourself open to insight, clarity and expansion, silently affirming I am connected, I am light, I am.
Speaker 1:Take a deep breath in here, with your chakras open and aligned, exhaling with ease and spaciousness, and I want you to visualize yourself standing in a wide, open landscape, a field of snow, wherever your imagination takes you. Ahead of you is a glowing door made of light, and as you walk toward it. And as you walk toward it, notice how it pulses with possibility. This door leads you to your inner creative space. Take a few deep breaths here, focusing on this door emanating light, and, when you're ready, step through, you find yourself in a room that only you know, a space filled creative essence. Maybe there are colors, images, shapes, objects. Maybe there's music or people who inspire you no-transcript. Maybe you see a version of you free, powerful, expressive, unapologetic and whole. If you feel inclined, you can ask this inner self a question, if you wish, or simply listen.
Speaker 1:Spend some time here, musing, being curious, listening and really tapping in to your essence, to your creative essence. Allow any wisdom or image or sound or feeling or taste. Allow any of these to arise naturally, knowing that whatever comes is exactly what is supposed to come. When you're ready, allow yourself to start to come back to the room that you're in now as you listen to this meditation, knowing that you don't have to leave this beautiful room that you visualized and that you can revisit it anytime because it's inside of you. Start to bring your awareness back to your body. Maybe wiggle your fingers and toes, gently, rocking your head from side to side, whatever feels right. Place your hands over your heart and take a deep breath, in and out, knowing the truth that you can return to this space anytime.
Speaker 1:You will never lose your creativity. It is always with you. We've just re-centered ourselves to feel more connected, more balanced to this sacred place in our soul. Your wisdom is vast and it is never far, my friend. We are so connected to the many lives that came before us and the many that will come after, and we are exactly where we're supposed to be. I'm going to count backwards from five, four, three, two and one. When you're ready, go ahead and open your eyes. This has been 20 minutes. Namaste, my friend.