A Microdose Meditation to Help You Reframe Challenging Moments for More Mindfulness and Resilience

The Whole Again Podcast: Mindfulness and Resilience through Kinstugi Wisdom airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with Pause Breathe Reflect Microdose Meditations, Growth Mindset and Mindfulness Tips, to help us transform our scars into healing and resilience.

And between May and October, I'm sharing a new series I'm calling: A Perfectly Imperfect Union. It's about connecting with every day folks as they reflect on America at 250. Conversations will air every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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What if the hard thing you're carrying right now isn't something you need to push through -- but something that's passing through you?

That's the quiet invitation at the heart of this week's Monday microdose meditation on Whole Again.

This episode features a poem by one of Michael's favorite American poets, IN Q -- who graciously allowed a personal reading of his work, "It's Going Through You."

Woven into a brief, breath-centered meditation, the poem reframes one of the most exhausting stories we tell ourselves: that we are stuck inside our struggles.

What if we're not?

What if the struggle is simply moving through us, and on the other side is a new version of who we are becoming?

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Hey there, it's Michael. Welcome to Whole Again. On Mondays, I love sharing a microdose meditation with you to help you start your week off on the right foot Poetry weaves in and out of Pause, Breathe, Reflect because I believe we can learn a lot about ourselves and each other through poetry. This microdose meditation is a poem by one of my favorite American poets, in Q.

He was gracious enough to allow me to record a reading of one of his poems, It's Going Through You.

And here it is. I hope you enjoy it and you share it with a friend

You're not going through it, it's going through you. And once it's all gone, you'll become the new you with a different perspective from the same point of view, fully unaffected by the old truth you once knew

I invite you to continue to breathe in slowly, breathe out slowly as you reflect on the poem

You're not going through it. It's going through you

And when you're ready, you can flutter your eyes open and wiggle your fingers and toes. And remember that you've got this, and here, I've got you. If you liked this microdose meditation, I hope you'll share it with a friend. You can find this one, as well as over 700 microdose meditations and a really cool feature to help improve your digital health on my app, and the name of it is called Pause, Breathe, Reflect.

It's free to download in Apple's App Store and on Google Play. And I hope you'll check out my new series I'm doing. I release conversations every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. The new series is called A Perfectly Imperfect Union. I'm talking to 102 everyday Americans about their reflections of America as she turns 250.

So I hope you'll join us