The Robert Beatty Podcast

Hey — take a breath. This practice flips the mind’s old critical tapes by inserting one new, gentle line: “I love you” with your name at the end. Say it to your newborn self, your present body, or in a hard memory — no...

This is the last of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session provides guidance in how to work with difficult...

This is the fifth of six introductory guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to the final three...

This is the fourth of six introductory guided meditations: Sometimes one can hardly find the breath to use it as a training object. At such times a meditator can up-level the game and become aware of which of the Five...

This is the third of six guided meditations. It focuses on stress, anxiety and restlessness and teaches you to you come home to the life of the body in the present moment. The guidance is heart-centered and creates an...

This is the second of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to how to work with the...

This is the first of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to mindfulness of breathing and...

Hey — come sit with me for a minute. Notice the breath, the shoulder that aches, the crow outside, and how the mind spins stories while you keep returning to this one true moment. No pressure, no fixing — just the...

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long at this moment to be older, or younger, nor born in any other nation, or time or place. They are content to be where they are, talking or not talking....

This poem is presented in English and Turkish English by Robert Beatty Turkish by Elif Ledron This is not a poem for the faint of heart or those who embrace Pollyana. It is gritty and realistic and loving and a heart...

Hello Friend: Please take a few minutes and allow your heart to open to profound self love. Using the simple and potent mantra "I love you" we will open our hearts and the deep unconscious mind to deep healing...

Open the way inside you, the universe is your only breath, surrender to the present moment, what's coming now is all that's left, many Rivers flow through us, many creatures become us....

Death asked me to join him for dinner so I slipped into my favorite black dress that I had been saving for a special occasion and let him walk me to our candlelit tryst. He ordered a ribeye, extra rare I ordered two...

This poem is like a splash of cold water in the face. Wake up and know what you know, what is real. Everything that can be lost will be lost. This is the essence of the Buddha's teachings in a few lines. Buckle up this...

The Buddha recommended that we spend time with the Five Daily Recollections each and every day. They are a medicine for fear, greed, hatred, and confusion. By reflecting often and deeply on these truths a new freedom is...