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Season 2
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Season 2 Introduction
Welcome to SEASON 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast, offering short guided meditations designed for listening while walking your dog. This season is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been meditating most of her life, always finding inner peace while walking with her dogs off-leash in the woods. These meditations aim to release distractions, reduce stress, and be present with your dog to strengthen your mutual connection. This show is a spinoff series from the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting stories from guest interviews about how life is better with a dog.
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Off-Leash Dog Walks
This advisory message provides guidance on how to safely prepare for an off-leash dog walk that protects dogs and wildlife, such as in a public park or nature reserve where it is permitted. It is important to have a reliable recall with your dog so that they can come to you when called. Implementing training tools, like remote tech devices, can also help ensure reliable communication with your dog to signal cues for recall over long distances. Insights presented by award-winning nature journalist Annette McGivney.
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Sharing This Moment
This walking meditation is designed to focus on breathing and to ease your mind, relax your body, and bring attention to your dog. The reward will be a calming feeling that deepens your connection together. Learn how to take your thoughts away from the distractions of everyday life and instead ground yourself in the present moment with your dog. Plus, it can be a way for us to better get in touch with the nature around us, wherever we are. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Walk in Beauty
This mantra meditation is inspired by the powerful Navajo concept of experiencing nature in harmony with all things in our world. It can be a spiritual journey where you feel very strong connection to your dog running off-leash in the woods. It’s also a primal connection of being outside in nature and feeling directly connected to the land, the plants, the wind, the sky, and the birds. To be in balance all beings and the greater universe. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Embrace Joy
This walking meditation is designed to help gain a stronger appreciation for your dog and the natural world on your walks together. It will also direct you notice our dog’s exuberance, and this happiness may extend into our hearts and mind. The reward from this meditation will be a feeling of joy that allows you to be more present with others in daily routines, bringing an increased sense of gratitude and fullness to life. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Loving Confidence
This mantra meditation is designed to free your mind from the many distractions and dilemmas of everyday life. Instead, the goal is to shift your focus on your dog and the immense love that they bring you. Truly recognizing the importance of this can make you feel more confident in all facets of your life by knowing you have their unconditional support. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Pure Love
This visualization meditation is designed to bring you closer to the natural world that surrounds you, wherever you are. This practice will also help you to connect and reflect on your relationship with your dog in a deeply spiritual way. Afterward, you may feel the pure love from your mutual bond and immense gratitude for having a dog in your life. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Finding Forgiveness
This mantra meditation is designed to help guide your mind towards the act of forgiveness and not dwelling on the past, like our dogs seem to do everyday. The goal of this meditation is to make room in your heart for love and peace. Guided by Annette McGivney.
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Stress Relief Body Scan
This visualization meditation is designed to release tension throughout the body while on a dog walk, or sitting with a dog next to you. This guided body scan will slowly, from head to toe, recognize where you may be holding stress and imagine releasing tightness with each exhale. By allowing the body to decompress mindfully, you will be left feeling grounded and centered. When we are calm and stress-free, our dogs tend to reflect back a similar demeanor.
Season 1
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Introduction
Welcome to SEASON 1 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast and guided by John Bartlett. This provides an introduction to the new seasonal series, which will include short guided meditations that may be listened to while walking dogs. The goal of these guided meditations is to release distractions, reduce stress, and be present with our dog as a way of strengthening your mutual connection. This show is a spinoff series from the Dog Save The People podcast, which features heartwarming stories from guest interviews about how life is better with a dog.
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Calming Connection
This walking meditation is meant to help us slow down from the rush of everyday life and the pressures that we feel around the clock. To step away from our anxieties of the past or of the future, and just focus on the here and now. To truly be in the moment in the same way our dogs live each day. This meditation is meant for while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, relaxing at home, or any place or activity of your choice that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Be Kind
This mantra provides a personal affirmation for us to be kind and to spread that spirit to others, and to our animals, through our actions and words. These repeated words will leave you with a positive mindset. Enjoy this mantra meditation while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, relaxing at home, or any place or activity of your choice that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Past Dog Tribute
This visualization meditation is a way to remember previous dogs, embracing and celebrating the journey you shared together and remembering them in a loving and positive way. You can practice this meditation in the comfort of your home, while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, or any place or activity of your choosing that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Power of Empathy
This mantra prompts you to more fully and consciously appreciate the important beings in your life, including your dogs. To think of their bond to you, and wish positive thoughts about their well-being. These repeated words can help strengthen your time thinking about others. Enjoy this mantra meditation while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, relaxing at home, or any place or activity of your choice that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Leaving Negativity
This walking meditation is designed to help us release the negativity in our lives, to open up to a wider spectrum of compassion and forgiveness. While humans may have a hard time letting go of grudges or negative thoughts, we can take a lesson from our dogs to more assuredly move forward. Dogs don’t linger on the past, they live in the moment and keep going. If we’re able to free our minds of unnecessary burden and instead let go, we can live a better daily life as a result. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Feeling Gratitude
This walking meditation is a way to feel a deeper and more present sense of appreciation for your dog, your life, and recognizing what you have – not what you don’t. You can practice this meditation in the comfort of your home, while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, or any place or activity of your choosing that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Peace and Unity
This mantra is designed to help form more harmonious and untroubled relationships with ourselves, our animals, our fellow humans, and the natural world. It’s about projecting a peaceful presence to feel a more special bond with all around us, so that we can all connect together in a positive, intentional way. This meditation is meant for while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, relaxing at home, or any place or activity of your choice that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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Total Body Relaxation
This visualization meditation goes through a full body scan, which will relax you – and, by extension, your dog – to further empower your connection together. The goal is to ease tension from head to toe, exhaling as you go. This meditation is meant for while walking your dog, sitting in the dog park, relaxing at home, or any place or activity of your choice that provides you the space to be aware and think mindfully. Guided by John Bartlett.
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