In this episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast, host Mike Hartman, a performance coach and former professional athlete, introduces the show and its mission to support athletes and workplace athletes through mindfulness, assessment tools, and goal‑setting techniques. The core of the episode is a guided gratitude‑and‑breath meditation delivered by a second speaker. Listeners are invited to bring awareness to their breath, posture, heartbeats, and the body, cultivating gratitude for each inhalation and exhalation, the miracle of the heartbeat, and the capacity of the mind. The meditation emphasizes kindness toward the mind, the infinite capacity for awareness, and returning focus to breath when the mind wanders. The episode closes with Mike encouraging listeners to rate, subscribe, and visit HealthyMindsetApp.com for more information about the Healthy Mindset Program.
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Welcome to the Healthy Mindset App Podcast, where host Mike Hartman, a Performance Coach and former professional athlete, brings his passion to help athletes and workplace athletes achieve their dreams and goals while being mindful of everything else in life. Mike also uses this platform to share his targeted assessment applications, Healthy Mindset Course, meditation, and goal-setting technique for the athlete and workplace athlete. We're glad you're here. Now let's dive headfirst into this episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast. Here's your host, Mike Hartman.
Gratitude for breath, body, and mind. To begin this meditation, please bring kind awareness to why you chose this topic, how your belly, chest, and head each feel when you reflect on this topic, the emotions that you can associate with these visceral feelings, the positive or negative impact of any stories you believe in regarding this topic, the fact that many others are feeling similarly about this topic as you, how you might feel with increased awareness around this topic, when you can apply increased mindfulness to this topic in your day-to-day life. Gratitude for breath, body, and mind. Take a full breath in through the nose and sit up a little taller. As you exhale through the nose, release the shoulders. Take a few moments with attention to breath, settling into a neutral upright posture. Allow your belly to soften. Shift your shoulders back ever so slightly and lower the chin so the back of the neck is neutral and long. And with this awareness of breath and posture, begin to intentionally generate a deep sensation of gratitude for the breath itself. As you watch, notice the breath moving in and out through the nose. Remember how precious this one breath is, and this next one too. Invite in the spaciousness of awe and wonder as you sit with the next 3 to 5 cycles of breath. And then draw attention to your heart. Feel the heartbeat beat. Perhaps in the quiet you can hear Still aware of breath, but noticing, listening to the heart, inviting in awareness of the miracle of the heartbeat as we sit with this noticing for 3 to 5 cycles of breath. And still aware of the breath and the heartbeat, draw awareness to the form of your human body here, functioning, breath breathing. Heart beating, noticing whatever it is that arises when we notice the unique fortune of our human birth. Here in this human body, you have everything you need to awaken. You have everything you need to find happiness, contentment, and joy within. There is infinite capacity within you, infinite capacity for awareness and gratitude. Breath breathing, heart beating, a mind that can notice, understand, feel, and discern. A mind whose capacity for awareness understanding, and growth is infinite. A mind whose capacity for noticing its true nature is right here, right now, in your hands. Smile on the breath. Smile on the heartbeat. Invite in love for this body. And kindness toward this mind, towards this mind. Rest here, remembering that you have everything you need, resting in gratitude for it all. And as the mind, with its infinite capacity, tries to draw you away, keep coming back to the wonder of this one breath in This one breath out, the magic of the heartbeat, the beauty in being here.
We're so glad you joined us for this episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast with your host, Mike Hartman. If you're enjoying the show, please feel free to rate, subscribe, and leave a review wherever wherever you listen to your podcasts. That helps others find the show, and we greatly appreciate it. To dive deeper and learn more about the Healthy Mindset Program or to get in touch with Mike, please visit our website, HealthyMindsetApp.com. Thanks again for listening, and we hope you'll join us again in the next episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast. Until then, be well.
