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	<title>Meditation Oasis</title>
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		<title>Loneliness as a doorway to connection – guided meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loneliness can be a doorway to connection. Contained within the feelings of loneliness is our capacity for connection. Our podcast meditation &#8211; Guided Meditation for Loneliness &#8211; encourages you to go deep into the feelings of loneliness to connect with yourself and ultimately with others. So often we resist emotions that we feel are threatening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2013/03/15/loneliness-as-a-doorway-to-connection-guided-meditation/</link>
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		<title>Is meditation making me irritable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideally meditation will make us less, not more irritable, but sometimes people do find that irritability or other uncomfortable experiences come up when they begin mediation. I just answered a question from Danielle who is having this problem. The question and answer are worth posting, as it&#8217;s much easier to find articles about the benefits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2013/01/09/is-meditation-making-me-irritable/</link>
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		<title>Healthy Body Guided Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our new podcast meditation is designed to help you visualize a healthy body. Many people have requested this, each with a different angle. Many wanted to visualize a specific goal. While I allowed time at the beginning of the meditation  for people to set a goal, I created a meditation focused on the health of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2012/09/06/healthy-body-guided-meditation/</link>
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		<title>A Gift of Acceptance and Self-Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A visit from a friend the other day brought an unexpected gift. One of the greatest things a friend can do is to help us to love and appreciate ourselves more, and that&#8217;s exactly what my friend did when she visited my home. My friend, also named Mary, is a beautiful woman, beautiful inside and out. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2012/06/02/a-gift-of-acceptance-and-self-love/</link>
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		<title>Pregnancy Meditation — Connecting with your Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deepening your connection to your baby during pregnancy is not only fulfilling in itself, but has benefits for both mother and baby. This new podcast meditation helps you to relax deeply, tune into your body and connect with the baby in your womb. When deeply relaxed, everything flows more easily in your body, circulating blood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2012/04/25/pregnancy-meditation-connecting-with-your-baby/</link>
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		<title>All about meditation and sleep!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will meditation help me sleep? I&#8217;m falling asleep during meditation, am I doing something wrong? Is it OK to meditate at bedtime? &#8220;It depends&#8230;&#8221; is often the answer to these common questions. It depends on what kind of meditation you are doing. It depends on your unique nervous system and physiology. It depends on why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2012/03/19/all-about-meditation-and-sleep/</link>
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		<title>Guided Meditation for Compassion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compassion, like gratitude, is something we love to feel. Even though compassion arises as we witness and empathize with another&#8217;s pain, it is satisfying to feel this response in our hearts. It feeds our hearts. Hopefully, this new podcast meditation will help strengthen and develop your capacity for compassion, not only for others, but more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2012/01/22/guided-meditation-for-compassion/</link>
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		<title>Non-resistance in Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comment from Kathy &#8212; &#8220;I have trouble meditating in general. I can relax completely but then the slightest things disturb me. Things like my eyelids fluttering or an itch. My limbs become restless. Can you advise any strategy to help deal with that so I can stay in that relaxed state?&#8221; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 11-19-2011 &#8212; Meant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2011/11/18/non-resistance-in-meditation/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating 5 years of our podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 7, 2006 we published our first Meditation Oasis podcast episode. We had no idea that 5 years later, there would be over 8 million downloads and that people all over the world, of all ages and backgrounds, would become listeners. Our podcast meditations have been used in ways and in places we would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2011/11/07/celebrating-5-years-of-our-podcast/</link>
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		<title>People are all the same…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cheers theme song has been playing in my head today ever since meeting a podcast listener while doing my grocery shopping today. &#8220;You wanna go where people know, people are all the same, You wanna go where everybody knows your name.&#8221; When you have an online presence, or people hear your voice on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meditationoasis.com/2011/08/16/people-are-all-the-same/</link>
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