[033] Coffee with Dakota: Releasing Energy through Meditation

My friend recently started tapping into some Shamanic practices, and then I came across your guided shamanic meditations on YouTube. I'm so intrigued now and wondered if you would please tell me through your own words what shamanism is and how you help others through this form of practice?

I want to meditate but I can't seem to quiet my mind and just be still. Thoughts are always racing through my head. I would love to know how to properly meditate and truly get something out of my meditation.

I have a question: all the meditations and teachings: do you create them based on people's needs? Or are they old meditations you learned yourself.  I'm basically interested in how  all that content is created. Thank you for bringing the additional resources of wisdom to my life.

Guided meditation is quite popular and with good reason. It's benefits are enormous and meditation can be just the tool you need for reducing stress, finding connection, and more. In today's coffee, Dakota answers a question about meditation and why it is so prevalent now in our time.

I've been finding it very difficult/impossible to meditate. I'm unable to concentrate or silence my mind of wandering thoughts. I've never experienced this challenge before. I'm doing everything the same and I'm at a loss. I know now is the time that I'll most benefit from meditation as I am waking up each morning in an anxious state. What advice do you have when it's difficult to meditate?

For 4 hours I sat there letting the stones tell me their story, feeling the gratitude in my heart for the life I have, acknowledging the strengths, opportunities, and the people, the experiences I have in my life. Each part of my life reflected to me in those moments of sitting in silence, just being, and observing...  And I'd like to share a piece of that peace with you. I filmed 20 minutes of those moments with my tiny treasures, the moonstones that often go unnoticed.