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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

Lisa Hopkins, Wide Open Stages

380 episodes

1 day ago

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! When the world gets loud, motivation can feel slippery. This short motivational grounding practice is your calm, focused reset—a reminder to stop forcing momentum and start remembering the steady confidence already within you. Through simple breathwork, clear affirmations, and gentle visualization, you’ll invite your nervous system to settle and your focus to return to what truly matters. The goal isn’t hype; it’s peace. A grounded signal that says: ...

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Let us know what you enjoy about the show! When the world gets loud, motivation can feel slippery. This short motivational grounding practice is your calm, focused reset—a reminder to stop forcing momentum and start remembering the steady confidence already within you. Through simple breathwork, clear affirmations, and gentle visualization, you’ll invite your nervous system to settle and your focus to return to what truly matters. The goal isn’t hype; it’s peace. A grounded signal that says: ...

Show more...

Self-Improvement

Performing Arts,

Health & Fitness,

Episodes (20/380)

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

You Are Ready: A Motivational Grounding Practice

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! When the world gets loud, motivation can feel slippery. This short motivational grounding practice is your calm, focused reset—a reminder to stop forcing momentum and start remembering the steady confidence already within you. Through simple breathwork, clear affirmations, and gentle visualization, you’ll invite your nervous system to settle and your focus to return to what truly matters. The goal isn’t hype; it’s peace. A grounded signal that says: ...

2 days ago

5 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

The Old Tree and the Clouds: Finding Peace in Our Own Nature

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! A short parable set in the Himalayan foothills shows how envy fades when we see the quiet trade-offs behind freedom and stability. Through the story of the old tree and the passing clouds, we explore how consistency can be strength, flexibility can be wisdom, and peace arises when we honor our own unique role in life. In this episode: • Parable of the old tree and passing clouds • The contrast between freedom and constancy • Recognizing the trade-...

5 days ago

4 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

The Pause Between Breaths: A Micro Meditation for Inner Calm

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! The world rarely gives you a quiet minute, so we made one. This guided micro meditation helps you step out of noise and back into yourself without leaving your chair, your car, or your to‑do list. No special setup, no perfect posture—just your breath, a softer body, and the pause that’s already there. We start by noticing the breath exactly as it is, then invite a gentle inhale through the nose and a slow exhale through the mouth. As shoulders melt ...

1 week ago

3 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

The Bridge Between Fear and Flow: Find Your Groove Again

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! When fear shows up, it’s easy to see it as something to push past or avoid. But what if fear isn’t a wall—it’s a bridge? A bridge that can carry you from rut to rhythm, from stagnation to movement, from habit to possibility. In this short, powerful excerpt from my upcoming book I Get To: The Power of Energetic Choice, I share a personal ritual, a metaphor rooted in music and movement, and a framework for understanding the inner blocks that keep us st...

1 week ago

5 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

🪷 Guided Meditation for Balance, Calm, and Inner Alignment

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Feeling off balance or overwhelmed? This guided meditation invites you to gently realign your mind, body, and spirit. Through mindful breathwork, grounding visualization, and energetic awareness, you’ll restore your natural state of harmony and ease. This short restorative practice helps regulate your nervous system, quiet mental chatter, and reconnect you to your inner steadiness—so you can move through your day with clarity and calm. Take these mom...

2 weeks ago

16 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

Stop Blaming Yourself And Start Releasing What No Longer Fits

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What are you putting up with that quietly exhausts you? In this episode, we unpack how toleration creeps in, why we blame ourselves, and how to finally release what no longer fits—without guilt or shame. If you are enjoying the show please subscribe, share and review! Word of mouth is incredibly impactful and your support is much appreciated! Support the show 🌟✨📚 **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'...

2 weeks ago

7 minutes

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Morning Happiness Meditation: Start Your Day with Joy and Intention

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! We guide a gentle morning meditation that uses breath, a soft smile, and memory to cultivate contentment, then expand it with appreciative joy for others. We close with simple ways to spot micro‑joys during the day and carry calm into action. • settling the body and softening judgment • breathing with awareness and smiling through a body scan • reframing meditation as access to joy in the present • recalling a personal moment of happiness with senso...

3 weeks ago

14 minutes

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How the Assumptions You’re Making Are Shaping Your Life ✨

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! We explore how assumptions quietly limit choice and co-create the outcomes we fear, then practice shifting to a beginner’s mindset that opens presence, clarity, and real options. A tap class story reveals how slowing down reframes mastery, and we share practical ways to apply fresh eyes to hard moments. • the inner block of assumption and how it narrows perspective • energetic choices of I can’t, I have to, and I should • a meeting example that show...

3 weeks ago

8 minutes

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💛 Transform Fear: Meeting Yourself with Compassion

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Transform Fear: Meeting Yourself with Compassion When fear shows up uninvited, most of us try to outthink it, outrun it, or push it down. This meditation offers something different: a quiet experiment in kindness. Through gentle breathwork, grounding, and vivid imagery, you’ll learn to meet fear not as a foe to defeat but as energy asking to be seen. We begin by letting gravity hold us—softening the jaw, loosening the shoulders, and lengthening each ...

1 month ago

7 minutes

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Jaime Lozano on Art, Community, and Belonging on Broadway

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! A church choir, a missed criminology path, and a flyer for Jesus Christ Superstar—Jaime Lozano’s origin story doesn’t sound like a straight line to Broadway, but it sings like one. We sit down with Mexican Broadway composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and music director Jaime Lozano to unpack how a series of gut-led choices, generous communities, and a stubborn belief in possibility shaped his art and life. From becoming the first Mexican graduate of NY...

1 month ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚪ Balancing Your Energy Centers: A Guided Meditation Through the Seven Chakras

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Ready to realign your energy and find balance in just 12 minutes? This guided chakra meditation takes you on a transformative journey through your body's seven energy centers using the powerful combination of breath, visualization, and color. We begin at your root chakra, where a glowing red light helps you feel grounded and safe, releasing fears that may be holding you back. As we move to your sacral center, warm orange energy ignites your creativi...

1 month ago

11 minutes

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✨Stop Goal Setting: Create Your Menu for Success✨

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Are you tired of setting goals you can’t stick to? In this episode, Lisa Hopkins introduces The Menu — a flexible, practical tool designed to set you up for success no matter how busy life gets. Instead of rigid goals that often lead to guilt or frustration, The Menu offers bite-sized to main-course options you create for yourself. You’re the chef — and each day, the only “goal” is to choose something from your menu. Discover how to build your own me...

1 month ago

19 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

🌟 Breathe Into Your Power & Shine🌟 A Meditation for Self-Confidence

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Take a journey into your inner landscape with this transformative guided meditation focused on reconnecting with your authentic power. Beginning with mindful breath awareness, this practice leads you to visualize your breath as golden light energy gathering in your solar plexus – your personal power center. Many of us unconsciously dim our light, hiding our gifts and talents from the world. Through gentle guidance, this meditation helps you identify...

1 month ago

11 minutes

STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

Kafka’s Traveling Doll: A Story About Letting Go 🕊️

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if the things we’ve lost aren’t really missing, but simply traveling? This tender retelling of a story attributed to Franz Kafka offers a profound perspective on change, transformation, and how we might relate differently to what we feel we’ve lost. Through the tale of a little girl whose doll goes missing in a Berlin park, we discover a beautiful metaphor for life’s transitions. When a thin man suggests the doll isn’t lost but traveling, he beg...

1 month ago

6 minutes

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✨ 5-Minute Restorative Meditation: Quality Over Quantity

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! This short, restorative meditation guides listeners through a heart-centered practice designed to help them center themselves and shift their energy in under five minutes. • Quality over quantity: even brief moments of focused breathing can be transformative • Simple body relaxation techniques including softening shoulders, jaw, and forehead • Heart-centered visualization with a warm, steady light that expands with each breath • Gentle physical move...

1 month ago

5 minutes

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Shuttlecocks and Belly Laughs: Work, Play, and the Power of Pause 🌿🏸✨

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What if the key to a more fulfilling life isn't about squeezing more productivity from every minute but rather making space for unscheduled joy? Join me as I share the surprising lessons I've learned from playing impromptu badminton games with my husband on the narrow green strip between our cottage and the lake. These spontaneous matches—where he strategically positions me with the wind at my back, sends the birdie soaring into tree branches, and l...

1 month ago

4 minutes

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💫 Meeting Your Future Self: A Guided Visualization for Wisdom and Clarity 🌿

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Doorways to clarity await in this transformative guided meditation that connects you with the wisdom of your future self. The journey begins in a quiet, safe room—your inner sanctuary of possibility. With each breath, you're guided to open windows, inviting fresh air that symbolizes the clearing of mental clutter and stagnant energy. As light floods in, notice how your body responds to this spaciousness, this invitation to expand beyond curren...

1 month ago

10 minutes

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Aisha Jackson on Voice, Presence & the Joy of Sharing Her Gifts

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! What does it really mean to honor your body’s wisdom in a high-pressure career? Broadway star Aisha Jackson (The Great Gatsby, Frozen, Waitress) takes us behind the curtain to reveal the delicate balance between artistic excellence and personal wellbeing. Fresh from celebrating the one-year anniversary of her vocal surgery, Aisha shares her practice of “constant check-ins” — a mindful way of gauging her physical, mental, and vocal capacity each day. ...

2 months ago

56 minutes

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🌿 Meditation for Fresh Starts: Embrace Change & New Beginnings

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! Life is full of transitions—some chosen, some unexpected. Fresh starts can feel both exciting and overwhelming, and often we forget to pause long enough to honor the shift. This guided meditation will help you release what no longer serves you, carry forward the wisdom of what’s behind you, and gently step into what lies ahead. Through mindful breathing and visualization, you’ll plant the seed of your intention and reconnect with the power of presenc...

2 months ago

8 minutes

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🍂 Fall Reflections: A Mindfulness Exercise for the Season of Change ✨🧘‍♀️

Let us know what you enjoy about the show! 🍂 That unmistakable shift in the air signals more than just the turning of seasons—it touches something deeper within us. The angle of sunlight, the rustle of leaves, the crisp blue sky—all converge to create what I call that inescapable fall feeling. ✨ In this episode, I guide you through a simple mindfulness exercise to reflect on the past year—what was hard, what came easily, what surprised you, what sparked curiosity, and what amazed you. 🌟 This ...

2 months ago

10 minutes