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the Inner Practice, yoga for the mind

Catherine Haylock

There's a calm that doesn't depend on anything going right. It's always there, just quieter than the thinking, and easy to lose under the noise of a busy mind.


This podcast is about finding your way back to it. We look at how the mind works and why it makes everything harder than it needs to be, how to work with our emotions instead of being run by them, and how to hear the intuition underneath it all again. 


Nothing to fix, nothing to become, just a clearer way of seeing what's already here.


I'm Catherine Haylock, and everything I share comes from my own experience, the difficult stretches and the quiet that came after.

 

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  • S1 · E5
    October 2 · 19 min

    Racing thoughts at 3am? Why it happens and how to get back to sleep

    You wake up at 3am, can't get back to sleep, and within a minute your mind has found something, the conversation that went badly, the money, someone you love, and it turns it over, and over again, and then an hour has gone. In this episode I talk about why the problem feels so much bigger at that hour. Your mind isn't more truthful at night, it just has nothing to check its stories against, and a mind that's awake with nothing to do goes looking for whatever is unresolved. Then what I actually do. I give the worry an appointment, a real time and a real place, and I keep it. I don't look at the clock, I don't pick up the phone, and I count my breath backwards from nine to zero, and start again. For the nights when even counting is too much, I've recorded a Yoga Nidra for Sleep. It's free, and the link is below. Set it up before you go to bed with the volume low, so at three in the morning all you do is press play, and if you fall asleep in the first two minutes, job done. Yoga Nidra for Sleep: https://catherinehaylock.com/yoga-nidra-for-sleep/

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  • S1 · E3
    August 8 · 20 min

    How to stop believing every thought your mind tells you

    What do you do when everything falls apart and you've got no energy to practice? A few years ago everything around me came crashing down, and so did I. I'd come from a strong physical yoga practice, and when it all fell apart there just wasn't the energy for the mat or the meditation cushion. In this episode I talk about what I actually did, day to day, over weeks, when everything else was out of reach. And then what came after, once my nervous system was calm enough that I could look at what was underneath, which is where the real work started. This is the work I teach, the Inner Practice, yoga for the mind. If you'd like to find out more, it's all at www.catherinehaylock.com/yoga-for-the-mind I'm sharing my own experience here and the practice I teach, not medical advice. If anxiety is making daily life hard for you at the moment, please talk to your doctor too, there's no reason to be doing this on your own.

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  • S1 · E2
    July 24 · 13 min

    How an emotion actually dissolves

    Every time we're triggered and we stay with the feeling instead of the story, we shave one layer off it. And then one day someone says the thing that would have completely triggered us a year ago, and we notice, hours later, that we didn't even react to it. Nothing was managed, there was just less there to react with. That's what this episode is about, and it starts with the person cutting in front of you in the queue, small enough that we can practise on it. Try it this week, and if you do, I'd like to know where in your body you found it. I'm Catherine Haylock. I've been teaching yoga for over 25 years, and the Inner Practice is yoga for the mind: working directly with thoughts, emotions and the patterns underneath them. Work with me 1:1: https://catherinehaylock.com/work-with-me/ Writing on the inner practice: https://catherinehaylock.com/sign-up/

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  • S1 · E1
    July 10 · 14 min

    Why fixing the stuck feeling keeps you stuck

    Feeling stuck rarely arrives as a crisis. It's the niggling feeling in the quiet moments, when the day is done and something just doesn't sit right, and the question comes: is this it? Is this all I can expect? In this episode I take that feeling apart. Why we drown it out with doom-scrolling and binge watching TV, or bury it under the next plan, the next course, the meditation cushion we swear we'll sit on every morning. Why none of it holds, and why the brain, doing its job, protecting us from uncertainty, talks us out of change every time. I'm Catherine Haylock. I teach the Inner Practice, yoga for the mind: how to find the space underneath the chattering mind, where things get quieter and you can hear yourself again. For the writing and reflections between episodes, sign up to my newsletter: https://catherinehaylock.com/sign-up/ To find out more about the Inner Practice: https://catherinehaylock.com/yoga-for-the-mind/

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