Carrie Skarda: Creating Space for Mindfulness and Meditation as Latter-day Saints

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Sacrament, temple worship, and prayer are all aspects of Latter-day Saint doctrine. But have you ever considered that they are also exercises in mindfulness? On this week’s episode, we discuss everything from what it means to set an intention focused on Jesus Christ to what the story of Joseph Smith teaches us about being still long enough for answers to unfold.

"One of the downsides of approaching our spiritual life and our religious faith with this sort of instant microwave mentality is that the gospel, a lot of aspects of the gospel, just don't work that way. You can't get personal revelation by asking Siri a question. And you can't order your testimony to be delivered by Amazon... these things by definition, take time to grow."

Show Notes

2:54- An Emotional Burn Victim
6:42- Latter-day Saint Practice of Mindfulness
9:21- Setting an Intention
10:21- Creating Space to Calm Down
16:24- President Nelson’s Invitation to Women
22:09- Stigmas
27:33- A Place to Begin
34:04- Benefits of Meditation and Mindfulness
37:46- Sitting with Christ
40:06- What Does It Mean To Be “All In” The Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I hope you are all happy and healthy amidst the craziness that is the coronavirus.
0:07.0	I'm fairly certain I have never experienced anything like this in my life, but if there's
0:12.5	anything we have an opportunity to practice right now, it's stillness.
0:17.6	So I'm so excited to share today's episode with you.
0:21.0	I'm recording just the intro and extra for this episode out of our office and away from
0:26.6	our recording equipment, so you may notice the audio quality being not as great as usual.
0:32.6	But don't worry, this interview that you're about to hear was recorded last week before
0:37.2	we even knew what social distancing meant.
0:40.2	Enjoy!
0:42.4	Last year we released two episodes of this podcast about meditation and stillness.
0:48.7	Those two episodes alone collected over 86,000 downloads, so we decided that because this
0:55.5	topic is clearly something you're interested in, and because last time we only talked
1:01.0	to men, this time we're going to do a two-part series with just women.
1:07.0	First up is Carrie Scarda.
1:09.6	Carrie L. Scarda is a psychologist in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1:15.4	She has provided individual and couples therapy with particular interest in attachment, trauma,
1:21.2	and mindfulness for the last 18 years.
1:24.5	She was the director of training at the Antioch Facility of Kaiser Permanente HMO in California
1:31.3	and has facilitated numerous therapy groups on such topics as depression, personality disorders,
1:38.8	work stress, crisis management, and parenting.
1:42.4	As a facilitator at 16 Stone Center for Growth, she has taught workshops on mindfulness,
1:49.1	mindful eating, and forgiveness.
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