Expansive Teachings

What Does Spiritual Wellness Mean to You?

2021-05-26T20:24:21-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

An interview with a guided exercise I was a guest on the Women Connecting in Wisdom podcast. We spoke about spiritual wellness, something we all need more of these days, when everything is still so intense and uncertain. Yes, more people are getting vaccinated and things are slowly opening up. But the world has [...]

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Scarcity-Abundance Exercise!

2021-08-19T18:37:09-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to Embrace Scarcity in Order to Make Room for Abundance I was inspired by a daily meditation from Eileen Caddy’s book, Opening Doors Within, focusing on how to surrender and allow the Universe to provide you with abundance. So, I decided to share it with you. But here’s the thing, whenever we are ready [...]

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Reconnecting with Delight When It’s Been a Rough Week!

2021-05-26T20:25:17-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How delight can uplift you when you are feeling low and want to lighten up It’s been an emotionally intense week. My mom fell again and has a fracture in her shoulder; I am teaching a graduate course on the Psychology of Power and Privilege, which is dealing with intense issues in our society; [...]

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Finding Ways to Truly Listen

2021-05-26T20:28:14-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How I Connected with My 94-Year-Old Mother Who Has Dementia My mother is ninety-four years old and lives on the other side of the planet. There is a nine-hour time difference between us. She has dementia. So, it is not always easy to stay connected. But I discovered that if I slow down and [...]

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How to Believe in Something that Hasn’t Manifested Yet!

2021-05-26T20:28:46-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Faith! The precursor to a life filled with miracles There is a saying that “Faith begins with an experiment and ends as an experience.” Faith is a key ingredient in any spiritual path, whether it be religious or a personal spiritual quest. But faith is not just some noble act to practice in [...]

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Accept the Wonder of Who You Are!

2021-05-26T20:29:18-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On accepting reality “as it is” and a tribute to George Floyd and his daughter, Giana I used to think that practicing acceptance meant surrendering to the limitation of reality. This was often referred to as “accepting reality, as it is.” Like today, for example, when I am feeling under the weather and won’t [...]

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Integrity is Integral to Your Happiness!

2021-05-26T20:29:59-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Why and how to live with integrity if you want to find true happiness and help heal our world We witness such lack of integrity in many of our leading institutions, in politics, finances, social and racial conduct, as well as the way in which we pillage the earth for its resources with no [...]

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Find Your Flow State!

2021-05-26T20:31:34-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Why it’s Important and How to Find It! Sometimes, I think we confuse “being in flow” with being super flexible and adaptable. But that can get us into trouble. Why? Because we are flowing to some other rhythm and not our own. And then, when it doesn’t work, we try even harder and find [...]

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How to Manifest Miracles!

2021-02-17T17:47:11-08:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to create the conditions for more miracles in your life Who doesn’t love miracles! We love to be pleasantly surprised when miracles show up in our day. We feel blessed, loved, and special. Well, if you learn how miracles occurs and why they show up in your life, then you can learn how [...]

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The Secret Formula to Manifesting!

2021-08-19T20:55:17-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to create the conditions to realize what you long for more than anything Some of us believe that manifesting is as simple as practicing the Law of Attraction and getting everything we wish for, while others believe that we are flawed because we are unable to manifest our heart’s desire. I believe that [...]

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The Secret to Getting Intuitive Answers!

2021-01-19T19:48:08-08:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How To Get All The Answers You Are Looking For in Life In a social media post this week, I wrote: “All the answers we are looking for are available to us when we expand our consciousness.” That’s a big promise, I know! So, I want to tell you why I feel comfortable making [...]

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Spiritual-Material Abundance: What’s it All About?

2021-01-06T17:01:08-08:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to live life with sacred mindfulness We often think of spiritual abundance and material abundance separately. But I always use them together, hyphenated. That’s what the Expansive teaching are about, living in greater spiritual-material unity, balance, and abundance. So, what if you could live your life from a state of sacred mindfulness. It [...]

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Live the Full Spectrum of Human Experience

2020-12-22T12:43:08-08:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to regain your balance and tap into the fullness of your life That nagging feeling that life can be so much more than what it is at this moment means that some part of you knows there is more to life than what you are currently experiencing. Trust that part, it is your [...]

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How to Go From Problem to Progress!

2020-11-18T12:28:38-08:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Secret to Solving Your Everyday Problems Efficiently and Effectively I think that the secret to solving any problem you have is gaining an Expansive perspective on your situation and solving it from this spacious new perception. From a more spacious perspective you gain access to a larger field of possibilities and creative solutions to your [...]

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Inner Peace Meditation

2020-08-26T15:04:43-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings, Expansive Meditation|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Finding Inner Peace in the Midst of All the Chaos! What would you say, if I told you that inner peace is accessible to you whenever you want to experience it!  You might be thinking to yourself, this might be the case for you… but I can’t seem to quiet my mind and find some tranquility in the [...]

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I’m Starting My own Radio Show!

2020-07-01T09:10:04-07:00By |Categories: Expansive with Anna Gatmon: Stories of Love Overcoming Fear|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

People sharing inspiring stories of love overcoming fear I’m starting my own radio show called Expansive with Anna Gatmon: Stories of Love Overcoming Fear. The show airs on syndicated Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network every Tuesday at 10am & 10pmPacific Time/1am & 1pmEastern Time. Find out what the show's about, why I chose this focus for the [...]

Be Kind to Yourself!

2020-06-24T09:47:45-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The key to shift from stress and overwhelm to ease In the midst of the world pandemic, social, economic, and ecological upheaval, there is so much stress, overwhelm, fear, and uncertainty in the air and in our life. And even if your personal life is actually going really well, it’s possible to experience stress [...]

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Inner Peace is Out There!

2020-06-17T18:46:44-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to access Inner Peace while you are active in the world Finding inner peace during meditation can be challenging with all the external stressors going on these days. But there are many other ways to tap into inner peace, some of them are out there, in the world, as you go about your [...]

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Your Life Matters!

2020-06-10T22:25:01-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One of the more profound exercises I guide people through during workshops is the “Are Your Worthy?” meditation.

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What’s Your Pandemic Resolution?

2020-06-02T21:28:28-07:00By |Categories: Expansive Teachings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

How to turn our shelter-in-place into an opportunity to create a better world for ourselves During our shelter-in-place, each one of us has been given an opportunity to change our old ways and create something new and better for ourself and the world. As we can’t go back to how things used to be [...]

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