Winfrey’s intention in encouraging her guests to speak “their truth” is to help them and her viewers feel better about themselves in a complex world. The tension, worries, fears, doubts, joys, identity, anticipation we might have brought to our practice get to take a rest for those mindful moments we choose to take.

Once, after taking part in a televised bungee jump record attempt, a journalist lamented it was a shame her cord hadn’t snapped. Further back, in Warsaw Pact countries such as East Germany, regimes went to extreme lengths to convince the world that their elections were free and fair—and with massive voter participation to boot—but they gave no access to impartial observers. You become an easy target being a young, blonde girl from kids TV’: Fearne Cotton with her husband Jesse Wood and father-in-law Ronnie.You’re often resentful, jealous or angry when others take time for themselves, saying things like, “must be nice” or “must be easy for her. As human beings, we are so bombarded by gossip, loud noise and messages about how we should be living our lives, it’s no wonder many of us become overwhelmed and get confused about what we really want to say to each other.

You give yourself the love your family could not give you, and you reclaim your right to be heard, valued, and respected. But for these countries to thrive, or at the very least be governable, they need discourse to be facts-based.Here’s a short and simple throat chakra meditation from Mindvalley to help balance your 5th chakra and clear the way for direct but heartful communication. I could often feel my heart beating through the stick and in the first few days of our training, I was unable to connect to this practice because I was still feeling extremely fearful. It’s time now, in your boomer years, to live your life the way you want to – the way you feel – yet always, of course, with reason and kindness.