Mindfulness Mode

Alexander Heyne is an expert in the field of weight loss and believes the secret to losing weight and keeping it off is found in daily habits. Alex is so adamant about helping people lose weight that heauthored a book called, Master the Day: Eat, Move and Live Better With the Power of Tiny Habits. Alex is sold on meditation and has lived in China, seeking out the guidance of sages and gurus. He also meditated and lived without food for 5 days in the Sahara Desert as part of a mindfulness vision quest.

Contact Info

• Website: ModernHealthMonk.com
• 2 hour bonus training - if you get Alex's book* and send him the receipt.
• *Master The Day: Eat, Move and Live Better With the Power of Tiny Habits by Alexander Heyne

Most Influential Person

• Chinese medicine mentor Jay.

Effect on Emotions

• It is that idea of less friction. I find that the days are so much smoother and the days where I have had most regular practice, where I have been the most conscious, have been easy. There is no car horn, no traffic and no emotional fight that can really ruffle it and it's just this feeling of, life's pretty easy. I'm just being carried along, doing my work, no road blocks, it's kind of a pleasurable feeling.

Thoughts on Breathing

• For me one of the things I do as I work because for the last three or four years I have worked 12 hour days because I have had multiple jobs. The hardest thing for me was the stress which is despite meditating in the morning daily, despite working out, despite eating right its been kind of hard to be conscious of my stress level and to me the biggest trigger was the breath. I basically used the pomodoro technique which was a break every 25 minutes and I used that 5 minutes as a quick meditative break and I basically do a quick assessment to see what place in my stomach or my chest my breath is in. That has become the trigger for the stress I have.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam by Marjorie Pivar and Quang Van Nguyen

Advice for Newbie

Much like any person who acquires great skill or great accolades, it all comes back to some kind of daily skill. The daily skill is the physical practice of meditation and the hard part is going to be the physical practice of meditation. Focus on whatever it takes for you to come up with a few key habits to meditate daily, whether its a time of day with some kind of ritual, maybe its not even seated meditation, maybe its walking meditation or even food meditation. Maybe food is a personal weakness of yours, try and start meditation there. Maybe it's in the gym, start meditation there feeling every fiber of your body as you lift the weight, as you run or whatever it is you're doing. I would say think carefully, what are the few vital habits you can do on a daily basis that will lead you to the more conscious, the more present life?

Thank You Bonus:

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Meditation calms your mind and helps you reach a more grounded state. It allows you to get to an inner calm and a sense of balance. This weekend I'm chatting about meditation and mindfulness and I've invited my friend, Chris Curran to join me.

Guest:

• Chris Curran
• Featured in Mindfulness Mode Episode 70 Clearing Habits and Actions Using Spiritualism

Quotes:

• Meditation is like giving a hug to ourselves, getting in touch with that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable. - Paramahamsa Yogananda
• Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh
• Meditation can re-introduce you to the part that’s been missing. - Russell Simmons
• Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you. - Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
• The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you. - David Lynch
• Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing. - Sharon Salzberg[show-notes-bio]

Books:

• Byways of Blessedness by James Allen

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Calm Your Busy Mind Infographic. It focuses on breathing, exercise and mantras. Please leave your name and email you'll receive your infographic in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Satyen Raja is a master of martial arts, a mentor to leaders around the world, and founder of the Warrior Sage group of companies. Satyen helps leaders find balance so they can behappy and fulfilled in all areas of their lives. He believes by connecting to our higher power, we build faith in ourselves. Satyen focuses on five pillars of life: faith, family, finance, fitness and fun.

Contact Info

• Company: Warrior Sage Group of Companies
• Website: www.WarriorSage.com

Most Influential Person

• My two Brazilian Ju Jitsu teachers, one is a master and one is a black belt.

Effect on Emotions

• It helps me love and accept them [emotions] and feel them fully. When I'm contracted from that mindfulness, when I'm just in the swirl of it, then they get lodged, I don't feel fully. I suppress the ones that are not so positive, that I'd rather not have. Emotions that come from some tension or a day of strife or struggle. I'd rather not feel them, but I've found that when I'm present, mindful and dialed in, that they transform through my love and acceptance of my emotions.

Thoughts on Breathing

• In the martial arts we have this type of three part breath: from the belly, that moves like a bellows, we fill the lower part of the belly and even energetically we visualize that we're breathing even deeper into our hips and genitals on the inhalation. First the breathing of the lower body and then the solar plexus area and then the breath fulfills its expansion at the upper part of the breath, relaxing in the opposite way. So relaxing from the top down, like a bellows opening at the bottom and then closing, stoking this flame. For me, breath is the doorway in, its the immediate barometer of my awareness and mindfulness.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Blue True: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death & Love & Sex by David Deida
• App: None

Advice for Newbie

The first thing a warrior sage does, they look for what are the movements, what are the things out there in life that are seeking your adherence? They want to make you part of their movement. We see so many political parties out there. They're drumming up emotions, pushing this and that and evoking opposition, we see it everywhere. Just take a look at, where is my energy, my units of emotional energy, going? Wherever it's going and you're getting evoked, you're getting riled up, you're feeling righteous, you're feeling, we need to stop this, there is deep truth in that. You don't want to deny that truth, but from a reactive place, as a warrior, you are actually losing energy, leaking energy by the excessive re-activeness. So what a warrior sage does, is they lower the importance of the very thing, paradoxically that they have vehemency against. That lowering of the importance, the units of power that were stuck in the pushing against, they reeled back, and they come back to the source of your choice. Then, paradoxically, the less you say, the more effect happens. You are able to do and achieve and create more change with the thing that you actually have interest in because you're coming from a place of greater influence, a place of of depth, so your words are heard, rather than your screams and shouts. They hear your soul speak with authority, because that is the ultimate authority.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Chris Curran is an audio recording engineer, author and world traveler. He has an intense interest in spirituality, meditation and mindfulness and has visited India 10 times to spend time on retreats and live in ashrams. Chris brings people together throughhis organization, Pause Your Life, arranging retreats and meet ups for people who are looking for renewed energy and purpose.  Chris is also host of The Mystic Show, where he talks with his guests about spiritualism and meditation.

Contact Info

• Company: Pause Your Life
• Website: Pauseyourlife.org
• Podcast: themysticshow.net

Most Influential Person

• Spiritual Guide Partha Sartee

Effect on Emotions

• This is one of the most tangible benefits I think. It really puts everything in perspective and it really does help because those emotional outbursts are really bad. It takes us off the rails and it is sometimes really hard to get back on.

Thoughts on Breathing

• I don't focus on breathing at all now that I live here in Colorado Springs. Sometimes if I run up the stairs all of a sudden I have to take some deep breaths because the air is thinner. Breathing isn't part of my practice at all. The sahashmarg practice is actually a form of Raija yoga, which Raija yoga is one of the four main branches of yoga from India from long ago. Raija yoga is yoga of the mind so there is no breathing, no postures and no stretching.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Byways of Blessedness by James Allen
• App: Insight Timer

Advice for Newbie

Start meditating in earnest. That means to learn meditation and try to really become good at it. The biggest misconception about meditation is that you are supposed to sit down and be thoughtless and so many people who come to me to learn because I teach it and say, oh I tried it and I can't do it. You're doing it. The thing is, in the beginning you're gonna have a lot of thoughts. You just have to learn how to handle them, which is to ignore them and get in the habit of ignoring them. Then as these thoughts come out, your thoughts will become less. Learning a real form of meditation; that's the base of everything I think. Without meditation, I don't know how much you can implement mindfulness or spirituality truly.

Thank You Bonus

As a thank you for listening, download your free copy of my book, Cracking The Success Code. I teamed up with Brian Tracy, along with some other entrepreneurs to create the best-selling book called Cracking The Success Code: The World's Leading Experts Reveal Their Top Secrets To Help You Crack The Code For Optimum Health, Wealth and Success. You'll hear more about my story and how I became an anti-bullying advocate which later led to mindfulness and my mindfulness coaching. Download the book free at MindfulnessMode.com/cracking. Enter your name and email and you'll have your book downloaded in no time. Enjoy the book, Mindful Tribe.

Habits and Mindfulness. What does mindfulness have to do with habit? There is more and more talk these days about habit and how it can help you. This weekend I share my thoughts on how habits and mindfulness are connected and I chat with my coach, Andrea Sullenger.

Guest:

• Guest: Andrea Sullenger: www.AndreaSullenger.com

Quotes:

• First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you. - Dr. Rob Gilbert
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
• Successful people are simply those with successful habits. Brian Tracy.
• Focus on the good habits you want to do, not the bad habits you don’t want to do. Overcome the bad with the good. Joyce Meyer.

Books:

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Calm Your Busy Mind Infographic. It focuses on breathing, exercise and mantras. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Riley Otto is a light heavyweight wrestler, in the 84 kg category, who participated in the Pan American Championships in Panama, representing Canada and winning a bronze medal. Riley uses hissport to achieve flow state and has a keen interest in mindfulness. Although retired from wrestling, now Riley uses the same focus and determination in other areas of his life, including his job at an investment firm.

Contact Info

• Email: Riley@autus.ca

Most Influential Person

• One certain teacher at his school who was also his Wrestling Coach.

Effect on Emotions

• Being in such a physical sport as I was, you often have emotions arise as a result of that combat. I think I had to control that a lot with mindfulness and I think that just spread out into every area of my life.

Thoughts on Breathing

• Breathing was a huge part of my mindfulness practice in competition.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser
• App: Sleep Cycle, my net diary

Advice for Newbie

My way was to develop a way to implement mindfulness into something that I really loved and it naturally moved into everything else. Being aware of your surroundings and how your actions affect yourself and other people can really improve the quality of everything you care about.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Maribel Jimenez is an International Speaker, best-selling author and marketing mentor to women. She works with Entrepreneurs, Coaches, and Consultants teaching how to launch 6 & 7 figure campaigns. She’s writtennumerous training programs and received well-deserved awards for her work. Maribel believes in helping to integrate peace, play, and prosperity into the entrepreneur lifestyle.

Contact Info

• Website: www.YourDreamLaunch.com
• Podcast: New Superwoman Entrepreneur Podcast

Most Influential Person

• Dr. Joe Vitale

Effect on Emotions

• Mindfulness has supported my very g rounded, relaxed, experience so that I can actually enjoy what I am creating.

Thoughts on Breathing

• It would shift [my breathing] if I was feeling anxious or stressed. I'm sure my breathing would change so I  think even connecting to it and I mean that is part of this meditative state of really just connecting to your breath and relaxing.

Suggested Resources

• Book: The Game Of Life and How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn
• App: Calm

Advice for Newbie

My advice would be to play with the idea. A lot of times people are really busy and they believe that they don't have time to stop and pause, and meditate. This is what actually helps you get greater results, in fact multiple results. To play, the more you slow down, it actually supports you speeding up. That's what actually had me play with the idea of what it would be like to pause and just think things through. I am in that place now where I see; oh my gosh this is just a different way of being. It allows you to really attract like a magnet because you are so connected to what it is that you want and what it is that you are here to do, so you magnetize it. Just Introduce it to somebody as play with it, see how your life changes with you being much more grounded and mindful of what you're here to do and how to really connect to your purpose.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your free copy of my book, Cracking The Success Code. I teamed up with Brian Tracy, along with some other entrepreneurs to create the best-selling book called Cracking The Success Code: The World's Leading Experts Reveal Their Top Secrets To Help You Crack The Code For Optimum Health, Wealth and Success. You'll hear more about my story and how I became an anti-bullying advocate which later led to mindfulness and my mindfulness coaching. Download the book free at MindfulnessMode.com/cracking. Enter your name and email and you'll have your book downloaded in no time. Enjoy the book, Mindful Tribe.

Spiritualism and Mindfulness. How do they work together? Are they two entirely different things or are they connected? Is spiritualism only connected to religion or is it something we can all feel whether we're religious or not?
This week I welcome Melissa Mattern as a guest to talk about thesubject of spiritualism. Melissa is known as The Psychic Genius. I'll talk with her about spiritualism and exchange stories and opinions. Enjoy our insight into spiritualism and mindfulness.[show-notes-bio]

Guest:

• Melissa Matter: www.ThePsychicGenius.com

Quotes:

• At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. -Thich Nhat Hanh
• To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in. - Fela Anikulapo Kuti
• Let not what you fear guide you, but the infinite potential of your spirit and source. - David Cunliffe

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Calm Your Busy Mind Infographic. It focuses on breathing, exercise and mantras. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Sheikh is a spiritual entrepreneur who co-founded the Ottawa Canada, Lifestyle Center 5 years ago when he was only 20. He is passionate about the process of inner and outer transformation which has come about as a result of his personal spiritual awakening. Sheikh is currently preparing toembark on a Spiritual Pilgrimage which will take him to India to spend time with his Guru and Spiritual Teacher.

Contact Info

• Company: AwakenYourPotential
• Website: www.ayp.life
• Website: gofundme.com/SheikhPilgrimage
• Contact: Facebook.com/InfiniteSheikh

Most Influential Person

• Sathguru (Founder of Isha Yoga)

Effect on Emotions

• Neutrality; balancing the emotional pendulum swing.

Thoughts on Breathing

• Everything. Breathing is prana, breathing is breath, breathing is energy, breathing is you. So if you're able to deepen your space of breathing, not only will you expand your inner bliss, but you'll expand the awareness of the body and being able to manipulate the body in ways that are to your best interest.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Mind Is The Master; The Complete James Allen Treasury by James Allen
• App: Evernote

Advice for Newbie

I would say mindfulness can only be experienced. It is not something that can be talked about as much as it can be experienced, it's not something that can be read about as much as it can be experienced, it's not something that can be watched as much as it can be experienced. Experience is over all things so podcasts of this nature open doorways, they are guides, books, videos, but you must take the opportunity for yourself to sink into the space of mindfulness. Give it time, it is something that takes time but ultimately when you taste just the slightest taste of the fruit to the nectar of mindfulness you will be hooked.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your free copy of my book, Cracking The Success Code. I teamed up with Brian Tracy, along with some other entrepreneurs to create the best-selling book called Cracking The Success Code: The World's Leading Experts Reveal Their Top Secrets To Help You Crack The Code For Optimum Health, Wealth and Success. You'll hear more about my story and how I became an anti-bullying advocate which later led to mindfulness and my mindfulness coaching. Download the book free at MindfulnessMode.com/cracking. Enter your name and email and you'll have your book downloaded in no time. Enjoy the book, Mindful Tribe.

Danny Pena, also known as Godfree, is a gamer, events host and podcaster of GamerTag Radio. As a well-known on-line gaming celebrity, Danny believes in using focus and mindfulness to stay on track and keep himself  organized and grounded. He puts a lot of emphasis on the valueof his team and his family, sticking with the idea that it's critical to surround yourself with positive people so you can send out positive vibes to your followers. Danny was the keynote speaker at Podfest 2016 in Tampa, Florida in February, where he told his fascinating life story and shared inside secrets of his success.

Contact Info

• Website: www.GamerTagRadio.com
• Website: play.it/gamertag   (This is the CBS Website)
• Twitter: @Godfree or @GamerTagRadio
• Facebook: GamerTagRadio
• Podcast: GamerTag Radio  (Find it on any app that searches podcasts)

Most Influential Person

• Danny's Grandmother bought him a gaming console when he was a kid.

Effect on Emotions

• I'm a cancer and as a cancer I can take a lot of things really personally. I've been good not to take things really personal, because I could be in a really bad place if I did.

Thoughts on Breathing

• When I get really frustrated, my girl will say something like, everything's ok, just breathe, just relax, walk. I do a lot of walking. So I'll walk, I'll put some music on or a podcast and it helps me a lot.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Mastering the Game: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Success In Life by Jon Harrison
• App: Spotify

Advice for Newbie

Let's say you're playing a game and it's too difficult, there's options for you to make it easy. Or let's say it's too easy, you can make it normal or hard. So if you're frustrated, change the settings so you won't get stressed out. Get critical thinking games like Tetrus. This is one of my all-time favorite games. If you're into music, play Rock Band or Guitar Hero which you can play with your whole family. I think this will help you. Especially with games that are really hard, try your best to be calm or play something else then.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.