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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015
29 min
Aaron Sherwood is a Tai Chi and qiqong instructor. He also teaches meditation and is a gifted body worker. Aaron is from United States and offers personal sessions and group workshops in the U.S. Aaron has dedicated his life to helping others with mindfulness and movement. He believes these elements have tremendous power to heal and transform a person. Aaron spent his youth practicing many movements arts including Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, TaeKwonDo, Hapkido, Contact Improv, and Feldenkrais. He has worked with high level teachers in all of these disciplines. His most important teacher has been Bruce Frantzis, founder of the Energy Arts System. Aaron is now one of the Certified Instructors in this system, which has benefited his own life to a large degree.
Contact Info
- Website: www.appliedenergyarts.weebly.com
- Email: AppliedEnergyArts@gmail.com
Most Influential Person
- My Tai Chi, qiqong and meditation teacher, Bruce Frantzis.
Effect on Emotions
- It's been instrumental in me not ending up in jail and me not ending up dead or very, very miserable. I struggled with depression a lot when I was young and the more I got into these mindful practices the more that took me out, further away from that.
Thoughts on Breathing
- It's huge. It's one of the pillars that we build everything we do on. The particular tradition that I teach is called Taoist Longevity Breathing and the main focus of that is to be completely present with your breath and then how you can maintain that presence and just deepen not only the length of your breath, but all the different qualities of depth, smoothness. You just remove any and all gaps that relate back to your consciousness through that.
Suggested Resources
Advice for Newbie
Test several methods. Don't just fall in love with your very first method. Use all the methods and really test them. Be your own laboratory. Find what really works for you and that can be a practice in it's own self where you decide that you pick four different practices that you want to work with and you take a week or a month and then you work through it, regardless of any kind of resistance you have and that will reflect what's going on inside of you and help you understand why you resist that particular practice.
Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015
24 min
Gretchen Bridgers is a teacher coach. For the past four years she has been helping new teachers in her school district as part of the New Teacher Project. She has a master’s degree in Curriculum and Supervision and is also anauthor, having written the book: “Elementary Education 101: What They Didn’t Teach You In College. Gretchen has a blog and weekly podcast called “Always A Lesson”, which inspires educators across the globe.
Contact Info
- Website: www.AlwaysALesson.com
- Podcast: Always A Lesson
Most Influential Person
- Louis Sachar (Author of There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom)
Effect on Emotions
- Just not taking things personally. Realizing that people have, what my father calls 'head trash', or previous tapes. They are taking things out on you that have nothing to do with you at all.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Not so much breathing, but listen, pause and respond. So that pause could be a breath but its that reflection, that gathering of thoughts to remain neutral.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When the Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Laura Roppe
- App: Facebook Groups - Specifically 'Encouraging Teachers'
Advice for Newbie
Reflect daily on how you could have handled anything that occurred differently or just take some actionable steps so you are growing and getting better each day. Hold yourself accountable for just growing and not being perfect.
Nov 29, 2015
Nov 29, 2015
26 min
Drew Hume is an expert at Thai massage. One of the things he says often while delivering a massage is ‘Slow it down’. Drew believes it helps us all to just: SLOW … IT ... DOWN. Drew’s Thai massages clear your head and make you feel like he has a surreal connection to your body. From this you can tell Drew isa great person to talk to about Mindfulness. Drew was born in Australia and now lives in Toronto, Canada.
Contact Info
- Website: www.navina.ca
- Twitter: @NavinaTaiYoga
- Instagram: @NavinaTaiYoga
Most Influential Person
- S. N. Goenka, a Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation.
Effect on Emotions
- It's helped me maintain a little bit more equanimity in that I get less caught up in the big negatives and less caught up in the big positives and I can maintain a little bit more equilibrium in how I respond.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I think its a great way to educate yourself on restrictions and tensions within your own body and I also think its a great tool as a reset button if you take an extra deep breath whenever you feel stressed or challenged. It just gives you a little bit of space to make other decisions.
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
- App: Notes and Calendaring (Taking notes and recording events in a calendar helps me to stay in the present moment)
Advice for Newbie
Avoid frustration. When you think that it's an unsuccessful meditation, your reaction to that is still part of the mindfulness practice. Step out of the frustration and just keep bringing it back in.
Nov 25, 2015
Nov 25, 2015
38 min
Kara Stricker created her Oma Chocolate business, from a simple desire to feel more happiness. With a hundred dollar check, she walked away from her studies in college. Thousands of chocolate recipes later, she found happiness living in her heart. Incorporating ayurvedic spices to thebitterness of the dark chocolate encouraged her to become present to her emotions and gently exercise them like muscles. Kara believes in healing through mindfulness, that is being present to what she’s feeling without the judgement. Kara says, "It really boils down to accepting oneself and being yourself. Simply allowing myself to "love what I love". Many wonderful things began to change in her life - including breaking through her writer’s block and meeting her husband, Dave.
Contact Info
- Website: www.OmaChocolate.com
- Email: KaraStricker@OmaChocolate.com
Most Influential Person
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
Effect on Emotions
- I feel more positive (rather than negative) emotions in my everyday life. If I feel negative emotions, it feels more balanced and there's much more love and grace to welcome them in. I just just let them be.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Everyday my breath or my holding back breath is a real immediate indicator of how to slow things down, be more mindful, and be engaged in the moment in a more relaxed way.
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Dreams We Carry by the poet Olave Hodge
- Book: You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
- App: My Timer on my phone.
Advice for Newbie
I would say, ask yourself the question, "What brings you joy and happiness?" It doesn't matter what you love, take that one thing that you love so much and practice it every day, be with it everyday.
Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015
24 min
Kate Erickson is an expert at Systems and Processes and she helps entrepreneurs and business professionals get their act together with their own systems. Kate is on the Entrepreneur on Fire team andis John Lee Dumas's partner in business and life. She is also host of the Audio Blog Podcast called, Kate’s Take. In addition, Kate is also author of the book, The Fire Path: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Online Business.
Contact Info
- Website: www.eofire.com
- Podcast: Kate's Take
- Email: kate@eofire.com
Most Influential Person
- John Lee Dumas has really encouraged me and challenged me to be mindful.
Effect on Emotions
- It's really gotten me more in tune with myself. I know myself better now than I ever could have imagined.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I've been doing some studying and research on practicing breathing and it really helps me take my focus off anything else.
Suggested Resources
- Book:Essentialism by Craig Mceown
- App: The Twelve Minute Athlete App
Advice for Newbie
A really powerful book that triggered for me this idea of living in the now, is the book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015
33 min
Michael Sandler is an all-round fascinating person. He loves to move and have fun and he’s an avid athlete who’s had more than his fair share of injuries including being hit by a car when bicycle racing in France and being walloped by a motorcycle while mountain biking in Colorado. Back in middle school, Michael ran to and from school to avoid bullies onthe school bus. Since his high school days, mindfulness and meditation have been part of his daily life, and he now meditates an average of 2 hours a day. Today Michael is a best-selling author and online entrepreneur. Interestingly, he has had a knee surgery and sinus surgery both done without any anesthetics, just with the power of the mind and meditation. You can hear Michael on-line on his popular podcast, Inspire Nation.
Contact Info
- Podcast: www.InspireNationShow.com
Most Influential Person
- Claudio (his greatest teacher who believes we have it all too complicated. He says it's as simple as going silent)
Effect on Emotions
- Hugely so, because I've become a lot less reactive. I'm a lot less of that super ball, bouncing from one thing to the next. And I'm a lot more present in myself. By present in myself, I mean I don't take ownership in the balls that are thrown at me or bounced around by others around me. If somebody throws me a fear ball, I'm able to say, 'wait, that's not mine'.
Thoughts on Breathing
- There's conscious and unconscious breathing and I'm always trying to come back to my breath, consciously. With that said, my voice has changed over the years, and the voice that you hear on air is much more because of my mindfulness practice. It used to be 'up here' and that's because I was breathing high in my chest and I was talking really fast, and never taking a deep, full, slow breath. And so focusing on the breath calms me, brings me back into that present moment, gets my mind quieter and allows me to achieve all the things that I've achieved. So the breath really is the metronome, the heartbeat, the guide to everything.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Natural Meditation by Dean Sluyter
- App: None. I leave the electronics behind as much as possible.
Advice for Newbie
Focus on the breath. Just go to the breath. That can be as simple as, you're on the bus or on the subway on the way to work in the morning, just take one minute and feel the breath coming in, feeling the breath going out. Just starting from there and expanding from there. Or you're at work, at your computer, you're starting to get a little bit stressed out, go into the breath, breathe in. One, two, three, Out, one, two, three. I like throwing a count on it, that's my app, is just counting. Just drop right back into the breath.
Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015
37 min
Nirmala Daniel Erway is a spiritual teacher and author who is a deep believer in the positive benefits of mindfulness. He offers one-on-one, non-dual spiritual mentoring over the phone or through Skype. His mentoring is an opportunity to discover that limitless love is ourtrue nature and is possible at every moment. He has written several books including a poetry collection called Gifts With No Giver. Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona and has a website called Endless-Satsang.com where he shares his thoughts through ebooks and videos.
Contact Info
- Website: www.endless-satsang.com
Most Influential Person
- Everyone I’ve ever felt love for, including Nealum and my wife.
Effect on Emotions
- It hasn’t changed them, except in their duration. When you’re in this place of curiosity, openness I find it interesting. When I feel sad, I go right down into the center of that sadness and notice all the associations and feelings. I’m so fascinated with it. I digest it, I get the sadness. aThen it’s almost gone in the moment I pay that much attention to it. It’s hard to call it sadness anymore, it’s just a new experience showing up.a
Thoughts on Breathing
- When they do studies of mindfulness & meditation, they've found that anything you do to change your breathing will put you into a meditative space. Anything you do to your breath will change your state of consciousness.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Living From the Heart by Nirmala (free on Nirmala’s website)
- App: Timer
Advice for Newbie
Just play. If you can approach it like a game, a form of play or curiosity, that's the best way to learn.
Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015
23 min
Sharon Roemmel will help you find your life’s purpose through yoga. She is a wellness and life coach, however learning with Sharon is not your usual Yoga experience; she’ll help you get connected to your divine supportand she’ll use mindfulness to help you claim true balance in your life. She has taught Yoga for over 20 years and believes Yoga is the perfect tool to help you align your body, mind and spirit.
Contact Info
- Website: www.practicallyenlightenedyou.com
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Most Influential Person
- Dan McLeod, Sharon's first serious yoga teacher - he embodied mindfulness with his yoga practice, his teaching and his groundedness.
Effect on Emotions
- Helped me be more connected to them and helped me realize that anger is not something I have to hold back. I can feel anger and let it move through me. I tell people they can spend a lot of money on medical diagnostics or they can check in with their breath and that's a great, free, diagnostic to see where they're holding, how relaxed they are in the moment. They can learn a lot from their breath.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Breathing is one of the limbs of yoga. I like to use breathing as a diagnostic
Suggested Resources
Advice for Newbie
Start small, pay attention to your breath even for one minute, one time a day. Start paying attention to your body. Go for the low hanging fruit: if you're someone who finds it challenging to tune into your emotions, don't start there. Then as you get adept at one level, you move to another level.
Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015
32 min
Bryce Prescott studied finance at Brigham Young University and has a keen interest in business. In fact, he is an entrepreneur and business consultant with several successful business endeavors under his belt. Bryce helps business people take their businesses, their health andtheir lives in general to a higher a level of excellence. Bryce also has a podcast called ‘Rules of Success’ which has spawned a companion program called 'Apply The Science' which focuses on the principals of the book, 'The Science of Getting Rich' by Wallace D. Wattles.
Contact Info
- Website: www.rulesofsuccess.com
- Podcast: rulesofsuccess.com
- Twitter: @iamMrPrescott
- Instagram: @iamMrPrescott
Most Influential Person
- T. Harv Ecker
Effect on Emotions
- Mindfulness has affected my emotions and it allows me to observe them. It's more challenging to observe the emotion when it is positive and supportive than when it's negative, but it's the same practice nonetheless. I'm able to, from a different vantage point within my mind, recognize what the emotion is and diffuse the negative emotions like anger and frustration.
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
- Book: Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
- App: The Holosync Program by Bill Harris (Centerpoint Research Institute)
- App: Calm
Advice for Newbie
I would encourage them to check out one of these guided meditation programs. Go to www.choprameditation.com and get the 21 Day Challenge. Just try it. It's 15 to 20 minutes a day. Do it in the mornings in a quiet place. I would also recommend you to journal right afterwards.
Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015
28 min
Pat Flynn is an online entrepreneur, a father and husband who puts family first and is one of the most personable, friendly business owners I know. Pat was laid off from his day job in 2008 and then started an online business. His blog and podcast called ‘Smart Passive Income” is wherePat shares amazing, abundant content and is completely open and transparent about his online learning experiences. Pat attributes mindfulness and meditation as part of the reason for his success.
Contact Info
- Website: www.smartpassiveincome.com
- Blog: Smart Passive Income
- Podcast: Smart Passive Income
- Twitter: @patflynn
Most Influential Person
- Elon Musk (Founder of Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity)
Effect on Emotions
- It's helped me get in tune with what's happening and also figure out how to get deeper into what those things are. Sometimes when I have conversations and I ask questions, whether I'm the one who's needing help or someone else, the surface level questions don't really get into the root of the problem. Like the Toyota Manufacturing strategy of the five whys, it's when you get deeper into those conversations that the realness comes out. So I try to be mindful of the fact that people's initial answers aren't necessarily 'the' answer.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I'm a trumpet player and I would be very focused on breathing. Now I'm taking singing lessons on Skype to try to improve my public speaking and breathing has been very important with that. And so breathing is actually, in a lot of things, the foundation for great things. And so for those things, specifically the performance stuff, I make sure to focus on breathing because it's just the foundation of creating good sound. In life in general, it's just nice to breath in terms of giving yourself space. I work hard as an entrepreneur, but I also schedule in time to breath, or have space
Suggested Resources
- Book: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
- App: Calm App and the 5 Minute Journal App
Advice for Newbie
If you don't know what it's supposed to be like, it's ok. You're going to figure it out for yourself over time. You should get connected with other people who do know what mindfulness is about. You can learn as you go, you don't have to get it right the first time. You may not even know what you're doing at first, but the more you are conscious about the fact that you're trying to put this into your life, the more likely that it will.