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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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The Normal Beneath Paranormal; Dr. Margaret Cochran

Monday Apr 03, 2023

Monday Apr 03, 2023

Dr. Margaret Cochran is a transpersonal psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, educator, and author with more than 25 years of clinical experience. A seasoned professional dedicated to the health and well-being of all her patients, Dr. Cochran takes a whole person approach to mental health and wellness.

A respected resource and passionate advocate for mental wellness, Dr. Cochran has been featured in a range of media outlets throughout the country including BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates, CBS Radio, Yahoo Life, Huffington Post, Healthline, Mercury News, Authority, Thrive Global, Total Beauty, and many additional outlets. Dr. Cochran has also been featured regularly on FOX San Francisco as well as NBC Sacramento’s morning show and hosted radio programs such as, “Wisdom, Love and Magic” and “A Mental Health Moment.” Dr. Cochran is also author of a number of books including Nayogi and the Secrets of the Universe and “What Are You Afraid Of?”

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  • Carl Jung

Effect on Emotions

  • Mindfulness has allowed me to step back from the 3d temporal world and understand that each being, no matter what their species might be, is here on their own journey. It's above my paygrade to understand why they choose particular challenges like Johnny Appleseed in his schizophrenia.
  • My mindfulness has allowed me to believe wholeheartedly, that only good things will come to me. Always. And sometimes the most incredible gifts come wrapped in the worst paper. But the trick is to keep your eye on the gift.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • One of the things that often happens to us is we get overwhelmed to the point where we just can't process anything else and we kind of shut down. And I have a little 478 I am enough exercise that I think is very helpful.
  • So the first thing you need to do is take both hands and cross them. And then place them over your heart, in the center of your chest. Then close your eyes. And we're going to breathe, we're going to inhale for a count of 4x, hold for a count of seven, and then exhale down for a count of eight. And we're going to do that three times.
  • While we're doing it, I'm going to be talking with you. And all you have to do is repeat what I'm saying inside your head. Inhale for four. I am enough. Hold for seven. I am enough. And exhale down for eight. I am enough. One more time. Inhale for four. I am enough. Hold for seven. I am enough. And exhale down for eight. And one last time, inhale for four, I am enough. Hold for seven. I am enough. And exhale down for eight I am enough. And then, when you're ready, open your eyes.

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Bullying Story

  • I had a little boy who came to me and he was in the third grade. And he was being picked on something fierce by some older boys, fourth graders and fifth graders. They would take his money and push him down and all this kind of stuff and he didn't want to go back to school. And he was feeling really bad.
  • So I taught him how to meditate. Little third grade meditation. He was a great kid. And I taught him about how people who are bullies aren't scared themselves and don't feel good about who they are, and what they're looking for from you is a reaction. That's what fuels them and gives them power. So if you don't give them that, then they'll leave you alone.

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Self-Care Isn’t Selfish Care; Lesley Logan

Thursday Mar 30, 2023

Thursday Mar 30, 2023

Lesley Logan is a 2nd generation certified Pilates teacher, breathwork, habits, and mindset coach and is the founder of OnlinePilatesClasses.com, the first free online catalog of Pilates exercise tutorials, where you can also find weekly Pilates classes and workshops. Teaching Pilates since 2008, she has run multiple studios, has trained hundreds of people to become teachers themselves, and has taught thousands of students around the world. When not teaching from her studio in Las Vegas, Lesley is hosting her podcast, ‘Be It Till You See It', or traveling the world leading Pilates retreats.

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Effect on Emotions

  • Feel your feelings, but I am much quicker to regulate. So if I do get emotional, I do cry, but because of mindfulness, I'm actually able to identify why I'm feeling that way and how I want to feel and take the next step that way. And so it may take you days to counteract that in the beginning, but now I can do it within an hour or less. Self-Care

Thoughts on Breathing

  • The book BREATH will teach you a lot about how we have not been taking care of ourselves and using this amazing tool we have, which is our breath. You can experience mindful breathing with two quick inhales  through the nose and exhale out the mouth. That is like an instant drop in your nervous system. Self-Care
  • The other thing is a five and a half second inhale through the nose, and five and a half second exhale. The perfect breath is about 10 to 11 seconds and in Pilates, the first exercise you do on the mat is the 100. And you breathe in for five and out for five.

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Bullying Story

  • This last holiday season, I had some online bullying happening to me, and it was awful. It was horrible. It made me afraid of my own phone, made me afraid to show up for my own communities. Self-Care
  • Having mindfulness, I had to use all the tools, and some of the tools would work, but having that allowed me to feel the feeling like if you're being bullied, it's okay to feel that like you're being like I'm being attacked right now.
  •  I was able to use mindfulness to go back into the reason why I do what I do, like, who am I actually doing this for? Am I doing this for this bully? Am I doing it for the people that fall in love with this bully? Or am I doing this for these people over here who don't even know that this bullying is happening?

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Growing a Creative Business; Noah Hutton

Monday Mar 27, 2023

Monday Mar 27, 2023

Noah Hutton is a storyteller at heart, passionate about capturing and sharing the unique narratives of people and brands through stunning photography and video content. His goal is to help you stand out in a crowded digital space by creating captivating visuals that authentically reflect your brand and message. In addition to his work behind the lens, Noah also loves connecting with fellow entrepreneurs and creators through his podcast, The Rest of Us. Through candid conversations and meaningful insights, he shares stories of those who are making a difference in their respective fields and inspires others to do the same.

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  • Company: NTH Productions
  • Website: https://noah-hutton.com/
  • Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noah-hutton
  • Podcast: The Rest Of Us

Most Influential Person

  • My friend Olivia (Interior Designer)

Effect on Emotions

  • Focusing on what you need and what will help you be the best version of yourself, whether that is, I need to go to the gym more and get physically fit, or I need to take a walk. Maybe I need to do something that I enjoy like watching a movie or building a lego set, or traveling. It's focusing on what you need and that will help you be more successful.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • I can now realize when I am in a state of stress or anxiety. That is when I can do what I need to do to get out of that. I don't necessarily use breathing techniques. I just realize what anxiety or stress looks like for me and then I do things to delete the stress.

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Bullying Story

  • I didn't experience much bullying; it was more just teasing or having passive-aggressive friendships that always happened within my friend group. We were always picking on each other.
  • There were points when I looked back and felt bad that I had said that. I didn't really think about it that way until I got out of college and had matured and had a better mindset on my past. People knew what buttons they could push with me.

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Using Meditation To Master Yourself; Ashley Williams

Thursday Mar 23, 2023

Thursday Mar 23, 2023

Ashley Williams is the founder and CEO of Clymb, an emotional wellness software for school-aged children. Ashley shares her personal experience of suffering from clinical depression in college and how she was introduced to mindfulness as a proactive approach to manage her emotional experiences. She also talks about how Clymb approaches emotional wellness for young people and how it can help increase social-emotional learning competency over time. Ashley emphasizes the importance of finding and sticking to a mindfulness practice, as it not only uplifts and transforms the individual but also those around them.
Ashley Williams has dedicated her career to helping individuals and organizations increase their overall happiness and satisfaction in life. As an emotional wellness advocate, Ashley has shared her insights and strategies with audiences around the world.
Ashley is the 2022 Culture Builder of the Year for Baltimore, which honors her work to make children’s happiness a policy priority.
Ashley is an avid meditation practitioner who is passionate about sharing the transformative power of mindfulness with others and believes that it has the ability to improve the quality of life for anyone willing to commit to the practice. She is a student of Swami Nithyananda of the Awake Yoga Meditation community.

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Effect on Emotions

  • [00:25:30] Mindfulness has helped Ashley deal with her emotions by accepting them and self-regulating in a healthy way.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • [00:26:26] Ashley discusses the importance of breathing and shares her heart-opening exercise, where she imagines breathing in and out of her heart.

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Bullying Story

  • [00:22:22] Ashley talks about how bullying is a result of a lack of emotional intelligence and how mindfulness can help teach these skills to children and society as a whole.

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Accelerate To Your Goals; Roy Redd

Monday Mar 20, 2023

Monday Mar 20, 2023

Roy Redd is an internationally recognized speaker, 5-time #1 Best Selling Author, and Business Acquisition & Growth Strategist who has shared the stage with Vice-President Kamala Harris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donna Karan, and  many more. Roy is a business performance coach who works with companies, organizations, and groups to increase tangible, and measurable results dramatically. He shares tips and strategies to greatly improve performance, reduce waste, and increase profit. Using principles learned in his years of working with professional athletes and CEOs, Roy will demonstrate the 4 keys to mind mastery and performance. You do not need to be an athlete or a CEO to take advantage of Roy's ideas to change your life.

At the age of 25, Roy realized he was not the person he wanted to become. That's when he decided to make a change in his life. Since that startling realization, he went from broke to making six figures, homeless to buying his first home, and depressed to feeling fulfilled.

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Most Influential Person

  • His Dad

Effect on Emotions

  • Mindfulness has dramatically helped me to deal with my emotions. I am to give numerology turns on my 11 life path, which is emotional energy. I get extremely emotional about things, and one way I help to control those emotions is the gym. Another way is I learned to think about my thinking. As long as I can think about my thinking and talk to myself, I can keep it under great control.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • If you look at the word spirit, it actually comes from the Greek word spirit a, which means the breath. So that's our energy. God breathed the spirit into us, so not only is breathing important, but you want really good diaphragmatic breathing, with big inhales. It is also important to learn to strengthen your breathing. A lot of times, I'll just lay on the floor, I'll put a kettlebell on my belly button, and breathe. I want to be able to breathe really well because that's the most important thing when it comes to helping top-tier clients. So

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Bullying Story

  • I've been bullied all the way up until the end of high school. That's when I got muscle. But in a way, growing up in the inner cities, and tough, rough neighborhoods, I dealt with bullies because a lot of times, it got physical. But I will say this, I've always had the gift of being mindful and present, even when I was a child. And so there's been plenty of times where I've gotten into situations where I realized that I need to let something go, or I need to just walk away, or I need to finesse my way out of there. That saved my life and kept me from getting hurt.  So
  • Being mindful and thinking about my thinking, that's the true test of an intelligent person. I think being mindful can help you be more aware and get you out of situations that maybe you shouldn't have been in. And a lot of times, you can just pause and think about your thinking for a second, two seconds, or five seconds. That helps you to not do things that aren't true in your nature. So

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De-Mystifying Enlightenment; Tom Cronin

Thursday Mar 16, 2023

Thursday Mar 16, 2023

Tom Cronin, founder of the Stillness Project, talks about his thoughts on enlightenment, the success of his film and book, “The Portal”, and his plans for future retreats. Tom shares his perspective on enlightenment, emphasizing the importance of exploring the embodiment of spirituality and

enlightenment. He also discusses the changes in his life since his last appearance on the podcast back in 2021, including his focus on mentoring and coaching conscious leaders and training meditation teachers.

We also talked about microdosing and plant medicines. Tom explained that in Australia, they are still illegal and have class A drug status, which is interesting considering their potential role in supporting human experience. While Tom does not personally use plant medicines, he acknowledges their powerful and significant role in spiritual exploration.

Tom shared that he loves teaching meditation, running retreats, speaking, and mentoring people to help them solve problems and progress forward in their lives. He explained that he simplified his business model by focusing on what he loves and is good at, rather than what advisors and mentors told him to do.

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Live As A Courageous Human; Clint Hatton

Monday Mar 13, 2023

Monday Mar 13, 2023

Clint Hatton has been successfully coaching individuals and teams nationwide and facilitating their self-growth for the last 20 years. Whether you are an individual stuck at a plateau, or you lead a team that values a healthy culture and peak performance, Clint's personal development coaching services introduce clarity and self-motivation to your personal development strategy. He employs techniques to effectively manage the emotional stress of everyday life and helps turn setbacks into a catalyst for the future!

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Effect on Emotions

  • On the fourth of July, we were in Florida, where my father-in-law lives. We went out on his boat and there were a bunch of boats right on the beach. My wife is Puerto Rican and there was music and six boats. There were all these Puerto Ricans singing and dancing and having a great time. All of a sudden I began to recognize that emotionally, I was really beginning to miss Gabriel. That's when mindfulness kicked in.
  • I knew at that moment that I needed to feel what I was feeling. And because of what was going on all around me, I could do it without interrupting or affecting anything else going on.
  • Everybody was either in a floaty right on the beach or in the shallow water. So I just bobbed 20 or 30 feet away from everybody, and nobody even noticed because of all the fun happening. And I put my intention on what I was feeling about my son, and I wept.
  • I allowed myself to be intentional at that moment and just think about him and what I missed about him. Tears came down my face and that lasted for probably about 30 to 40 minutes.
  • I used mindfulness to become present at that moment. So to me, it's a simple, but profound example of how mindfulness can really help you manage your life and even your emotions.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • There's a neuroscientist that I'm listening to, that actually has an episode that just came out this last week, and it's like a two-and-a-half-hour episode on breathing. I'm certainly no expert, although I've been aware for some time that the way we breathe is incredibly critical.
  • If you're being mindful of what you're feeling as you're doing things, I can feel my chest even get a little bit tight, and my breathing changed a little bit. I grew up with asthma and had severe asthma up until my mid-20s. So I know what it's like to be in that position where you can't breathe at all and that weight that's on the inside of your chest.
  • It's a very simple technique. I just breathe into my nostrils and blow out through my mouth. I just do that a few times. And I'm discovering now that I'm becoming a student of breath, that's actually one of the most effective tools that you can use to eliminate stress or anxiety.

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Bullying Story

  • I never got bullied myself but I do have a recollection of times where I bullied others. Back in those days, it wasn't this thing where I honed in on one person and bullied them every single day for months or years. It wasn't that, but also I don't want to belittle it. Even one time could have been enough to impact that person's life forever.
  • Years later, I had an opportunity with at least one person through Facebook, I saw them, and I was able to apologize 20-30 years later for my part. Back in those days, I think some things were going on with my parent's marriage.
  • If I'd had mindfulness, I think it would have made a huge difference, because I would have been able to just stop that angry emotion. And think through the consequence of punching somebody or just pushing them around or whatever the damage that could cause them.

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Living Without Masters; Jonathan Green

Thursday Mar 09, 2023

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Your Creative Art Oasis; Faigie Kobre

Monday Mar 06, 2023

Monday Mar 06, 2023

Faigie Kobre is a former early childhood educator and high-end portrait photographer. She made the switch in her 50s to become an elementary school art teacher and a women's creativity coach. She loves teaching women how to bring calm and peace into their lives through creative art. Faigie teaches women how to be creative without knowing how to draw.

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Effect on Emotions

  • Mindfulness gives you a place to channel your emotions. Like if you're agitated or something's going on in your life, you just sit down. And it's almost like you're channeling your energy into that page into the materials, and you let it. When I was doing a lot of mixed media art journaling I found it helpful.
  • If you're very upset about something, you can do painting, collaging, and stamping.

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Thoughts on Breathing

  • I start doing it, and then my mind is off and running, and I figured to do it. I really have been trying it because I was listening to somebody else recently there was just talking about how breathing has changed her life.
  • It's one of these things because of my ADHD I don't remember, but I know it's very important. And I know people have talked about how important it is. And it's something that's a work in progress.

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Bullying Story

  • I was not bullied, I was too tough. I was not the kind of kid that anyone was gonna start off. But I wasn't a bully either. I was a nice kid but I think that people that are bullied and people that bully are coming from the same route. It's a lack of confidence. It's a lack of feeling good about themselves.
  • So a bully is somebody who really doesn't feel good about themselves. Because people who really feel good about themselves, don't try to hit on other people and make other people miserable.  They're obviously not feeling good about themselves and a person that's allowing themselves to feel bullied also doesn't feel good about themselves.

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Self-Care is NOT Selfish; Marc Paisant

Thursday Mar 02, 2023

Thursday Mar 02, 2023

Marc Paisant is a former collegiate athlete who uses physical fitness to assist with his mental health. He has learned that both can be combined and used to help work through any life issue. His goal is to inspire others to ask for help and to end the stigma when it comes to mental health and awareness. So

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Most Influential Person

  • His dad So

Effect on Emotions

  • By being able to write, my emotions are important. Before, I didn't think It was important, but taking time out of your day adds you to your priority list. And hopefully, you get higher and higher throughout the day. So

Thoughts on Breathing

  • Breathing makes everything better, especially in stressful moments. Breathing makes people understand there is a huge connection between the mind and the body. And once you take a minute out of your day to do breathing exercises, you will be surprised how relaxed and how focused you become. So

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Bullying Story

  • I never was a bully. And I was a really caring and empathetic young kid and teenager but there were moments in my life when I was bullied. Looking back, it had a lot to do with intimidation. Of course, I played sports, my whole life, soccer and basketball. So
  • My brother and I were always tall, fit, and advanced for our age. I want to preface this that for people who haven't played sports before, a lot of times, bullying in sports is masked as hazing. And now it's masked as, oh, we got the freshmen coming in and we're going to teach them a lesson. That's not being a good teammate. That's a toxic environment.
  • We see upperclassmen use that as a mask to bully younger kids, especially the ones that they are intimidated by. So
  • At the end of the season, we were supposed to turn in our uniforms and bring in something specific to wear for our team picture. This is back in the day when there was voicemail. Apparently the senior had left a voicemail for my brother and I on our home phone. My brother and I didn't check it.
  • Immediately he goes at me in front of coaches and in front of other teammates telling me that he left a message and that it was my fault and I should have checked my message. It was not a civil conversation. So

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