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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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Lessen Your Stress Using This Super Achiever Habit; Amy Novotny

Sunday Sep 04, 2022

Sunday Sep 04, 2022

Dr. Amy Novotny founded the PABR® Institute with the mission to provide pain, stress, and anxiety relief to those who seek a naturalistic form of treatment when other treatment methods have fallen short. Her unique approach comes from her experience treating in a variety of settings and with a wide range of patient populations over the past 12 years. Her background in orthopedics, sports, geriatrics, balance disorders, nerve injuries, and most recently, chronic pain; and influences from coursework at the Postural Restoration Institute gave her the foundation to develop this treatment method to address a wide variety of painful and restrictive conditions. The methods she knows have helped countless people reduce and eliminate pain, stress, anxiety, orthopedic surgeries, sleep issues, and the need for medications. 

Dr. Novotny has co-authored two Amazon #1 Best-Selling books: Don’t Quit: Stories of Persistence, and Courage and Faith and Success Habits of Super Achievers, which share her journey on how and why she developed the PABR® Method. Her ability to speak French and Spanish has allowed her to communicate with and help various clients from all around the world, including France, Mexico, Central America, and South America. 

Dr. Novotny has a variety of interests including running 40+ marathons, running 10 ultra marathons (including two 100 milers), completing an Ironman triathlon, and photographing wildlife and landscapes all over the world which has led to several of her images being chosen as Photos of the Day, most notably National Geographic Your Shot World Top Photo of the Day.

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Effect on Emotions

  • I am highly less emotionally reactive. I pause a lot more. And I would say that my ability to respond has been less bit based on fear, and more based on solutions. So I'm not so emotionally reactive, because I'm more mindful.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • When you breathe, you want to be able to feel your breastbone, melt in as you exhale, and feel your belly spill out. When you do that, it will help bring all of your attention to your body. Therefore you can feel everything relaxed, allowing you to be mindful of the present.

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Bullying Story

  • I was bullied as a child, I was somewhat popular during some times of my life, and other times I wasn't. And so I've been on the receiving end of being bullied and it's a hard thing to go through. I think when it comes to mindfulness regarding that when you're on the receiving end, it's hard to do anything other than to be in a freeze-mode or think how do I run away? 
  • And in terms of the person who's doing the bullying, I think there needs to be some awareness that that person is hurting somehow. They're lacking attention so they're seeking attention. They're seeking to assert themselves, because somehow, they're not getting that attention, or they're getting bullied themselves at home. 
  • I think we need to look around us and say, How are our own interactions affecting others? So many times, we may be using our words that really create some hurt and other people, and then they go to someone else. And they might bully that person just to be able to feel some type of satisfaction for the hurt feelings from a different interaction. 

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Intermittent Fasting For The Professional; Zach Mathews

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

Zach Mathews is the author of Climbing Your Self-Discipline Tree, which challenges readers to envision their loftiest long-term goals, then put together a concrete plan to achieve them. He is a freelance writer, online self-discipline coach, and blogger on zachmathewswriting.com. A few years ago, he made the jump from a successful career in the Sports industry to fulfill my dream of being a full-time writer. Now he wants to help others do the same with their dreams!

Whether you have aspirations of starting your own business, losing 50 pounds, climbing the ladder at your current company, or any other type of goal, my book can help you realize the essential steps to prepare, produce, and persist. Each of these will help you achieve your wildest dreams and enjoy the process. He was born and raised in St. Louis, but currently, he and his wife reside in Tampa, Florida.

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  • His dad

Effect on Emotions

  • I think it's just having the power to self-regulate, never let yourself get too high or too low. I would just say, keep your emotions in check. I was talking earlier about being a father and self -regulating when he's screaming and everything like that. It goes the same way with your personal and professional career. You just have to level yourself out so that you can produce. Intermittent Fasting

Thoughts on Breathing

  • I do think it's important. Where it's most important to me is in my workouts, and I like to do yoga, to make sure I maintain my flexibility and breathing is huge for that. Those two things alone especially have shown me the power of inhaling and exhaling and the fact that most of us, because we don't think about our breathing, are probably breathing wrong.
  • My father-in-law actually read a book entitled, Breath, and it just kind of talks about the role that breathing plays when we sleep. If your mouth breathes, it's actually bad for you, and there are some repercussions.
  • So the book explains how to train your body to not breathe through your mouth when you sleep anymore, but through your nose, but I don't pretend to know everything about it. But from a workout perspective, breathing is vitally important because even exhaling can help your body perform and kind of get adrenaline going and everything that your body needs to perform. So it's very important from a performance standpoint. Intermittent Fasting

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Bullying Story

  • I was bullied growing up. And often, it's unfortunate. The bully isn't typically the big scary person that you see. It was my friends, it was the people, the friends that I had closest to me in school.
  • They would call me stupid. Part of that was because I just didn't apply myself and didn't care to get good grades. But they called me stupid.
  • I was kind of the butt of the jokes a lot. That was in elementary and middle school, and as I got into high school, I didn't even try because I'd been told by my friends for three, or four years that I was dumb, I was stupid and I couldn't do it.
  • So in high school, I didn't even try, I barely graduated on time, and I was one credit short of being held back a year. Looking back, it was the way that I processed the shame on myself. But the bullying aspect is talking about mindfulness, being more mindful of just how strong words can be, especially in formative years.
  • They really think that I was stupid. Now, did they really think that I was dumb? Did they think that if I couldn't get straight A's, or really good grades? No, but just saying that just to play the cool kid card, and have someone to unleash their personal self-doubt. It's kind of a way to get that off their chest.
  • But just understanding and being mindful of the power that words have. Fortunately, for me, I was able to overcome that. And I had parents that loved me and believed in me, and good teachers that refuse to give up on me otherwise my life would have looked a lot different. Intermittent Fasting

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A Writer’s Mindfulness; Lindsay Lees

Sunday Aug 28, 2022

Sunday Aug 28, 2022

Lindsay Lees is originally from Los Angeles but with dual citizenship in the UK. She grew up in both countries and went on to study Creative Writing. First earned a B.A. in 2008 from Manchester Metropolitan University and later followed by an M.F.A. in 2017 from California College of the Arts. The Willing is Lindsay’s debut novel. She currently lives a quiet Southern life with her husband and a houseful of pets. Writer's Mindfulness

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  • Her mother, a clinical psychologist Writers

Effect on Emotions

  • It's easy for me to allow my anxieties and my insecurities to paralyze me. So coming out of that; focusing on yoga, breathing, and becoming more centered is really life-changing.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • I enjoy breathing techniques. Pranayama things that you learn in Yoga. There's the Dutch guy, Wim Hof, who does breathing techniques, and they're fascinating, and his whole life meeting and learning. What that practice is about is it's very expansive and it can shift your mood in a very short period of time, and that can be essential to be able to overcome certain things.  Writer's Mindfulness

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Bullying Story

  • When you are an adolescent in a position where you are less capable of standing up for yourself less confident. Growing up was challenging because I didn't feel that I had so many things going on in my personal life and in my family life that I couldn't share and that I didn't understand completely. Writer's Mindfulness
  • That made me different from the kids in my classroom and who I was growing up. So I wish that children could not let those self-defeating thoughts and those insecurities become their identity in a way.
  • Then influence how you view yourself and understand that the person that you are back then is not going to be the person that you are when you grow up and you're capable of developing new ways of thinking, your understanding of the world, and how people really view themselves and try to belittle others because they don't feel good about themselves. That's their only way of coping. Writers

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Tame the Ego’s Tongue; Alan Carroll

Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life to searching for tools that can be used by everyone, to escape the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent mindful dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and between the words we speak.

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  • Spiritual Teachers

Effect on Emotions

  • Sadhguru describes anger and he holds up a cup. He says anger is like drinking from a cup of poison and expecting the other person to die you are angry. And so why would you cause chemical changes in your physical body that causes diseases that are caused by the toxic release of chemicals because of the anger? Why would you do that?
  • You would do that because the ego doesn't care about your body. The ego cares about being right. And what it does to my body is irrelevant. As long as I get my pound of flesh, I'm happy but when you start looking at your body, you recognize that there are loving emotions and there are emotions that are toxic. And so you stop because there's a space for you to observe. or that, hey, it's not beneficial for me to be angry. So I gotta figure out another strategy. That's mindfulness.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • Breathing is part of the autonomic nervous system, you do not have to think about breathing when you're speaking. It does it automatically. But the point being is that the amount of oxygen you take in when you don't think about breathing is about a little over a liter, of the six-liter capacity.
  • So if you think about breathing, you can actually tell your body to take in more oxygen than is necessary, which gives you more prana, more energy. And so you can regulate your energy by becoming conscious of breathing, but you can't become conscious and breathing unless you are able to tell your body to breathe, you have to have the thought, the thought inside your head while you're standing up.
  • If I'm an audience, I'm going to take a deep breath right now. Then you can take a deep breath, but you have to be able to pause to create that space in which you get to know and control the timing in order to tell your body to breathe.

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Bullying Story

  • Nothing is either right or wrong. But thinking makes itself so. You shouldn't be bullied, bullying is wrong. So in the reality in which you live, your ego is now engaged in there's something happening in your movie right now of this situation or this person what they're doing, and you're labeling it bullying, and so and so you're not present in the moment, you're dealing with a bully at the moment not objectively, logically right now, that's a bully, and so and so until you, until you're able to be more relaxed with the energy that's around the Bolinas.
  • Then whatever solution you're going to try to figure out may not strategically be the best that maybe tactically it might work. immediately, but strategically you have to deal with the person who is looking at it and labeling it. And realizing that that label is not the best way to label it.

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You Are Deathless; Nicole Angelique Kerr

Sunday Aug 21, 2022

Sunday Aug 21, 2022

Nicole Kerr is an award-winning health and wellness expert. Throughout her 30-year career, she has focused on supporting thousands of people from every walk of life to make realistic, meaningful choices for lifelong health. As a 19-year-old cadet at the US Air Force Academy, Nicole went through a transformative NDE. Her pursuit of improving her own health led her to inspire others to reach emotional, energetic, and spiritual well-being. You Are Deathless

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  • Her husband

Effect on Emotions

  • I learned a technique called neuro-emotional technique, which I became certified in, and then if I am not processing an emotion, I'm a somatic processor. So my body lets me know, I'll either belch or I usually will get a headache, and then I will work through what was it and it's usually one that's like shame, a difficult one that I don't want to feel. When it's triggering something from the past I go back and figure out what that is.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • Breathing will keep you alive. I woke up from one operation and they told me right before it was an emergency one, or they had to cut me all the way open and they said you will probably wake up with a ventilator.
  • Being on a ventilator respirator and the first thing you're going to notice is you're wanting to instinctively pull it out. So your hands are going to be tied down and I had to wait for two days. I looked at the clip and covered the clock up because I kept looking at the clock because I couldn't say anything. I had to do yes and no through eye motions, but I had to learn to force myself to breathe with the machine.
  • I am all about breathing when you have a panic attack or anxiety; it's about getting your breath and getting that under control, for instance, breathing exercises, deep breathing, and all forms of breathing. Don't stay in this shallow breathing, get it down to the belly.

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Bullying Story

  • It was recently with my parents. I got sick again about eight years ago. We were going on overdue when I was on a honeymoon, and I invited my parents to come to stay in Hawaii at our home.
  • And I got really sick. My mother told me the reason I got sick was that I had a Buddha in the house. She told me that I looked like a wreck, was sick, and I wasn't beautiful anymore. She said that I was doing something to make myself sick. She wanted to know if I was going to church and I said, No. I go to church at the beach. And I love meditating on my walks on the beach and in the ocean.
  • She said, Well, you're not a Christian now and my heart just sank. Because here she is this ultra-religious lady, doing what Jesus said, Judge not lest you be judged. So she got up from the table and left me there. And I looked at my dad, and I said, Dad, do you believe her? And he said, Wait, you've looked better and, and that was it.
  • My husband didn't know about that conversation till I had a panic attack and had to go into the hospital for that. And then they left. And that was, I finally got the courage to separate from my parents. Unfortunately, it took me a long time, because I was still trying to get from them what they couldn't give me.
  •  We really do want it and, and will suffer greatly trying to get something from them that they can't give us. 

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The Party Scientist; Jacques Martiquet

Wednesday Aug 17, 2022

Wednesday Aug 17, 2022

Jacques Martiquet helps leaders embrace the incredible potential of gatherings as a memorable way of creating human connections. He is passionate about promoting psychological safety, social bonding, and fun to improve mental health planet-wide. He has recently returned from a multi-country tour where he truly whetted his skills as ‘The Party Scientist'. Jacques believes that journaling is the secret to progressive incline in one's well-being and that deep talk can lead to the type of relationships we all crave.

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Effect on Emotions

  • I don't get upset at myself and angry at myself for experiencing depth dips in my state and I accept that I am not to blame. I can't blame myself for my emotional experience.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • I take conscious breaths throughout the day. And I find that that helps me be less absent-minded. And it helps me be more receptive to human experiences to trigger ideas. So yeah, one breath at a time throughout the day, especially when those difficult triggers come up. The Party Scientist

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Bullying Story

  • Bullying happens during adulthood as well. When I was in high school, I was really short. I was an excluded kid and it was not a safe environment to be yourself. That's what blows my mind when our brains are in critical development. That's when the quality of our relationships and friendships and connections with others are the least secure.
  • So if we really want to fix these intractable problems in society, we need to address the quality of relationships that are present in children and in teenagers.
  • So I'm gonna give you an example that actually happened recently. So 2021, I'm just coming out of a business partnership with two of my co-founders. And one of my co-founders, he's like a brother to me, we went to a festival, I brought him on to the main stage of a festival.
  • They're in my men's group, two of these men are brothers to me. And they plan their first ever retreat. They don't invite me. They don't explain why they haven't invited me. And then they asked to use my speaker for the retreat. And they invited people who they're not even friends with.
  • It really hurt like, I haven't experienced that level of hurt. That's the greatest form of ostracization I've experienced because it was people I trusted, people who I thought were my best friends.
  • Essentially, they had no idea. They were totally incompetent. They had no intention to be malicious.
  • How could mindfulness have helped? I think it's more conscious empathy or conscious forecasting of other people's feelings that would have been helpful. The Party Scientist

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5 Ways A Dog Will Help You De-Stress

Sunday Aug 14, 2022

Sunday Aug 14, 2022

My topic for today is about dogs, Mindful Tribe. I look forward to sharing with you, the ‘5 Ways A Dog Will Help You De-Stress'. I can tell you that my dogs in the past have helped me de-stress; Charlie, and Sadie were both amazing pets.

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1/ Walks

Walking provides great cardio and is so healthy for us in many way. It's especially good as we get older, but it's excellent exercise for anyone of any age. Walking is great for our mental health and is terrific for our physical health and coordination. so

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2/ Petting, Brushing, and Stroking

Sadie and Charlie both loved being petted, and brushed; they never seemed to get tired of it. so
I don't know of a dog that doesn't enjoy those things. It was not only something that they enjoyed, but as long as I settled back and relaxed and just allowed myself to enjoy it, then it was a great experience for me as well. You can look at it as a type of therapy because you're not only giving pleasure to your dog, but you are giving pleasure and health benefits to yourself. It helps us feel good as long as we allow the whole action of petting and stroking and brushing and combing to really feel good and be a mindful experience. Sink into it and allow it to be therapeutic for you. so

3/ Connections to others

I dedicated this episode to my friend Lindsay. She has two dogs, Ashkee and Willow and they have been a gift in her life.  She's told me lots of different stories about Ashkee and Willow and I've told her stories about Sadie and Charlie. That's only a small example, if you're a dog owner, I'm sure you can think of many times when you've met people and the topic of your dogs have come up. Before long, you are connecting with that other person as a result of your connection to dogs. so

4/ Help With Emotions 

Having a dog can help with our emotions. This is a topic we talk about a lot on Mindfulness Mode. Lots of times we don't stop and consider our emotions enough, and we sometimes tend to push our emotions down and not allow ourselves to be aware of our emotions. If you feel angry, allow yourself to feel angry, and the same is true for grief and sadness. Avoid pushing your emotions away. so

Having a dog can just really help you to relax and settle into your own space in the world. If you've been listening to Mindfulness Mode for a while, you know that we often talk about breathing. Sit with your dog and just take some deep breaths and relax and allow your time together to be a time of mindfulness. so

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, chronic stress can lead to health issues, including increased risk of depression and anxiety, and difficulties with learning. Stress can also negatively affect memory, concentration, and your ability to sleep easily and deeply. Stress can lower your immune system function. All of this stress can make it more challenging to be calm and focused and in the present moment. Dogs can help us connect with and feel our emotions more fully. so

5/ Reduce tension

If you own a dog you will probably feel a deep connection to your pet. If you're feeling down and discouraged, or if you're feeling excited they can read your emotions. Tuning into your dog and spending meaningful time together can help you connect more deeply to your emotions. Many of my friends who are dog owners have told me that when they spend time with their dog, they feel less anxiety and reduced tension. Spending time with your dog is a great way to unwind and let go of the day's frustrations.

Your Dog Can Improve Your Leadership Skills

Dr. Anne Gatty is an avid believer in the power of dogs to help us live mindful lives and even improve our leadership skills. I interviewed Dr. Gatty, on Episode 201. Check out the episode for interesting information about how dogs can improve our leadership skills. Also, consider reading Dr. Gatty's book, Leadership Unleashed: A Great Dane's Wisdom for the Business World by Dr. Ann Gatty.

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No Nonsense Addictions Advice; Dr. Cali Estes

Wednesday Aug 10, 2022

Wednesday Aug 10, 2022

Dr. Cali Estes, The Addictions Coach, is a highly sought-after addiction professional (MCAP, MAC ICADAC), life coach, recovery coach, and wellness guru that blends talk therapy with positive change to assist her clients in unlocking their true potential. She has been featured in books, magazines, radio, and television for her work in the drug addiction and transformational coaching fields. She works with individuals, drug and alcohol treatment teams, and addiction professionals looking to advance their knowledge base. Her style of addiction coaching is unique, and she is able to get to the root cause of her client’s issues fast.

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Effect on Emotions

  • Being mindful has been very important, especially in situations of high stress. So if you have a stressful event anywhere, your first instinct is to scream and yell and carry on. But if you take a deep breath and view the situation in a different light, it changes your action plan, which changes your outcome.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • When you take a deep breath and count to ten, that's how long it should take you to breathe in and breathe out. It gives you space between you and what's happening and it also calms all the organs in your body and it brings your dopamine and your adrenaline down. When you do that, you can function better and make better executive decisions.

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Bullying Story

  • When I went into private practice and started my company, well this is a male dominated field. It's a boy's club and they don't want you to come into their boy's club. I had a very famous interventionist in LA. (Tune in to hear more of this story and more no nonsense addictions advice )

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Breathwork To Upscale Your Life; Samantha Skelly

Sunday Aug 07, 2022

Sunday Aug 07, 2022

Samantha Skelly is a self-made entrepreneur and CEO of the multi-million dollar Breathwork and Wellness company Pause. She's a highly sought-after international speaker, best-selling author, and coaching expert with a heart-centered approach to life and business. 

A leading authority on trauma healing and stress release, Samantha has made it her life's mission to rid the world of anxiety so people can thrive using the power of their breath.  Through Pause's signature trauma-informed coaching programs, breathwork facilitator training, and live events she provides uniquely accessible somatic and emotional healing resources, while also equipping clients with the tools and strategies to create and scale their own 6-figure wellness businesses.

With the mission of helping 1 billion people by 2030, Samantha started examining the underlying causes of anxiety, trauma, and stress in 2014 with the Hay House best-selling book “Hungry for Happiness.”
Samantha eventually grew the movement into the comprehensive wellness brand that Pause is today, supporting over 10,000 clients in 30+ countries worldwide.Her sustainable healing solutions have revolutionized the self-help industry, challenging the old “Band-Aids on bullet wounds” approach that kept people trapped in the yo-yo effect. She's been featured on the small screen on Global TV, Shaw, NBC, CBC, The Doctors Show, and BBC. And in publications like Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Elephant Journal, and The Prevail Project. Samantha hosts the top-rated podcast ‘The Sam Skelly Show’ which has had millions of downloads over the last 5 years.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Samantha currently resides in San Diego, California. When she's not challenging the wellness and self-help industry or positively transforming lives, you can usually find her surfing, dancing, and supporting anti-trafficking efforts through her philanthropic initiatives.

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  • Her grandfather who recently passed away.

Effect on Emotions

  • Then they're not overpowering. I've, I've been able to observe them, not identify with them. When I identify with them. I feel like they overtake my whole experience. When I observe them, I realize that there's a witness observing my emotions. And because there's a witness observing them, I know that I am not them. So then I can shift and change them.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • Breathwork is the ability of using your breath to release the addiction to the cognitive mind, the monkey mind, the reptilian brain so that we can drop deeper into our bodies and actually use the energy of our heart to navigate the world, rather than the ego and the survival brain.

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Bullying Story

  • When I was going from grade six to seven, I got really into sports and playing outside. I was very active. I had a couple of extra pounds on me in grade seven, I was skipped, like so tiny. Because then I was a dancer and the rest of it.
  • So this girl at school, her name was Isabella. She told the whole school that I went to fat camp, and that's why I was skinny and I was so upset, I was so pissed. And it just was like really awful. Because I was so young, I just tried to defend myself against her versus knowing in my truth that that's not true.
  • Her projection of me isn't it has anything to do with me. I got really emotional rather than logical. If I hadn't mindfulness, then I would have saved myself a lot of pain from those words.
  • So now, being an influencer of some sort, and having a social media presence, of course, you're exposed to people who don't like you. And I remember during COVID I put a meme up that I thought was really funny. But a lot of people thought that it wasn't, and I got bullied hard on that. And comedy for me is comedy is very healing for me. Breathwork

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Don’t Let This Habit Steal Your Life; Roman Mironov

Wednesday Aug 03, 2022

Wednesday Aug 03, 2022

Roman Mironov is a relationship coach in Toronto, Canada who truly hates to see people suffer in their relationships. That's why his goal is to help clients create amazing and enviable relationships by increasing love, gratitude, and mindfulness in order to feel joyful. Roman knows that an addiction to p*&n can cause major problems in relationships and he helps people who are experiencing this challenge in their lives. He has been into self-improvement for over a decade and brings his best ideas and tools to people he works with. *Note: This episode is marked explicit and is not suitable for children due to the mature subject matter.

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The Risk of Social Media

  • The huge problem is social media because when guys start looking at Instagram, all these girls try to get more likes by showing themselves on Instagram, and this becomes a huge trigger.
  • We are bombarded today by all these messages about sexuality, that sexuality is good, and that it's okay to show your body in a very vulnerable way like they do on Instagram.

Building Awareness Through Mindfulness

  • We certainly need to be in touch with our emotions through meditation and mindfulness. We can be more in touch with our true emotions and I think that we can also build better relationships with other people through being mindful. It creates a more healthy individual.

 Similarities Between P*&n Detox and Losing Weight

  • One of the similarities is spending all your mental energy on your addiction or thinking about, let's say, p*&n or food or fighting your thoughts. It just doesn't leave any headspace for you to think about what the real problem is.
  • The root cause is that psychological deficit, but when you go on a smart diet, you do whatever works for you. You just start eating cleaner and then you'll notice that you don't crave food that much anymore. And because you don't spend that mental energy on thinking about food, planning food, and so on, you realize that there is something bigger; that this is why I was actually overeating. And that could be a relationship going wrong.

Trauma As A Cause of a P*&n Addiction

  • The most common example is that people get exposed to this habit very early on. Their brothers were watching it, or their parents were watching it, they saw it and they got hooked. And this is definitely a psychological trauma because a six-year-old is not supposed to see things like this.
  • Another example, which is also very common is parents who were achievers. And they pushed their son or their daughter to come to me for help. In some cases they push too much. They had very high expectations and on the other hand they did not give much love. So the person feels that they were not loved enough. And that's why they're always not enough, even though they may be 30 or 40 years old now.

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