In this episode, I talk about how mindfulness expands beyond meditation. It is something you can do all the time. Mindfulness includes active and passive outlets. You can wash dishes being mindful, talk to a friend, being mindful, driving, exercise, etc. Yoga is also about being in the present moment through movement. 

I expand on...

•  the definition of mindfulness and meditation
• how they are similar but different in a few ways
• I also talk about guided meditation and how I use it in my own practice and with my clients.  

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe! 

Hugs, Cheryl 

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 Would you be willing to fill out a questionnaire about overthinking?  Link HERE.

So, I don’t know if you are aware…but you think a lot, and most of what you think about is negative. 

Yes, negative. I am not saying you are negative by choice, it’s just how your brain is built. 

We are gonna talk about the brain and negative bias and how to stop it from mucking up your life.

In this episode... 

• I talk about how much you think.
• What negative bias is and why we are wired for it.
• How our memory works when it comes to negative bias.
• How you can become less negative and more positive.

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe! 

Hugs, Cheryl 

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Resource Hub- The place to find all of my free and paid products

I'm writing a book called  Mindfulness for Overthinkers: Think less, Do more, and feel incredibly Calm. If you want to see behind the scenes, join my community soon. 

Would you be willing to fill out a questionnaire on overthinking? Link HERE. 

How do you know if you are mindful?
It is an interesting question and one that makes a lot of sense if you think about it. If you are new to mindfulness then you may not feel as though you are being mindful. What does it feel like and how do you know when you are? 

Mindfulness, as I have mentioned before is a natural state of being present without judgment. 
In this episode, I talk about...

• Negative bias and how it is easier to explain mindfulness by what it isn't vs what it is. 
• I'll touch on how it feels to be mindful.  
• spaciousness and simplicity
• how mindfulness can be fleeting. 

Enjoy!!

P.S would you like to answer some simple questions on overthinking? I would appreciate your input. (It can be confidential if you like)

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Pause & Pivot Episode #09 

Mindfulness Guide-guide to help you easily become mindful. MP3 included too. 

Have you ever walked out of a building and then looked up to realize you are noticing something beyond your tiny thinking? Yea… like that. 

We have been told to look up our entire life, but do we really? 

• Stand up straight-chin up!
• Keep your head held high
• Lookup 
• Have faith

When we mop around or are sad, we tend to look down, averting eye contact. In some ways, it can feel easier, because we can hide for a while.

In this episode, I am going to discuss looking up....literally and figurative. 

• Body posture matters
• How our brain changes with looking up
• looking up to notice potential
• connect with that intuitive side

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe! 

Hugs, Cheryl 

Resources & Links Mentioned

Book reference-I can make you happy by Paul Mckenna

I'm writing a book called  Mindfulness for Overthinkers: Think less, Do more, and feel incredibly Calm. If you want to see behind the scenes, join my community soon.

Link to fill out an overthinker questionnaire. Appreciate it  Link HERE. 

Grieving mindfully

Grief is the most complex emotion next to love. 

And when it hits us we don’t know what to do. It feels like our brain stops working while our body catches up. It’s a horrible feeling. 

Grieving is something we all have to do at one point in our lives. We can’t get out of this one alive. Yet, it is an emotion that we stuff as far down as we can. We want to believe it is not true, that we can change it and that we are being punished by it. All of this is further than the truth. 

Grief is one of the greatest teachers. It forces you to look within. To appreciate the small things in life, to teach you how to use your grief on purpose and above all to be more compassionate with yourself and others. 

In this episode, I share a story about grief and ways to mindfully grief. 

• The Mustard Seed Story
• How to use the image of the waves to mindfully grieve. 
• Knowing that through it all, you can and will be ok. 
• learn how to grief on-purpose 

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe!

Hugs, Cheryl 

P.S  I am writing a book, if you want to see behind the scenes, join my community soon. 

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It's time to watch your thoughts that are floating around in your head. 

When it comes to thinking some people hear a narration, some people see words. But either way, this particular mini meditation can be modified to fit what works for the way and how you think. 

In this episode I provide you with a relaxing mini-meditation so you can watch your thoughts...and let them go.

Important note 

 Please do not drive or use heavy machinery while listening to this recording.

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe! 

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Have you grabbed the Mindfulness Guide yet? It's free PLUS it has a downloadable < 5-minute mini-meditation so you can move into mindfulness easily. 

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This is about hypnosis misconceptions that have come up. 

 I’m going to get into a little bit about some questions that I’ve been given lately in regards to hypnosis and give you a little bit more information on how hypnosis works. 

In this episode, I answer these questions 

• I went to a hypnosis stage show and they couldn’t put me under. Besides, I don’t want to cluck like a chicken. 
• I can’t visualize anything. I have no imagination. How am I going to be hypnotized? 
• I have strong willpower so how am I gonna be hypnotized? 
• My friend went to a hypnotist And she went so deep and when I went, I didn’t. 
• Is hypnosis safe? And does it really work? 

I also discuss what the pre-talk is and how it can alleviate concerns. 

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe!

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CJR Hypnosis- Zoom hypnosis sessions for overthinking and anxiety -call today!

Join our Facebook private community. You'll get extra ways to become calm that you won't get anywhere else. 

I talk about overthinking and past dwellers. 
If you're dwelling in all of your past experiences, past thoughts, past worries, past failures, and ruminating all the time, you're not living in the future. The future is now like right now.

In this episode...

I talk about the best "tools" to get you of the past. 
What questions to ask yourself regarding "why" your stuck there.
A quick 20 minute way to get your focus back so you can enjoy your day. 

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe!

Links mentioned in this episode
Enjoy the pod 

Pause & Pivot podcast episode #09 

Mindfulness podcast episode #01

The "free" step by step mindfulness guide with downloadable MP3

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Increase your self-confidence

Confidence is a feeling that you can trust your own judgment and abilities. It is a feeling of worth that resides deep within. It is a belief in this despite what your mind or others are telling you. For many of us, confidence is learned and grown into. We often see the confidence and strength in others and not in ourselves.

In this episode...

• I talk about how to get out of your head and into your confidence
• Increase your confidence with "fake it til you make it" and how that works.
• Consider using different words related to confidence. 
• Plus 5 ways to increase your confidence

Enjoy the Podcast and remember to be curious, consistent, and make sure you breathe!

Links mentioned in this episode

• Pause and Pivot Episode #09 
• CJR Hypnosis individualized online hypnosis for overthinking and anxiety
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• Join our private Facebook Calm Community

So, can anxiety ever really go away? 

Well, the answer is yes and no. 

Anxiety is normal in certain circumstances. It is our primitive brain doing it’s best to keep us safe. It's when it gets attached to everything we do that we have a problem. 

In this episode, I talk about managing anxiety expectations.

• The difference between those who manage it and those who don't. 
• The over-analyzing of our symptoms and what this does
• w=Why it's important to have healthy expectations on what "going away" looks like. 

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Episode #09 talks about the pause and pivot

CJR Hypnosis individualized hypnosis for overthinking and anxiety. 

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