ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner

In our 24-7 global economy, REST
feels like a luxury at best
and a weakness at worst.

We see work and rest as competitors -
but what if they're actually partners
in a productive, balanced life?

Indeed, knowing how to rest well
turns out to be the secret to how many writers,
scientists, and artists managed to be creative
and prolific, while having less harried
and busy lives than ours.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Show guest - Alex Pang,
author of REST: Why You Get More Done
When You Work Less - shares scientific research,
along with examples of writers, painters and thinkers -
from Darwin to Stephen King - to expose how we've
underestimated the power of rest for our success.

Though it's as natural as breathing, REST
is also a skill we can all learn to boost
our creativity and productivity.

We'll explore three big ideas:

Work and rest are partners.

We normally think of rest as the opposite of work, or a negative space defined only by the absence of work.

Conversations about “work-life balance” imply that work and rest are competitors. In the lives of the people I write about, work and rest complement and complete each other. Periods of focused work allow people to feel they’ve earned rest, and to enjoy it without guilt; rest offers a chance to recover from work, and creates a space for creative minds to stretch, explore new ideas, and generate insights. These lives show that work and rest need not be opposites; they can be partners, each making half of a whole life.
Rest is a skill.

We often think of rest as mindless relaxation. Laying in the sun or binge-watching Netflix has its place; but the best kinds of rest are not passive, but are active, mindful, and deliberate.
Rest enhances creativity.

History’s most creative people rested in common ways, and built similar relationships between their work and rest. Fortunately, science can help explain why deliberate rest helps us be sharper, smarter, and more innovative, and helps us see how we can build deliberate rest into our own lives.

Join Julie Ann and Alex to discover ways that upping
our downtime, from sleep to hobbies to vacation -
we can craft a new roadmap for finding renewed energy and inspiration, and getting more done with more ease.

What if you are perfect
exactly as you are?

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Jeff Foster -
author of THE WAY OF REST: Finding The Courage
to Hold Everything in Love - invites each of us to rediscover
that you are perfect even in your imperfection ..

and that even your pain, confusion, and exhaustion
are saturated with intelligence and sacredness.

Discover how radical self-acceptance can be the key
to cultivating vulnerability, finding peace of mind,
and celebrating the majesty of every moment.

You immediately get a sense of the power of Jeff's
gentle, yet profound, guidance:

“I hope my words inspire, challenge, and encourage you.
But most of all, I hope they help you remember that you are life ...
inseparable from the power that grows the flowers
and gives birth to galaxies,” Jeff says.

Drawing from his personal journey - including his own struggles
with illness and depression - Jeff guides us to restore and revive
ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated, inviting us
to contemplate “the Way of Rest” - and and its potential
to transform our experience of:.

• Imperfection—how we are “gloriously flawed” yet complete exactly as we are

• Not knowing—how we come to trust in the greater intelligence of life

• Melancholy and loneliness—how we learn to release the healing energies of “exquisite sensitivity”

• Ordinary moments—recognizing and receiving “the closest thing of all”

• Discomfort and discontent—how our frustrations become an opening to deep peace

• Love—rediscovering who we are beyond our carefully constructed facades

• Silence—discovering the vibrancy of living by letting go of thoughts and concepts

Join Julie Ann and Jeff to explore how finding "the Way of Rest" -
and finding the courage to hold everything in love -
creates the "pathless path" to a peaceful, joyful human experience.

So often, we look at life as a game to win,
or a journey to get from where we are now
to that magical, far-off destination where,
finally, we get to live a good life.

Except, it doesn’t work that way.
There is no there there, there is only here now.

When we look at living a good life as some faraway “place,”
we end up losing so much of the grace
that comes from the practice of day to day life.

Everyone is so focused on happiness.

Does it matter? Yup.

But the real difference-maker is meaning.

In no small part because happiness is a snapshot,
it's fleeting.

Meaning endures, sustains and fills,
even when happiness is off on walkabout.

Join Julie Ann and Jonathan in a dynamic, live exploration
of how to find your own meaning - your own Good Life;
and leave you feeling lit up by the way you contribute
to the world, as you're guided to do the work
you were put on the planet to do.

What if the world as we know it
operates on a false premise -
a premise that everything is separate
from everything else?

What if ultimate reality is something different
than what we believe in the mainstream?

What if we can create Heaven on Earth
by simply living as who we really are?

Global Oneness Day was created
precisely to address these things.

Join Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Steve Farrell - co-founder
with "Conversations with God" author Neale Donald Walsch
of Humanity's Team, the international organization and
movement that created "Global Oneness Day" -
the "Earth Day for Awakened Humanity" -
in its 7th year, on Monday, Oct. 24.

> Register for the free Global Oneness Day Summit & Gifts
https://vg165.isrefer.com/go/g1d16JAT/jaturner/

Speakers include Deepak Chopra, Iyanla Vanzant, Michael Bernard Beckwith,
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, and many others.

ConsciousSHIFT is a Global Oneness Day Co-Creator this year,
and I am committed in lending my support, as I have for years.

It is an ancient truth, a timeless truth,
that we are all One with the Divine,
each other and all of life.

We are not separate, even though
it appears that we are
when we look out on the world.

This wisdom is shared in the Old Testament,
Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, Tao Te Ching,
the Upanishads and other Sacred Text.

The message that we are all One
with the Divine and each other
has been shared over the millennia.

In Oneness, we see that what we do for others
we are actually doing for our self.

It is easy to see how this leads us down a virtuous path.

We believe we can make this our reality in this generation.

This year our theme is “Seeing the Divine in Life”
and “Standing in the shoes of the ‘Other’”.

Deepak Chopra is our Global Oneness Day Honorary Chairman.

You can view a complete list of the speakers and the program schedule here:
https://vg165.isrefer.com/go/g1d16JAT/jaturner/

Registration is free. The 12+ hour program is Monday, October 24th -
but if you miss any or all of the program you can listen in to the playback
for free for 48 hours following the event.

To participate in the event, please register here:
https://vg165.isrefer.com/go/g1d16JAT/jaturner/

Join Julie Ann and Steve, as together, we envision a future
where humanity rolls up its sleeves and creates a fulfilling,
compassionate and sustainable world.

> Register for the free Global Oneness Day Summit & Gifts
https://vg165.isrefer.com/go/g1d16JAT/jaturner/

Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs

When is the work of two people together greater
than what either could do on their own?

As long as we’ve been interested in creativity,
we’ve been preoccupied by
the myth of the lone genius.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Guest Joshua Wolf Shenk -
author of THE POWERS OF TWO - busts this fantasy apart,
and draws on new scientific research to show how
the pair is the embodiment of ingenuity.

On the show, we'll explore the magic of John Lennon
and Paul McCartney, the power of "hidden partners"
(even Einstein had one), and the genius of scores
of others in the fields of writing, music, dance,
science, technology, social activism, and business.

When it comes to creative success, we'll discover why
Josh persuasively argues that two is the magic number –
and why this changes everything we thought we knew
about creativity.

Join Julie Ann and Josh to discover the “secrets”
of creative pairs!

Some believe authenticity
is about being genuine and real.

Others say it’s about being true to yourself.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Jason Moffatt -
author of THE ART OF AUTHENTICITY: Tapping
Into the Uniqueness of You - says his version
of authenticity "is a bit different. A little less self-centered."

"I believe authenticity is not so much about you.
It’s about the people around you and how you
relate to them," Jason explains. "It’s how you interact,
value, and appreciate them. It’s whether your respect, listen and give others a fair shot ... through flexibility
and having an open mind. This allows you to demonstrate your authenticity to others."

While many marketers spend time and energy trying
to grow their business with external tools and automated software, Jason believes there's another path to success -
a more natural and honest way
of running your business. An authentic path that lies
within you - that combines humor, personal growth,
and quick action.

Join Julie Ann and Jason for what he calls an opportunity to get right within yourself. To do your best and serve others in a way that is mutually beneficial to all involved.

What if everything we think we know about how the world works ...

... from our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work to happiness and love ...

... are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed
from generation to generation
and are long past their expiration date?

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Vishen Lakhiani -
CEO of Mindvalley and author of THE CODE
OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MIND:
10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life
and Succeed On Your Own Terms - says
you can remove these outdated ideas,
and start anew.

What Vishen shares in CODEX is a blueprint of laws
to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life.

He makes a case that everything we know about the world
is mostly decided not by rational choice – but instead
by conditioning and habit.

And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything –
love, work, money, parenting, sex, health and more -
which they inherit and pass on from generation to generation.

What would your life look like if you
could forget the rules of the past,
and redefine what happiness, purpose
and success mean for you?

Vishen invites you to think like some of the greatest
non-conformist minds of our era, to question,
challenge, hack and create new rules for YOUR life so you can define success on your own terms.

Unraveling the Code Behind
What Makes an Extraordinary Individual.

Blending computational thinking, integral theory,
modern spirituality, evolutionary biology and humor,
Vishen provides a revolutionary 10 point framework
for understanding and enhancing the human self.

He developed this framework based on his personal experiences,
the 5 million people he’s reached through his publishing company Mindvalley,
and 200 hours of interviews and questions posed to incredible minds,
including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Ken Wilber,
Dean Kamen, Arianna Huffington, Michael Beckwith and other legendary leaders.

Join Julie Ann and Vishen to discover the secrets to living
at the peak of human potential!

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Chade-Meng Tan -
author of "JOY ON DEMAND: The Art of Discovering
the Happiness Within" (the long-awaited follow-up
to his New York Times bestselling book
SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF) - shows us how anyone,
no matter where they are, can access this source of happiness.

“If you have been unhappy, or you are happy and aspire
to be even happier, know that your happiness set point
can be upgraded. I know because I did it, I have seen
many others do it, and scientific studies have measured it,"
Meng explains.

"Of course, Buddhist monks and other contemplative people
have been doing it for thousands of years, but it’s not something
in the water in the Himalayas, it’s something you can do too,
wherever you are. I think the main problem is most people
aren’t aware that it is even possible. Or, if we’ve heard of it,
many of us think it is unattainable so we don’t even try.
We don’t know it’s something that every single one of us can learn.”

The path to joy on demand is through mindfulness,
but it doesn’t have to be a lot of work, take a lot of time,
or require you to abandon all your possessions
and live in a hut on a remote island.

Join Julie Ann and Meng, as he reveals 3 simple-but-powerful steps to enjoy the state of contentment
that we all possess, and how to tap into this natural, infinite capacity for joy.

The best part is that the benefits extend to every aspect of life —
our brains work better, our bodies function better, we achieve
greater success at work, and we find ourselves highly
attractive to the people around us.

The more we exercise this skill, the more familiar
we become with joy, the more we effortlessly gravitate
toward it, and in so doing create a sustainable sense of wonder
and contentment that can carry us throughout our entire life.

As both a jazz saxophonist and a theoretical physicist,
Stephon Alexander struggled to reconcile his passion
for music and physics with the ancient realm where music,
physics, and the cosmos were one.

Playing the saxophone and improvising with equations,
Stephon uncovered the connection between
the fundamental waves that make up sound
and the fundamental waves
that make up everything else.

In his book THE JAZZ OF PHYSICS: The Secret Link
Between Music and the Structure of the Universe,
Stephon reveals the ancient poetic idea
of the “music of the spheres,” taken seriously,
clarifies confounding issues in physics.

The book has already received praise from music
pioneer Brian Eno, who said it “could just as well
be called The Joy of Physics because what leaps out
from it is Stephon Alexander’s delight and curiosity
about the cosmos ...”.

Join Julie Ann and Stephon to explore the amazing -
and actual - resonance between science and music.

No matter how famous you are,
how much money you have,
or how successful you have become ...
you are not immune to tragedy.

Steve Mastroianni (aka VØID) - who toured the world with KISS,
wrote with legendary songwriter Desmond Child
and created some of the most popular guitar courses used by thousands of guitar students -
had tragedy strike close to home.

Steve’s father, Anthony Mastroianni, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.

Steve went from being on top of the world, feeling invincible and untouchable -
to having his world turned upside down - to help his father fight for his life.

“When my father was diagnosed, I knew right away that I would put my music career on hold and stop at nothing to get him back to 100% and onto the golf course. I didn’t know exactly how we would do it, but I knew that his passion would be a KEY component to his recovery,” said Steve.

Despite the emotional rollercoaster ride that was 2013-2014, after two surgeries, countless visits to the
hospital, and the horrors of spending more time in the emergency room than his previous 28 years combined, Steve is proud to say that they achieved their goal on July 22nd, 2014, just over one year after the diagnosis.

So WHY VØID Cancer?

After traveling the world for 10 years with a guitar on his back, Steve is no stranger to communicating his
message to large crowds.

However, it was his experience with his father that would put everything in perspective and inspire Steve to use his guitar to make an even bigger impact in the world.

His goal is to Teach and Inspire new Guitar Players around the world, while donating proceeds to further Cancer Research and introduce new programs for those who are suffering from this horrible disease.

He calls this movement VØID Cancer - and his mission is to Eliminate Cancer: One Note at a Time.

Even his Rockstar mentor Gene Simmons of KISS approves of his new venture:
“VØID is a special guy and what he is doing
with VØID Cancer is admirable.”
– Gene Simmons

Join the VØID Cancer Movement! >>>

1) Check out VØIDCancer.com and Steve's epic video.

2) Contribute to VØID Cancer and get Steve's Album:
> https://loopersandlullabies.com/album-order-form

Steve uses 100% of the proceeds to create new programs for patients and caregivers.

3) If you're a guitar player - or want to start - Steve is the best teacher on the planet, and you can check out
his teaching tools and courses here:
> http://www.rockstarmind.com

Join Julie Ann and Steve to discover how you can become part of this music movement to VØID Cancer.