About davidji: davidji is an internationally recognized stress-management expert, corporate trainer, meditation teacher, and author of the critically acclaimed destressifying: The Real-World Guide to Personal Empowerment, Lasting Fulfillment, and Peace of Mind;and Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace & Personal Transformation, winner of the Nautilus Book Award. He is credited with creating the 21-day meditation process, which spawned hundreds of 21-day meditation experiences & challenges around the world. Often referred to as the Velvet Voice of Stillness, he can be heard on more than 500 guided meditations, available on iTunes, Amazon.com, HayHouse.com, GooglePlay, Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud, & on davidji.com. After a 20-year career in business, finance, and mergers and acquisitions, davidji began a new journey to wholeness, which he found through meditation. He apprenticed under Drs. Deepak Chopra and David Simon, serving as the Chopra Center COO, Lead Educator and then as the first Dean of Chopra Center University, training more than 200,000 people to meditate and certifying more than 1,000 meditation teachers. He has since left the Chopra Center to travel the world teaching the practical integration of meditation, mindfulness, conscious choice making, and ancient wisdom into our real-world, modern-day experiences. For more than 12 years davidji has helped thousands of people around the world to be more reflective and less reflexive, make better decisions, sleep better, enhance their relationships, experience abundance, and live a purpose-driven life. He has a passion for working with those in high-pressure situations, including members of the military, special forces, law enforcement, business leaders, and those in crisis. He is the developer of the Blue Courage Awareness Training curriculum, which empowers police throughout the U.S., and teaches them present-moment life tools in their quest for safety, nobility, resilience and guardianship. His teachings on stress release, conflict resolution, and mindfulness are now practiced in some of the largest precincts and police academies in the country. In this episode, davidji shares: 1. Connecting to the stillness and silence within 2. Attention, Affection, Appreciation, and Acceptance 3. His amazing post 9-11 story What You'll Hear: 7:07 Integrating masculine and feminine energies 12:50 How davidji went from banking to meditation 21:26 One goal and 8 billion ways to access it 28:02 Being pro-television and believing in all things 39:00 Passive action and affecting change 43:30 The core elements of destressifying Click here to watch/listen or scroll upward to listen only: Resources: Live From The Sweet Spot with davidji destressifying: The Real-World Guide to Personal Empowerment, Lasting Fulfillment, and Peace of Mind The Bhagavad Gita This Episode is Brought to You By: You May Also Like: Divine Guidance And Commitment Please Put Down The 100lb Box Listen To Your Intelligent Heart And Trust Your Intuition With Sonia Choquette Get your copy of the Untame Yourself book on Amazon! How was this episode for you? Was this episode helpful for you today? I'd love to know what quote or lesson touched your soul. Let me know in the comments below!