Mindfulness Mode

Lee Holden teaches mindfulness in motion with Qigong. He is the founder and CEO of Holden QiGong. Lee is a world-renowned leader who brought the  ancient Chinese practice of Qigong to the modern world. He has been featured on 8 successful PBS shows with another 13 episodes under “Your Fountain Of Youth With Lee Holden”. The episodes were shot at a variety of scenic locations including Yosemite, Redwood National Park and Croatia. Through online and in-person courses, Lee Holden teaches individuals how to improve their life force energy. He also helps athletes by activating dormant energy through a series of breathing and meditative exercises. Lee has helped over 10,000 students break through barriers to uncover healing from injury or disease as well as maximizing energy levels and decreasing signs of aging.

• Website: www.holdenqigong.com

• Mantak Chia (a Taoist Master; Mantak Chia is the creator of the Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System, and Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort)

• Oh, mindfulness gets me out of my head so that I don't stack emotions on top of emotions on top of emotions. I can feel the emotion. I can drop into the moment.

• Breath is life. I mean, breath is chi. When you take a deep breath. You are bringing energy into your body and that was what sustains and keeps you alive.

• Raising four daughters, aged 3 to 15, exposes me to diverse forms of bullying. It goes beyond mere exclusion or name-calling; it involves clashes of opinions. When one of my older girls faced criticism over her political stance, I emphasized empathy and a broader outlook. We actively stepped into each other's perspectives, cultivating empathy and understanding.

• Book: Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Myung Sung: The Korean Art of Living Meditation with Dr. Jenelle Kim

Shake, Stimulate, and Energize; David Weigert

Rising Above Trauma With Dr. Lin Morel

Professor Pete Alexander knows how to help you lighten your day. He is an author, TEDx speaker, adjunct college professor, certified Laughter  Yoga leader, and improv comedy cast member. He is also the President of the greatest interior landscaping company in the San Francisco Bay Area – Office Plants by Everything Grows. Professor Pete helps inspire his students to develop and apply key concepts of marketing specifically to their area of interest. He supports his community by helping them laugh more and stress less. Professor Pete has had significant training in neurolinguistic programming (NLP). His most recent book is called, LIGHTEN Your Day: Fast, Easy, and Effective Stress Relief For When Sh&t Happens.

• Website: wwwPeteAlexander.com

• A professor I had back when I was getting my bachelor's degree

• I used to react immediately and usually in a negative way. And so mindfulness now for me is going back to being in the present.

• I like to call it the box method. So if we think about a square, what  to do for deep breathing, We can do deep breathing where you breathe all the way in and you make sure that if you can breathe out through your mouth. That's always the most beneficial way to breathe.

• My story about bullying and how mindfulness would have made a difference, highlights how I dealt with a challenging coworker using the STOP method. STOP is an acronym. Stop, Take yourself away, Observe your feelings, Proceed. In a toxic open office, this person's behavior grated on me, pushing my stress levels through the roof.

• Book: LIGHTEN Your Day: Fast, Easy, and Effective Stress Relief For When Sh&t Happens by Professor Pete Alexander

Laughing In The Face of COVID19; Dr. Madan Kataria

Laugh, Learn and Awaken With JP Sears

Laughter, Humor and Mindfulness Solo Weekend With Bruce

Summer McStravick teaches Manifesting Through Flowdreaming as part of her work as a personal growth coach. She is also an author and podcaster whose works have been used worldwide to transform people's inner emotional landscapes as well as their external lives. Her latest book is called Stuff Nobody Taught You: 40 Lessons from ME School to Help You Stop Being Miserable and Start Feeling Amazing. Previously, she worked for Louise L. Hay for a decade and created HayHouseRadio.com. Summer is the creator of Flowdreaming, a mind-body technique for manifesting and growing inner emotional strength.

• Website: www.flowdreaming.com

• Eckhart Tolle, Author

• I begin in a state of mindfulness is alignment. Reaching a moment of a perfect and pure flow feeling. I'm moving through a state of no restrictions. There's no resistance. I mean, that's the definition of flow, the absolute lack of resistance.

• I love breathwork. It's one of my favorite practices. Real breath work where you're focusing on the breathing and nothing but the breathing.

• Being the odd one out as a kid led to bullying, feeling unpopular, and vastly different from my peers.

• Book: Flowdreaming: A Radical New Technique for Manifesting Anything You Want by Summer McStravick

Flow State Secrets; Tim Bui

Lasting Happiness Secrets With TM Hoy

The Entrepreneur’s Secret Shared By Business Dominatrix Arlene Battishill

Lance Cayko is a multi-talented serial entrepreneur with an architect's mindful life vision. He is also a lecturer and podcaster with a diverse background in architecture, construction, and real estate development. He is the co-founder and partner of F9 Productions Inc., a successful design + build firm based in Longmont, Colorado. His company specializes in single-family and multi-family residential and small commercial projects.

• Website: InsidetheFirmPodcast.com

• Kanye West (Rapper)

• Mindfulness, to me, stems from a recent read, Holding the Calm. by Hesha Abrams. It's about embracing different ‘lives' within our lifespan stages—20s, 20-40, 40-60, and beyond.

• Breathing used to begin with gratitude for that initial breath, but it's slipped away. Yet, hiking strenuous mountain trails redefines it.

• My childhood bully, Jonas, fueled my drive. Instead of combating him, I channeled his negativity into motivation.

• Book: Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension by Hesha Abrams

Bryce Prescott: Rules of Success to Live a Balanced Life Using a Scientific Approach

Elder Care Meets Mindfulness With Legal Expert Nicole Wipp

Don’t Wait To Be Great Proclaims Raven Blair Glover

Adam Hergenrother is the author of The 200% Life. He is the Founder & CEO of the thriving $1 billion organization, Adam Hergenrother Companies. He  owns a national real estate company, an award-winning development and construction company, and a leadership training firm. He is passionate about using business to transform lives and believes that when you focus on leading yourself first, the business results will follow. When he's not leading and growing his organizations or working on his inner growth, you can find Adam in the Vermont mountains with his wife, Sarah, and three children.

• Website: www.AdamHergenrother.com

• Michael A. Singer (Author)

• Number one is that mindfulness made me aware that I'm not my emotions. Therefore I have the ability to either touch them or don't touch them. That obviously gives me a lot more clarity in my life.

• I love cathartic breathing. How wonderful it is to take three deep breaths; you know, that's part of the relaxed release. Just drop your shoulders, it just releases and you know, the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems that are going through our bodies.

• There's a situation right now with one of my daughters. She is caught in a bullying situation. I was just responding to this individual.

• Book: The Surrender Experiment, The Untethered Soul. And Living Untethered by Michael A. Singer

Moving in Mindful Motion With Diena Seeger

Tame the Ego’s Tongue; Alan Carroll

Conversations Across Divides; Justin Michael Williams

Cyrus Rustom teaches strength through struggle. He has been coaching nutrition, fitness, health and peak performance for 13 years. Prior to his fitness industry career, he served as Royal Marines Commandos for 5 years, including a tour in Afghanistan on Operation Herrick 2006. His style of coaching is tough love. Cyrus almost died in a life-threatening incident in Afghanistan and bounced back to grow a successful 15-year career in fitness. He opened two fitness facilities in his hometown of Dubai and also coaches mindset, discipline, fitness, and nutrition. His current business started during Covid and against all odds, has not just survived but thrived. His business now generates over $1,000,000 a year in revenue. Cyrus also works for the Royal Family in Dubai, UAE. Cyrus attributes his success to his ability to extract powerful lessons learned through massive trauma.

• Website: www.Boxica.ae

• My wife

•  Mindfulness has absolutely helped me deal with my emotions. This is something that I haven't mastered yet, either. I'm still reminding myself on a daily basis that I need to breathe and process things slowly.

• Wim Hof. Style of breathing is one method of breathing. It's actually quite fast. And it brings you into a certain state. But there are thousands of different ways to breathe. Wim Hof has one.

• I've been bullied before,  but at the age that it happened,  I wouldn't have been able to have told you what mindfulness  was.

• Book: The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

Live As A Courageous Human; Clint Hatton

Allan Misner: Keep Balance To Find Encouragement and Enlightenment

Dr. Kim D’Eramo: Dynamic Doctor Encourages Mindfulness for Mind Body Health

Roy Coughlan knows what it's like to lose everything and be grateful. He is a seasoned serial entrepreneur, and his portfolio includes over 15 successful ventures spanning five countries. As a dynamic podcast host and coach, Roy has established five podcasts, four of which have soared to the Top 0.5%, with the fifth currently at 1.5%. Leveraging his extensive experience, he now guides others in navigating the podcasting landscape, assisting them in reaching remarkable success.

• Website: https://bio.link/podcaster

• My mother

• I've learned not to react impulsively, like that time when I was picking up my tired child from school. Initially frustrated, I realized his tears were fatigue, not disobedience.

• Exploring various breathwork sessions, I stumbled into an incredible journey. Witnessing people release trauma through breath amazed me. Encouraging others to dive in, I stress the need for skilled facilitators, not just online tutorials.

• Growing up small in a tough neighborhood, I faced relentless bullying. Boxing helped, but I ended up becoming a bully myself at school.

• Book: Therapeutic Mindfulness: A Healing Skill, Not a Coping Skill by Ruth Fearnow

Allan Misner: Keep Balance To Find Encouragement and Enlightenment

Use Mindfulness To Be Self-Aware With Your People Suggests Videographer Matt Peet

Live The Life You Love With Victim To Victor Author, Nick Santonastasso

Kristof Morrow is an author and award-winning journalist. Second Sun Insights is the title of this episode. Kristof taught himself to write while serving in the military and later won two awards from Texas Press Associations. His debut book is called The Second Sun: Volumes I & II, and he contends the work is not only epic fantasy but also literature, seeking to uncover or elaborate on truths long felt and long considered. Kristof believes in Steinbeck's philosophy that ‘my whole mission as a writer is to help people understand one another.’

• Website: https://linktr.ee/kristofmorrow

• John Steinbeck, Author

• Mindfulness is an important intermediary between action and forgiveness.

• This makes me think of meditation. I grew up in the South, so we used to hear people make fun of people who meditate all the time. So I came into it with a prejudice. But I did try it and it really works. Meditation is one of those things that you have to do every day like once a day; you can't just do it once.

• Well,  I was bullied pretty relentlessly, even in school, because I have a pretty severe case I think, of ADHD.  So that did not enable me to make friends my own age. And so when I was in school, I had a lot of difficulty cooperating with kids my own age.

• Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Mindset Tips for Author Success; Tonya Duncan Ellis

Hope For Recovery With Author Hope Andersen

Build Better Relationships With Author Bryan Falchuk

Michael Feldstein helps people breathe better, live better. He is an air quality expert with a robust background in disaster recovery and home restoration. Transitioning from rebuilding homes to pioneering solutions, he developed a cutting-edge air purifier addressing the fallout of environmental catastrophes. His innovation offers a powerful defense against the invisible threats that compromise indoor air quality. Michael's commitment to this cause stems from a deep desire to transform post-disaster living spaces into havens of health and safety. Michael has witnessed firsthand how polluted air can damage people’s well-being. This is the reason he created Jaspr.

• Website: www.jaspr.co

• UJ Ramdas; Author of The 5 Minute Journal

• I am quite calm in chaos. I don't know where exactly it came from, but it allows me, if I'm stressed out or feeling overwhelmed, I go for a very, very long walk or sit in the hot tub. That way I get alone time. No phone and just give myself an opportunity to think without the input of others.

•  I recommend James Nestor's book, Breath. I had a very obstructed airway for a long time. I got nose surgery. a septorhinoplasty in 2018 at age 28. It has forever changed my life. I can now breathe through my nose.

• I would say  I wasn't like a chronically bullied kid, but I definitely had confrontations. I would say I also bullied some kids at summer camp. Mindfulness would have made a big difference because it would have allowed me the moment to pause before I acted. I would have been able to take that moment to think whether there was ever a situation where I had a bullying event towards me.

• Book: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Anne-Claire Holland: Stop and Check Your Breathing When Panic or Anger Feelings Surface

Breathwork To Upscale Your Life; Samantha Skelly

Pause, Breathe, And Smile To Awaken Your Mindfulness; Gary Gach

Today’s episode details 5 Meditation Methods. I'll be talking about some types of meditation you've probably heard about. Maybe you've been curious about how they really work and how they differ. I'll go into some detail about each one and talk about the benefits. If you have any questions, send me an email at [email protected]. You may resonate with one or more of these types of meditation. Maybe you've had personal experiences that you'd like to share. Let me know. I may share your thoughts on my next episode.

• Website: www.MindfulnessMode.com

Mindfulness meditation is a practice that focuses on being aware of the present moment. It is also about being non-judgmental as you observe thoughts, sensations, and emotions. This method of meditation is rooted in ancient Buddhist traditions. It may focus on the breath, bodily sensations, or surroundings. The practice involves acknowledging thoughts without attachment or reaction, allowing them to come and go. With Mindfulness Meditation, you will come to know a new level of acceptance and clarity.

Transcendental Meditation (TM) is the silent repetition of a specific mantra to promote a state of deep relaxation and reduced stress. If you’re practicing TM, you get comfortable in a seated position and you silently start repeating a personally assigned mantra for 15-20 minutes, twice every day. The mantra serves as a focal point, allowing the mind to effortlessly transcend normal waking consciousness, reaching a state of profound restfulness and inner calm.

This method is also known as Metta. It focuses on having compassionate thoughts towards yourself and others. You would be guided to generate feelings of love and warmth towards yourself. Then you would extend these feelings to loved ones, acquaintances, and even those you might feel challenged to deal with. Phrases or affirmations can be used to help promote genuine feelings of kindness and compassion for all. The goal of this practice is to dissolve barriers and reduce negative emotions like anger or resentment. It encourages empathy and connectedness. Through consistent practice, you would probably experience increased emotional resilience, improved relationships, and a greater sense of inner peace and interconnectedness with the world.

Guided Visualization is about using mental imagery to cause relaxation and focus. This method is often led by a facilitator, but it can be a self-practice as well. You would settle into a comfortable position, following guided instruction to imagine peaceful scenes or environments. You may be asked to think of desired outcomes. Through vivid descriptions, you would visualize details such as sights, sounds, and sensations. This practice uses the mind's power to reduce stress, enhance concentration, and stimulate a relaxed state.

Body Scan Meditation is all about focusing your attention on different parts of the body. The method encourages you to notice physical sensations without judgment. For this method, you would lie down or sit in a comfortable position and then move attention from one body part to another, noting any tension, warmth, or relaxation. Body scan meditation encourages deep relaxation, mindfulness, and awareness of bodily sensations. This can help with stress reduction and promote physical and mental relaxation.

• Book: The Science of Being and Art of Living” by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The Three Pillars of Meditation; Giovanni Dienstmann

Mark Dillon: Anxiety and Suffering to Employment at the World Class Meditation Insight Center

Peace and Calm Meditation