Mindfulness Mode

Wayne Altman currently owns multiple online businesses all designed to enrich the lives of his customers and his community. His latest initiative is Melody Clouds, a subscription relaxation website and app with 8000 hours of Solfeggio, Binaural Beats, Guided Meditation, and 16,967 audiobooks all designed to relax and educate its subscribers at a price point other services just will not touch. Wayne has determined that the healing and beneficial effects of this technology should be available to everyone who wants it. So, Melody Clouds is translated into over 100 languages, and its membership spans across the globe.

• Website: www.melodyclouds.com

• Charlie Word – His Sunday school teacher

• Empathy? Being empathetic to someone; you have no idea what they're going through or what may seem like negativity or what may seem like bullying. Put yourself in the other person's position.  Changing Moods

• Keep doing it. The minute you stop that activity, they are really in trouble. And you know what? I had a very good commander in the military that always said, when the bullets are incoming, the first thing I like to do is close my eyes and take a deep breath. I thought wow. Like, remember to take a deep breath.

• Book: Any Finance Book

• I was bullied in high school by a guy and he won't mind me sharing the story because it's actually pretty funny. Years later, he was the one that was actually being bullied. He tried to put that off on me and I wouldn't have it. Changing Moods

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Embrace Peace is the topic for today. What are we truly searching for? Is it happiness, joy, bliss, or maybe it’s comfort, elation, or satisfaction? The meanings of a lot of those words overlap. I don’t feel like it’s normal to feel blissful all the time. Bliss is at the high end of the happiness scale. Then there’s contentment and peace and calm. That’s at a different place on the happiness scale. I believe, for most people, being calm and focused is part of being happy. I also think being calm and focused is part of having inner peace.

During the holiday season, we hear a lot about peace. We notice the word in songs and movies and just as an expression when someone says, they just want to experience some peace in their lives.

I’m sure you’ve heard people say that ‘to truly love others, you have to love yourself’. When I first heard that, I thought it sounded strange, and I realize I’m not the only one who had this reaction. Whether you call it ‘loving yourself’, or ‘being positive about who you are’, or ‘avoiding self-bullying’, all of those perspectives are similar. To move towards a happier, more peaceful life, it’s necessary to start liking yourself, or loving yourself, as the phrase indicates.

One of the ways to start feeling more positive towards yourself is to feel and show compassion as much as possible, in as many circumstances as possible. One of my mantras is centred around seeing everyone and everything, with compassion. It’s easy to be compassionate about family members you love, or even random strangers. But try having compassionate thoughts about someone who hates you or has inflicted harm on you. That’s when it becomes really challenges and requires daily practice.

Once you can start to feel compassion even towards the most difficult people and situations, you will start to have more kind thoughts about yourself. If there is someone in the world who hates you, remember that the hate they hold is about them, not about you.

Let’s talk about grief. Grief can be overwhelming and can make you feel like there is no hope. Grief has to be embraced and we have to live with the pain and experience the darkness that grief brings. Some people sink deeply into their grief and take months or years to come out the other side.

During this holiday season, you’ll hear all kinds of happy reminders of the season, including sleigh bells, cheerful song lyrics, partying, happy celebrations. Does all this ‘happiness’ make you sad or bring you down? That’s not unusual. You share this trait with hundreds and thousands of people.

Now narrow that feeling down even more. Is it in your neck or shoulders? Is it in your chest? Maybe it’s in your gut or your lower back, or your knees. Do you feel an ache?

Spend time with others who have this sense of peace that I’m talking about. You’ll experience this in animals as well as humans. Other beings can be very calming and comfortable to be around, or some can have the opposite effect. Put some effort into being around those who are calm and peaceful and you’ll start feeling more calm and peaceful as well.

• Book: The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace by Jack Kornfield

• The Path To Kindness; James Crews

Ditch Your Headtrash; Renie Cavallari

Dr. Barrett Matthews, aka the Media Boss, is a man on a mission to help speakers, coaches, authors, and thought leaders to get to those global clients who want to pay them but do not know them through media. His plan is to show them how to use various forms of media simultaneously in order to be everywhere, all at once, so their clients can always find them. As the author of 3 books, host of several podcasts, and several other media ventures, Dr. Matthews is ready to show you how to be omnipresent.

• Website: www.5WaysToPayingClients.com

• Peggy Hightower

• I remember one day, I got a flat tire. I changed the tire, and I let it bother me all day long. Then I thought, why am I worrying about something that's already done? So now, my mind is in a different place. Now I can change it, I changed it and move on with the rest of my day. So

• It is funny because I was just telling someone this the other day. They were building up some stress on something, and I suggested to just breathe. A lot of times, when we go through a lot of things, we stop ourselves from breathing normally. If we allow ourselves to breathe normally, we notice a central call that comes over. If and when that call comes over, then we can start to think clearly and get things done appropriately. So

• Book: Why Didn't You Get It Done? by Barrett Matthews

• She was bullied in school and she was starting to withdraw from everything, and her mother noticed it. Her mother started to empower her and started to get her to do some things in the media. She started a blog and a YouTube channel. She is letting other teenagers know that they're loved. So

• Planetary Change Through Leadership; Dr. Nancy Gordon

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Cynthia Hauk loves sharing simple Mindfulness and Art activities to help busy people de-stress and increase self-compassion. Life can be stressful, and sometimes finding time for self-care can feel like a challenge. Her signature 5-minute mindful art activities can be done by anyone to help shift their mindset in minutes. Cynthia also trains Creatives, Art and Yoga Teachers, and Expressive Art Therapists on how to teach mindful art workshops online in her internationally accredited teacher training. You can find free resources on her YouTube Channel and website at mindfulcreativemuse.com.

• Website: www.mindfulcreativemuse.com

• Christina – Advisor/Mentor

• Mindfulness and mindful art, just because I combined them so commonly, have been hugely supportive for me through my own emotional journey. When I was a teenager, I started actually doing oil painting with Bob Ross at home. I think he's a master, mindful art teacher, one of the first that I remember when I would paint these happy trees and play with my own creative world on the painting and noticing things, that I would feel so much calmer, and relaxed, and was able to work through a lot of anxiety that I had at the time.

• I think the breath is an interesting thing to track and notice how it shifts and changes all the time, and can be amazing feedback for us.

• Book: Waking the Tiger: Heiltrauma By Peter Levine

• I was bullied when I was much younger, I had extra weight on me as a kiddo. When I was in elementary school, I would get teased and bullied a lot for my extra weight. For those that were bullying me, I can definitely see that having mindfulness introduced for adults or children when there is bullying could offer a place of awareness of just noticing for them what is happening and awareness of these narratives and tapes that we have, and that there are all these different narratives, and to not have as much judgment around that.

• Creativity Equals Productivity; Joe Sanok

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Christian de la Huerta is a personal transformation coach, spiritual teacher, TEDx speaker, and award-winning author of Awakening the Soul of Power, described by music icon Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions” and has received a Nautilus Book Award and a Nonfiction Book Award. He has traveled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats combining psychological and spiritual teachings with lasting and life-changing effects. Power Matters 

• Website: www.soulfulpower.com/

• Spirit Rock Retreat Center

• Mindfulness, that ability to be present and to observe me, makes it a lot easier to not react and for most of us, when we meditate, it's gonna be boring. Once in a while, we have a great moment of no mind or bliss or belonging. But the benefit of doing that practice, even when it's just boring, counting our breath or repeating a mantra, whatever it is, that's the practice. So

• It's all about the breath. The breath is at the core of every meditation practice and most spiritual traditions. Let's just think about this example. We're in a conversation that's starting to escalate and kind of about to go south into an argument. That's the moment to use the breath. That's the moment for their Swamis in India that have that much control over their bodies that they can tell their hearts to slow down and they will. So

• Book: Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free (Calling All Heroes)

• I talked about the US as an example that after 911 we had the goodwill of the entire world on our side. Because this was such a shocking, unimaginable affront. And so we had a choice point, like how do we express power? And what do we do? We abused it, we bullied, and nobody likes a bully. And we went and invaded a country that we had no business invading, and we're still paying the price for doing that. So

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Silke Herwald is a Grief Specialist, clinical hypnotherapist, and Master Practitioner of NLP. Silke has supported bereaved women worldwide for well over a decade. As a sought-after speaker, Silke presented “Grief to Love – how to help your clients grieve resourcefully” at the 2019 AHA world conference. Silke also teachesexperienced Hypnotherapists the groundbreaking ‘Grief To Love’ blueprint so they can feel confident in helping their bereaved clients be in less pain.

• Website: www.grieftolove.com

•  Her mom

• For me, it is about really being aware of emotions. And then going that extra step. What did I just do to make that emotion happen? Because thought influences emotion.

• So important. Because whenever we get stressed, we all go shallow breathing and I sometimes recommend that people just stick a few post-it notes around their house or their apartment. And whenever you see one of those, breathe those notes. Take a deep breath. A New Context To Grief

• App: The put the phone down app. Go out for a walk. Go into the forest.

• As a child, I got bullied a lot because you wouldn't know it today. Today, I'm very tall but I was always the smallest and the skinniest kid in the class. There was a classic bully and I got bullied a lot by her as all children probably did. I thought if I only found a way to please her so that then she'd approve of me, then the bullying would stop.

• Tai Chi To Heal; Sifu Rubia

Transform Loss into Legacy With Mindfulness; Sandra Millers Younger

Zach Tucker has a passion for helping people define and meet their wellness goals. He thinks that every person is different and there is no one size fits all solution for someone’s wellness. He is on a mission to share his story and some of the tools that helped him on his own wellness journey. Zach is certified to teach yoga and Insanity® Live. Jeremy Grater is a married father of two young girls and lives in rural British Columbia. He’s been in the broadcasting and podcasting business for about two decades. Jeremy is a certified REBT Mindset Life Coach.

• Website: thefitmess.com

• Jeremy: His Therapist

• As someone who battles depression, it is an ongoing struggle. I have so much empathy for people that also battle it and don't have the tools that I have. Even today, I'm going through some conflicts at home and some relationship issues. I am trying to make space for the feelings I'm having. Those feelings are not me; they are thoughts I'm having about myself and my role in my family and my work life.

• I actually breathe in a very specific pattern before and after meetings. If I just have an anxious moment, I do something called Box Breathing. You inhale to a count of five, four, or five; you hold it at the top for four or five; you exhale for four or five; hold it at the bottom for four or five and repeat that.

• Book: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment By Eckhart Tolle

• In seventh grade, one of my friends, Eric went around pantsing everybody all the time That was his thing; he would run up and just drop someone's pants to humiliate them. Everyone would laugh. One day, I decided I was gonna get him back for everybody that he had done in the past. The guy was devastated, and he went to the principal to tattle on me, so I got detention. I laughed the whole time because I was like, you get what you get, you know. But in retrospect, that wasn't the right thing to do. You know, I humiliated somebody. No matter how much pain he brought to others, I should have had more compassion. But I was a seventh grader. I was a dope.

Ken W. Stone is known as ‘The Soul Archaeologist’ and is a spiritual messenger, author, and healer. God expresses through Ken in a unique way, specifically when people sit with him in transmission, they have a profoundly different experience of the Divine in their body. For example, he has worked with a number of advanced former students of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who each said, unprompted, following their initial session with him, that was the deepest spiritual experience of my life. Ken shares his gifts with a spiritually diverse, growing international audience through a variety of virtual and in-person programs, retreats, and one-on-one work.

• Website: www.kenwstone.com

• Eckhart Tolle

• Being able to shift into that observer and understand; that has been huge for me. I can actually remember when it happened. Dan Millman's book, The Way Of The Peaceful Warrior; I woke up spiritually when I was reading that book. I read that book about a year before I learned about my spiritual gifts.

• Breathing is the opening. It's the constant companion. If somebody comes to me and says, ‘I feel wrapped up in this noise, what's the first thing I could do?' I want to talk about soul embodiment which is one of the things that I think just naturally happens, the divine through me.

• Book: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

• My family moved from Iowa to Boulder Colorado the summer before my seventh grade. I was profoundly naive when I was going into seventh grade; I was very tall and was kind of a beanpole.

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Lewis D. Chaney is a Corporate Speaker, Trainer, Entertainer, and founder of ‘Get To The Damn Point: How to say less and be heard more'. He’s a TEDx Alumnus, Professional Speaker, Communication Soft Skills Trainer, Mentalist, and Magician. He has over 30 years of experience in Television News, Entertainment News, Commercial Advertising, and Independent Film, having told tens of thousands of stories, working with everyone from celebrities to the homeless.

• Website: www.lewischaney.com

• Matthew McConaughey 

• I deal with my emotions and writing in this little tiny book helps me. When I have a bad day, one of those days where I feel like nothing's going right. Rather than turn to a book, I sit down, and I write. And I'll just fill these pages. I can write really big, I can write angry; that's better than typing. because I can do what I want to. When I'm upset I can really get my emotions out. So

• I don't really do so many breathing techniques, but I will tell you something I do to relax. I lay back, because sometimes as a creative, just thinking, just sitting down and being alone with your thoughts matters. And what I do is I'll lay back and I'll take a towel and put it over my eyes like a blindfold. I shut out all the light so I can just be alone in my thoughts, or I'll use music to go along with that. So I can just sort of ease myself in so I think more than I concentrate on what's going on up here. Not so much of the breathing, but just on getting calm and focused. So

• Book: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

• One of the stories that I tell people was, I had this kid who was a few years ahead of me, a big guy, pick me up and hang me on the wall on the coat hangers by my belt loops in the hallway, and I couldn't get out, I'm stuck. So to this day, I can hear the laughter of the kids. And it's very, very painful. In that situation, there's not much you can do, but then you flash forward. So

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Anxiety is my topic today and I have entitled the episode, Squash Anxiety. Anxiety is a huge topic; it's even more of an issue than it used to be. I think with COVID, the world situation, and all the challenges we've been dealing with for the last few months, anxiety is on the rise. When it comes to anxiety, it's important to monitor ourselves and notice whether or not we're feeling more anxiety. If so, what can we do about it?

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Anxiety is our body's normal reaction to stress. When we're presented with danger or potential danger, our bodies respond to that stress. That is similar to how our body responds to fear. Fear is the body's response to a real or perceived imminent threat and anxiety is our body and our mind anticipating that future threat. So in knowing that, you need to think about whether this is an actual threat or simply a perceived threat? There is a big difference.

You may be able to identify what the perceived imminent threat is that you're experiencing. If so, you can go about, in a very rational way, assessing that situation. What are my possible choices? What can I do and how many of the thoughts that I'm thinking are actually irrational?

Your mind will assume that many of these perceived threats are actually more serious than they truly are. And that in itself can lead us to be more anxious than we really need to be. The truth is, we all experience anxiety. Knowing that we can think of practical ways to deal with that anxiety. Just the fact that you're listening to this podcast on the topic of mindfulness tells me that you suspect or maybe you know that mindfulness is a way that you can deal with this issue.

Research shows that approximately 19% of adults in the United States struggle with anxiety every second single day. However, the research is not telling us how many people have dealt with anxiety by using meditation or mindfulness. By using mindfulness strategies, you can actually become stronger and more capable of leading a happy, successful life that does not include overwhelming anxiety. Certain situations in life are probably going to cause you to feel anxiety no matter what you do. If you're waiting for results from a doctor, driving in terrible weather, or starting a new job, any of these kinds of situations will certainly cause most of us to feel anxiety. That is a completely normal reaction to those types of events, and your emotions are working the way they are intended to operate. Meditation, exercise, hobbies, changing life circumstances, and spending more time in nature can help lessen anxiety.

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