Mindfulness Mode

Joe Sanok is an author, keynote speaker, business consultant and podcaster. He is also a writer for PsychCentral, and has been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes, GOOD Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Entrepreneur on Fire, and Yahoo News. He is the author of five books and has been named a top Therapist Resource for his consultant services and podcast, Practice of the Practice. His most recent book, Thursday Is The New Friday, is receiving rave reviews.

• Website: www.ThursdayIsTheNewFriday.com

• Some countries are shifting to the 4-day workweek. The four day work week is a step that we're seeing, that for society is actually happening.

• It was a multi-year study of 2,500 people in tons of different industries. It wasn't just automotive workers or teachers, it was across the board in a number of different sub-sections of society. They found that productivity was up in four days. They found that creativity and happiness was up. An unexpected outcome was that their health outcomes were better. They were less stressed and less anxious.

• Book: The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield

• In 2012 it all hit the fan at once. My daughter had heart surgery and as soon as the doctors said she was good and healthy, two weeks later I was diagnosed with cancer. My best friend's wife had breast cancer, my grandma died, it was just one of those terrible years. We all have one at some point unfortunately.

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Murray Hidary is a multi-disciplinary, creative visionary and tech pioneer who started his first company at 22 years old, after studying Music and Composition at NYU. Murray’s success as an early Internet entrepreneur, starting in 1994, sprung from his innate sense that creating networks and platforms for connection amongst people could both elevate productivity and consciousness. Murray has studied theoretical physics extensively; trained in the study of Aikido and the Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute) and its ancient music tradition of the Zen monks with some of the greatest teachers. Murray is currently touring MindTravel, composing new work, hiking and meditating in beautiful places.

• Website: www.Mindtravel.com

• My father

• Using mindfulness to handle my emotions has been a key skill to learn and to fine-tune and to grow and build that muscle.

• I learned to breathe by playing the Japanese flute. What I didn't know was that there's a profound ability to improve your piano playing through proper breathing.

• Book: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• I grew up in a neighborhood of Brooklyn that was a little rough and I did get bullied by locals. They stole my bike one time but no physical harm was done.

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If there were 2 words that could shift the direction of your life, immediately aiming your own personal GPS exactly where you wanted, what do you think they’d be? Speaking of the direction of our lives, it’s easy for our GPS to develop a short circuit. That happens when we don’t program it right, or when the circuitry becomes scrambled. Our GPS is programmed by a number of factors; by what our conscious mind puts into it, what our subconscious mind puts into it, and what all the noise from the

Our conscious mind protects us against perceived danger, and our past experiences all play a role in creating our personal story about what is dangerous to us. Trouble is, many of those personal stories are buried in our subconscious mind and we aren’t aware of how all that information is influencing our actions.

Have you stopped to examine what you really want your life to look like? No, I mean really stopped, taken a pause from your activities, from your busyness, from your day-to-day life to allow yourself to go deep into that place where you allow every fiber of your being to relax into what you absolutely want for yourself.

Maybe when you start to get to the place, you’ll realize you’re living your life according to somebody else’s recipe. Someone in your life now or in your past impacted your thinking. Maybe even without knowing it, they said something, or did something that sent your inner GPS veering off course, attempting to take you someplace you don’t even want to go to.

• Book: The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

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So have you decided what those two words are that can help you change everything? Your anxiety will begin to melt. You will become focused, you will feel a certain calmness that you’ve been longing for.

The reason you’ve veered off course has to do with your self-value. Somewhere along the line you started to question your own personal value. You started to wonder why you’re here and you struggled with the question of ‘how do I fit in’. Where is my place here in the universe?

Does this resonate with you? Are you burying your insecurities? There are lots of ways to bury what’s bothering us. Some of us use alcohol or marijuana, some use food, some of us are workaholics. What’s your method of burying your pain? How do you get through the challenges that are slapping you in the face?

So many of you have reached out to me and I’ve now had the honor of working with a lot of you, Mindful Tribe. You know who you are. I know who you are. You are special to me, and I know that you know exactly what I’m talking about today.

These two words are words I’ve talked about in the past. They will help you get on the right track.

To hear the two words I'm talking about, listen to this episode. Once you know the two words, you'll discover they will lead you to the process of letting go. Letting go is something we’ve talked a lot about on Mindfulness Mode. Doing the exercise I talk about on the episode will help you let go. It will teach you something about yourself and where you really want to be in this world. It will help reveal where you want to be headed.

Two simple words that can help you get back on course. Those words can help you redirect your life so you’re headed in the direction that’s right for you.

If you’re like me, sometimes you think things have to be complicated to have value. That is definitely not true. Some of the most valuable lessons in life are the simplest.

One of my clients just finished her coaching sessions and she sent me this endorsement telling you about her success with hypnosis:

I sincerely hope you’re not suffering with anxiety, hurt, pain, anger, and lack of focus. If you are, you can move forward toward a better life. A life where your direction is clear, a life where you are enjoying the results of your hard work and your accomplishments.

Thanks for listening to this episode about moving towards your clear goal. It’s great to sit here and share this with you, just as if you were here in the room sitting right here with me. Have a great rest of your day.

Stephenie Zamora is an author, coach, strategist, and founder of Stephenie Zamora Media; a digital media and production company, publishing house, and a full-service life-purpose development, branding, and online marketing boutique. She's been merging the worlds of personal development, digital media, and online marketing to help individuals build purpose driven lives and businesses for over a decade. Stephenie's work helps catalyze individuals on their healing and growth journeys so they can uncover the purpose of their path, step into who they're here to be, and do the work they're here to do.

• Website: www.StephenieZamora.com

• One of my friends I met in Hawaii who always had this peaceful calmness about her.

• Mindfulness has helped me tremendously. I don't take things as personally and I certainly don't get caught up in them because I just remember that time passes and things change and I just have to be present with what is and I'll get through to the other side.

• Breathing is a huge part of my mindfulness practice. I am always breathing. Breath has helped me through the most intense panic attacks and periods in my life. Even before this show I took some time to just breathe and settle into the space.

• Book: The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss

• I always had a bit of a mindfulness practice in me. When I was in Middle School,  I can remember being in situations that were hard or painful, and understanding that this is only a moment in time and that sometime I am going to be on the other side, so I can focus on, this is ending as it's happening.

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Do you experience sudden outbursts of anger that happen when you least expect it? Have you noticed that you feel extremely angry towards certain people or certain types of people? Maybe there's someone in your life that gets under your skin and yet there doesn't seem to be any rational reason for it. That has been the case with me at various times in my life. I was a teacher for a long time and I would notice lots of different personality traits in my students. Sometimes fellow teachers would say things that would irritate me and I'd wonder why I'd feel so much irritation as a result of their comment.

The word rage never came to mind when I thought about my reaction to certain situations, but now that I've learned more about the conscious and subconscious mind and how our minds work, I realize that there was a level of rage that was gurgling and bubbling just below the surface.

Certain personalities or specific words or phrases would potentially case that gurgling rage to erupt. Sometimes the eruption was minor and no one else would even be aware of it. Occasionally I would do or say something that was out of place and I'd wonder why that happened.

Now I realize that what triggered my rage was something related to an early trauma in my life. So when I say trauma, I want to be clear that an event that was traumatizing to me, may seem like a nothing event to you. I used to think that traumas were always events like a car accident, a house fire, sexual abuse, or a robbery.

A quick online search tells us that, “In general, trauma can be defined as a psychological, emotional response to an event or an experience that is deeply distressing.”

Another definition says that, “Trauma is the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event.” It goes on to say, “Experiencing a traumatic event can harm a person’s sense of safety, sense of self, and ability to regulate emotions and navigate relationships. Long after the traumatic event occurs, people with trauma can often feel shame, helplessness, powerlessness and intense fear.” You may have experienced trauma and don’t even know it.

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Trauma can take the form of abductions, terrible invasions of privacy, sexual abuse, violent attacks; all kinds of awful things happen to people in the world. Some of it is remembered and some isn't.

Generally speaking, our subconscious mind has the ability to remember and categorize vast amounts of information including incidents, words spoken to us, even smells, sounds, images, sensations, and emotions.

Only a minuscule amount of this information makes it to the conscious mind. So much of it we are not able to recall. It seems to be lost forever. Even though it seems to be lost, sometimes this information comes out in dreams and sometimes is triggered by certain random things that might surprise you. Maybe a brief musical phrase from a song, a certain aroma, or the face of an innocent stranger.

Some people who experience terrible traumas are unable to remember them at all, or maybe they just remember random bits and pieces. Traumatic events are usually not remembered sequentially, with a beginning, middle, and end. If anything is remembered, usually it's short, abbreviated chunks that can show up as memory flashes. Some people are bewildered at what these apparently isolated memories are all about.

A lot of people are confused when these memory flashes trigger anger and rage that they didn't even know was there, beneath the surface. All of a sudden you're exploding at someone, or you're ranting and raving about something. Maybe you hear yourself screaming and yelling at someone and it almost feels like you're witnessing another person doing the shouting. Somehow you know it's you, but you feel completely out of control.

One of my clients just finished her sessions and she sent me this endorsement telling you about her success with hypnosis:

An interesting thing about hypnosis is that instructions and suggestions can affect later behaviors of a subject. A friend of mine was hypnotized and it was suggested that he would want to drink glasses and glasses of ice water. As a result, he found himself craving ice water day after day; something that hadn’t been part of his life at all before he was hypnotized.

The fact that hypnosis can help you get to the root of your anger, your pain, and your rage, as I mentioned in the title of today’s episode, is what is making hypnosis more and more mainstream.

You may have heard of someone who successfully went to a hypnotist to quit smoking or to lose weight. The results are effective 95 to 98 per cent of the time and positive results are usually related to how much the subject wants to change and how trusting they are of the person doing the hypnosis.

I’ve seen this to be true. My most trusting clients, and my clients who have the greatest desire to change their behaviors, have been very successful.

If you are hoping to lessen your anxiety and stress, hypnosis is a great tool. If you would like to become more calm, more content in your life, and, as I say on Mindfulness Mode, reach new heights of calm, focus, and happiness, then hypnosis is an effective tool that is quicker than most methods and a lot more inexpensive too.

I sincerely hope you’re not suffering through terrible rage and anger, but if you are, you can move forward toward a better life. A life where your anger is under control, a life where you are enjoying the results of your hard work and your accomplishments.

Thanks for listening to this episode about calming your rage. It’s great to sit here and share this with you, just as if you were here in the room sitting right here with me. Have a great rest of your day.

Mark Firth believes in using mindfulness to achieve Human to Human Connection and he uses the social media platform, LinkedIn, to help his clients connect to the world as well. Mark is the founder of Linkedpreneurs, a 7-figure business that helps business owners and solopreneurs make more money, gain free time, and live the life of their dreams all by using LinkedIn. He believes it is possible to change your life with LinkedIn relationships, just like he did.

• Website: www.markfirthonline.com

• Joe Dispenza / Nelson Mandela

• Emotions are something we need to become aware of and once we become aware of them, we can change them.

• I've done Wim Hof breathing for an extended period. I've also done something called Buteyko breathing. I've found they can help the nervous system and I think if we take a moment, they can calm us down.

• Book: Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza

• I was terribly bullied. It took me most of my 20's and early 30's to get over it.

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After coaching many clients, it is obvious that the most difficult challenge for most people is not developing certain skills, or becoming more focused, it is the skill of letting go. Many of the people I work with come to realize that what's holding them back is an inner bully, or a mindset that is making it impossible for them to move forward. In many cases, this mindset served them in a positive way at one point in the their life, but as time went by, that same mindset no longer serves them.

That inner bully originally protected them in a way that was critically important at the time. In other words, they may not have survived through their challenge back then if it hadn't been for this particular thought process.

Years later, it became obvious that this inner dialogue was no longer helping them to move forward in life. Once my client came to this realization, then the burning question became obvious. “Now that I know my problem, how do I move forward? How do I let go of that particular way of thinking?”

If you're a regular listener of Mindfulness Mode, you'll know that I refer to this negative thought pattern as your inner bully. But how do you let this thought pattern go?

If you're like me, you might have difficulty letting go of books that are accumulating on your shelves, clothes you haven't worn lately, or even tools that you no longer use. Letting go of thoughts that are holding you back can be difficult in a similar way.

First, you have to have a clear understanding of the mindset that is holding you back. Once you gain that understanding, you have to make sure your desire to let go is genuine. Does you conscious mind and your subconscious mind both agree that this mindset is no longer serving you?

• Book: The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing by Dr. Susan Shumsky

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Jane Tabachnick is a content and PR strategist who works with mission-driven authors, coaches and consultants who are frustrated they’re not better known. She helps them become highly visible, and seen as the authority in their industry so they attract more pre-sold clients and can grow their business. Jane is the founder of Simply Good Press, a book publishing and PR company where she has helped over 200 authors achieve bestseller status. Named one of the top 100 people online by Fast Company, Jane is often quoted in the media on topics such as Why You Need Publicity, and How to use PR and Content to Build Your Authority and Profits.

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• My money mindset coach, Way Hong of the Six Figure Academy

• Mindfulness has helped me to take a step back and not have knee jerk reactions and just have a better perspective and be a better person.

• When I remember to breathe, it's very helpful.

• Book: Go-Giver by Bob Burgh

• When you publish a book you'll get either trolls or just people who don't like your book. It can be very disconcerting and frustrating. Sometimes they write things and you think they are writing a review of a different book.

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Hamidi Reid is a master astrologer and his mission is to make Astrology fun, simple and practical, so it can be readily used as a tool to better understand yourself, your life and how to use your energetic blueprint to manifest abundance, freedom and expansion. Founder of Success Forever Astrology, Hamidi has become a ‘stand-out’ name in the astrological world.

• Company: SuccessForeverAstrology

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• Mindfulness has made me more patient with my emotions and more understanding of their change in nature and realizing the power in the statement, ‘this too shall pass'.

• Breathing is something that I need to work upon. I feel as though that's one of the reasons why I enjoy exercise so much, because exercise is forced breathing.

• Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

• I grew up in a small town called Stafford. That small town was a predominantly white area and in that time kids could be mean. I suffered from racism and racial attacks and getting into lots of fights and getting jumped on by mobster kids.

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Kass Thomas is a successful business entrepreneur, radio personality, and communication expert. It is her mission to strengthen the unity of choice and change. She inspires clients to discover their unique brand of magic. A best-selling author, Kass Thomas released her latest book, a self-empowerment manual called Dancing with Riches, to encourage readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a winner, even in limiting situations. Her non-judgmental demeanour creates a safe space for many to express themselves with ease. She is a catalyst for multicultural inclusion. Kass believes there is so much more that unites us than separates us.

• Website: www.KassThomas.com

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• My connection with my emotions is my not feeling badly about loving and being so sensitive. I've always been quite sensitive and really thanks to the tools of ‘Access Consciousness‘, also acknowledging and recognizing that I can tap into what people are going through and my heart is my guide.

• We have so many things that we can use to judge ourselves. Like, do you deserve air? But you breathe it.

• Book: 7 Steps To Flawless Communications by Kass Thomas

• I have experienced bullying. I've probably experienced some of the things that we even call sexual abuse. However, I didn't recognize it as that. It's like converting the negative into the positive.

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