Mindfulness Mode

Brett Hill is a Mindfulness Coach who created The Language of Mindfulness, soon to be a book, training, and TEDx talk (2021). He studied Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology with founder Ron Kurtz and established the Quest Institute meditation center in Dallas. He also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan, ecstatic dance with Gabriel Roth, and contact improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith. Brett is also a published technologist having worked as a technical storyteller and international speaker for Microsoft and others. Microsoft named him as a “Most Valuable Professional” for 9 years.

• Website: www.LanguageofMindfulness.com

• Phil Del Prince Senior Trainer and Co-Founder of the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, CO

• Mindfulness has helped me mitigate my negative sides and reinforce and access as a resource, my more positive sides. By helping me be mindful with my emotions, I can go, Oh, I'm having a reactive part and I'm having an empathic, loving presence part.

• Mindfulness and breathing are intimately connected for me. My breath is my go-to, ground point. I always say, when you are mindful under stress, you have to practice when you're not. It's so simple, so easy, so uncomplicated to connect breathing and mindfulness.

• Book: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

• I was bullied pretty badly. I could pray for mindfulness on the part of any of the bullies, that's for sure.

• 469 Evolve Toward Health, Joy, And Wholeness; Laurie Warren

Will Moore is a dynamic entrepreneur, speaker, life coach, and happiness expert. After exiting his delivery startup for a nine-figure sum, Will realized that “true success” is not just about finances, but nurturing and finding balance in the 5 core areas of life we all share. He’s now dedicated to helping others become an entrepreneur of the most important business they’ll ever run, their life. Will has used the latest in science and technology combined with universal principles to gamify the process of leveling up.

• Website: www.mooremomentum.com

• Dale Carnegie (Author of How To Win Friends and Influence People)

• Emotional Intelligence is something that I'm big on. To me it's one of those things in our broken school system that needs to be taught more.

• Breathing is huge. That's something I'm working on doing more of. I'm not a meditator. After I do my mantra in the shower, I take a few deep breaths and let it all soak in.

• Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

• I was very bullied as a kid. When I transferred from Hawaii to Bethesda, Maryland, I had an accent and I spoke with Hawaiian slang called pigeon.

• 407 Employee To Entrepreneur, Steve Glaveski

Renee Garcia is a lifelong entrepreneur, Certified Reality Transurfing instructor, and an Alternatives Space adventurer – endorsed by Vadim Zeland, former Russian quantum physicist and the author/creator of Reality Transurfing. Having ventured deeply into the metaphysical world of Reality Creation, she has transformed personal failure into success, poverty into abundance, sickness into healing, and a bleak perspective into one brimming with joy and magic. Renée has employed Reality Transurfing to discover fulfillment, true purpose in her life, and connect with the highest version of herself. With a self-built, practical methodology and magical wand in hand, she is now empowering others around the world to do so the same.

• Website: www.transurfing.us

• Vadim Zeland (He wrote a book called: Tufti the Priestess. Live Stroll Through A Movie by Vadim Zeland.   Tufti has helped me become centered.

• Mindfulness and my emotions now are my navigation system. I pay attention to what my emotions tell me about myself and what I'm experiencing and my levels of energy.

• We overuse our minds so much so just using the power of breath to bring yourself back in your body [is powerful].

• Book: Reality Transurfing. Steps I-V by by Vadim Zeland  (Author), Joanna Dobson (Translator)

• With a rapidly growing following of fellow “Transurfers” at her side, Renée brings to light the works of Vadim Zeland at home and worldwide.

• I have been called everything; a witch, snake oil saleman, crazy, you can't do this. I made a video called, Those Who Love Me, Those Who Help Me, and Those Who Hate Me.

• Warriors, Lovers, Kings and Heroes; Eric Rogell

Benjamin W. Decker is a meditation teacher and social activist mentored by Marianne Williamson. He's the bestselling author of four meditation books, including his newest book, Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing, which articulates a spiritual awakening taking place around the globe – and you can be a part it.

• Website: www.BenDeckerMeditation.com

• Dr. Ronald Alexander, Author of Wise Mind, Open Mind

• Mindfulness really helps me experience my emotions. With one of my clients, I sometimes would say before the sessions, are you excited? He used to say, yes, I'm excited.

• Breathing is everything. It is the key anchor. What I love about it is this notion that as we breathe in, we taking in pranic energy, life force energy that animates the body. Then we're releasing it back to its source.

• Book: A Politics of Love by Marianne Williamson

• In high school, I was so insecure and I didn't realize how insecure I was until I became secure a long time later. I was also navigating a challenging identity crisis around religion and my sexuality, puberty, and the cosmos, all at once. I went to three high schools in four years and my family moved around a lot.

• 383 Making Sense Of Mindfulness With Keith Macpherson

JV Crum III Interviews Bruce Langford on how to use mindfulness to discover your true purpose in life. Bruce explains his TIME acronym and how it relates to finding your purpose in life using mindfulness and meditation.

• Website: www.consciousmillionaire.com

• I define mindfulness as living in the moment and thinking in the moment. If I'm focusing on the past I know that is going to pull me away from my purpose and from the focus that I really need to have.

• When I was around 11 years old I started thinking of time passing, the importance of time, and what that meant. What was that concept of time?

• Throughout my life I have had a dream where I'm leaving my body and I'm rising up and looking down and seeing myself down there on earth. I'm looking at myself from this incredible position way up in the universe. That is what gave me the perspective that I'm here for a reason.

• The T is about together. And I think for too much of my life, I felt like I had to do it myself. That was a real learning step for me. And so I teach other people that you can do this together with other like-minded people.

• 000 Bruce Langford: Mindfulness, Bullying and a Passion for Helping Others

Pat Alva-Kraker is a corporate expert after having enjoyed a 35-year career in the IT industry. She was faced with a series of challenges that altered her professional life forever including being let-go from a major technology company, her husband of 22 years suddenly passed-away, their shared 200-acre exotic animal ranch business had to close its doors, and an experience with cancer. Pat is now a breast cancer thriver and has experienced her own journey to elation. Along the way she realized she can inspire other women to own their feminine power creating a successful business and affirming their right to financial freedom while creating a life they love. Pat has recently authored the book, Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation.

• Website: www.MajesticCoachingGroup.com

• Wayne Dyer

• Mindfulness has effected my emotions in the fact that I can choose to either see what happens in my life as good or bad or just neutral. Mindfulness has taught me that everything is neutral until I give it meaning. 

• Breathing is so critical. If there is any one self-care tool I would teach it would be breathing.

• Book: The Abundance Project by Derek Rydall

• In the man's world, it's very analytical. When you start talking about, this is what my intuition says, you get this ‘look'. There's immediate resistance. I didn't necessarily get bullied, but I got immediate resistance.

• Using The Success Principles During Challenging Times; Jack Canfield

Rock Thomas is the Worlds #1 Whole-Life-Success Expert, bestselling author, and host of the #IAmMovement Podcast. From farm boy to real estate and business guru, mentor and self-made millionaire, Rock has studied one-on-one with the worlds best teachers: Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, Robert Herjavec and more, on his mission to inspire others to create their best life, on their terms. His Goalcast video alone was viewed by over 100 million people. Using tools and strategies that are proven, Rock now teaches people how to create financial freedom by leveraging their purpose and passions to live not just a successful life, but a fulfilled one. Founder of the #IAmMovement, he is known as the man who redefines lives.

• Website: www.RockThomas.com

• Tony Robbins / Amandi Gerri

• When emotions go up, intelligence goes down. What emotions do I actually want to experience? If I'm going to go golfing, what emotions to I want at play? Do I want to be playful, serious, competitive? I chose my emotions before I go out.

• Through yoga, there's always breathing through the nose and out.

• Book: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by Dr. David Hawkins

• Recently I started a company with a few friends and I ended up getting bullied out of the company.

• 359 Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness; Fearvana Author; Akshay Nanavati

Joel Primus is an entrepreneur at heart who enjoys working with other entrepreneurs and is empowered by building companies. In 2008 he started Naked and after 10 years sold that business, filmed a documentary, and wrote his first book, scheduled to be published in Jan 2021.  His documentary is entitled, ‘2016 The Year of Fear’, and is about  the importance of travel as a way of educating children to become citizens of the world.

• Website: www.JoelPrimus.com

• Tim Ferriss / Jason Gordon, Dr. of Chinese Medicine Alchemical Courtyard / Sam Harris

• Mindfulness gives us the freedom and the choice to love and hate, to react or not react.

• Breathing is THE tool that allows our mind to calm. I am not a fancy breather. I do write some blogs about Wim Hof and this and that and there are some really great techniques out there for falling asleep, there's box breathing, but I'm pretty old school.

• Book: Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony Demello

• 527 Awaken Your Alpha With Adam Lewis Walker

Claire Dale and Patricia (Pat) Peyton are directors of an organization called, Companies in Motion. They offer Physical Intelligence coaching and training to prominent industry leaders. Claire is a well-known British dancer and choreographer, having founded the Claire Russ Ensemble, a contemporary dance company that performed across Europe for fifteen years. Pat’s expertise is business; she spent over thirty years working with Fortune 100 companies to help individuals and teams improve their performance. She is also managing director of a leadership and sales training company called Sphere International. Claire Dale and Patricia Peyton have authored the new book, Physical Intelligence: Harness your body's untapped intelligence to achieve more, stress less and live more happily.

• Company: Companies In Motion

• Pat: My Mother

• Claire: Mindfulness kind of is an emotional state, so it is the emotions of calm and peace, non-reactivity, resourcefulness.

• Pat: Start paced breathing now. There's research that talks about a group of bankers that 62% improvement of cognitive function, 42% decrease in stress after 40 minutes of paced breathing a day, 20 in the morning, 20 in the evening.

• Book, Claire: The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson

• Claire: I was twelve years old, in a school cloakroom when two older girls come up and they push me. I fall back into all the coats. I'm a newbie in the school, and I'm looking up at them, and these young women in their fourth or fifth year are trying to exert their power.

• Emotional Intelligence 4 Change With Robin Hills

John Robertson helps leaders navigate crises and build culture. He is referred to as a workforce wellness and culture alignment specialist, working in the field of forward-thinking leadership. John provides guidance to develop a values-anchored framework based on trust and mindful centered communication. He has over 30 years experience in crisis intervention, leadership, and culture transformation, and has worked with clients in numerous communities, first responders, First Nations, and international trauma and crisis boards service.

• Website: www.Fortlog.co

• My wife

• When it comes to dealing with people in crisis, it's pretty simple for me to come in as some distant professional, and sometimes that means to show no emotion.

• Here's where my dark humour gets me into problems. Do not start smoking. However, I teach deep breathing from the smoking perspective because smokers do three things that we have to learn: 1. they take a break, 2. they are outside with social support, and 3. they're doing deep breathing exercises.

• Book: n/a

• I sucked my thumb till I was seventeen. I quit during the summer when I was a junior forest ranger up in northern Ontario. I was bullied for sucking my thumb to the point where the school would call my parents and say that if I didn't stop sucking my thumb, I would be bullied more.

• Finding Bliss In Times Of Crisis; Moneeka Sawyer