Mindfulness Mode

By Bruce LangfordAlternative Health Health & Fitness Religion & Spirituality Education Self-Improvement Spirituality

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March 04, 2019406 Love The Skin You're In With Bare Author Susan Hyatt
Susan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life and Weight Loss coach and author who specializes in helping women stop dieting and love the skin they’re in. Susan has coached over 1000 women. Susan is the author of Create Your Own Luck and the new book Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Woman’s World, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The Huffington Post.
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Website: www.shyatt.com
Website: www.LetsGetBare.com
Podcast: The Bare Podcast www.shyatt.com/podcast
Book: Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You by Susan Hyatt
Most Influential Person
Dr. Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness helped me recognize what emotions I was actually feeling and what was creating that emotional state; my thoughts.
Mindfulness has also taught me how to stay present with myself and create more good feelings.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is so core. I find myself, periodically through the day, taking time to take deep breaths because it brings everything back to center for me.
I'm an athlete and breathing is key, in terms of cycling and running. The human breath is really everything.
Suggested Resources
Book: Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck
Book: The Artist's Way: An Artist's Path To Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You by Susan Hyatt
App: Mindful
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37 min
February 28, 2019405 An End To Upside Down Thinking; Mark Gober
Mark Gober is an author whose worldview was turned upside down in late 2016 when he was exposed to world-changing science. After researching extensively, he wrote An End to Upside Down Thinking to introduce the general public to these cutting-edge ideas – all in an effort to encourage a much-needed global shift in scientific and existential thinking. Mark is a senior member of Sherpa Technology Group, a firm that advises businesses on mergers & acquisitions and strategy. He previously worked as an investment banking analyst in New York. Mark has been quoted for his opinions on business and technology matters in Bloomberg Businessweek and elsewhere, and he has authored internationally published business articles. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he was captain of the tennis team.
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Website: MarkGober.com
Twitter: @MarkGoberAuthor
Podcast: Coming Soon Details at: https://markgober.com/podcast/
Book: An End To Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling The Myth That Brain Produces Consciousness and the Implications For Everyday Life by Mark Gober
Most Influential Person
Dr. Dean Radin www.deanradin.com
Dr. David Hawkins www.spiritualteachers.org/david-hawkins
Effect on Emotions
I probably am a bit more easy going than I used to be, because I view now this life has just being almost like a temporary stop of consciousness.
So if that's true, I think I still take things seriously, but there is this fall back of understanding. There's a much bigger picture going on beyond whatever small problems I have on a daily basis.
So I think it's really helped me rethink things that might have stressed me out or caused anxiety.
Thoughts on Breathing
I'm much more open now to the effects of breathing, especially after seeing things like holotropic breath work, which is basically a way of inducing a psychedelic state. I haven't experienced it, but it's often talked about.
Also, the Wim Hoff method (www.WimHofMethod.com), that's something where, I think, everyone who does it experiences an altered state of consciousness by over-oxygenating the brain, effectively.
You breath heavily in and then you let the breath go, so you end up netting in more oxygen than you're letting out. And when you do that for a long time and then hold your breath, like he suggests, it's almost like a state of euphoria just from breathing.
Suggested Resources
Book: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins
Book: An End To Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling The Myth That Brain Produces Consciousness and the Implications For Everyday Life by Mark Gober
App: Headspace
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39 min
February 25, 2019404 Reveal Mindfulness Behind Death's Door With Dr. Sebastian Sepulveda
Dr. Sebastian Sepulveda, MD, is a physician in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He has nearly 30 years’ experience as a doctor and former associate professor of medicine. He is a full-time hospitalist, specializing in internal medicine and nephrology, and works with end of life care patients at Lowell General Hospital. He is the author of the book, At Death’s Door: End of Life Stories From The Bedside which was made into a TV series called Death's Door. Dr. Sepulveda has recently been working on a documentary on the same topic.
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Book: At Death's Door: End of Life Stories From The Bedside by Sebastian Sepulveda
Television Show – At Death's Door Television Drama: http://www.atdeathsdoor.com/film-tv/
Most Influential Person
My wife. She is very realistic and grounded. She helps me put my life in perspective as I think that all of us tend to lose sight a bit of our center. She has done a good job.
Effect on Emotions
I think without mindfulness, I couldn't do the job. I think you gotta know who you are, know what you are doing and keep in touch with reality. I think those things are part of mindfulness.
If there is a chance to transfer some of that mindfulness to the patients and relatives, it will be precious and I try to do that too.
Thoughts on Breathing
I don't focus on breathing, not at all. For some reason, I don't need relaxation techniques or anything like that. I just work and it works for me. Right. My breathing is just on automatic pilot.
Suggested Resources
Book: At Death's Door: End of Life Stories From The Bedside by Sebastian Sepulveda
Book: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in the End by Atul Gawande
App: n/a
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40 min
February 21, 2019403 Listening To Smile With Composer Ian Morris
Ian Morris heals with sound. He has over 20 years experience in the creative arts field. He uses sound and frequency and healing vibes to create something he calls, Frequency Minded Music. Ian’s goal with this music is to help those that struggle and feel alone, so that they find hope and become empowered to heal, grow and be whole again. Frequency minded music incorporates various melodies that are introduced throughout the duration of a song and are played in a key which resonates for healing in each specific client. This method of sound healing follows a different approach compared to traditional sound therapies such as those using tuning forks, gongs or singing bowls. Ian has worked with organizations such as United Way, Hospice, and Meals On Wheels.
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Website: www.ListeningToSmile.com
Email: [email protected]
Music: www.ListeningToSmile.bandcamp.com
Spotify: Listening To Smile
Most Influential Person
Joe Dispensa See: www.DrJoeDispensa.com
Bruce Lipton See: www.BruceLipton.com
Effect on Emotions
When I was younger I definitely had a lot of anger issues and I think I attributed it to the frustration of being bullied and going through the frustration of wanting my mind to be working like everyone else's. And it wasn't.
And so I was constantly in a state of frustration and anger. And, I think what mindfulness and meditation has done for me is it's helped me to realize that everyone's not the same and that we all have our strengths in certain areas. And to be okay with that, to let go of needing to be like everyone else and to become more me.
You are the only you and that's your true power.
Thoughts on Breathing
I would say breath is probably the biggest for me in the meditation routine because I feel like 10 slow inhales and exhales can change anyone's mood, just in the snap of a finger. And I think that it gives more oxygen to your body, your organs work different, your whole system functions differently when you give it the oxygen that it needs.
We go through life in such a hustle-bustle that we forget that we're not even breathing at all. We're just kind of surviving there. And so breath is very, very powerful for altering moods and setting the tone for my meditation. It's very powerful.
Suggested Resources
Book: The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
Book: Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon by Dr. Joe Dispenza
App: Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/
Bullying Story
Yeah, so right off the bat, the first thing I think about is having dyslexia. I was made fun of a tremendous amount in school. In dealing with that learning disability. I took longer for tests and I had a hard time in school when I was younger.
The big thing was that you would read chapters and then copy those chapters to page and they wanted you to learn from that. And I was just not that kind of person. Plus I had a hard time from that transference from the book to the page. But if someone would talk about it in front of me, I would remember every single thing that they said.
I was very into the auditory learning. You know, basically sound and voice. Still to this day, if an actor comes on screen and if I don't see them, I can just recognize them from their voice even if it's an obscure person that was on a show from six months ago that was just like a guest appearance. That was just always the way I learned.
I was called dumb and stupid and just had a really hard time. Fourth grade through eighth grade, it was just really hard. I got bullied a lot and had a lot of issues where I didn't want to go to school.
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44 min
February 18, 2019402 Science and Spiritualism With Spiritual Atheist Author Nick Seneka Jankel
Nick Seneka Jankel is a Cambridge-educated scientist who, very reluctantly at first, was called to become a spiritual teacher. He struggled for many years with how to reconcile his profound experiences of the transformational power of spirituality and meditation with his belief in science and reason (and his disdain for superstitions of any kind). Realizing millions of people who identify as “spiritual not religious” – around 25% of the US population today – struggle with the same thing, he has spent the last few years writing a book that tells of his quest to unite science and wisdom into a rigorous and radical life philosophy that ensures we can heal ourselves, transform our problems and thrive in life, in love, and in leadership. Nick is not a traditional spiritual teacher and transformational coach. He has taught at the business schools of Yale & Oxford, spoken at No.10 Downing Street by invite of the Prime Minister, contributed to The Economist and The Guardian, and was a TV host on a network show for the BBC. He has also been a guest on Hay House Radio, spoken at Google HQ, headlined at Conscious Life Expo in LA and shared his ideas on science and spirituality at Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Website: www.SwitchOnNow.com
Book: Spiritual Atheist www.switchonnow.com/books/spiritual-atheist-nick-jankel
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Most Influential Person
My wife.
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness has given me freedom.
Thoughts on Breathing
Ah, breathing, it's the thing. It's the best hack there is. The quickest and the best and the essential.
Suggested Resources
Book: I love original texts. Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu), but which today is equally considered to be the fruit of wisdom of a number of people. Although Zhuangzi was published after the Daode Jing , its compilation began earlier.
www.sacred-texts.com/bud/cbu/cbu29.htm
Tauism in China, Ancient Philosophy and Religion www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/taoism.htm
App: FreeMind is a Java-based, cross-platform solution which is designed to make the process as intuitive as possible via ‘child' and ‘sibling' links that hopefully build your map into something meaningful. www.Freemind.en.softronic
App: buddhify.com/the-app Buddhify is a meditation & mindfulness app designed to fit busy lifestyles. With a beautiful design & easy user experience, it is loved all over the world.
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36 min
February 14, 2019401 Global Sisterhood Celebrated With Founder Lauren Elizabeth Walsh
Lauren Elizabeth Walsh is the Founder and CEO of Global Sisterhood: A platform for the rising woman, which is a worldwide movement providing transformational practices and intentional space for self-growth. Lauren is passionate about the liberation of the feminine and healing the wounds between men and women. Through her work with Global Sisterhood, she helps thousands of women in over 85 countries cultivate their emotional freedom and live in their power.
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Website: http://www.GlobalSisterhood.com
Find A Circle: https://www.globalsisterhood.org/find-a-circle/
Most Influential Person
Clara Shinobu Lura – One of the 13 indigenous grandmothers www.GrandmothersCouncil.org
Effect on Emotions
Oh my gosh. I was an emotional nutcase before I learned how to read and stop and observe and understand and shift and move and command really my muscle and my energy and my emotions.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is key. Breathing moves. Energy. Breathing is essential. Breathing connects you to your heart, connects you to your mind. It stills me. It slows me down and calms me
Suggested Resources
Book: The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
App: An app is being created for Global Sisterhood followers. Stay Tuned.
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35 min
February 11, 2019400 The Secret To Getting Well In 21 Days With Dr. Stephen Cabral
Dr. Stephen Cabral is a Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor and founder of the Cabral Wellness Institute. At 17 years old, Stephen Cabral was diagnosed with a life-altering illness and given no hope for recovery. Every day, he suffered endlessly for many years. It was only after Stephen traveled all over the world and discovered how to combine ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art Naturopathic & Functional Medicine did he understand how to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life. Today in Dr. Cabral’s online and Boston practice, he and his team use Functional Medicine lab testing and Personalized Wellness Plans to help people rebalance their mind and body to recover from autoimmune diseases, thyroid problems, weight gain, and dozens of other hard to treat health conditions. His mission is to help people understand that there is always a reason why you have not achieved your ideal wellness or weight loss goals and that you can and will get well again!
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Website: www.StephenCabral.com
Podcast: The Cabral Concept www.StephenCabral.com/Podcast
Book: The Rainbarrel Effect: How A 6,000 Year Old Answer Holds the Secret to Finally Getting Well, Losing Weight & Feeling Alive Again! by Dr. Stephen Cabral
Most Influential Person
My Mentor, Dr. Pete who introduced me to The Heart Math Institute. www.HeartMath.com
Dr. Joseph Murphy, author of The Power of the Subconscious Mind
Effect on Emotions
It's made me a more calm, level, and relaxed person. Understanding that I can't be perfect nor will I ever be perfect, what I do is, I simply try to be the best version of me. I have my bad moments, but I catch myself. I'm more self-aware now.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is the key to mindfulness. If you are holding your breath you are turning on the fight or flight.
You are most likely either chest breathing or you are stimulating what is called the sympathetic nervous system. It's hard to be relaxed, it's hard to produce gaba, serotonin, all the relaxation neurotransmitters if you are holding your breath. Most people do. I used to. Or chest breathing under stress.
What you do is you go back to belly breathing. You can look up diaphragmatic breathing or belly breathing. I did an interview on this with one of the foremost doctors on breathing. You want to breathe in through the nasal passages and if you have clogged nasal passages, then you need to work on why they're clogged and inflamed like mine were.
You're going to focus back on the one thing you really can control, and that's your breath. By going back to your breath it will take your mind off the situation and then you can refocus back on that situation.
Suggested Resources
Book: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
Book: The Rainbarrel Effect: How A 6,000 Year Old Answer Holds the Secret to Finally Getting Well, Losing Weight & Feeling Alive Again! by Dr. Stephen Cabral
App: Headspace www.Headspace.com
App: Wholetones (a Binaural beats app) www.Wholetones.com
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38 min
February 07, 2019399 Change Your Food Mindset With Artful Eating; Karina Melvin
Karina Melvin is an author, psychologist, and creator of the ‘Artful Eating' podcast and ‘Artful Eating At The Table’, a transformative online program. She also wrote Artful Eating: The Psychology of Lasting Weight Loss which is a best-selling book in Ireland. She runs her own clinic, Sandymount Psychotherapy, and lectures in Psychotherapy at the UCD School of Medicine in St Vincent’s Hospital, a teaching hospital located at Elm Park, south of the city of Dublin, Ireland. Karina is a Registered Practitioner member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Ireland and a member of Psychological Society of Ireland and the Irish School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
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Website: www.Artful-Eating.com
Podcast: The Artful Eating Podcast https://karinamelvin.com/podcast/
Book: Artful Eating: The Psychology of Lasting Weight Loss by Carina Melvin
Most Influential Person
My friend and colleague Olivia Fox
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness has affected my emotions by just being aware. Awareness.
Sometimes we can really get drawn into someone else's bad mood or negativity or drama or issue, but when you're being much more mindful about your life you're much more inclined to be drawn into their issues and struggles as well.
Thoughts on Breathing
When I meditate in the morning, I really am connecting with my breath. That helps me connect with my being.
Whenever I find myself completely frazzled and stressed, I just come back to breathing, three deep breaths, breathing in, 1,2,3, and out, 1,2,3. It just centers you so you can get back to that place of present.
Suggested Resources
Book: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
Book: Artful Eating: The Psychology of Lasting Weight Loss by Carina Melvin
App: No Apps. We don't need to outsource ourselves.
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38 min
February 04, 2019398 Hypnotic Business Systems So You Can Work Smart; Jason Linett
Jason Linett is a hypnotist who has hypnotized more than a quarter of a million people, teaching many of them to use his system of rapport and modeling, helping them understand what professional athletes and top business performers do differently. Jason speaks to groups around the world and offers hypnotic-success-coaching to share how people in business can put his WORK SMART principles and strategies to use. Rather than just hypnotize you to become more successful, he will help you de-hypnotize the misconceptions, fears, doubts, and ineffective strategies that are holding you back. Jason's process isn't magic, but his results are definitely magical.
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Website: www.JasonLinett.com
Book: Work Smart Business
Podcast: Work Smart Hypnosis
Most Influential Person
Steve Martin, Actor. https://www.stevemartin.com/
Effect on Emotions
I would say it affected my ability to respectfully call myself out, if I'm in that stressful mode. To recognize that even that stressful mode, anger, resentment, anxiety, whatever it may be, is a moment that from my language is already hypnotic in nature.
Let's use a simple definition of a word that some people would have connotations of, the word trance.
That's a loaded word, but my definition is rather simple: When internal perception carries more meaning than external reality.
So that mindful moment just to take a deep breath, observe the environment that I'm actually in, become aware of my body occupying space is often that number one strategy to solve whatever stress or frustration may be there.
Thoughts on Breathing
You always get to bring your breath with you, and as long as you're breathing, you're going with the old George Burns line that I woke up in the morning, I read the obituaries, I didn't see my name, it was going to be a good day.
But it has that ability to centralize the focus of the breathing and even at times to play with breathing that, from an almost hypnotic standpoint, to play with taking that breath and moving that in to a part of the body just dissolves away whatever stress or unresourceful emotion would be there.
Suggested Resources
Book: Work Smart Business: Lessons Learned from Hypnotizing 250,000 People and Building a Million-Dollar Brand by Jason Linett
Book: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
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38 min
January 30, 2019397 Essential Laws For Quantum Success With Christy Whitman
Christy Whitman is a transformational leader, celebrity coach and the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All. Her most recent book is Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws For A Thriving, Joyful and Prosperous Relationship With Work A Money. Her television appearances include 'Today' and 'The Morning Show' and her work has been featured in People Magazine, Seventeen, Woman’s Day, Hollywood Life, and Teen Vogue, among others. Christy is the CEO and founder of the Quantum Success Learning Academy & Quantum Success Coaching Academy, a 12-month Law of Attraction coaching certification program. Christy has helped thousands of people worldwide to achieve their goals through her empowerment seminars, speeches, and coaching sessions and products. Christy’s life-changing message reaches over 200,000 people a month and her work has been promoted by and featured with esteemed authors and luminaries such as Marianne Williamson, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Marci Shimoff, Brian Tracy, Neale Donald Walsch, Abraham-Hicks, and Louise Hay.
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Website: www.ChristyWhitman.com
Podcast: Quantum Success Show https://www.christywhitman.com/quantum-success-show
Book: Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws For A Thriving, Joyful and Prosperous Relationship With Work and Money by Chrisy Whitman
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Most Influential Person
Dr. Wayne Dyer Visit: https://www.drwaynedyer.com/
Effect on Emotions
Let me put it this way. I was always so afraid of feeling myself because I was afraid of what I would feel. And it wasn't until I got mindful, till I got present with my emotions that actually my life changed.
So mindfulness has played a huge role in every aspect of my life because of the fact that I was willing to slow down and feel myself.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing, when I'm spinning, I can get really woo and spin and spray. So that's the key tool to coming back. I love taking in a very mindful breath of breathing in four seconds, holding it at the top and then breathing out four seconds and then holding it at the bottom.
And doing that just a couple of times that really centers me and it just, it, it makes me just take all my energy intention out of the world that I'm in or what I'm thinking about that I'm spinning about and just coming back to the moment and really grounding me. I do that a lot.
Suggested Resources
Book: Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness by Barbara DeAngelis
Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
App: Soon To Be Available App From The Tapping Solution by Nick and Alex Ortner See: www.TheTappingSolution.com
Bullying Story
I don't get bullied and I do not bully because I understand that the whole bullying situation is based on law of attraction. You have to have a victim and you have to have a bully and you have to have someone being willing to be bullied, whether they're aware of it or not. Because what's happening with the bully is that somewhere in their life they're being bullied and they're trying to find their power.
And what's been modeled for them; what is a source for them because that's what they've seen is that they then bully. And so I have a situation, I think it's been about four years ago now.
My son Maxim who is now eight, but when he was in kindergarten just going into kindergarten, there was a little kid named Gibson and Gibson would one day pretend to be his friend and then the next day would push them down and hurt him. I would get so angry. [I would say to Maxim], why aren't you speaking up? Why aren't you telling somebody? And he was just like, because I want him to be my friend.
And it's like, wake up Maxim, he can't bully you if you say no, if you stand up to him. The only way bullying can continue is if a person continues to allow it and doesn't do something about it. When you show a bully your power and you're saying no, not to me, the bully will go somewhere else or they'll try to find it somewhere else, but they're not going to bully you.
And we had to get in that with him in many, many conversations. And it was really interesting. He just finally woke up, I think it was about six years old and this kid was kicked out of the school and he went for his blue belt in karate. At the age of six and something just snapped in him. And he, he started with his brother, um, at like these little amusement park places.
There was a bully that was bullying other little kids and he walked up to the bully who was bigger than him and he said, hey, go pick on someone your own size, you know, standing up for this kid. He really grew in his power and now, if anybody was to ever to bully either one of my kids, they'd be like, what are you doing here?
Because they really own that, you're only going to bully me because you're trying to feel better about yourself in some way. And the only way that they know how to do that is because they need a power over somebody and you're not going to power over me. So they, they stand up for themselves.
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36 min

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