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- 361 Take Charge Of Your Wellbeing & Thrive; Eva Vennari
Eva Vennari is founder of The Elevate institute and she's on a mission to dismantle the status quo of the sickness industry. Eva spent most of her adult life suffering from all kinds of conditions and fighting for her sanity. She decided to take matters into our own hands. That's when everything shifted and her body went from being the enemy to being her best and most devoted ally and partner. Eva now teaches worldwide how sensitive people can take charge of their wellbeing and thrive in their lives.
Contact Info- Company: The Elevate Institute
- Website: www.TheElevateInstitute.com
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Most Influential Person- Dr. Joe Dispenza https://drjoedispenza.com/
Effect on Emotions- I'm more in touch with them [my emotions], and less afraid of them and I love that our emotions are governed by our thoughts and I can back out of anything and not be fearful of my own emotions.
Thoughts on Breathing- Breathing is a big one because if I'm not conscious of my breathing and I notice they're shallow breath's going on, that automatically triggers that sympathetic dominance and I think my body goes into this panic mode so I can remember to breathe.
Suggested Resources- Book: Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt by Gregg Braden
- App: Water Your Body (This App will remind you to drink water)
Bullying Story- I was married for four years. It's been a long time, but I married somebody who would be considered a bully. It wasn't physical, it was that emotional and mental abuse that I simply didn't have the tools in my mindfulness box to understand how to deal with.
- I just figured I'm a nice person and everybody should be nice to me. And this person, you know, he decided he was going to take advantage and I wished that I had been more present of mind to that lack of coherence between the brain and the heart because I knew walking down the aisle that I probably shouldn't be doing this.
- And I did it anyways because the invitations were out. People were sitting there and I was like, oh my God, how embarrassing is this going to be? I was 20. I was young. I didn't have the experience that I do now.
- I would not put up with things that I put up with in order to go through with that.
- So in hindsight, you know, if we don't learn from our mistakes, I don't know what good they are. So make them young, I guess.
- That would've been great to be able to manage that situation better, to be more mindful.
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www.MindfulnessMode.com/release34 min - 360 Bluefishing For Opportunity With Author Steve Sims
Steve Sims is the man that makes things happen and I mean just about anything you can imagine, like appearing on stage with your favorite rock band, getting married at the Vatican, or having lunch with Richard Branson. Steve works with celebrities, professional athletes, and other dreamers who want to live life to the fullest and make the unimaginable real. Steve does all this, but at the same time is grounded. He believes in meditation and uses his own style of meditation to get it done. Steve is the author of the best selling book, Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen.
Contact Info- Website: www.SteveDSims.com
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Most Influential Person- Walt Disney and Dr. Suess. Also Jayson Gaignard, Joe Polish, Jay Abraham, Dean Jackson. There are so many.
Effect on Emotions- Breathing and mindfulness are one and the same. How I think of things tells me how I feel about them.
Thoughts on Breathing- People don't realize the importance of breath.
- You know, you'll go to a car and you'll stand there and try and work out what's the best gas to put in the machine, but you won't pay attention to you recharging and paying attention to your breath.
- Take the time to breathe.
Suggested Resources- Book: Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen by Steve Sims
- App: It shuts your phone off. I don't know the name of it, it allows you to surf the Internet but the phone will only connect to the internet for like a three hour period and you get yourself into a habit of that. You start focusing on making the most value out of your time, so it's one that shuts your phone off. Tim Ferriss told me about it.
Bullying Story- I would openly say I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed is a young lad. I noticed very, very early on that fear was the issue. If we don't have fear of something then we achieve way, way more. But we're held back by how much we actually fear.
- And I remember as a kid being a very big lad. I don't know if it was the Irish genes or whatever, but I've always been a big, big boy. Um, and I remember at school, all the young lads wanting to earn their stripes, would pick on the big lad. You know, I got picked on a lot, so I got picked on way more than the smaller kids.
- So if you want to know about bullying, I, I believe for a long period I was the one getting bullied. I remember this lad coming up to me, that was a bit bigger, not as big as me, but still big enough to cause me to be a bit concerned.
- And he came up to me in the school class, and he was trying to earn his stripes around his mates so we have two or three of his mates around him and I remember this vividly, walks up to me in a class and he's like, me and you, school end. I'm going to have you, you know, and it was a typical kind of like, you know, 13 year old hard talk that sounds pathetic now.
- And in a split second, all I could think about was, oh my God, after school, I'm going to get beaten up. And then I thought, I don't want to spend the whole afternoon worried about getting beaten up. So I stood up and punched him in the head and I got suspended. But I wasn't fighting.
- And then I came back to school and it was funny. I came back to school and he didn't pick on me, but other people still did. I remember this feeling of being bullied and then I never used to respond.
- People used to push me around and I didn't want to fight.
- And then I remember seeing some other people being bullied and I remember stepping in. And the only fights I ever got in was when I saw other people being bullied, I hate people being bullied. I hate people being intimidated and the trouble is nowadays and I don't want to get psychological, but we bully and intimidate ourselves.
- We already have talked about how we dilute our own dreams. That's a bully on your shoulder. Get rid of that bastard. He's not worth being there.
- But it was funny because when when was on the train, and it was funny you brought this question up by the way. No one's ever asked me that. So. Well done.
- When I was on a train, going to a building site, this boy started talking to me. We were both young lads. I had no idea who he was. I'm dressed up to go on a building site with my tools and my bag lunch. Okay.
- He's got a sharp suit on and a newspaper. He looked like one of the guys out on Wall Street.
- And I was so envious that he was going to be in an office, dry, and with girls, and all this kind of stuff and I'm going to be on a building site with a bunch of old patty's.
- He started talking to me as though he knew me. And I'm like, hello. You know? Yeah, you okay? He was a kid that I protected from getting beaten up at school and he recognized me on the train and he was the one that told me about the job that I went and applied for that got me to Hong Kong and that started this whole journey.
- I often wondered, if I had looked away from that kid getting pushed around, where would I be now? it put me where I am today.
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40 min - 359 Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness; Fearvana Author Akshay Nanavati
Akshay Nanavati is an entrepreneur, a high performance athlete, and a global thought leader. He overcame drug addiction, alcoholism and a bout of depression so intense that it sent him to the brink of suicide. In a fleeting moment, Akshay made a life changing decision to flip his life upside down. He has since built a global business, run ultramarathons, climbed mountains in the Himalayas, skied 350 miles across the world’s second largest icecap and fought as a U.S. marine in Iraq. He also wrote the book on FEAR - a book he entitled Fearvana which was so inspiring that the Dalai Lama himself, wrote the introduction. Akshay is now on a mission to run across every country in the world to raise awareness of his concept of Fearvana. He is scheduled to run an 11 day marathon across Liberia this October.
Contact Info- Company: Fearvana
- Website: www.Fearvana.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @fearvana
- Twitter: @fearvanalife
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Existing2Living
- Book: Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness by Akshay Nanavati
Most Influential Person- Jack Canfield
Effect on Emotions- Oh, mindfulness has been a game changer. It's allowed me to be with my emotions and transcend them.
- One quick story is in relationship to survivor's guilt. I struggled with survivor's guilt when I came back from the war. I lost a friend. I let that guilt consume me in many dark ways through alcohol and all these kinds of things that drove me to some dark places.
- I felt I didn't deserve to be here; I didn't deserve to be alive. But now my guilt is an ally. I still feel it. I have a picture of my friend that says on the wall and it says, this should have been you. You earned this life.
- So mindfulness has allowed me to be with that guilt and be okay with it and channel it to something useful.
Thoughts on Breathing- I'm starting to get much more proactive, you know, through yoga and through my running because I'm really working on it a lot more.
- I also recently learned from my friend about the Wim Hof breathing method, Wim Hof, The Iceman. So it's starting to get much more proactive.
- Before that it was just really through deep breath and meditation, but it's definitely something I'm working on now. Enhancing to take my running and my life to the next level.
- My nutritionist friend Anthony, he had studied with Wim Hof, so he taught me a little bit about the Wim Hof breathing method and I mean on my second try, I held my breath for I think two to two and a half minutes. I'm not somebody who could do that. Like for some people it might be nothing, but for me I was never able to do that. Like that was not good at that.
- But just through this technique, I was blown away by how long I was able to hold my breath on my second try of doing it.
Suggested Resources- Book: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Love, Happiness, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
- Book: Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness by Akshay Nanavati
- App: The timer on my phone
Bullying Story- This story is kind of awful. I'm not proud of it. But there was this one kid in Singapore, he was this little Indian kid and I used to kind of tease him a lot on the playing field. It was nothing serious, you know.
- But one day it got pretty serious. We were in the class and I essentially was the leader of this outfit where I got every kid in class; boys and girls, even the girls to get up and essentially punch this kid.
- The poor kid was obviously helpless, I mean, this is the entire class. He left the class crying. I still pretty vividly remember it.
- The whole class got in trouble, but they knew that I was the leader of this little band of bullies. I was suspended from school for a few days.
- Needless to say, my mom wasn't too proud of me. I wasn't too proud of it as well, but that was the one that stands out because that one was pretty awful to subject a kid to.
- So I actually apologized to this guy years later on facebook. I remember him saying something along the lines of, I've learned to let that go and I'm in a good place, but you should let that go as well.
- So it was very sweet of him to say that. It didn't leave long lasting scars, thankfully. And he said you should let go as well. So I was like, thanks for saying that man. I'm glad you're well.
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Be alert and focused after waking. Feel invigorated, fresh and dynamic. Let your vibrancy feed those around you. Be the energetic person you desire to be. Click here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/AwakenWithFocus35 min - 358 Learn How Meditation Leads To Success; Biz Women Rock Host Katie Krimitsos
Katie Krimitsos is a mom, wife, adventurer, podcaster, business strategist, seeker and change maker. She's committed to brightening the light of women around the world - through her Biz Women Rock community, which supports Women Entrepreneurs - and now through her new podcast,Meditation for Women, guided meditations that are specifically created with the special journey of women in mind.
Contact Info- Podcast on iTunes: Meditation For Women: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/meditation-for-women-guided-meditations-for-your-special/id1413585087?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katiekrimitsos
- Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/bizwomenrock/
Most Influential Person- Oprah
Effect on Emotions- Mindfulness has clarified my emotions and slowed them down. It has detached the emotions from who I am and what my actions are going to be and it's really slowed down that process. My actions and who I show up to be is a lot more intentional.
Thoughts on Breathing- Oh breathing is huge. I think it's probably the core of my mindfulness practice. It's the core of everything for me. So there are times where the very first thing that I'll do is just stop, close my eyes, take three deep breaths. And even just that allows me to find that pause and get centered. It's huge.
Suggested Resources- Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- App: Hi Future Self (Schedule notes and messages to yourself that come on your phone at certain times)
Bullying Story- Actually have a reverse kind of a story which I think is really interesting. I am the mom to a two and a half year old, very strong willed, very opinionated, very chock full of personality, little girl.
- So [she's] two and a half and she goes to school a couple days a week and there have been a couple instances where she's hitting and she's like, you know, kind of like somebody takes her toy and she hits or you know, she didn't want somebody to touch her so she hits, right.
- And I have found that this is a very uncomfortable but necessary for my husband and I. We have already had this conversation of like, dude, she's one of those kids who's going to go after what she wants.
- She's the one who walks in the room with a class full of kids who are like a year older than her and she will take over the room, which is a great skill. But we both realize we really have to make sure that we're watching this so it doesn't turn into bullying. We [believe we] can really massage it into all the great skills that are a [strong leader].
- So that was the most recent experience that I've had with really recognizing it and needing to teach her those lessons of when it's okay to be physical with somebody. I mean, I don't want my kid to get beaten up either.
- I don't want people to just take from her and that can be okay. So I want her to learn how to stand for herself and when it is not okay. So that's the most in my face bullying thing that I'm super aware of right now as a mother, oh my goodness. And it's, it's scary because I'm in charge of that.
- And so for mindfulness, obviously mindfulness for me and Chris as parents and being aware of that and needing to deal with that in the moment and actively trying to teach her what to do when you get angry and how can you breathe? And we do that.
- [We tell her] hey, when you're mad, you know, stomp your feet and take a deep breath. And sometimes if she's really mad she'll be like, no, I don't want to. But you know she's learning that.
- So she's learning to take a deep breath, do the pause, so that you can see what's going on versus what the emotions are driving you to.
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35 min - 357 The Diabetic Brain In Alzheimer's Disease With Author Ralph Sanchez
Ralph Sanchez is the author of The Diabetic Brain In Alzheimer's Disease, a book that connects the dots between type 2 diabetes, type 3 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Ralph has spent nearly two decades intensively researching the risk factors of Alheimer's and his passion is sharing his insights on the AD pandemic and how it can possibly apply to your own risk for cognitive decline as you age.
Contact Info- Website: www.TheAlzheimersSolution.com
- Free Discovery Session (See Top of Home Page)
- Podcast: The Diabetic Brain Podcast Series https://www.thealzheimerssolution.com/intro-to-the-diabetic-brain-podcast-series/
- Book: The Diabetic Brain In Alzheimer's Disease by Ralph Sanchez
Most Influential Person- Ram Daas www.RamDaas.org and the Seva Foundation www.Seva.org
Effect on Emotions- Mindfulness has made me more present. It's about understanding those emotions and having nothing attached to them; allowing them to be.
- It's not about shoving those emotions away.
- It's about seeing those emotions and being present with them and just allowing them to have their light. Not to be attached to what they are or what I'm feeling about them.
Thoughts on Breathing- Whenever I get into an emotional state, the first thing I start doing is noticing my breathing.
- A mindfulness practice is usually centered upon noticing your breath and your belly rising and falling.
- The first thing I do when i get tense or stressed or really upset, I start really feeling my breathing. The worst thing you can do in those moments is to get into shallow breathing.
Suggested Resources- Book: Be Here Now by Ram Daas
- Book: How Can I Help? by Ram Daas
- Book: Grist For The Mill by Ram Daas
- App: N/A I think 'Community' is the best tool for those wanting to embrace a mediation practice.
Bullying Story- I had some experiences as a child where I was bullied a little bit. I was a smaller guy, and of course, you know people will pick on you because you're smaller sometimes.
- I had good friends and they were always around to help take care of me if it was needed. I was really good at standing up for myself.
- One time I was up the block from where I used to live in Santamonica. I saw this guy walking quickly down the sidewalk and he had a dog on a leash. It was a smaller dog and he was almost dragging it. The dog was suffering. I thought, this was not right, so I stopped him and said, what the hell are you doing, this dog is not able to keep up with you.
- I had the presence to intervene and I really made it a point that what he was doing was not okay. I think he heard it. He was very upset about something.
- What I regret was that I didn't take more control because he continued on. I thought afterwards, he might have just continued on with that and I thought I should have done more. I had the presence, which is all about being in mindfulness mode, to do something, but I felt I could have done more.
- When I think back to being present, or not being present, it's about being fully present to actually see the experience through to a conclusion somehow and now just let it take on it's own life.
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44 min - 44 min
- 356 Global Zen Consciousness Conference Founder; Shi DeRu
DeRu is the Founder of the Global Zen Consciousness Conference, the Founder & Chairman of the Global Zen Alliance, and a Kungfu Grand Master. He has served for over 10 years as head coach of the U.S. National Sanshou Team and is a Technical Chairman for the Pan American Wushu-kungfu Federation. His vast Kungfu experience has resulted in him being known as the “American Godfather of Sanshou” around the world. He has spent time sharing and teaching Zen Consciousness, which advocates daily conscious meditative action to heighten and expand one’s consciousness. He is also dedicated to bridging the gap between theoretical physics and Zen consciousness.
Contact Info- Zen Consciousness Conference
- Website: www.ZenConference.org
- Telephone: 678-300-8031
- Email: [email protected]
Most Influential Person- A past chief monk in charge of the Shaolin temple
Effect on Emotions- Oh, it's beautiful. You know, sometimes of course you get angry, you get upset. But normally for me it's 30 seconds. And then I get over with it.
- You know, human beings react to things. Then I breathe back to my knowledge state. That's just mindfulness.
- To me meditation is a conscious mode and back into the conscious mode. But most people probably are in reaction mode all the time.
- But I think when people do meditation; I do three hours a day, two hours a day, minimum one hour a day, every single day, seven days a week for 50 something years.
Thoughts on Breathing- I like to breathe into my abdomen and just listen to my breath and get into that meditative mood right away.
- And then I see things in a different way a minute later and totally different from a minute before.
Suggested Resources- Book: Potentiality by Barbara Vetter
- Book: Various Books by Bruce Lipton such as The Biology of Belief
- App: N/A
Bullying Story- I know a lady, her name is Pat and she's 81 years old. She was 81 years old a couple of years ago. She came to do some self defense with me and to learn how to survive as an 81 year old, single who sleeps by herself.
- I told her a couple of things. The first thing was, you have to meditate everyday to be mindful, to be conscious. That way, if anything happens you won't be chaotic and you'll be free of fear.
- Then there was a 20 some year-old boy who came into her house and put a gun to her head. She said, 'how dare you, I know kungfu'.
- And then she changed her mindset from the fear to kungfu mindset. That's consciousness. That's mindfulness. And the kid was just scared.
48 min - 355 Know The Name and What It Reveals; Neimologist Sharon Lynn Wyeth
Sharon Lynn Wyeth has accomplishments to her credit in many fields, and one of them is education where she has benefited thousands of students. She has worked in many different capacities in education. She's been in nationally syndicated programs as well as the President of the United States Yearly Conference for the 50 governors. Sharon has used her innate gift of intuition combined with her keen observation skills and reasoning mind to create something called neimology science. Neimology science is about understanding someone's personality or characteristics.
Contact Info- Website: www.KnowTheName.com
- Podcast: Know The Name; Know The Genius In You
- Book: Know the Name; Know the Person: Decoding Letters to Reveal Secrets Hidden in Names
Most Influential Person- Eugene E. Whitworth, Author
Effect on Emotions- I can handle very stressful situations very calmly and keep my thinking clear and I really give it, (mindfulness) credit also for giving me a lot of creative ideas and a creative way of handling different situations.
Thoughts on Breathing- There is an interesting book that is saying how the author went and and interviewed only people that had lived more than 120 years or more than 200 years I think is what he ended up with. But his goal was over 120 years. And in that book it says, how do we breathe and what did he learn from these people that were really old.
- What he learned was that they spent hours everyday just on their breathing exercises. And so I learned different breathing exercises by reading that book. The book is called, Breaking the Death Habit by Leonard Orr.
Suggested Resources- Book: Way Of The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- Book: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Book: Mindfulness For Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Book: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein
- Book: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- App: Robert Monroe's recordings by the Monroe Institute www.MonroeInstitute.org
- App: Jack Purcell Recordings on Meditation
Bullying Story- I saw so much bullying when I was growing up that I think that's the reason I spent the 18 years developing neimology science because I was seeing the benefits of it.
- [I could see] that it could help people know how to handle different things, but I really got to see bullying grow when I was a teacher and I would watch how kids would shame other kids or make them feel less than.
- They would make little snide comments like, who are you, who do you know or just this, this niceness. And they're so subtle sometimes that I think a lot of people wouldn't catch them.
- I love teaching middle school and that's where bullying really comes out. That's just a tough year for everybody.
- When I would watch a kid make some kind of awful remarked to somebody else, I learned to say to them, wow, I just heard what you said. And for you to do that, you must really be in pain yourself or you wouldn't want to be causing somebody else that kind of pain.
- And is this happening to you in school, out of school? Would you like to talk with me in public or private, but we need to discuss this because your level of hurt is now coming out to cause other people pain and that's not appropriate.
- That's how I would handle that. But I will tell you, because I grew up where so many people were being bullied, we learned to defend ourselves and how to talk back right away.
44 min - 354 Breakthrough Success With Mindful Achiever Marc Guberti
Marc Guberti is a digital marketing expert. He is an entrepreneur and an author with over 80,000 online students. He's the host of the Breakthrough Success Podcast where he and his top-level guests teach you how to take your business to the next level and achieve your breakthrough. His latest book is called Content Marketing Secrets and it teaches people how to create, promote, and optimize content for growth and revenue. Marc is a social media columnist for the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals. He coaches business owners on how to grow and monetize their online businesses.
Contact Info- Website: www.MarcGuberti.com
- Book: Content Marketing Secrets: How To Create, Promote, And Optimize Your Content For Growth And Revenue
- Podcast: Breakthrough Success Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/breakthrough-success/id1149458961?mt=2
- Summit: www.ContentMarketingSuccessSummit.com
- Twitter: @MarcGuberti https://twitter.com/MarcGuberti
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcguberti/
Most Influential Person- My parents and my family. My mom, father, brother and grandparents.
Effect on Emotions- Mindfulness keeps my emotions in check. Sometimes your emotions can run a little wild based on current events. It helps you think about good times and puts a bunch of things into perspective.
[show-notes-emotions]
Thoughts on Breathing- Breathing is something I do very unconsciously. With running I have a very specific way of breathing; in through the nose and out through the mouth. Apparently runners are supposed to breath in and out through the nose but that's a little too hard for me.
Suggested Resources- Book: The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
- Book: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
- Book: Content Marketing Secrets: How To Create, Promote, And Optimize Your Content For Growth And Revenue by Marc Guberti
- App: Find yourself a music App that plays music that helps you meditate.
Bullying Story- I don't have a specific bullying story but being a Red Sox fan, sometimes Yankie fans can get a little, well not all of them, but some of them ... In some of those situations where that happens, mindfulness can help you hit the pause button. It's harder when there's an outside force trying to get your attention. If you get good at doing that with a bad outside force, you get a lot better over time and you just tap into your self-worth. That's something I believe we're not doing enough. There are a lot of people, myself included, where we have this line of accomplishments and we only look at what we haven't done. If anyone's trying to shatter you, just look back to your accomplishments, to things that make you feel proud and feel really good about yourself. You can bring those things to light. Realize you have this impressive track record and then words don't mean anything. If this is more of an internal battle, you'll be able to use this to propel yourself and get to the summit.
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32 min - 353 Photography With A Shot of Mindfulness; Bob Younger
Bob Younger is a photographer with a thorough understanding of interconnectedness. His passion for photography began in grade school when he received a Brownie Starmite camera at Christmas. Gradually, he moved to larger format cameras, slowing down and adopting a mindful approach to photography. He discovered the value of building an emotional connection with his subjects. Today, Bob teaches how to achieve a deep emotional connection between photographer, subject, and photograph.
Contact Info- Website: https://www.bobyounger.com
- Blog: https://www.bobyounger.com/blog
- Workshop Opportunity: Contemplative Photography: Join Bob Younger with a small group of photographers in Tuscany, Italy for a week of collaborative study and experience. https://www.ilchiostro.com/workshops/contemplative-photography/?workshopinfo=1
Most Influential Person- Richard Rohr has probably been one of the biggest influences in my life. We've attended a number of his conferences and read a number of his books and listened to a lot of his work on CD. https://cac.org/richard-rohr/richard-rohr-ofm/
Effect on Emotions- Mindfulness is a standard. I would probably tell you I used to operate right at the edge. It didn't take very much [to get me there].
- Even if Sandra [my wife] said, can I ask you a question? That would emotionally put me at the edge or over. So mindfulness and meditation have moved me to separate that a whole lot further away and I'm not really sure where the edge is right now, but I haven't been there in a long time.
Thoughts on Breathing- This is where meditation has really helped. It's because I realized that a breath is now and, and it's sort of the smallest part.
- It started the smallest piece of life that I can sort of separate out from the rest. And so I've learned that breathing, whether it's during meditation or whether it's just during the day, whenever I'm doing it enables me to say no, this is the breath, this is right now.
- Take a breath and then let's take the next breath. And so I've been able to bring myself back to this particular moment in time, this breath. I used to count in meditation one, two, three.
- I was always getting discouraged when I realized there had been a whole lot of breaths in there that hadn't been counted. And when I choose to count, I just only count to one because one is all you've got right now.
Suggested Resources- Book: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori
- Book: Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Book: The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing by Gross and Shapiro
- Book: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Book: More than a Rock by Guy Tal
- App: Calm
Childhood Story- I don't ever remember being secure in who I was. I wasn't stupid; I did ok in school. We moved around a lot. I went to three different elementary schools, two different middle schools, and four different high schools.
- Growing up for me was moving around a lot and kind of making friends, but in retrospect, I realize I really never developed any close friends and I'm not in touch with anybody I ever knew growing up. I never established a community.
- I was never a part of a community as I was growing up. I was always alone because if we were someplace long enough, I was probably getting ready to move anyway.
- I learned to adjust, but I also never developed long-term relationships that many people did when they grew up and went to the same schools with the same people.
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