Mindfulness Mode

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

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August 31, 2018 What You Are Seeing Is Not Happening
Lately, whenever I cast my inspiration net, I come up with mostly Trumpian topics. This disturbs me, because I am certain many other things are happening. However, I must work with what I catch. So here it is.
For future episodes I may have to shift from net casting to hunting mode.

What you are seeing is not happening. Not the truth. Putin powerful.

Believe fake crap. Stick with us. Corporate criminal iceberg.

I admit it: Trump admits Russian meddling. The problem is the president.

I don't need this country; I can buy anything. Usless and petty.

Not the truth. Flipping. Hey, Putin, that's a lot of money.

Make up lies. More crazy than Lincoln. Trump in Tampa.

Sessions knows Russians. Nobody knew.

Crazy excuse for a president. Space Force.

I know all about...
19 min
August 30, 2018352 The Colors of Mindfulness Through the Eyes of the Spiral; Natasha Todorovic-Cowan
Natasha Todorovic-Cowen is the CEO of National Values Centre Consulting and is the owner of the brand, Viral Dynamics. Natasha is all about helping people and businesses change. She has helped corporations with dysfunctional teams and incongruent leadership move to new levels of success. Natasha has personally endured massive levels of change in her life. She lived in three countries before the age of seven and then later, in adulthood, experienced two acquisitions and an industry that disappeared overnight. She has delivered over 100 SPIRAL DYNAMICS® Programs in 14 countries and continues to help teams learn how to meet their organizational goals. She holds an MBA degree and has worked extensively in the field of neural-linguistic programming.
Contact Info
Company: Spiral Dynamics
Website: SpiralDynamics.org
Most Influential Person
Chris Cowan (my husband)
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness has affected my emotions by allowing me to notice the initial sparking emotion.
Far too many of us are feeling feelings about feelings, and that's a form of affect phobia. By noticing the messages in that initial spark, we get to understand our reactions and what we need to know quickly, rather than letting things spiral out of control.
Thoughts on Breathing
So we were talking about the PTSD, and one of the things I did when I was having a reaction was a long four count in, a four-count hold, a four-count exhale, and a four-count hold. And I did that until I could be present in the room again.
Suggested Resources
Book: N/A
App: Unyte
Bullying Story
Actually, my husband and I were subject to over a decade of bullying and it was rough.
It was very tough because some of the stuff that we did with spiral dynamics was very confronting to a certain group of folks. Sometimes we'd be in our classes delivering the spiral dynamics content and we'd have some of those people in our classes. I had PTSD for a number of years and this situation would get so bad it would trigger the entire PTSD.
Now, if you've got a room with 30 people, you can't go freak out. So what I did was, I internally noticed the reaction, noticed the panic, and noticed the fear. I noticed it come up inside me and acknowledged what that was and asked myself, 'Okay. Is this person asking you that question because they're trying to get you? Or is it because there's a sincere desire underneath there to learn something or to explore something?'
Once I was able to be mindful of their intentions, where they were coming from, and the origins of what it was that they were trying to explore, I was able to let that emotion or that reaction simmer down some, and then become fully present for them. Sometimes I had to ask them a couple of questions just to get myself grounded in their world, their experience, and their reality to be fully present for them. But that was one of the ways that I dealt with that.
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38 min
August 27, 2018351 Take Off Your Shoes and Walk From Corporate To Calm; Ben Feder
Ben Feder is CEO of a large gaming enterprise called Tencent Games and formerly was CEO of Take Two Interactive, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. In an effort to revitalize his sense of purpose and rebuild family relationships, he dropped everything and left his fast-paced Manhatten life-style to an exotic island for a year of growth, including a new level of mindfulness, meditation, and artistic expression.
Contact Info
Website: www.BenFederAuthor.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BenFederAuthor/
Twitter: @BenFederAuthor https://twitter.com/BenFederAuthor
Most Influential Person
Eric Langshur, author of 'Start Here'
Effect on Emotions
They skew much more positively than they used to and are much more optimistic.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is the center of my mindfulness practice. My mindfulness practice amounts to three things. It's yoga, meditation, and art. In terms of yoga and meditation, [breathing] is integral to the practice, and in terms of art, probably not so much, but I wonder what would happen to my art if I actually incorporated [breathing].
Suggested Resources
Book: Take Off Your Shoes: One Man's Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back By Ben Feder
Book: Mindfulness In Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Book: Joyful Wisdom by Rinpoche Youngey Mingyur
App: 10% Happier, Mindfulness Studio, Headspace
Bullying Story
My daughter was bullied in school and really suffered terribly. She would come home and either cry or fight with her brothers and we wouldn't know what it was about until towards the end of the evening, when you'd kind of find out what happened in school.
It oftentimes wasn't anything specific. It was an eye roll from some girl and you know, all of a sudden she became devastated.
By taking her out of that environment and putting her into an environment where she absolutely flourished, we noticed that she could have a positive experience, so that school was obviously the wrong place for her.
A few years later, as she's a young adult now, or a teenager. She's just this utterly different human being. It just looks so amazing to watch. I'm sure some of that may have happened anyway, but taking her out of that toxic environment in and of itself was probably a mindful approach.
So, I don't think you need to like, get up and go to Bali and have that experience, but taking her out of a toxic environment, provided you can put her in an environment that's not toxic, A, is beneficial, and B, it shows her that her parents are paying attention and are concerned and caring and doing the best thing for her.
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30 min
August 23, 2018350 Nourish Your Entrepreneural Spirit With Branding Expert Amina AlTai
Amina AlTai is a branding and marketing expert in the fields of nutrition, fitness, and mindfulness. She believes that being nourished & having a healthy bottom line are intrinsically tied. After several years of pushing her physical limits in order to achieve business success, Amina experienced burnout and developed two autoimmune diseases and a whole host of food allergies. She realized being physically and emotionally healthy meant her business could thrive too. Now she pays it forward and teaches others how to fill up in all the right ways: in business, and in life.
Contact Info
Website: www.AminaAlTai.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aminaaltai/
Free Mini-Course: Get Un-Stuck In Your Business http://getunstuck.aminaaltai.com/
Blog: https://aminaaltai.com/blogs/news
Most Influential Person
My Meditation Teacher.
Effect on Emotions
[Mindfulness has] tremendously affected my emotions. I think life is always ebbing and flowing, right? And so it's up, it's down, it's up and it's down.
And I think if we're not prepared, if we're not trained, if we're not mindful, we can go along on that rollercoaster so when life goes up, we go up, when life goes down, we go down.
But mindfulness allows me to witness what's happening in my life without riding the rollercoaster and that is just tremendous.
Thoughts on Breathing
So anytime I do any sort of a speaking or presentation, I will make sure to layer in additional breathing exercises in addition to my meditation practice. There's so much research on how it mitigates performance anxiety and just bringing ourselves back to our breath is everything.
You realize that you've been in a state of fight or flight all day trying to get a taxi, commuting, whatever it is, and then you bring yourself back to your breath and it's just this moment of profound stillness.
Suggested Resources
Book: A Pocket Guide To Mindfulness: (In 10 Steps) by Deidre Megan
App: Keep Calm Studio www.KeepCalmStudio.com
Bullying Story
I was obese as a child and I was bullied really badly at school for my thighs and I wish at the time I knew that it wasn't about me.
I wish that meditation would have helped me tremendously because instead of me clinging onto these ideas that I was terrible because of my weight and my size and what I looked like, I wish I would have been able to sort of watch these emotions, these thoughts, sort of as if I was a passer by.
[I wish I could have imagined I was] just sitting on the sidewalk watching them go by. Instead I was clinging onto them and, and believing that this was to do with me and my identity.
So, yes I wish I had known about mindfulness and meditation.
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35 min
August 20, 2018349 The Entrepreneur's Secret Shared By Business Dominatrix Arlene Battishill
Arlene Battishill is a Business Dominatrix. She broke all the rules to become the highly sought-after consultant she is today. She shares the brutal truth of what it means to sell online and how you can have brilliant success no matter how big or small you are. Arlene used her nerves of steel when she appeared on the TV show Shark Tank promoting her brilliant motorcycle riders’ protective and fashionable gear called GoGo Gear. She is the best-selling author of Retail Shock Therapy: A Prescription For What Ails Your Online Sales. If you feel stuck in your business or your life, Arlene may just be your recipe for success.
Contact Info
Website: www.ArleneBattishill.com
Podcast: What's Your Next Move: http://arlenebattishill.com/podcast-episodes/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArleneBadAssBattishill
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebusinessdominatrix/
Most Influential Person
None
Effect on Emotions
Oh my God. Mindfulness has been absolutely huge because in the most stressful situations in life, which are all compliments of being an entrepreneur. My emotions have allowed me to self-regulate and to keep myself as calm as possible in every situation and I faced some pretty traumatic circumstances in my business and in my life and I've always looked at them in a way where it's, what do we need to do? What's my next move in this situation? So mindfulness has been critical for me.
Thoughts on Breathing
Like I said before, if I couldn't ride my bike, I wouldn't be able to breathe and breathing was really critical to my being able to deal with my debilitating flying anxiety.
I think breathing, more than anything else, is the number one thing that people must be doing when they are trying to get of themselves.
Suggested Resources
Book: Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
App: Listening to music
Bullying Story
When we talk about bullying, I won't say that I experienced bullying in the way we see it today. When I was in high school I was in a situation where I had people threatening me and this was in the seventies. I grew up in Detroit and there were was a lot of racial conflict at that time.
There was a TV show called Roots that came on. It was a mini-series with LaVar Burton, I think in 1976 or 1977.
There was tremendous conflict between the African American students and the white students in all of the schools in Detroit because we had come out of the race riots and the violence of the police against African Americans in the late sixties.
And we moved into the seventies and we experienced something called white flight where a judge ruled that all of the city schools must be integrated or desegregated. So now they were busing white kids into black schools and black kids into white schools.
And the amount of violence that was going on in the schools at that time was just unheard of. And I was one of the white students that was taken out of an all-white school.
This was completely random. It's just like they picked your name out of a hat and you had to go. And so I was taken out of an all-white high school and moved over to an all-black high school and there were six white kids in my graduating class.
And I had an instance where I was in a locker room. I was asked to come be the token on the basketball team and I couldn't play basketball to save my life.
But there I was and apparently, some kids had done something and they got in trouble for it and they thought I told on them.
So one of the other basketball players came over and she grabbed one of these metal cages where we would put our clothes in lockers and she picked it up and started shoving it in my face. You know, saying that I was the one who did it.
And I kept pleading with her saying, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, but when you're in a situation like that you know, you're guilty until further proven guilty.
What I knew in that moment is I had been, up till that moment in my life, someone who was very much a diplomat, even though I'm telling everybody to f**k off, it was always around doing the right thing and you never caused harm to people.
And I was very much about justice and making sure that people treated each other properly. And I spent most of my time in that situation, pleading with her to get her to understand who I was and to see me properly and to know that I would never do something like that because that's just not who I am.
But the circumstances were such that it was such an incendiary environment that there was nothing I could do. And so the remainder of the year I was pretty much alienated from the rest of the students and I'd try and engage them, but you know, there was nothing I could do.
And so I just kind of went about my business, but I think the thing with mindfulness and a situation like that is when you know yourself well enough and you feel really rock solid in who you are and you have a moral compass and a guide that is all about knowing what it is the right thing to do in a situation.
I didn't have a real problem with that because I always knew who I was and maybe that's why early on I could tell people to go f**k off because, you know, they were not going to tell me something and they're not gonna blow smoke up my ass. I wasn't going to have any part of it because I knew exactly what they were doing.
And so that, that's been kind of a guiding principle for me throughout my whole life, which is all about being mindful of other people and behaving in a way that's respectful of them and always working toward finding a way where we can work together so that everybody wins.
Because I don't believe that it's beneficial in life for people to lose as a result of what someone else has done.
Competition is one thing, but when people are losing in life because somebody else gets to win, that doesn't work for me.
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44 min
August 20, 2018349 The Entrepreneur’s Secret Shared By Business Dominatrix Arlene Battishill
Arlene Battishill is a Business Dominatrix. She broke all the rules to become the highly sought-after consultant she is today. She shares the brutal truth of what it means to sell online and how you can have brilliant success no matter how big or small you are. Arlene used her nerves of steel when she appeared on the TV show Shark Tank promoting her brilliant motorcycle riders’ protective and fashionable gear called GoGo Gear. She is the best-selling author of Retail Shock Therapy: A Prescription For What Ails Your Online Sales. If you feel stuck in your business or your life, Arlene may just be your recipe for success.

Contact Info
Website: www.ArleneBattishill.com
Podcast: What's Your Next Move: http://arlenebattishill.com/podcast-episodes/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArleneBadAssBattishill

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebusinessdominatrix/

Most Influential Person
None
Effect on Emotions
Oh my God. Mindfulness has been absolutely huge because in the most stressful situations in life, which are all compliments of being an entrepreneur. My emotions have allowed me to self-regulate and to keep myself as calm as possible in every situation and I faced some pretty traumatic circumstances in my business and in my life and I've always looked at them in a way where it's, what do we need to do? What's my next move in this situation? So mindfulness has been critical for me.
Thoughts on Breathing
Like I said before, if I couldn't ride my bike, I wouldn't be able to breathe and breathing was really critical to my being able to deal with my debilitating flying anxiety.
I think breathing, more than anything else, is the number one thing that people must be doing when they are trying to get of themselves.

Suggested Resources
Book: Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

App: Listening to music

Bullying Story
When we talk about bullying, I won't say that I experienced bullying in the way we see it today. When I was in high school I was in a situation where I had people threatening me and this was in the seventies. I grew up in Detroit and there were was a lot of racial conflict at that time.
There was a TV show called Roots that came on. It was a mini-series with LaVar Burton, I think in 1976 or 1977.

There was tremendous conflict between the African American students and the white students in all of the schools in Detroit because we had come out of the race riots and the violence of the police against African Americans in the late sixties.

And we moved into the seventies and we experienced something called white flight where a judge ruled that all of the city schools must be integrated or desegregated. So now they were busing white kids into black schools and black kids into white schools.

And the amount of violence that was going on in the schools at that time was just unheard of. And I was one of the white students that was taken out of an all-white school.

This was completely random. It's just like they picked your name out of a hat and yo
44 min
August 16, 2018348 Using The BodyMind To Heal; Author Elisabeth Misner
Elisabeth Misner is a Natural Health Practitioner and Meditation Leader. She teaches at the Lake Austin Spa Resort in Austin, TX, as well as at various retreats and conferences around the world. Her latest book, Healing Begins in the Kitchen, tells the story of how her husband, BNI Founder, Dr. Ivan Misner, healed prostate cancer using diet, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. Not long after his recovery, she was also diagnosed with cancer and applied everything she had learned with her husband and more to bring herself back to health with no surgery or radiation. Beth’s focus on the BodyMind is helping many others to heal quickly and naturally from a variety of conditions.
Contact Info
Website: www.BethMisner.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/bethmisner
Private FB Group: Abundant Health Qigong (Ask to join)
Most Influential Person
Adyashanti www.adyashanti.org
Effect on Emotions
Oh, mindfulness has really given me a perspective that emotion is just an emotion. It doesn't control me and I don't have to act on it.
Thoughts on Breathing
First of all, I love breathing. I'm a big fan of breathing.
How has it affected my mind? It slows me down. I think it slows my thoughts down and when I have the breath to focus on, it really helps me stay in the present. It's a big cue for me for mindfulness.
Suggested Resources
Book: Interior Castle by St. Theresa of Avila
Book: All Richard Rohr books such as Mindful Silence: The Heart of Christian Contemplation
Book: Healing Begins in the Kitchen: Get Well and Stay There with the Misner Plan by Elisabeth and Ivan Misner
Book: Also anything by Joseph Campell such as The Hero With A Thousand Faces
App: Insight Timer www.InsightTimer.com
Bullying Story
I do have a couple of stories about bullying as it relates to this experience. In the first example, I wasn't quite as competent yet with my mindfulness. It was a very stressful experience. I actually had a very strong reaction was with the oncologist that I went to in the very beginning.
She really bullied me and even Ivan couldn't believe how she bullied me and was telling me, you know, what are all these vitamins you're taking, you might be hurting yourself and you know, we're going to do it this way and I'm gonna have you do that so I know what kind of chemotherapy to give you. She was being a bully to me and I was asking questions and wanting to get more information and wanting to slow down and she, you know, push, push, push and bullying me.
And I literally left her office and went into shock. I felt, well, literally going into shock is a little bit different than having a reaction where your immune system; your adrenaline is flowing and you're shaking. It was that kind of a thing, like I was in a state of shock.
The next time that happened to me, I had a completely different experience and this happened online. I was working in one of the healing cancer naturally facebook groups that I'm in.
There was a doctor in that group who really flamed me. I was sharing my experience. I wasn't telling anybody else this is what you have to do. And he really blamed me and I gently, with love and tenderness, I stood up for myself and I said, you know, with all due respect, this is not appropriate for you to be speaking to me this way, you know.
And ultimately what happened was the lady who started the group, banned him from the group because he had been flaming other people as well. She stepped in to kind of protect us from his vitreal, which was very, very nice.
But I can see the reaction with me was very different and maybe it was because it wasn't face to face and I was already well on the way to recovery.
All of those dynamics were different, but I can pinpoint that being mindful really had me in my experience and his perspective and opinion did not rattle me at all.
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42 min
August 13, 2018347 Muse Brain-Sensing Headband Creator, Chris Aimone
Chris Aimone is an inventor, an engineer, and a visionary. The Muse, brain-sensing headband for meditation is a creation of the company he co-founded called Interaxon. Chris' creative and design practices span many fields including architecture, alternative energy, augmented reality, imaging, music, and robotics. Chris holds a masters in engineering and computer science from the University of Toronto.
Contact Info
Website: www.ChooseMuse.com
Most Influential Person
My Mother.
Effect on Emotions
I would say I'm a much happier person now as a result of being introduced to mindfulness. I think this really comes from understanding myself that much better and understanding how to live in a way where I don't have as much conflict with myself.
[Mindfulness has given me] the capacity to really understand how other people are experiencing things. This makes for a much more frictionless flow in life. It feels great.
Thoughts on Breathing
The breath is fascinating. I've recently played more with intentional breath work where breath is sort of an energetic tool to influence your nervous system.
In my mindfulness practice, just recognizing that there is an automatic function of your breathing and a conscious aspect of breathing and simply watching your breath really isn't so easy.
There is a really amazing rabbit hole there just to discover what it's like to try to simply observe the breath and not influence it. It's a beautiful biofeedback tool.
And so Muse is a biofeedback tool, but actually, the practice of meditation is like deep biofeedback at work because of the things that we use to anchor our attention.
Suggested Resources
Book: Wake Up To Your Life by Ken Macleod
App: Social Media like Instagram
Bullying Story
Like I said in the beginning, mindfulness for me is all about awareness and a big part of that is self-awareness. I think for an individual who might be a bully, for example, growing some deeper self-awareness, really provides an opportunity to understand what's happening and how your actions are being received.
[Also], what those actions are and what they're related to in your own emotional experience. I think being aware of something is the first step in change. If you can't see what's happening there can be no interest in being any different.
Seeing what's happening provides an opportunity to become interested and motivated to do things differently. That in itself doesn't allow you to change necessarily, but it certainly can make you aware of what's happening.
So I think that's a really important first step is just expanding some inner awareness. You can actually see what's happening emotionally and how it's manifesting in action, even as a retrospective.
So I think doing any kind of inner practice, you know, out of context where you're just with yourself can be perhaps simple enough.
The things that come up in meditation seem to be better received and you can hear them more clearly. And so that's the really great first step in that someone who is being bullied, it's both an inner and an outer awareness that comes into play.
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46 min
August 08, 2018346 Physiotherapy With Positive Mindset; Aleksandra Nenadic
Aleksandra Nenadic is a physiotherapist and in her practice, she encourages her patients to be active participants in their own recovery process. Her clinic focuses on promoting fast recovery from injuries with a tailored treatment plan and a positive mindset. Aleksandra is mindful about educating her patients to achieve long-lasting relief and overall physical well-being. Her goal is to provide the best possible treatment and information to patients with various musculoskeletal conditions to help them recover well and fast. Aleksandra believes that everything is possible when you set your mind to it.
Contact Info
Company: AN Physio
Website: https://www.ANPhysio.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aleksandranenadicphysiotherapy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleksandraphysio/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-nenadic-923751108
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Most Influential Person
My Aunt.
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness helps me be able to better recognize my emotions and therefore deal with them better.
Thoughts on Breathing
I meditate on a daily basis or try to meditate on a daily basis. And so that keeps me sort of in tune with my emotions, with myself, with my feelings and so it helps a lot.
Suggested Resources
Book: Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch
App: N/A
Bullying Story
That's so funny that you ask because I just read an article the other day about a group of young aboriginal boys hockey team that were playing at a tournament in Quebec City,
This was not long ago and the article was describing how the referees, the players from the opposing team, as well as some of the people who were watching the game, were calling these young boys all kinds of names. And I thought that was very unfortunate. This ties in a little bit.
I think we should be more accepting of other people's beliefs, cultures and backgrounds.
And I think that if these people that were bullying had been more respectful or mindful of these boys, they would have realized that there was no need for behavior like that.
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27 min
August 06, 2018345 Real Transformation: It's Not What You Think; Wendy Yellen
Wendy Yellen is named one of the International Top Three Transformational Experts in her field. Wendy has studied emotional release bodywork and many other traditional and non-traditional forms of healing from masters around the world. Wendy walked away from a successful psychotherapy practice when she discovered the Holy Grail of transformation work called Eidetics. This practice, based on ancient Greek knowledge and 21st Century science, enables business people and creatives to unlock their full potential and remove the weight of old, often unseen vulnerabilities which have been holding them back.
Contact Info
Website: www.WendyYellen.com
Free Resource: Wendy's Newly Written Spiritual Manifesto www.MySpiritualManifesto.com
Most Influential Person
Dr. Akhter Ahsen, The Father of Eidetic Imagery www.eideticimagepsychology.com/dr-akhter-ahsen
Effect on Emotions
My emotions? Well, again, I'll go back to my husband. We've been together 40 years almost.
This is true, I'm not proud of it. I was mentally divorcing him. Sometimes it felt like about 80 percent of the time; in my head. I mean rehearsing when I would say it, but I never did it. Thank goodness, because I feel so in love with him now and I see him as a person.
I feel love in my heart in ways which I didn't allow before and part of that has been through eidetic images where saw what I was doing to him in an image where it was irrefutable and impossible to ignore. And it just broke my heart what I was doing. It just, it was horrible.
And so by being more mindful of when those automatic responses were coming up and taking a moment and choosing a house of love and letting other things bubble up in me.
Now what happens is sometimes I catch him singing for no reason at all and the problem is I don't know if he was always singing or I just didn't hear it.
Thoughts on Breathing
You might be surprised to hear [that it isn't part of my mindfulness practice]. It isn't a specific part where I focus on it, but it is a place that has changed in me and certainly when I am stopping, I'm definitely paying more attention to my breath, but it is not a place that I pay conscious attention to most of the time. I'm much more paying attention to, let's say some of the spiritual images that are coming to me through eidetics. That's more my focus.
Suggested Resources
Book: Psycheye Self Analytic Consciousness a Basic Introduction To The Natural Self-Analytic Images of Consciousness Eidetics by Dr. Akhter Ahsen
Free Resource: Wendy's Newly Written Spiritual Manifesto www.MySpiritualManifesto.com
App: N/A
Bullying Story
So I thought a lot about this question. In fact, I had a conversation with my husband in the car about it yesterday and I thought, well, I could talk about Emily and I could talk about the kid in the pool in Japan and I could talk about being Jewish, but none of those stories have the juice of what I'm about to say.
I think the worst bullying we do is the bullying we do to ourselves in our own head. We live there so much of the time; I also think it's that bullying that can put us at risk for letting other people believe us because we have that Achilles heel. We have that sensitivity. We have that place where we're not coming from that same confidence. It can be so cruel sometimes.
I hear things coming out of people's mouths and I think if anybody else said that they would be up in arms. If they said that about somebody else [it would be unacceptable], but yet the way we talk to ourselves is cruel, so cruel. So I think that is real bullying.
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www.MindfulnessMode.com/release
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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.