The Power of Mindful Breathing: Practical ways to enhance well-being. Today’s topic helps you to focus on a basic aspect of mindfulness, that is breathing. We will briefly discuss the impact conscious breathing can have on mental and physical well-being. Let's talk about the benefits of mindful breathing. It can help with stress, reduce anxiety, improve focus, and clear up your mind. It's like a superhero for your brain!Simple Breathing Exercises: I've got some easy breathing exercises for you to try out. They're like little tricks to help you feel calm and focused. You can try diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing, or just paying close attention to your breath. It's easy and straightforward!

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Every Day Life

Mindful Breathing in Everyday Life: Imagine adding mindful breathing to your everyday routine. You can do it during quick breaks at school or work, while riding the bus, or right before bedtime. It's simple and you can do it anywhere, anytime!

Shared Secrets

Mindful Breathing for Stress Relief: Let me share some secrets about how mindful breathing is like a stress-busting superhero. I'll share some stories and, examples of intentional breathing used when things got crazy. It's like a magic potion for stress!

Breath and Feelings Connection

Breath Awareness and Emotional Regulation: Ever wonder how your breath and feelings are connected? I chat about that during this episode. Paying attention to your breath can help you handle tough emotions like a pro. It's like having a secret power to stay cool when things get tough.

Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise

Here is a diaphragmatic breathing exercise: Find a Comfortable Position:

Sit in a comfortable chair or cross-legged on the floor. Make sure your back is straight and your shoulders are relaxed.

Place Your Hands:

Put one hand on your chest and the other on your abdomen, just below your ribcage. This will help you feel the movement of your diaphragm.

Inhale Slowly:

Inhale deeply through your nose, allowing your abdomen to expand. Feel your diaphragm moving downward as your lungs fill with air. Try to keep your chest still during this phase.

Exhale Slowly:

Exhale slowly and completely through your mouth, feeling your abdomen contract. The hand on your chest should remain relatively still.

Repeat:

Continue this slow and controlled breathing pattern. Inhale through your nose, allowing your abdomen to rise, and exhale through your mouth, feeling your abdomen fall.

Focus on the Breath:

As you breathe, focus your attention on the sensation of the breath entering and leaving your body. If your mind starts to wander, gently bring your focus back to your breath.

Practice Regularly:

Aim for 5-10 minutes of diaphragmatic breathing. You can gradually increase the duration as you become more comfortable with the technique.

Box Breathing Exercise

Box breathing, also known as square breathing, is a simple yet effective technique. Here's how you can practice it:

Sit Comfortably:

Find a comfortable seated position. Sit up straight with your feet flat on the floor and your hands resting on your knees.

Breathe In (Inhale):

Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose. Count to four as you take in the breath. Imagine filling your lungs completely.

Hold Your Breath (Pause):

At the top of your inhale, hold your breath for a count of four. Keep your lungs comfortably filled with air during this pause.

Breathe Out (Exhale):

Exhale slowly and completely through your mouth for a count of four. Focus on emptying your lungs entirely.

Pause Again (Hold):

At the end of your exhale, pause and hold your breath for another count of four. Keep your body in a relaxed state during this brief pause.

Repeat the Cycle:

Continue this cycle of breathing – inhaling for four counts, holding for four counts, exhaling for four counts, and holding for four counts.

Focus on the Patt

Rodolfo De Angeli follows the pathways of the shaman and is himself a practitioner of Andean shamanism. He is a holistic mentor who transforms people's adversity into opportunities. Surviving childhood trauma and personal challenges, he tried all the conventional ways to heal, yet what helped him turn his life around was Andean shamanism. Now leading De Angeli Serenity Solutions, Rodolfo empowers midlife individuals to navigate their transformation by embracing their authentic selves. Rodolfo's mission is to help the lost find their way by offering simple and applicable tools and wisdom to start living a life they love.

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Most Influential Person

My wife, Grace

Effect On Emotions

I love to feel. I was a man who never felt and did not cry.

I think I was 41 or 42 when I first cried.

So mindfulness allows you to feel and to stay with it. Go hang out with it. Hang out with yourself.

Thoughts On Breathing

I actually do breathwork every morning. I do five rounds, and I use Wim Hof's method. I don't use any fancy kind of method. Simply breathing in and breathing out, under the guidance of Wim Hof.

Get the free WimHof App on Apple. It's amazing. It just takes five rounds, and that usually takes me half an hour or so. I love it. It's part of my everyday practice.

 

Bullying Story

I can't personally say that there was much bullying going on. I had sexual abuse and you know that is kind of like a form of being taken over by someone else.

So, Andean shamanism is very different from  Amazonian shamanism. How should I say that without offending anyone? It's just me making an example with Christianity and Buddhism.

God will absolve you of your of your mistakes if you repent. If you have done bad, your karma is there you will have to pay it off. There's nobody coming to save you.

If there is a bad energy or you feel like maybe you have been cursed or you have an illness or whatever that you believe came from outside, you go to an Amazonian shaman and he will make a ritual where he will try to take this thing off of you.

This will take power away from you, and when you grow up, you will believe you don’t have enough power to turn something around. In the Andean tradition, it is very different. (Listen to the podcast to learn more about the pathways of the shaman.)

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Paul Lloyd Hemphill is an author and speaker who motivates with inspiration from the past. In 2020, he started a non-profit company to help inspire children using a creative and appealing approach to teaching American history. His company, American Education Defenders, Inc., takes its inspiration from Paul’s 2018 book, Inspiration For Teens, a book filled with life lessons and true stories from American history. The content can also be found on video and audio as part of a homeschool curriculum called, America’s 52 Stories.

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An inspirational college professor

Effect On Emotions

I would say it has a lot to do with perspective and goals. In other words, how do you view what you do with your life, and how do you motivate yourself to do what you do?

I know at this point in my life, I get up virtually every morning and say, man, I got work to do, I've got I've got a country to save. And I'm going to do it my way and in a way that really works. I gain much of my inspiration from the past.

Thoughts On Breathing

Yeah, I have some thoughts on breathing. In fact, I go to the local YMCA every morning at 5:30 and do my exercises And I walk 4 miles a day.

But these these particular exercises are so vital. I find myself much more energized when I do that, and so it's just a habit that you need to stay with.

Bullying Story

There was a guy from Wisconsin. He was a doctor. And during the Battle of Gettysburg he was taking care of the Union wounded. He realized that Confederate snipers were shooting and killing his patients. Well, he got so upset that he ran outside this church building, raised his fist and said, I want you to shoot at the healthy ones.

And they took him seriously, and not another patient was hit or shot again.

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Marc Max Pollock will help you to find your true self. He is qualified to do this because his life story is an extraordinary example of overcoming adversity. Having grown up experiencing poverty, abuse, and homelessness, Marc made it his mission to harness the power of the universe to change his reality from a life of hopelessness to a life of abundance. Marc’s calling is to share his transformational secrets to help you heal and live your best, abundant life. Marc is an entrepreneur, author, visionary, spiritual adventurer, energy practitioner, and Reiki Master.

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Most Influential Person

Ross Hofstadter, Trainer

Effect On Emotions

Mindfulness has transformed how I deal with my emotions in every way. Before, I was just reacting. It was just total reaction. It was self-destructive, and it was violent. I didn't understand why I was doing anything I was doing.

I think a lot of people wander through life that way. They're behaving. They have no idea why they're behaving the way they're behaving. Why am I doing, what I'm doing?

Thoughts On Breathing

Yes, you know eastern religion really focuses a lot on breath. I think there's a reason for that because breath is life, right? I mean, you know, it symbolically represents life and it physically represents life.

So when we focus on our breath, and I'm not a meditation expert, it gives my mind a chance to just clearly focus on an activity, and then I can sink into my consciousness.

 

Bullying Story

 Growing up, I was just a really tortured kid. I was a misfit, and there was a lot of bullying. I was never taught the tools of mindfulness or how to understand my emotions or what I was feeling.

As a matter of fact, you know I grew up in the South United States, and a lot of it was just the opposite. It was about denying your feelings. It was about hiding suppression, and now I know how damaging that is. But had I had those tools going up, it would have made a huge difference.

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Book: The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho

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Dean Graves has been sharing his meditation and mindfulness knowledge for over two decades. Along with being an author and podcaster, he is also a mental health counselor and spiritual guide. Dean is passionate about philosophy, psychology, and exploring the human condition to help others find inner peace. He has written books, conducted workshops, and created seminars that have helped people worldwide. Dean's writings are centered around self-empowerment and awareness, with the aim of enabling individuals to realize their true potential and attain a higher level of consciousness. He strongly believes that we are at the cusp of a new era of enlightenment, and he is committed to assisting others in recognizing and harnessing their abilities.

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Most Influential Person

The Buddha

Effect On Emotions

Mindfulness has helped me to be much less reactive. I experience stress from two sources and both of those are my children. It's tough to break that mental bond with your children. I really don't experience stress beyond that.

Thoughts On Breathing

Breathing is helpful as a transition tool into a mindfulness state or controlling your breathing tool. But understand what you're doing by breathing is you're bringing that awareness that is flopping around outside of you back inside. So it's one of many methods that you can use in order to invert that awareness back inside of you.

Learning to keep that awareness inside of you, when you're in heavy traffic or something of that nature, you can let more of the awareness outside to deal with the circumstances that you're in.

But when you're out of that, you want to remember to bring that awareness back inside and so the more you can keep your awareness inside the more consistently you will experience mindfulness.

 

Bullying Story

Mindfulness would always make a difference in everybody's life regardless of what the circumstances are. The nature of service to self, In order to be successful in their path, they have to learn to dominate and subjugate others.

Their objective is to extract from us our life force energy. It's called intelligent energy and we all have is the same amount of intelligent energy available to us.  But as they polarize more service to self then they surrender the access, their connection, to the source of that intelligent Infinity.

So they have to substitute that. And the only place that they can substitute that is from other people that are in the range of consciousness that we are in. And so they employ domination and subjugation in order to control people.

And we're seeing in societies around the world, this emerging influence of the service to self attempting to dominate and subjugate others in order to maintain the energy flow that they have already become accustomed to because of our acquiescence over a long period of time.

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Clementine Moss is a rock drummer and author of the book From Bonham to Buddha and Back. She is also a spiritual counselor and a nondenominational Minister at The Foundation for the Sacred Stream. Using the modalities of Depth Hypnosis, Applied Shamanism, Energy Medicine, Sound Healing, and Morphic Awakening techniques, Clem has an active healing practice. She is certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Conflict Resolution. A Vipassana meditator for over thirty years, her study and personal practice spans many traditions. Clem lives in San Francisco with music manager and musician Tim Moss and Henry the Pug. Her writing has appeared in Modern Drummer Magazine, Memoir Magazine, and other online publications.

 

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Most Influential Person

S. N. Guenka (Meditation Teacher)

Effect On Emotions

I have that observer within me that watches things rising and falling out falling now for a while. For many years in my life, I thought that mindfulness was so that we didn't have to feel our emotions anymore. We didn't have to be in that, I realized, is an ignorance within us. We're supposed to feel fully. But if I feel sorrow fully, but I don't say I am a sad person. It's two different things. Do I identify with the emotions? Or do I allow myself to feel it fully?

Thoughts On Breathing

Breathing is the great gift. The deep breath, the holding of the breath, the holding the bottom of the breath; all of those are wonderful techniques for us to turn on our parasympathetic nervous system to quiet the mind to let the body know it's safe.

So the thoughts of fear that are constantly rising from our physicality, quiet down, and we can access that awareness underneath all the thoughts.

 

Bullying Story

I was bullied in junior high school, I grew very quickly. I was five feet eight inches tall in junior high school. And I was the tallest student and was taller than some of my teachers. I was gawky and had goofy hair. So I came from an elementary school where I was the president of the Student Council was kind of this celebrated person.

And then I got into junior high school and got bullied by other girls. It was very painful and a big shock to me that people were cruel that way. And I retreated into myself and so, you know, that stays with you. It's fear, right? Fear of judgment. I think around that time that internal negative voice became a megaphone within me. And it's been something I've fought and tried to understand through my whole life.

Now, do I see a benefit of that experience? Quite a bit. It drove me to understanding myself in psychology and spiritual practice.

When you can feel another's pain, you can't bully them. And, and when you're bullied, you can see I can look at those girls, and I can see what they were afraid of. I can see where it was coming from. it. It opens empathy. It's only compassion that problems would solve.

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Today’s episode is called Love Sparks. Can you think of those moments in time involving special relationships that were incredibly special? Moments you shared with that certain someone? Today, I'm talking about the topic of love and that bond between you and a special partner. So, as I think about love, I think about the many different people I've interviewed on the show who are Relationship Coaches or relationship experts. I jotted down a few of their names and I'm looking at ten people who were terrific guests on this topic. You can search using the search bar on my website and type in the word ‘relationship'.

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Those Eyes

Have you ever just stopped, paused, and with as much love, thoughtfulness, and compassion as you can have in your heart, just looked into your partner's eyes?

And I think it's really important to do that,

We live life day after day, and do you stop to think of that passion and your compassion? Do you let it flow from your heart and from your being into theirs?

That's something you can gain by practicing mindfulness.

What Does Your Partner Love?

Sometimes I think we forget to think about what does he or she enjoy the most in life?

What does your partner grab onto that makes them just full and satisfied? What gives them complete joy and bliss?

Sometimes, we confuse it because we understand what gives us joy and bliss. And we may assume that the other person is that same way and enjoys those same things. I know I've been guilty of that.

Be Vulnerable

Although it is not always easy, open up and be vulnerable with that special person.

The more you can open up, be vulnerable, and be willing to share, the closer you can become.

And, of course, we all know that we have to be careful and smart. Our ego is trying to protect us. We have to allow our brain to help us know when to hold back and when it's okay to let go and be vulnerable.

Sometimes, we must be willing to take those chances our brain tells us not to take.

So step out and try to let go a little bit.

The Sparkles

This takes me back to my wife when we were going out. We were dating and we were walking along the street. it was our second or third date, and the stars were twinkling.

It was this perfect evening. And the ambiance was phenomenal. But I remember the stars, and it felt like they were twinkling and sparkling. I felt like they were speaking to me.

How could life be any better than this?

When we were together that night with the sparkly stars there were fireworks. It was so special. And now it's almost Valentine's Day.

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Sandy Robertson helps you answer the question, why am I eating this? She has worked in the business and health fields for 25 years, leading wellness and obesity programs. Sandy is also a Certified Medical Intuitive (CMIP) and a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner (CHTP). She combines traditional medicine with mind-body techniques to promote well-being. In a world that's all about trendy diets and quick fixes, it's easy to forget what really feeds our soul. If you're tired of diets that only focus on counting calories and limiting food, get ready for a new way to approach weight loss. “Why Am I Eating This?” isn't just another diet—it's a holistic journey to mindful eating and long-lasting change. Sandy's seven-point plan goes beyond what's on your plate, exploring your desires and uncovering the truth about why you eat the way you do.

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Most Influential Person

Dr. Kristin Neff (Associate Professor of Educational Psychology)

Christopher Germer (Harvard Professor)

Effect On Emotions

Mindfulness has given me tools to reset. Instead of going from zero to 100, mindfulness helps me shift in the moment. We choose and reset and take a breath.

Thoughts On Breathing

Regarding breathing, I will share a quote by Joan Burry Sanko [not clear who this author is]. She's written many wonderful books. I met her at a conference many years ago. And she talks about how the breath is always with you. And I love to remind my clients and colleagues and also myself.

My breath is always with me wherever I go. I take a breath to read and choose to clear, and it's a powerful reminder of how powerful our breath is to guide us and comfort us and aerate our lungs and our brain.

 

Bullying Story

The story that comes to mind is actually one that I experienced as a child. And when I was growing up, the word bullying wasn't used as much as it is today. And I can say, with all the love in the world, my mother's in heaven now. But at times my mother could be a bully. And I feel mindfulness would have helped me a lot. It also would have helped her.

So, I love that mindfulness and mindful self-compassion are being woven into school curriculums, even elementary schools. Back to the power and mindfulness of stopping and pausing and reseting instead of going into react.

I feel strongly that embedding tools of quieting the mind and body, stopping and taking a breath, and resetting are good for people of all ages in every culture, wherever you live.

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Anne Reynolds specializes in relationship healing for women. She brings mindfulness to the forefront of her coaching practice, emphasizing the importance of non-judgmental awareness in relationships. She defines mindfulness as present attention to oneself and others without succumbing to judgment. Anne is able to quickly identify conflict arising from subjective judgments when problems occur in relationships. Anne navigates the complexities of connections and has helped hundreds of women resolve seemingly hopeless relationship challenges. Reflecting on her journey, Anne openly discusses her personal traumas and challenges, showcasing the resilience and wisdom she has gained over the years. Her approach to coaching is rooted in the understanding that mindfulness serves as a bridge to neutral communication, fostering healthier, judgment-free relationships.

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Most Influential Person

David Hawkins (Author)

Effect On Emotions

Mindfulness helps me to feel my emotions. So I don't run away from them. I feel them, and the more I feel them, the more I can let them go.

Thoughts On Breathing

If you stop and focus on your breathing, you can help to make sure you do not paralyze your mind. There is a breathing technique that I use. It is from a meditation. It's really simple. You inhale deeply, all the way up through the chakras.

Then you exhale slowly until you deplete your lungs. Then there is this beautiful mantra. It is about remembering that you are one with the golden light or the Divine Light. When you could say it in four syllables. So, I teach this in my meditation classes.

This is the meditation that we will do. Say Gorongosa in four syllables. For example, Go rah, ang Gah.

 

Bullying Story

Understanding the root of bullying is crucial. I've assisted individuals facing workplace or relational bullying. Drawing from personal encounters, including my daughter's past experience with bullying, I've learned the importance of empowering victims to stand up for themselves.

Bullies often harbor unresolved pain, projecting it onto others. Recognizing this, I guide women to bolster their confidence, discouraging bullies by becoming less vulnerable targets.

It's essential for individuals to ground themselves, asserting their worth and refusing to be passive shock absorbers. By teaching clients to navigate assertively, I help them break free from the cycle of absorbing hurt.

Bullies thrive on exploiting perceived weakness; hence, building resilience and self-assurance is key to dismantling their harmful dynamics. Empathy towards the hurt within bullies facilitates a broader perspective, emphasizing the transformative power of self-confidence in diffusing such situations.

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Ashton Rodenhiser is a live illustrator who is passionate about doodling for mindfulness. She has brought over 2500 presentations and conversations tolife. She is on a mission to teach sketchnoting skills to students and professionals so they can use doodling and drawing as their best thinking and learning tool. When she’s not working with clients, she's being silly with her three young kids and husband in rural Canada.

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Most Influential Person

Maude Lewis; famous Nova Scotia folk artist

Effect On Emotions

How has mindfulness affected how I deal with emotions? Oh, my gosh, well, that is a big question. I am definitely a highly sensitive person. And I think it's helped me just be okay with that. We'll keep it at that.

Thoughts On Breathing

Oh, my gosh, what are my thoughts on breathing as it relates to mindfulness? Well, that I'm not so great at it.

I definitely try to be mindful about breathing. But you have to really be intentional about it. This is something that I'm not so wonderful at.

 

Bullying Story

I will tell you something that I learned a few years ago regarding a new definition for forgiveness. And it's really about letting go of the pain, so it doesn't hold you back anymore. Because it's not about forgiving a person; it has nothing to do with the other person. So, I feel like I take that philosophy into many different areas of my life. You know, so you could relate that to bullying.

Because a lot of people who are bullied, they hang on to it. And they identify it; they name it; they create this into something that exists in a big way for them in their minds.

And then they're not able to let go of it the way you're describing, and they think it's their identity.

So it is so important to realize that it doesn't need to be your identity. It is making a very specific conscious decision to let this go.

And it is a little bit about taking your own identity and power back and not giving it that energy.

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