Mindfulness Mode

Moustafa Hamwi is recognized as the world’s leading expert on Passionate Leadership. In one year, he has achieved what it has taken others 20 years to achieve. His amazing success at helping to empower leaders to work and live passionately, has resulted in him being nicknamed, ‘Mr. Passion’. On his talk show, Passion Sundays, Moustafa has interviewed over 180 world thought leaders.

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My Swami in India who's been in caves for 13 years.

Effect on Emotions

It has helped me to be more observant of my emotions. I am very passionate so when I'm upset, I'm very upset. When I'm having a bad day, I'm having a very bad day.

I do everything with passion. Being more mindful has allowed me to be more observant and slowly I have learned to be less judging of my emotions.

I'm no longer in that space of, you have to be mindful means you shouldn't be angry. I don't agree to that.  If I'm angry, I'm angry, cause guess what, if somebody smashes into my car, I'm gonna be angry.

I've learned to accept my anger as a natural reaction and watch it till it just goes up and it comes down again rather than try to fight it because when I was fighting it before, it made it more difficult. Now, I'm just present and watching. That means acceptance.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is everything. Let me put it this way, if you cease to breathe, you cease to exist. So the ultimate mindfulness is the ultimate breathing.

I learned that when I did vipassana, the Buddhist meditation technique that Buddha used to get enlightened which is simply the induction course.

They put us in a hall for ten days and all we do is observe our breathing. Every single morning I wake up and I do twenty minutes of vipassana.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Power of Now: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

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Bullying Story

The most bullied people in life, are bullies themselves. People who have been bullied at home or at some stage in their life, have an adverse protective reaction.

In a way I feel empathetic with them because they had to go through a particular experience and maybe they were bullied at home and they go back to school and they take it out on their friends at school. Bullies exist everywhere in our lives.

I just want to be clear, most of us are also bullies in one way, shape or form. I don't want anybody to get self-righteous here, including myself.

We do bully certain people, certain ways. A lot of times we do it passively rather than aggressively.

If somebody's in a place of power or fame, we can easily bully somebody much easier than someone else who has to force themself.

If we're present, bullying will become a lot calmer. We can calm ourselves first and then let the other person be calm. In the end, with bullying, there is a certain reason why they are doing what they're doing.

I've been bullied when I was back in Syria. I was about sixteen. I ended up in a fight, me and my friends where we fought with kids of military officers and these kids went and got seventeen soldiers to beat us up with chains.

For a period [of time], that killed me, because I felt oppressed. This is beyond bullying. That incident gave me a drive to move out of Syria and explore a better future somewhere else. If it hadn't been for that incident, I would have still been living there and I wouldn't be who I am today.

Nicole Wipp is a lawyer who specializes in elder law. She is a professional planner on a mission to empower people at all stages of life to take control of two issues: health details and end of life arrangements. She is a speaker who addresses the legal aspects of these topics and she is also the author of the book, “Dear Mom and Dad; Help Me Help You”. Nicole has survived being diagnosed with a rare, debilitating disease, an experience that has changed the way she views life and death.

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Most Influential Person

Joel Walden

Effect on Emotions

I'm prone to anxiety just as I think a lot of people are. Mindfulness has really enabled me to conquer that and to be able to take a step back and allow myself to get out of that mode.

Thoughts on Breathing

I couldn't tell you more about how important breathing is. If you don't understand that, that's just a 101. Breathing is huge. I do yogic breathing to increase the health and capacity of my lungs and I also do it for my mindful state.

Suggested Resources

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

Book: Dear Mom and Dad: Help Me Help You: An Elder Law Attorney's Guide to Smart Strategies & Difficult Conversations About Health and Money by Nicole Wipp

App: Brainwave (A Binaural tool to help calm your brain)

Bullying Story

I experienced bullying as a child, definitely. In fact, when I was in my first year of high school, I literally had to get in fistfights to protect myself from bullies in my school.

You think about girls doing that kind of thing, but it's a real thing. I used to get in literal fistfights because I had to.

I didn't have a choice; either I got beat or I engaged. For me, that was something that made me stronger. They can be a very big source of despair.

I don't recommend letting that be the place that makes you stronger.  In business, I will tell you that in my niche, I definitely have other competitors that would much prefer me to be down in business.

One of the things that I've done to avoid that; I just don't pay attention to my competition.

So many people in business will say, pay attention to what your competition is doing. I actually find that for multiple reasons, that is not good business advice.

I don't pay attention to my competition, I don't pay attention to what they're doing, to what they're saying and I just run my business in a way that works for myself and my team. By doing that we've actually done very well. We've been extremely successful and then I don't worry about those things.

Chris Reynolds is a digital nomad and founder of The Entrepreneur House where Entrepreneurs from the world over get together to collaborate, produce and execute their creative business initiatives. Chris is currently based in a mountain paradise in Thailand and he has also hosted guests in Barcelona, Spain  In the past Chris has lived in such places as Costa Rica, Peru, England, Netherlands, and Switzerland. Chris is originally from Missouri, U.S.A.

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Website: TheEntrepreneurHouse.com

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My Mother

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness helps me manage my emotions and to know that the low times are just temporary and how I'm reacting from those emotions.

Also from the high times, knowing those are temporary.

[Mindfulness also helps] to keep myself in check and not become too arrogant or egotistical.

[It also helps] to realize that it's important to be mindful that life has highs and lows. That can keep you on a good wave length with continually growing and figuring out what's next.

Thoughts on Breathing

I use breathing when I meditate and I think that gets me centered a lot.

I realize when my emotions are out of balance, when I'm getting more stressed or frustrated, or when anger comes up, I use breathing to either let go of that, or find a center grounding.

If I ever have trouble sleeping, I use breathing exercises to drift off to sleep. That really helps me find a center of focus where I can focus on my goals and work toward my dreams and be aware of how I'm treating others at the same time.

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Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown

Book: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruis

Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Book: The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

App: Brain.FM / Calm

Bullying Story

I was bullied as a kid and I bullied as a kid. Growing up, through that experience I definitely was not aware of what I was doing or the effects of what I was doing or how it was really affecting me.

Me being bullied, that part even affects me today. Me doing the bullying doesn't affect me so much.

The one person in particular; I've actually tried to reach out to that person to apologize and make it even. I think becoming aware through personal development made me really realize how hurtful that is to children and how it really impacts them.

I can think of three individuals who bullied me growing up and how I still feel about them today. One of them is now a good friend and has been for fifteen years or so.

The earlier days when I was being bullied by him; I still think about that exact moment, what happened and how hurtful it was. And also, in retaliation and in order to fit in, the bullying on my part was sent off to somebody else.

I think it's very important to teach our kids mindfulness and to become aware of how your behavior is affecting others. That would prevent a lot of that [bullying]. If we have children and parents that are aware of this type of behavior, it would really change the world.

Steve Olsher helps you get crystal clear on your what; the one thing YOU were created to do. Steve is the New York Times, best-selling author of What Is Your What?: Discover The One Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do. He is also the author of the internet technology book of the year called Internet Profits. Not only is Steve a speaker and an author, he's a world class coach, he's a wizard at teaching how the on-line world can create profit. He's the chairman and founder of Liquor.com. Steve's most recent live event in San Diego is called the New Media Summit where he used his genius to line up forty successful podcasters with 150 people who were thirsty to be promoted on-line as podcast guests. This was a world-class event.

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Most Influential Person

My wife.

Effect on Emotions

For a long time I was actually pretty on the level in terms of not a lot of crazy highs and not a lot of crazy lows and that sort of thing.

Over the past 10 or 15 years or so I've really been able to experience tremendous highs and tremendous lows as well.

I think that the depression and darkness that I found myself in back in 2013 when I really felt like it was time to throw in the towel on everything. I think it has to do with expanding the mind into areas where I wasn't able to go prior to that. It's an interesting double-edged sword.

Thoughts on Breathing

I have become much more aware of breath and the importance of breathing. Even over the last few years, I think it's one of those things that is only born out of maturity. There's something to that.

From my experience as a speaker and a coach and just being in business in general, it really boggles my mind how one very deep breath can completely reset everything. That's a fairly new phenomenon with me; to become that aware.

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Book: What Is Your What?: Discover The One Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do by Steve Olsher

App: The Timer on my phone

Bullying Story

I've got lots of bullying stories.  The biggest bully I've ever had in my life would be my older brother. He's six years older than me. We haven't spoken ... let's put it this way; my wife and I have been married for 20 years and she's never met him. Reality is that he is the single biggest bully that I ever had to contend with in my life, physically and emotionally abusive as well.

As we get older we become more clear on the life that we want to create for ourselves and eliminate people, places and things from our life that don't serve us well.

I recently had a business partnership with someone that's fairly well known in the internet marketing space and I remember a couple of times during that partnership where he really lost his stuff, he really lost his mind. He had big, huge kind of screaming tantrums. The first one was on the phone. I'm not saying that he was wrong with what he was upset about but his presentation of how he was expressing what he was upset about really just manifested as a big, huge, screaming hissy fit. I just kind of chalked it up to, maybe it was just a bad day.

Everybody has their off moments. About a month later we were at the Traffic and Conversion Conference and if you know Ryan Deiss's company, they had this big event called Traffic and Conversion and there are thousands of people there.

It is a pretty large event. It's held at a fairly large venue, a hotel in this case. We were in a public area of the hotel, a little bit off to the side. There was an issue with something related to a launch of a new program that we were working on and we were coming up on the deadline for that launch and there were a few things that needed to be done.

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Jacqui Letran is a multiple award-winning author and a vibrant, passionate thought leader, mentor and speaker. She has helped thousands of teens and youth turn their lives around by changing their mindset to one where they truly believe success and happiness are possible, regardless of their current circumstances. Trained as a Nurse Practitioner, Jacqui has made full use of her life experience and training to successfully transform clients. Jacqui just returned from the Great American Book Festival and Literary Classics' Book Award Ceremony to receive a Gold Medal for her book, "5 Simple Questions to Reclaim Your Happiness". The book also won a Silver Medal from the Readers Favorite category.

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Most Influential Person

Robin Duncan (My mentor)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has effected my emotions - everything. Right now, I'm living in North Carolina and by Sunday, big hurricane Irma might hit North Carolina and I can get drawn into that negativity and that fear, or I can stay mindful and present, stay calm and prepare for it and make decisions that are going to be more beneficial for me and not have a knee-jerk reaction out of fear.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is everything. Your breath is your life force.

When you take that moment to connect to your life force, things change. The physiology in your body changes when you're taking that time to slow down and be intentional with your breath.

Suggested Resources

Book: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Dr. Gary Chapman

Book: 5 Simple Questions To Reclaim Your Happiness by Jacqui Letran

App: The Spire Breathing App (www.Spire.io)

Bullying Story

[In my book], I share my stories of being the 'bullier' to other people and I also briefly share how I was bullied in the medical setting. As a teenager I was seeking help, I was scared and rather than having any kind of support or compassion, I was bullied. I was made to feel even worse about myself.

Those are two examples of how I bullied others and how other people bullied me. I want to present something that I don't think a lot of us think about as often as we should.

That is, we are our biggest bulliers. Everything that I experienced back then was because of me. I was the one who said, 'I'm stupid', to me. I was the one who said, 'Don't do it, you're not good enough'. 'You don't fit in'. 'You are inferior'.

I was telling myself all of that and I told myself that so much that I believed it. I would love for people to just pause for a moment and think about how you've been bullying yourself and what you can do to stop that.

Lorraine Crowston is a certified life coach, a speaker and an author and is particularly interested in helping people deal with their food demons. Lorraine has worked as a chef, a computer network instructor, a trainer and a project manager. Lorraine Crowston has bundled all of her life experiences into a package where she helps people achieve physical and emotional health in playful, easy-to-follow steps. Her book, 'The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It', is a great example of Lorraine's unique way of viewing life and helping people.

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Book: The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It by Lorraine Crowston

Most Influential Person

Jenny McKee (One of the women I do a lot of networking with)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has caused me to be a kinder, gentler person. I don't have to be the manager. I don't have to be the hard, make-all-the-decisions person. It's been a lovely journey. I'm really liking being able to sit back and just take it easy.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is so interesting because I've just finished doing an audio book. It's the audio version of my book. I've taken a voice acting coach and I also do Yoga. Breathing is part of all of those things.

When you're recording an audio book, you try not to breathe too loudly because it will pick it up and it has to be cleaned up later. But when you're doing Yoga, it's a totally different thing. You're making sure you totally focus on the breath.

Suggested Resources

Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Book: The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It by Lorraine Crowston

App: FatSecret.com

Bullying Story

I was the smallest kid in the class. I don't term it quite so much as bullying, but I was definitely teased quite a bit. I was very fortunate, because I was the youngest of six, so once I got home I was safe.

I had a whole crew of people around me that kept me safe. It was my safe haven. I think that a lot of the times, I look back and think about these people who had bullied me or teased me at the time and I sometimes wonder what was going on in their household.

If they are feeling powerless at home, this is their was to regain power and so they're going to look for the person that they think is the most vulnerable and bully them. Unfortunately what happens, in my case it didn't work. I had five older siblings that picked on me.

What I think happens is that they look for the most gentle soul who won't fight back. That's really a shame because these poor gentle souls are the ones who take the hit a lot more. They don't have that hard core to fight back and so it is much more damaging to them than what may have happened to me when I was growing up.

My mom stopped protecting me and so I had to fight my own battles, so in a way, internally in my own house, I had to stand up for myself or find the means to navigate through the whole family dynamics. I had the tools for it.

Imagine if I had been an only child where I'm closeted and maybe a gentle soul and I wouldn't have received those tools to sorta say, hold on, I'm not going to be your victim, I'm not going to take the bullying. Back off. Then you get those very bad situations.

Dave Crenshaw is the master of building productive leaders and has transformed hundreds of thousands of business leaders worldwide. He has appeared in TIME magazine, USA Today, FastCompany, and the BBC News. His courses on LinkedIn Learning have received millions of views. He has written three books and counting, including The Myth of Multitasking which was published in six languages and is a time-management bestseller. His fourth book, The Power of Having Fun, releases September 19th, 2017.

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Book on Amazon: The Power of Having Fun: How Meaningful Breaks Help You Get More Done by Dave Crenshaw

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Book: PowerOfHavingFun.com

Blog: Pick Dave's Brain

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Steven Covey (Author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has given me a lot more stability from someone who does not naturally have that kind of stability. The focus of mindfulness creates the stability of emotion.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is not as much of my mindfulness as it should be, but I am aware of it and when I do it, it is helpful. I use counting more than breathing. And the power of the logic of the numbers to steady my thoughts back down.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done by Dave Crenshaw

Book: The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield and Les Hewitt

App: My Calendar People are addicted to apps and they believe that having the next new phone or new app is going to make them productive. In fact, it is not the app, but how you use it; what the underlying principals are.

Bullying Story

I've got two stories and they're both related. I grew up as somebody who, at least I feel, was bullied quite a bit. Part of that is the personality. Part of that is that I grew up in an environment at home where I was subject to a lot of emotional and verbal abuse, constantly, and so I did a lot of things at school which were ways to get attention and ways to get people to like me that were just not normal.

And so it put a target on my back and it was really hard for me to deal with. What I gained from that personally was empathy for others. I really strongly dislike when I see others getting judged or diminished because they are different.

Bring that to just last week. My son is twelve and is just starting Junior High. All of us who have been through that experience know how difficult that can be. He's a really good kid and he's also really sensitive. I said to him, Straton, I want to tell you something that I wish someone had told me going into Junior High.

I said, 'You are going to see kids doing things that are rude, they're going to say things to you that are not nice. What I want you to understand is, they are all just trying to figure it out. They don't know what's right and what's wrong. They don't even know what kind of a person they want to be yet. So when you see that, don't take it personally. It's so easy to think, oh, they're picking on me. But instead, just say, that's somebody just trying to figure it out, and just go, there it is.

Just be nice to them and move on, because my experience is, those same people who acted like that, the majority of them, ten to twenty years from now, they regret the way that they acted, or they completely forget about it and they become people who are well-adjusted, nice, kind adults.  And so, my perspective is, we need not take that personally when those kinds of things happen. That's just part of other people going through the process of learning and growing.

I had it happen to me this week. I had somebody send me a nasty message about my book. The initial reaction is to personalize it and say, I'm going to be offended by this. But what I did was, I flipped it around. I thought, what if I said that to him in the workplace.

Usually I don't respond to this, but for some reason I decided to respond. And so I said to him, 'Imagine if I came into your workplace and I said that to you, over y

Dana Pharant is a Master healer, life strategist, published author and past CEO of a near 7-figure business and former Dominatrix. Dana is a transformational coach who uses dynamic tools for rapid change to your mindset. She uses her kick-ass energy and ability to perceive, pinpoint and pop the problem limiting you, your body or your business while having fun.

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My first energy healer teacher who really taught me to connect with the energy itself.

Effect on Emotions

That [Mindfulness] has been massive for not being caught up in them [my emotions] and allowing myself to expand out so that I can drop off all of that baggage and garbage.

Thoughts on Breathing

The breath is so critical for getting you connected because it allows you to really feel in your body. Oxygen is kind of important.

Suggested Resources

Book: I don't recommend a book for mindfulness. Mindfulness is more of a kinesthetic experience and reading books puts you into your head, so I'd suggest people to find guided meditations or music with binaural beats. Just start that process instead.

App: Macaroni Union Album "Weightless". This is fantastic for taking your brain waves into the theta state. I like to put this on and go for a barefoot walking meditation.

Bullying Story

The bullying story that comes to my mind is; it was grade one or grade two and being out in the school yard and of course one of the things with the Jehovah's Witness religion is the door knocking.

Everybody's familiar with that and so the kids in the school yard would taunt me and say that my father sells vacuum cleaners because we were going door to door.

They did this for weeks and it was so annoying and finally I punched one of them. Mindfulness probably would have been a better plan. I may be a little too fiesty.

Bryan Falchuk has an amazing story; he went from being obese and depressed to losing over 100 pounds and running marathons. He’s faced the trauma of nearly losing his wife to illness while their young son watched. He became vegan in just one day. He got his masters from a top school and rose to a senior executive position in a successful business. He’s transformed his life and developed an approach to help others do the same that he teaches in his best-selling book “Do a Day: How To Live A Better Life Every Day”.

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Website: www.DoADayBook.com

Book: Do a Day: How To Live A Better Life Every Day by Bryan Falchuk

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Most Influential Person

Rich Roll (Author and Ultra Athlete)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness effects all of my emotions right now. It's what keeps me able to handle everything that's thrown at me.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is a very centering exercise. It released and brings you back in. I find when I'm less mindful, a few very deep breaths pull me right back into the moment.

Suggested Resources

Book: Open Heart, Clear Mind: An Introduction To The Buddha's Teachings by Thubten Chodron

Book: Do a Day: How To Live A Better Life Every Day by Bryan Falchuk

App: Headspace

Bullying Story

I mentioned I was the fat kid. So, was I bullied? Yes, very much so by plenty of people.

I think I'm very lucky because there were a lot of people who didn't bully me as well. There were a lot of good friends.

The story I will tell you is not from that period in my life. I wasn't the blatent [obvious person] who was going to get picked on.

In the role of being a successful senior executive, I can tell you, the grass is not green anywhere. We all struggle. Just cause I've had success doesn't mean everything's easy.

I had a situation where someone was essentially trying to take me down. It's someone who's very well respected and used to be a litigator so they know how to attack people and how to make a case. It's a person who's been pretty successful at that.

Whether they are aware of it or not, they were essentially trying to get me fired. It didn't happen, which is good.

The key reason is, it's all in how I responded in the moment. Historically, I would have gotten really riled up.

We were in a meeting where .... I knew it was coming. The attack came full force and they were quoting a lot of facts that were not actually facts.

They were just statements of things that they put out there as facts and then everyone sort of nodded and said, that's interesting, or that's true. None of it was true.

And so the question for me was, how do I respond? Historically I would get defensive and argue back. Guess what? It doesn't tend to work out so well because you're feeding into what's making that bully thrive.

They're thriving off negativity and the confrontation of it. So if you give that right back to them, you're just amping it up. So what I did instead was, I kept very calm.

I've been studying Buddhism and I was in the midst of my early days of studying it. This was a really good and strong early test but it worked.

I kept mindful about one very important fact about everyone in the world. Ultimately, we all seek to be happy. That may not feel that way in that moment and you may think, that person doesn't want to be happy, they just want to hurt me.

That's a very, 'the world is doing this to me', kind of view that doesn't help you. The reality is, that person wants to be happy.

Kallen Diggs is an author and also host of the syndicated show, Reaching The Finish Line. He is passionate about reducing the high levels of unemployment by helping people achieve their goals. Last year, Kallen lived in 3 countries, walked 65 miles on Spain's Camino De Santiago, and completed a Vipassana meditation retreat (12 hours of meditation per day for 10 consecutive days).

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Website: ReachingTheFinishLine.com

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Most Influential Person

David Hawkins

Effect on Emotions

It has increased my ability to project positive emotions

Thoughts on Breathing

The slower you breathe, the easier it is to bring you down to an alpha state or a theta state. If you're breathing faster, you probably will increase your likelihood for that mental chatter to continue to exist.

Suggested Resources

Book: Power vs. Force by David Hawkins

Book: Reaching the Finish Line: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Champion in You by Kallen Diggs

App: Binaural Beats

App: Remente

Bullying Story

When I was younger, Bruce, I was the oddball in school. Kids would talk about, "Did you listen to this new CD" and I was talking about, "Did you watch the last episode of National Geographic".

I was like the total nerd, and yes, I was bullied, and kids would throw things at me because I wasn't cool.

In reality, I think as we get older, we all bully people in some form with our ego. We project our ignorance onto other people. We get this perception that I'm smarter than you, you're not smart, you should listen to me.

Some people do this in obvious ways and other people do it in more subtle ways. The key is, if we can get a better grasp of our ego, we can transend the ego. That's when we'll be able to show more love, compassion, and be more at peace with other people.

I think there are a lot of people who have arisen to a point where they have made peace with their ego and are transending it, but there's a lot of people that haven't. They still struggle with it, and ego still dictates their life, and unfortunately, through their decisions they're subconciously using their ego to project their ignorance onto other people. That makes people feel inferior, jealous, and all kinds of other things.