Mindfulness Mode

Voice Acting and Mindfulness. I recently attended an event called

ConBravo where gamers, movie and tv enthusiasts and others gathered

together to learn, share and network. It was referred to as the Annual

Festival of Everything Geek. There I met Mylez who is a voice actor,

devoted to building his voice acting business to a new level. He was

inspired by his friend, who voiced for Sonic The Hedgehog. Mylez went on

to become a voice actor in his own right, having now been in the

profession for seven years.

I asked him the question, ‘as a voice actor, how do you use mindfulness to stay focused?

He

explained that he makes it a practice to focus on the task at hand, and

nothing else at the given time. He does his homework, thinking of what

he needs to do to prepare for playing the role.

He says it is vital

to do the homework and be totally prepared. He says he writes out what

he needs to do to be that character. He writes out how he will endeavour

to get into the character he’s playing.

He referred to the Great Uta Hagen’s Nine Questions:

Who am I?

What time is it?

Where am I?

What surrounds me?

What are the given circumstances?

What are my relationships?

What do I want?

What is in my way?

What do I do to get what I want?

Utah

Hagen has had a powerful influence on Twentieth Century actors. She is

known for her role in Anton Chekov’s The Seagull in 1938. She also

played the original Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? After that

she taught budding actors in New York City at the Berghof studio. She

wrote two well-known books for actors, Respect for Acting and A

Challenge for the Actor. She also taught such famous actors as Jack

Lemmon, Matthew Broderick and Al Pacino.

Mylez continued to say that he delves into all the questions an actor would ask himself before getting into character.

Mylez is also an audio editor. He does production for demo reels for up and coming actors.

Depending

on what they need, he creates a script, has them voice the character

and then mixes it together with music and sound effects to make it sound

like it’s an actual scene from a movie. Actors can then use this sample

reel to promote themselves to agents.

Mylez ended by mentioning

the great Latin quote, lamento mori explaining that it means you should

celebrate life every day until it’s your last day on earth, so that you

can have a great life and never have any regrets.

Quotes:You

should celebrate life every day until it’s your last day on earth, so

that you can have a great life and never have any regrets.Books:

Respect for Acting by Utah Hagen

A Challenge for the Actor by Utah Hagen

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you like to help your children become more mindful? This book contains

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21 Ways To Practice Mindfulness With Your Child Every Day For 7 Minutes by Bruce Langford

Ramona Rice is a Sports kinda girl. At least that’s how she is known

and loved by thousands of her followers. It wasn’t always that way

though. Sports was of minimal interest in her life until she met James.

James was a big guy, and a big time sports fan,  and Ramona’s passion

for James stoked a deep passion in Ramona for all things sports. Ramona

even started her own Sports podcast called, The Sports Gal Pal.

Then

the unimaginable happened. With a young marriage and two high energy

children referred to by Ramona as her Tiny Humans, James suddenly died

of a stroke. This was only six months ago. Ramona’s strength, her

support team, mindfulness abilities combined with her writing and online

content creation skills, have given Ramona the words to share her

journey of grief so you can learn from her experience.Contact InfoCompany: Podcast Websites (Ramona is the Community Manager there) www.PodcastWebsites.com

Podcast: We Should Not Be Friends (www.weshouldnot.com)  Note: Rated R Not Suitable For ChildrenPodcast: SportsGalPal (www.SportsGalPal.com)Twitter: @SportsGalPalMost Influential PersonMy children. The way they handle their grief and their joy; their focus on today, they don't worry about today or yesterday.Effect on EmotionsMindfulness

helps me see what are truly emotions versus what is really happening.

It gives you a clear-cut filter of what you're feeling and what is

happening.Thoughts on BreathingMy

therapist and I work on this. When I go in, he forces me to do

breathing exercises so I calm down. It does help just to take a quick

before you react. Just take 10 seconds. Do some deep Lamaze breathing,

deep yoga breathing, where you breathe into the belly. It's amazing how

much stress that relieves.Suggested ResourcesBook: The Shack by William P. YoungBook: Why Bad Things Happen To Good People by Harold KushnerApp: Brainwave 32  (It plays pulsating waves which keep me focused)Advice for Newbie

Start

small, baby steps. Just pick one activity each day to be mindful for

and a small amount of time. Whether you chose to follow a guided

meditation or you chose to actively pray where you're actually focused

on the prayer. Or you do devotional time, journalling. Even if it's

something as simple as, I'm going to mindfully wash the dishes and not

let my mind race off, but be clear in the present washing the dishes.

Greg Faxon is a coach who works with high-achieving entrepreneurs and

converts them into champions. He believes these individuals are the

multipliers of society. Greg has a background as an athlete, first a

wrestler and then Obstacle Course Racing where mud and trail runs

present

mental and physical challenges. Greg is intent on changing how the

world tackles poverty, so he’s making his own difference through a

non-profit organization called Acumen. Greg’s goal is bold; he says: “By

the end of my life, I want to have helped more people unleash their

full potential than any other person in the world.Contact InfoWebsite: www. GregFaxon.com

Most Influential PersonTara BrachEffect on EmotionsI

think it's helped me with that roller coaster that we mentioned. It's

helped me create less high highs and less low lows, and have them be not

so dependent on outside circumstances. Have me be the agent of how

those emotions play out. For example, in the past, I would get really

excited if I got a new great client and really bummed out if someone

said no, but now there's no attachment, emotionally, to that process.

I'm good ether way emotionally. There's maybe things strategically that I

can change or improve, but I think that's been one of the biggest ways,

helping me have not such big fluctuations in them.Thoughts on BreathingI

really do mindful meditation, so it's all focused on the breathing. I

don't do mantra based stuff so I think it's all through breath. To me,

breathing is huge, breathing is the center of everything.Suggested ResourcesBook: Radical Acceptance by Tara BrachBook: Don't Let the Fear Win by Greg FaxonApp: Insight TimerAdvice for Newbie

I

would say, to do the 60 second thing for a week. Set a really low bar

for yourself. 60 seconds, focus on your breathing, count your breath.

It's like with habit formation, people talk about it, if you want to

form a new flossing habit, just floss your front teeth for a week.

That's so easy, you have to do it.  Then eventually you feel, that's

kind of silly, I need to floss more than that and so you've do it on

your own when you have those quick wins. I would say commit to a week of

60 second breathing.

Children and Mindfulness is our topic today. Clem Harrod and his son

CJ have joined me because Clem is a mindful person and is mindful about

making sure his relationship with his son is the best it can be. Clem

was a previous guest on Mindfulness Mode on Episode 107 Connect With Family Through Mindfulness, Says Orlando Magic Cameraman, Clem Harrod.

Clem

teaches others how to stay connected with their children and other

family members while traveling. Clem travels frequently for his work and

has made it a priority to stay connected with CJ and with his wife.

CJ explains how he and his father communicate when his dad is on the road and he also talks about the conversations they have.Quotes:The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - unknownBooks:

Book Sitting Still Like A Frog: Mindfulness Exercises For Kids (and Their Parents) by Eline Snel

The

Art of Mindfulness for Children: Mindfulness Exercises That Will Raise

Happier, Confident, Compassionate, and Calmer Children by Alisa ReddyThank You Bonus:

Would

you like to help your children become more mindful? This book contains

simple exercises related to the senses. Children love them. Download the

book for free right here:21 Ways To Practice Mindfulness With Your Child Every Day For 7 Minutes by Bruce Langford

Dr. Michele Summers Colon is a holistic podiatrist, practicing in

southern California. She's been quoted in many well-known publications

including USA Today, Bloomberg Business Week and US News. Dr. Michele

has the ability to help women create balanced, healthy lives

by looking at their overall health picture and applying her knowledge

of both Eastern and Western medicine. She's maintained a private medical

practice for over two decades where she uses her knowledge of yoga,

reiki, reflexology and accupressure. Dr. Michele believes that food is

medicine and that yoga, ayurveda and meditation are the keys to perfect

health.Contact InfoWebsite: drmichele.com

Most Influential PersonDeepak ChopraEffect on EmotionsI'm a lot calmer now.Thoughts on BreathingBreathing is the first thing you learn, especially, when you're trying to meditate. It's actually its own form of meditation.Suggested ResourcesBook: Getting in the Gap by Dr. Wayne DyerApp: OmvanaAdvice for Newbie

I

think it's a great tool and something everyone should do. If they have

trouble with it, start with the guided meditations or with breathing.

just inhaling slowly and exhaling slowly three times can calm you down.

Mohamed Omar is a podcaster and teacher of the concept of intention. He shares the philosophy that we are here on earth to spread harmony in creative ways.  We are everybody and everything and every being and we are designed to be driven with passion to serve specific purposes that are in harmony with all life. Through his Simple 7 Steps of Intention, Mohamed will help you live consciously knowing who you are and what your life purpose is.Contact InfoWebsite: www.IntentionalBeings.comMost Influential PersonYogi RamacharakaEffect on EmotionsCalms it down and makes it more on the positive side and expands it. Anything that is beyond compulsive thinking will get you eventually into the creative thinking and insights and more expansion. More finding out of who I am.Thoughts on BreathingThere is a yoga technique which has been taught for thousands of years. Everybody reported the same, that when you do breathing exercises you basically become in a state that is superior than your mind. In other words you're able to calm the mind and control the mind in that state. It is called in yoga, pranayama. When I do breathing exercises before meditation, it becomes really good, even better than usual.Suggested ResourcesBook: Yogi Philosophy by Yogi RamacharakaBook: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart TolleApp: TwelveStepJournaling.com

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Mindfulness, [being in a] meditative state ... this does work in your decision making process, in your daily process. You are a lot more than you think you are when you calm your mind and live in a state of mindfulness.Bonus

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Taste and Mindfulness is our topic today. Hot weather and ice-cream

go hand in hand. Thinking about ice-cream takes me back to my childhood,

growing up on the farm when we got an ice-cream freezer. This ice-cream

making machine was great

because we already had fresh milk, fresh cream and fresh eggs. My mom

would make up the recipe and my dad would get ice to put in the machine

with some salt, which would lower the temperature of the ice.

My

four brothers and I would be watching and waiting impatiently, crowded

around the kitchen table watching this machine magically make homemade

ice-cream. We could barely wait until it was time to stop the machine and

look inside. Would it be ready? Or would we have to put the lid back on

and let it churn a little longer? By the time the ice-cream was ready

it felt like Christmas morning. We were all ready with bowls and spoons

each one of us wanted to be the first to 'dig in'.

Suddenly -

BRAIN FREEZE!!! You had to be really careful or you would experience

the powerful, painful sensation of brain freeze. The delicious flavour

combined with the exciting ice-cream making experience, then coupled

with brain freeze seemed to etch this experience into my mind forever.

This

was a mindful experience. Once that ice-cream hit my taste buds, I

didn't think about anything else. Except for the brain freeze of course.

Flavours can be a great way to experience mindfulness because we can

slow down, think about the flavour experienced when the food first

touches the tongue. Think about the sweetness, the creaminess and the

richness. By focusing on all these sensations, you are being mindful.

You are thinking of nothing else at that particular time.

Taste

is a powerful sensation and is linked to smell. Many times we enjoy the

smell of the food before we experience the taste. Take your time.

Savour the smells, savour the flavour. Savour the moment you first

experience the flavour.

This form of

mindfulness will open you up to a deeper understanding of what

mindfulness really is. You will then translate the mindfulness you

experience with taste, over to the mindfulness you experience with the

other senses.

That is the reason I

separated mindfulness experiences for children into the categories of

see, hear, smell, taste and touch in the book mentioned below. The book

includes specific mindfulness activities you can do with your children.

After doing the included exercises, you'll think of your own to do.

Making

the decision to be truly mindful and focusing on taste when you eat is

the first step to mindful eating. If you're anything like me, you'll

begin to eat less and enjoy food more.

Quotes:Mindfulness of the body is the awareness of the taste and smell of this moment. - Steve HagenTaste, smell and enjoy the present moment. - Bruce Langford

Books:

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink

Thank You Bonus:

Would

you like to help your children become more mindful? Most children are

naturally mindful already but they need to hear from adults that it's OK

to live in the moment.  You will experience laughs, serious moments and

enjoy new-found connections as you interact with your child using the

innovative, yet simple techniques found in this book.

Download it for free right here:

21 Ways To Practice Mindfulness With Your Child Every Day For 7 Minutes by Bruce Langford

Taste and Mindfulness is our topic today. Hot weather and ice-cream

go hand in hand. Thinking about ice-cream takes me back to my childhood,

growing up on the farm when we got an ice-cream freezer. This ice-cream

making machine was great

because we already had fresh milk, fresh cream and fresh eggs. My mom

would make up the recipe and my dad would get ice to put in the machine

with some salt, which would lower the temperature of the ice.

My

four brothers and I would be watching and waiting impatiently, crowded

around the kitchen table watching this machine magically make homemade

ice-cream. We could barely wait until it was time to stop the machine and

look inside. Would it be ready? Or would we have to put the lid back on

and let it churn a little longer? By the time the ice-cream was ready

it felt like Christmas morning. We were all ready with bowls and spoons

each one of us wanted to be the first to 'dig in'.

Suddenly -

BRAIN FREEZE!!! You had to be really careful or you would experience

the powerful, painful sensation of brain freeze. The delicious flavour

combined with the exciting ice-cream making experience, then coupled

with brain freeze seemed to etch this experience into my mind forever.

This

was a mindful experience. Once that ice-cream hit my taste buds, I

didn't think about anything else. Except for the brain freeze of course.

Flavours can be a great way to experience mindfulness because we can

slow down, think about the flavour experienced when the food first

touches the tongue. Think about the sweetness, the creaminess and the

richness. By focusing on all these sensations, you are being mindful.

You are thinking of nothing else at that particular time.

Taste

is a powerful sensation and is linked to smell. Many times we enjoy the

smell of the food before we experience the taste. Take your time.

Savour the smells, savour the flavour. Savour the moment you first

experience the flavour.

This form of

mindfulness will open you up to a deeper understanding of what

mindfulness really is. You will then translate the mindfulness you

experience with taste, over to the mindfulness you experience with the

other senses.

That is the reason I

separated mindfulness experiences for children into the categories of

see, hear, smell, taste and touch in the book mentioned below. The book

includes specific mindfulness activities you can do with your children.

After doing the included exercises, you'll think of your own to do.

Making

the decision to be truly mindful and focusing on taste when you eat is

the first step to mindful eating. If you're anything like me, you'll

begin to eat less and enjoy food more.

Quotes:Mindfulness of the body is the awareness of the taste and smell of this moment. - Steve HagenTaste, smell and enjoy the present moment. - Bruce Langford

Books:

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink

Thank You Bonus:

Would

you like to help your children become more mindful? Most children are

naturally mindful already but they need to hear from adults that it's OK

to live in the moment.  You will experience laughs, serious moments and

enjoy new-found connections as you interact with your child using the

innovative, yet simple techniques found in this book.

Download it for free right here:

21 Ways To Practice Mindfulness With Your Child Every Day For 7 Minutes by Bruce Langford

Susan Squire is a Joyologist. She constantly brings joy into her own

life and the lives of others regardless of their circumstances. She

shares simple tools which makes choosing joy more meaningful, feasible

and fun. Susan is also a certified nutritional

therapist and yoga teacher. She is on a journey

----more----of whole foods and

plant based eating, and has overcome autoimmune and mental and emotional

challenges by changing her relationship with food. Now that she has

moved into a healthy place with her own body, Susan is delighted to

spend her time helping others in her role as a Joyologist.Contact InfoWebsite: www.susangsquire.com

Facebook: Simply Joyful LivingMost Influential PersonMarianne WilliamsonEffect on EmotionsBeing

able to be mindful of who I am and where I am and why I am and how I

am. Just being able to connect to that and be present in that moment has

allowed my emotions to not be all crazy, wild and all over the place

but just to be centered in that joyful experience of every single

moment.Thoughts on BreathingBreathing

is so powerful. We talk about core and a lot of times people think,"Oh

I've gotta build that 6 pack abs," but to me, core breathing is what

gets the flow from head to toe and it's right centered there in our

heart, in our true core. Breathing is actually the letter B in my book

and as we breathe through things we can live through things and so

breathing is essential, it's core.[show-notes-breathing]Suggested ResourcesBook: A Return to Love by Marianne WilliamsonBook: The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. LarsonAdvice for Newbie

I

would say, first and foremost, believe you are valuable. Believe that

you are joy, that you are there for a purpose and you can find that

purpose. All you have to do is take a moment to connect and believe in

who you are. Stop frantically frenziedly searching out there, because

joy isn't lost, it's in you. You can find that through a mindful

connection of believing how awesome and powerful you are and what a

great purpose you have for being here on this earth.Free Bonus

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Jennifer Gilchrist is a Speaker, Soul Success Mentor and for 17 years

has been an entrepreneur; 6 years of that time working as a Spiritual

Mentor. Jen has gone from being a Struggling Single Mom to a 6-figure

Business Owner — making money doing what she loves and empowering others

to do the same. Jen is the creator of the Blissful Bride Program and

Enlightened Entrepreneur Program. She supports coaches, authors,

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world. Jen is deeply inspired and passionate about empowering others to

be leaders in their life and business.Contact InfoWebsite: www.EmpoweredWomansLeadership.com

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feel so much more energy, [am] so much more happy, I've released so

much worry and stress that my whole life has just shifted one hundred

and eighty degrees.Thoughts on BreathingIt's the quickest way to bring yourself back into the present moment and out of a worry cycle or a negative pattern of thinking.Suggested ResourcesBook: The Power of Now by Eckhart TolleBook: The Power of Intention by Wayne DyerApp: Stop, Breathe, ThinkAdvice for Newbie

Just

keep at it, it's like a muscle that you build. I hear people say, "I

could never do that, my mind's going a mile a minute." Trust me, mine

was. But you can, so just even one or two minutes a day. Outdoors is a

really easy way because nature is always very present. So if you just

put your feet on the grass, set a timer for even a few minutes and allow

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