Some aspects of modern life are just flat-out exhausting. Working a job where you’re underpaid and undervalued. The ongoing climate catastrophe and never-ending systemic oppression. And of course, our digital devices that keep us locked in a loop of competition, comparison and a compulsion to be constantly plugged in.

But other things sneak up on us, slowly but surely draining us of our vitality. Sara Russell offers three tips to stop your mind from leaking your life force, so that you can flow into focus and creativity.

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Hollywood loves to sell us the romance of friends falling in love with each other.  But how do you go from friends to lovers when you don’t have writers and directors telling you what comes next? In today’s episode, I give you a script to follow when your best friend starts giving you butterflies so you have a shot at your own happily ever after.

Sara

:microdose host

Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord

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After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new farmers with a focus on formerly incarcerated men and women as well as those suffering from substance abuse issues.

MUD\FILMS’ new ‘Rituals’ series explores the enduring daily habits of people we admire. 

In ‘The Importance of Ritual: From Prison to Leading a Fulfilling Life,’ the formerly incarcerated urban gardener Chris Burroughs uses routine and nature to expand his world … instead of making it smaller. Chris is up and at ’em before the sun comes up, bringing his body, his mind and his dog into total alignment. 

Watch the film on YouTube.

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Thanks to our jobs, the way we monetize our hobbies, the endless multi-tasking and the constant notifications from our devices, we don’t ever stop working. We don’t rest.  We’re in a culture of chronic stress and it’s affecting our mental health. I’m not here to give you more stretches you can do at your desk to help you work longer. I’m here to teach you how to leave burnout on read. 

Sara

:microdose host

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After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new farmers with a focus on formerly incarcerated men and women as well as those suffering from substance abuse issues.

MUD\FILMS’ new ‘Rituals’ series explores the enduring daily habits of people we admire. 

In ‘The Importance of Ritual: From Prison to Leading a Fulfilling Life,’ the formerly incarcerated urban gardener Chris Burroughs uses routine and nature to expand his world … instead of making it smaller. Chris is up and at ’em before the sun comes up, bringing his body, his mind and his dog into total alignment. 

Watch the film on YouTube.

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Tired of people throwing their emotional garbage in your driveway, leaving you to clean up the mess? If you’re done letting other people trash your energy, listen to today’s episode for a practice that will help you clear out what’s not yours, fill back up with the good stuff and protect you from the racoons of other people’s problems.

Sara

:microdose host

Exercise:

1. Know what’s yours, and what’s theirs. If it’s theirs, clear it out.
2. Fill yourself back up with you—your thoughts, emotions and dreams.
3. Practice re-centering: Turn the static down, get outside in the open air and do whatever you need to create more space in your body.

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Joey Odom is the co-founder of Aro, a company that’s working to address cell phone addiction. In the first half of this podcast, Joey interviews me. Then, we flip it around and I interview Joey (crazy I know), before diving into the dangers of digital addiction. Joey was introduced to me by the great Chris Keener of MUD\FILMS. Thanks Chris, Joey didn't disappoint.

Kyle

:macro host

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Is someone living rent-free inside your head? If your mind feels like a big family dinner where everybody gives their opinion on how you should be living your life, and then you get stuck cleaning up their dishes, it’s time for a quiet mind retreat. In this episode, I’ll show you how to stop extra thoughts weighing you down, so your mind feels less like it’s going home for the holidays … and more like it’s napping by a clear mountain lake.

Sara

:micro host

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Mark Divine (@realmarkdivine) is a Navy SEAL Commander and Zen meditation practitioner. After a successful 20 year career as a Navy SEAL, Mark was hired to create a nationwide coaching and leadership program for the U.S. Navy’s primary operations force. The program aims to give the SEALs the best leadership and mental management tools in the world, and to help them forge unbeatable teams that achieve mission success in the most stressful, challenging environments on earth.

Recently, Divine and his Courage Foundation team set a world record by completing over 22 million burpees to raise awareness, support and funding for our Veteran heroes.

Kyle

:macro host

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Sex and drugs are two of the most powerful tools we can use to alter our consciousness. Separately, they hold the power of transformation and healing. Because of this, they’re hotly-debated, steeped in stigmas and assumptions, and heavily regulated. So if sex and psychedelics can shake up the status quo on their own, what happens when we combine them? How can we do so with intention?

Exercise:

What’s your ideal set and setting? 

If you’re exploring sex and psychedelics with a partner, do you and the other person have compatible intentions? 

Have you explicitly communicated what your intentions are?

Need help? Try the “Wheel of Consent” exercise by Betty Martin:

https://bettymartin.org/videos/

https://brittaloved.com

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