Project Mindfully Outdoors

Project Mindfully Outdoors

By Micheal MartinSociety & CultureSportsHealth & FitnessMental HealthPhilosophyWilderness
Download on the App Store

Project Mindfully Outdoors episodes

  • 189. A full circle
    The four points on a compass there are of course four directions. These directions of course indicate which direction we are walking. Which makes the compass such a brilliant aid along our journey. Since our goal is to find our true north and walk that trail to unlock all of life’s true treasures fate has laid out for us.
    We say to ourselves that once we have all of those things and we get our life’s journey straight or start traveling our true north, we will never stray from it. Still even along that true path we will always find side trails. For a while we can fight the urge to explore what’s down those game trails. That is until we encounter one with what looks like such an enticing Valley we give in.
    We do this even knowing these trails put us at risk of getting turned around. Yet it’s that little voice warning us in the back of mind that we ignore. The temptation pulls us in. Saying to ourselves it’s just a meters. I’ll never get lost because I know what the North Star looks like now, I can find my way back, and off we go navigating that path of risk coated in these old behaviors. Why is that? Why do we this time and time again?
    If you picture the other direction marks to represent the process we need to unlock. I believe the secret to putting them truly to rest comes from taking the longer way around.
    It starts before you ever take even that first or second step along the norther trail. Durning the planning stages of the hike. Because you can not firmly hold north without knowing the other direction points.
    Alining your direction is something you do many times over throughout your life. This orientation is one that places the stick into the ground. This is the collecting of information via of feeling.
    Start by turning your body to the western front. This is where roots of all those things we wish to shed lays. Your western front is a difficult one to feel into since it holds all the pain. There for you must know dig into the comment you took when you picked up the walking stick. Reach into backpack as you depart to pull out grace. Since it is here your going to be acknowledging all of traumas. Befriend yourself here, reassure yourself it’s ok.
    Next your circle brings you into the south, this is where you shake hands with grief and death. There’s no need to fear those faces however. Since here in the land of the south is where the release begins.
    The first hand you shook with that of death. Who’s hand remained extended waiting a gift, in return you be given a gift. The token he is awaiting is a collection of all those experiences you have lived, that left their wounds upon your soul. You see it’s the nature of death to bare and carry all that burden the soul. Once you have paid toll comes the boat ride across the lake. Once you come face to face with grief. It’s within those eyes where you find the flashlight that will lead you back to the circle. With it comes the bucket of release.
    With the palm of death left so full there’s nothing left in your to hide from. Which leads to a fork in the trail. Shall you fill that bucket or not? Of course fate is hoping you will. As that bucket is filled cup you hold is the refilled, with the power to celebrate and remember all will help you along.
    As this rejuvenates you, there’s the sound of a drum. In the blink of an eye your soul is turned east. The drums and the singing are the sounds of a celebration. Thought you gave so much to the hands of death, you even more. It’s freedom you feel. A freedom of joy. All of those wounds may have left scars, scars you may allows have to carry. It’s the joy that fills you with desire to honor and celebrate every step of the path, whether you remember it or not. Because it was each thing fate touched you with that make you who you are today.
    Take your time through every step of the circle because the longer you linger, the strong your stride as you complete the body of the shape. Thus setting out north.
     
    Links
    16 min
  • 188. Tricia Becker on creation
    Trisha Becker is a teacher who empowers her students with the art of Alchemy to create the world they envision. By overcoming fear and learning to live intentionally.  
     
    Links
    Tricia Becker
    Fresh Cap (promo code PROJECTMINDFULLYOUTDOORS10)
    True Wild
    Project Mindfully Outdoors
    1 hr 7 min
  • 187. The wisdom is in the story
    Our world was made based upon stories. Information that was passed down from generation to generation for the purpose of teaching. In this modern area those lessons can be accessed in so many different forms. We consume a vast amount of information everyday. That we must be mindful of where we gather all information from and what we allow to stick with us. 
     What’s more is that we almost be aware of the other form of storytelling we subjected to. The ones that we tell ourselves. The internal dialogue is one of the most power influences upon our story. It is also a one of the most fragile aspects of the human experience. Because it can be molded and shaped by not only stories we are told but the world around us. 
     This is why we must change the shape of the stories we feed our mind. Instead of soaking up all the fruitless information that is floating around today's world. Allow the Curiosity of the past and ancient wisdom locked within the sands of time to enrich the stories you tell yourself.
    Links
    Fresh Cap use promo code projectmindfullyoutdoors10 to save 10% on your order
    To learn more visit
    10 min
  • 186. The gate way
    We recently revealed a new graphic that defines the mission of Project Mindfully Outdoors. Maybe you have already seen around, maybe not, ether way it’s quickly become the symbol for which our camp is built upon. It’s the four verticals that we warp the fabric of our teepee around.
    It’s these four ideas that not only the project, but also my reality that I’ve built from the grown up. The serve as the way I’m able to find my North Star even on the darkest and stormiest night.
    They came to be has a way to celebrate the space that I love so much, the outdoors have become my foundation. Things such as conversation and stewardship which has we have talked about many times are so important in the hunting and fishing space.
    They too play a key role in this journey of healing. Because they consist of protecting and rebuilding. Through out the course of time thing came to breaking point. Where man was killing off the animals of the land while also destroying the habits in which they lived. It all came to head when we realized what was happening around us and we made the conscious decision to shift our practices. This was man’s first step forward into the space of education.
    By bringing the theory of cause and effect into the wilderness that shift thought us to value protecting the resources of the land. We developed boundaries and best practices. This is where we can adapt the idea of stewardship into our daily life’s.
    By understanding that all the stuff we experienced through out our time on earth, has shaped the way we interact with world around. While it’s us that decide how we react to any given stimuli. It’s the act of awareness and educating ourselves of our maladaptive tendencies the inter Stewart can lace their boots up. He or she can be called into action to place a fence or boundary around that situation. There for protecting us from acting in way that could put the larger picture at risk.
    Which leads us to the ideas of conservation. It’s in both the spaces where we slip and act upon those ill reaction that the Stewart then picks up the shovel of repair. To act in a way that will show you the error of your way and allow you the grace in which to repair your surroundings and adjust them in way that could prevent any further damage being done.
    I recently posed the question to you on our social media feeds, which of these two verticals means the most to you and why? While I’d love to hear your response and even walk through it with you in order to help you to fill understand it. More importantly I invite you to take those two pillars and make them a part of the mission state of your journey.
    While we will explore and build those other tent poles on future episodes I feel these two are the gateway to walking the path to its fullest.
     
    Links 
    52 Hike Challenge
    Project Mindfully Outdoors
    19 min
  • 185. Relinquish
    Never complete a negative thought. At times it’s only natural to begin them, but you must never finish them. Our minds work in such a way, where it’s the goal of the mind to turn our thoughts into reality.
    You must be mindful in any moment of your thoughts and ideas, because these are food for mind. Just how we nourish our bodies with the food we eat. The same is truly with of our thoughts. With nether we would cease to be. Since one or the other would have nothing to convert to energy.
    Just how the saying “you are what you eat” was a phase to guide you to eat healthy. The same is true of your thoughts, the thoughts you think make up who you are.
    To grow these changes within ourselves we must first give consideration to the thought we allow our mind to eat. This means we build a practice of examining and testing our thoughts. Write them down, speck them out loud, listen to how they sound coming, look at how they appear on the page, all of this will serve us to hone the dialogue we use both inside and out.
    Thoughts are like seeds. They settle in and grow, building shoots and touching the course of our lives. There for we must be diligent in converting the soil that is our mind.
    Wether you were conscious of it or not, those negative thought have been laying your path. Holding you down and building those wall you feel you believed you could not climb.
    To gain that shift in the way you’ve been talking to yourself takes relinquishing your old ways of speech. It takes more than just letting go. Because to only let go is to still just hold on. Believing that you can revisit those maladaptive old habits. No different then to give a dear friend a physical object, thinking you still see and touch it when you visit their house. Up until that day while strolling past the window of a shop, only to see that once priced object for sale in the window.
    It’s the moment that when, instead of rushing inside to throw your money down on the counter to reclaim that object. Instead you continue your walk while holding a light smile, that you have relinquished that once priced item. It’s finding the special blessing within that original act that warms your soul. The relinquishment of this old thinking pattern not only warms your heart in the same way, but it makes those obstacles shine down to something you can climb.
     
    Links
    52 Hike challenge
    To learn more visit our website
    Begin your healing journey with Mike Martin
    10 min
  • 184. A spiritual journey and a way to save the world with Daniel Moody
    Today we take a musical  vogue with the wise and talented Daniel Moody. Along this expedition we walk through the roots of anger and how it applies to the world around us. We also talk about the most amazing path we can walk which is parenthood. Daniel shares his insights, understanding, and what it has taught him. 
    Daniel is a mens coach and songwriter. 
     
    Links 
    Daniel Moody
    52 Hike Challenge      
    True Wild
    To learn more visit our website
    Start your healing journey with Mike Martin
    1 hr 15 min
  • 183. Sands of time
    While digging through the writing catalog I came across the notes from one of my favorite talks I've given. After reading it again I felt inspired to put together this special Sunday episode for you.  
     
    There’s is one cold hard truth that each and everyone of us face, the face that we can not out run death. Seneca often reminds of this. It’s like we are conceived with a terminal disease right, it’s not cancer or some other scary illness that our body’s develop. Those just the conditions that doctors use to describe the final chapters of our story, or what is going to take us out of the game of life. That’s not to say that if you are or ever have to face them you should just laid down and give up. Because you shouldn’t, instead you have to embrace those journeys too. After all it’s how the story goes and our objective is to write the best story we can.
    What I’m talking about are the sands of time. We each hold within us an hour glass, we never know just how much sand remains within it. What we do know is that we can’t stop it from running empty, but we also want to make the most of each grain of sand we have.
    You think isn’t something that meant to scare you, even cause you to look at the clock. Nor is it meant to push you to start cramming more into your day. Because, probably 90% of that of extra stuff you would be cramming in there wouldn’t mean much of anything. Just the bulk of the stuff we chose to fill our day already.
    It’s intend to serve both as reminder and a marker in which you can zero in on what’s important in life and keep you centered in on them. You know some of the greatest changes I’ve made to myself that have lead to the most for filling achievements, and the things I’ve done that most proud of and grateful for. They all happened based upon a question Marcus Aurelius posed to himself,” you fear death because you would no longer be able to do this….”
    The really cool part about that question is just how universal it is. You can ask yourself yourself that very question about anything your doing. Not only dose it really put your action in context and help you to decide if what your doing is important to you or not, but will lead you understanding where your values lay. Which most of the time is where the root our troubles are. We are not conducting our transactions of life within the bank of value system. We lose though with our North Star.
    For years I spent day in and day in the throes of depression. I allowed that dark hole to shroud my value system. The first step in removing that mask was that one simple question. I fear dying right in this very moment because why, I would be able to mope in depression, nor could I act in a way that served it.
    Then when I posed that same question myself when I was engaging in time with kids. The answer was yes, no I’m not ready to trade in this at this very moment because I wouldn’t be able to this. It put my North Star back on the map and gave me a point in which to sail towards. It really truly helped me to understand where I needed to move towards, where to place boundaries, and what I needed to shed.
    Look my point is this, life goes by to fast for us to make the most of each moment. We gotta land the plane and get out of auto pilot. In order to find yourself and put yourself out from whatever your hiding under, to just out right lose that feeling of being stuck you gotta take control. You have to find something to put the gears of life into drive. The ignition switch is just as simple as a simple question. One that really puts the stakes on the table.
     
    Links
    True Wild
    To learn more visit our website
    To begin your outdoor healing journey with Mike
    17 min
  • 182. Self investment with Bri Tartaglione
    Episode 182 is probably one of the best examples of one of the most important things we all could be doing more for ourselves. When I’m joined by Bri Tartaglione to explore the story of one of the most moving stories that I’ve had the privilege of walking through.
     
    As the world was meeting the early stages of the pandemic Bri found herself in the hospital like many did. However she found herself meeting a different sort illness. In fact the condition Bri was up against would take away her ability to walk.
     
    Between the time she first started feeling the physical effects the forces of nature where all ready hard at work. Because life was building on of the most difficult obstacles imaginable. The obstacle left Bri at a fork in the road. She could ether just accept her current state, and never walk again. Or she could endure the many challenges placed before her. By committing to a path that would hold many ups and downs along the way. Bri had decided to invest in herself. That investment led her to rebuild herself ground up. Ultimately for her 29th birthday however, she gave herself a birthday gift that she would treasure for the rest of her days. When she took her first steps.
     
    Those steps would prove to be much more than just her physically moving her body for forward. Because they became the spring for Bri to walk into a world from a space that she could do the work of support and service. By applying her real life journey and the wisdom bestowed upon her, she is now helping others to invest in.
    You know, it’s a lesson has old as time it’s self tragedy serves to center and bring us back into the moment. Wether life pulls our number leaving us to regroup when it takes something away, or it’s someone we know. It might even come along in the form it as here, meeting someone who has walked through those woods. To remind us just how fragile everything in this world truly are.
    You can have something, no matter what it is, only to be taken away at the drop of a hat. Yes it takes a toll on you emotionally, but what other option do you have put to carry on. So you have to ask yourself what dose carrying look like in the face of lost? How you chose to carry on and let it effect you is a decision we are always faced with. Why it’s hard to always remind yourself the glory lays within the investment to walk again with your head up. It’s story’s like this one that was so kind enough to not only share but build upon with by adding what she learned in the end that we can hold close to our hearts and celebrate when it’s time to step up to the tellers window.
    I’d like to thank Bri for placing the coin of power in each of our hands that have gathered around the campfire. While we placed the talking stick in her hands in order to forge the token that sitting on our pocket. It is now our job to honor and celebrate the journey by investing that coin into ourselves.
    In closing episode 182 with Bri Tartaglione is the sort of interview of time that you have been waiting for. Together we unlocked so many brilliant ideas to think and reflect about. I feel you owe it yourself to give it a listen and take from it the token Bri has to offer you. Use it now or store it away for the rainy day it’s now here for you to take with along your journey.
     
    Links
    Bri Tartagluine
    Freash Cap use promo code PROJECTMINDFULLYOUTDOORS10 to save 10%
    True Wild
    To learn more visit our website
    To begin your outdoor healing journey today
    1 hr 5 min

About Project Mindfully Outdoors

From the publisher's feed

The Project Mindfully Outdoors podcast, hosted by Mike Martin, delves into the transformative power of wilderness meditation. By blending outdoor adventures with philosophical insights, Mike examines how nature immersion can catalyze profound personal growth and healing. Listeners will learn practical techniques for integrating mindfulness into their daily routines, enriching both their physical and spiritual journeys.