The terms being “fit” and being “healthy” are often interchangeably used in the same category describing an ideal state we should work towards if we value a strong quality of life.

However, the terms “fit” and “healthy” are actually two different states of being by definition.

Both are important to live an optimal life where people either embrace, ignore or define to various extents and measurements.

Personally I see many people achieving great measurable levels of fitness and then assume they are healthy as a byproduct. But this is very often not the case.

An example of this is where an athletes drive can push those who aren't familiar with principles of physiology to unintentionally create anxiety patterns and chronic health issues that worsen with training.

So in this episode I’m going to teach you:

1. The truth of fitness/performance training vs a focus on health.
2. How that shows up in your life and the true costs of performance training
3. A powerful quick 12 point wellbeing health checklist to help you identify where you need to make specific changes.

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So many of us walk around with low self confidence, constantly afraid of stepping into our power. And this is especially true for people with a newly awakened spiritual awareness.

The reason there is such low self-confidence and personal power is because our western culture expects us to be anyone else except for our true authentic self. We walk around fragmented with different masks on depending on the situation we find ourselves in to be accepted as a perceived “normal” no-one inherently is.

Imposter syndrome, the self doubt, fraudulence are how that shows up.

This idea is so broadly accepted until we begin to know who we actually are.

But here’s a wake up call for you… it’s impossible to materialise your confidence and personal power whilst perceiving through the same lens, without opening up to new perspectives and wisdom.

The spiritual path can be a lonely one, yet there is a wisdom available to each of us if we choose to use it. In particular, the wisdom of indigenous cultures contains a richness that can help us balance our modern life.

So in this episode I’m going to teach you:

1. Where confidence and personal power actually comes from
2. Why we need to incorporate indigenous wisdom to add balance to our modern lives
3. I’m going to teach you 4 powerful perspectives that will allow you to perceive your life in new ways and help you build self confidence and personal power quickly.

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Welcome to this energy centre guided practice.  This is a 20 minute guided practice ideal for beginners or anyone new to this type of meditation. 

This is a discovery into your 7 in-body energy centers. It’s designed to help you increase your awareness of those 7 energy centers, their energy signature, and to learn how to scan them and quickly bring them into a greater state of balance and coherence with each other.

To learn more about the energy centres within your body check out this video.

Energy Centres Explained

This guided practice is inspired by one of our great teachers Dr. Joe Dispenza, as well as Yoga philosophy and traditions.

By becoming familiar with what each energy center feels like and learning to balance and harmonise each one, you create a greater state of internal alignment and congruence as well as brain coherence. In this way, and through regular practice, you can unstuck from old patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour that no longer serve you.

Practicing this meditation daily, or as often as you like, will help you to attain physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual balance and integration and quickly address any imbalance resulting from past energies processing through your energy system.

This meditation can help you create greater health, unlimited abundance, more harmonious and loving relationships, greater joy and happiness, success in your career, meaningful mystical experiences, and anything else that you want to experience in your life, including living in a state of gratitude, unconditional love, and awe.

Guided by: Richard Husseiny

Music:

1. Warm Hope (EarthPilgrim Mix) - Adam Shaikh

2. Away - Meydän

3. Elk - Meydän

4. Billions and Billions - Stellardrone

5. Winter Journal - Blear Moon

6. An Ocean of Galaxies - Stellardrone

7. Om Shanti Shanti (feat Maasa) - Adam Shaikh

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Meditation is one of the most powerful daily practices you can do for yourself.

But meditation is a vast and very misunderstood practice in our modern western culture. For one there are just so many ways to do it which creates overwhelm for many.

I have so many people asking me how do they know if they are doing it right and that they aren’t sure of the exact benefits that they are going to receive.

Once I teach people the basic skill of keeping their attention on their inhale and exhale of each breath, I then begin to teach them about their energy centres of their body.

The reason I do this is because if your energy centres are blocked it can lead to significant conditions within yourself:

1. Feeling anxious
2. Fatigued
3. And even lead physical disease within your body.

That’s right -  our energy body and health profoundly influence the quality of our life. From our health and wellbeing through to our spiritual connection.

Guided Energy Centre Practice HERE

The human energy system operates via electrical, biochemical, electromagnetic, acoustic and subtle energy “fields” (magnetic fields, for example, influence the behaviour of physical particles without actually touching them). 

These fields extend out into the region around the body, nested together like a Russian doll. The heart’s field, which can currently be measured several feet away from the body by sensitive magnetometers, is just one part of a dynamic system in which energy flow affects the way you feel, think, move and behave.

Think of each energy centre in your body as an individual center of information. Each has its own specific energy (vibration) that carries a corresponding level of awareness, its own emission of light expressing very specific information.

Energy doesn’t actually get “blocked” in the body, it gets redirected and stored in various body tissues.  When we aren’t able to stay in-flow with the changing world within and around us and we go into fight-or-flight, our muscles, ligaments, bones, nerve tissue, fascia and even organs can store energy. Tension is really just bound up energy that isn’t able to move freely through our bodies because we’re gripped in a fight-or-flight or reaction–and that’s what we can feel as a “block”.

To release the energy that has been bound up in our bodies and return to a state of Energetic Flow, we first have to shift out of the fight-or-flight state.  As we do so, and our parasympathetic nervous system finally kicks in, our bodies begin to relax, let go and finally release that stored energy–which might express in the form of movement, sound, heat, vibration or wavelike motions.

Through energy centre meditation and other breath exercises, you’ll learn how to direct your focus to different areas of the body, different energy centers, and even new sources of light and information.

My mission is to make you aware that extraordinary performance is really just a very ordinary set of lessons you can use to live your fullest life. I know this because I worked as an Olympic coach for 16 years. Each and every one of us is uniquely extraordinary already.

The hardest part is remaining consistent and being comfortable with the discomfort of learning and changing. Being ordinary ruthlessly well is the extraordinary part.

Since moving away from Olympic sport, the areas of work I get asked to be part of fascinate me. I was recently interviewed by Sean and Matt at The Two Sales Guys, and I really enjoyed the great conversations we had.

The Two Sales Guys: https://www.thetwosalesguys.com/

We dive deep into topics such as personal mastery, flow, peak states, embodiment, end of life, stress, resiliency and what performance really means to me now - HINT it's not about medals!

Their mission on The Two Sales Guys is to talk about how to cope with the pressures of being in sales and what a winning sales mindset really looks like. They explore how stress can drive bad selling behaviours and discuss ways to manage your wellbeing first.

What’s commonly talked about are the tactics and methodologies for sales professionals - what is less commonly talked about is the stress and anxiety that comes with being a seller.

Each day, sales reps are asked to take rejection after rejection, operate in a world of uncertainty and high-pressure, and either fail to hit their number, or get a higher quota the next year.

On Two Sales Guys, they talk about how to cope with these pressures and what a winning sales mindset really looks like.  They talk to professionals in the industry who share the same experiences, and what organisations can do to create a healthy, winning sales culture.

It was a real pleasure to be interviewed by Matt and Sean - I hope you enjoy our discussions.


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Time stamps:

03:57 - What we do with our clients

04:51 - Definition of performance

05:40 - Experience of end of life 

06:30 - What is flow? 

09:10 - What does living at your fullest expression mean? 

11:10 - How do you know you’re in flow? 

12:05 - Conscious vs unconscious practices 

14:15 - What is fear?

16:30 - What is the role of breath? 

17:30 - How do we make decisions? 

19:14 - How to breathe 

20:00 - Developing awareness to interrupt stress 

23:25 - Breath technique (Proper sigh) 

25:50 - Emotions and the body 

34:05 - Interesting stories where athletes have had to deal with adversity 

35:20 - Why we are all special 

39:35 - Linking Olympics to sales 

43:28 - How to deal with failure

48:10 - What is the biggest shift organisations can make from sport? 

50:30 - The biggest difference between sport and corporate business 

58:36 - My top 3 book recommendations

This is a gently active 20 minute body scan meditation for full body relaxation, using subtle muscle movement and breathing to release stored tension in the body; helping your whole body to deeply relax, allowing your mind to enter a state of pure, restful stillness.

Guided by: Richard Husseiny
Music: @AdhamShaikh
Album: Resonance - soundcloud.com/adhamshaikhofficial/sets/resonance-5

When: We do a practice like this daily as the very first thing we do after waking up. And right before we sleep at night (lights off).

Body scanning involves paying attention to parts of the body and bodily sensations in a gradual sequence. By mentally scanning yourself, you build awareness that leads to an experience of Embodied Self.

With somatic awareness, we can be conscious of our breath, our body is available as an instrument of resonance with another, our movements will be integrated and coherent, and our touch can be an open, sensitive channel of communication.

We are taught from a young age to only pay attention to our external world. Yet this interaction with the outside world begins to limit our inherent capacity for awareness. The wounds that happen to our vulnerable, open systems happen to our bodies. The wounds eventually scar over with layers of protection, and these are also in our bodies.

Our protective parts find ingenious ways to try to keep somatic states out of our awareness. Cut off from our sensate experience, we are cut off from our deepest knowing, from our sensual pleasures, from our relationships with others, and with the natural world.

At our core, we long to regain intimacy with our bodily experience and to explore the intricacies of communication of our tissue, viscera, bone, and fluids.

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We've received some great feedback recently. One of the main themes that this community wants more of is for us to provide more examples with regards to self care practices.

So this week begins our Daily Self Care Checklist Series. Over the coming weeks we will be teaching you exactly what we do for our daily self care. Every video will include guidance and recommendations for how and when to practice.

Ultimately you will be able to use these practices as a mix and match to fit in with what works for you.

Todays practice is mobility: Start Your Practice (and please subscribe to our YouTube channel)

We'd love your feedback - what's working for you and what would you like to see more if?

Send an email to: [email protected]

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Welcome to this 15 Minute Morning Restorative Yoga Movement for Beginners. Ideally done after your meditation and breath work and before breakfast!

Do you have a job, a car, and a couch? Congratulations! Your hips are probably as tight as Mick Jagger’s pants.

You’re in good company because it’s the same for pretty much everyone these days. Poor hip mobility can contribute to issues like lower back pain, knee problems… and it gets in the way of squats and other stuff you want to do!

Your hips are the center of movement for your body, so the healthier and less restricted your hips become, the more potential your body has for strength, power, and athleticism.

That’s why we made this mobility sequence. It’ll help loosen your hips, which means less pain and better performance in virtually everything you do.

At some point in your life, you are going to be faced with your biggest challenge. That could be right now during these pandemic times, or from a serious health diagnosis, financial difficulty, divorce or relationship split or the loss of your parents.

These moments in life can be the awakening that your true self has been searching for.

This is the start point and essence to personal mastery - simply put it’s the practice of understanding your thoughts, feelings and actions.

We’ve put together a 5 stage pathway that has very specific elements in to lay out a clear pathway for you to follow: What Stage Are You In Now?

If you’re feeling lost, alone, frustrated or struggling then this is going to give you some perspective and clarity with where you are and why you feel the way you do.

In this episode I’m going to teach you this thorough, and proven roadmap of each of the 5 phases of the path to personal mastery that’ll show you your current strengths and help you identify and apply your next steps into your life along this path.

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How often are you stuck with a decision to make?

Do you bounce between 2 options driving yourself crazy?

Maybe your default is to leave decisions to the last minute which either leads you to missing opportunities or letting people down? Both of which hurt you most. 

The difference between the truly exceptional and the merely good is that the great say no to almost everything.

If the best say no, why don’t the rest of us?

The reason we don’t say no is that we are terrified it’s going to wreck things. And there are 3 things we typically do instead of offering positive and timely no’s.

I’m going to discuss these in detail and then offer you a strategy to teach you how to set your boundaries for a happy 2021.

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With all that’s going on right now that is affecting each and everyone of us, how are you taking care of yourself?

Do you have a plan and schedule that you follow?

Do you know what practices help you most?

Or are you just freewheeling not knowing what to do with yourself and at the mercy of news feeds and convenience food before numbing yourself out on binge TV?

We’re so busy choosing sides and placing blame on others that we forget to take care of ourselves first. In order to help others (which I know many of you want to do), we have to remember that taking care of ourselves, both physically and mentally, is essential.

Ruining our mental and physical health doesn’t help anyone. Being strong and leading by example is what can truly help others.

So today I’m going to share with you my top 8 self care practices that I do daily.

But specifically I’m going to tell you how they make me feel and why I make them a part of my day… to give you some connection to what to look for rather than going through the motions and unaware of whether your practices are working or not.

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References:

Dr Joe Dispenzer