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Issam Kadamani MSCD M. IMM (Aust) M. NMI (Aust) Alumni USA, Reiki, Sekhem and Ajna™ teacher and is the Principal at The International College of Meditation & Healing. His focus is to empower you so that you can live your life to the fullest, with unconditional love and joy.

For the last 35 years Issam Kadamani has taught around the world, and is now based in Melbourne teaching meditation and metaphysics, providing transformational healing, counselling and much sought after life & business coaching and spiritual mentoring to people who are looking to learn a happier way of living.

Issam is joining us on this episode to share his wisdom with us, so you can hear directly from the source about the wonderful gift of meditation.

In this episode, we explore:

•an explanation of metaphysics

•meditation, what it is and how to do it

•different types of meditation

•benefits of meditation

•the difference between meditation and mindfulness

•alpha, beta, theta and delta brainwaves

•creative visualisation

•meditation as a spiritual practice

•breathing

•ajna tibetan healing

•and more!

I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed creating it.

If you want to book in for a counselling session or a distance healing, you can find out more at https://www.icmh.com.au

You can also buy The Happiness Hunter's Guide to Meditation, featuring Issam, with 8 guided MP3 meditations here https://thehappinesshunter.com/product/book-meditations-bundle/

Over the years, there has been a phrase that has helped me a lot, when the storm is storming in life. When it feels so overwhelming and bleak and the way through has not yet shown itself.

And this too shall pass.

Life is constantly moving, it is constantly shifting and changing, it is never final.

Life is impermanence. There is nothing solid. It's just moving. And we are here moving through it all, as humans have been throughout the course of human history.

Remembering that this too shall pass, can help us to make peace with where we are. Because when we know that it will pass, we can know that there are different times ahead, and we can learn to be with what is right now.

The gap between where we are now and where we want to be will more often than not require us to do something that we have never done before. It will require us to take a leap of faith, to put our trust into something that we can't see, that we don't know and that we can't touch. Taking a leap of faith does not mean that you don't have fear. Taking a leap of faith means that you have such a burning desire to get where you want to go, and to live your life how you want to live, and to experience life in that way that in the deepest part of you knows is 100% possible - that your desire outweighs your fear. It means that you are able to accept that right now you don't know what you don't know, and the only way you are going to find out what you need to find out, is to think, feel and act in a different way than you ever have before. Every great success, every great achievement, every great transformation had at it's very beginning a yes. And every single one of those yeses was from someone who made a decision to just say no to the fear and yes to taking a leap of faith. To hold the vision and trust the process, however terrifying it might be. Because in that moment of saying yes, something changes within you, and you will never be the same again.

Imagine if your biggest weakness could become your greatest strength? "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit" - Napoleon Hill.

When we gain awareness of our weaknesses, when they have been exposed and highlighted, we have an opportunity to choose to change. We have an opportunity to learn how to become strong in those areas we have identified as weak. We have an opportunity to use our obstacles and challenges to grow and become stronger, and the steps that we take to overcome our shortcomings mean that we become better than we were before, not just where we were weak, but that strength lifts us in all of the other areas of our lives too.

In this episode of the podcast, you will meet Michael Donehue. Throughout his life Michael has battled depression and alcohol abuse, and has also had loved ones affected by mental illness and substance addiction which has fuelled his passion to bring these issues into the community for discussion.

Michael has vast experience as a mental health advocate with a number of different organisations. Michael's key messages are all about normalising a difficult conversation, surrounding yourself with the right people and finding your key coping mechanisms to stay on top of life.

I invited Michael on the show to have a conversation about his experience of managing his mental wellbeing, especially in these times we are living in. In Melbourne we are now in lockdown #2 (but this situation could just as easily be experienced anywhere else), back into homeschooling, with things that had opened up have now closed back down again, economic uncertainty, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, loneliness, destructive coping mechanisms, deep bone weariness - a lot of people are not coping very well already and struggling with where we are. The first time round was almost a bit of a novelty; this time we are all starting to become aware that how we are now living is maybe a new normal. And somehow we need to adjust to it and to be ok with it, so that we can stay well.

These are strange times that we are living in. As social beings, we are missing an extremely important part of what makes us human - physical contact, face to face connection and socialising with our communities. With physical distancing, social isolation, working from home, home schooling, gyms being closed, sports cancelled, recreational activities on hold and "normal" life taking on a new sense of normal, it is extremely important that we stay connected, reach out to people and let people know how we really are. Conversations are the glue that binds us together and as Mick says - the best tool that any of us have to connect are our two ears, so that we can listen.

None of us is alone. And none of us needs to feel like we are on our own either. If you are not feeling great, who can you reach out to today to talk with?

We often talk about balance as in work life balance, or down time, or time for me, time for the kids, time for the partner, time for work - and it feels like something that we have to strive for to attain, and that it is always going to be slightly out of reach or unattainable. Because there are so many aspects of that which we can't control, especially now as we find ourselves in a global pandemic, without our usual routines, working from home, home schooling, constantly surrounded by people and responsibilities, distractions and interruptions. How do we manage ourselves well through this time when it doesn't appear that there is any balance at all?

If we can start to think about balance as simply our relationship with ourselves - with our inner world, or our inner self, and then the corresponding action that we take in the outer, or physical world - then it becomes a lot more simple to understand and to allow ourselves to find balance. Finding true balance is 100% within our control at any time, and the balance we need to be focusing on is not in the external world, but finding connecting with our inner world and allowing that to become manifested as our outer world.

When we focus on our inner world first, this will build a bridge almost if you like between the inner and the outer, and guide our actions in the external world, which will help create balance within our lives.

Step 1 is to focus on the inner self

Step 2 is to pause and connect yourself to the outer world - to create your plan

Step 3 is to then take the action