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How you are feeling right now is the whole reason you are doing or not doing what you actually want to be doing.

How you feel determines everything else in your life.

Your ability to create success for yourself in any area of your life is directly proportionate to your capacity and willingness to experience ANY emotion.

If you want to create a better life for yourself, you need to know how to feel better.

And that is exactly what you’ll learn in this week’s episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast.

Most of us are used to wanting and accumulating things, accomplishments, and accolades from a place of scarcity. We think of wanting from a place of 'not having'.

Gratitude allows us to practice wanting from a place of abundance. It allows us to practice wanting what we already have.

Happiness isn't about how much you have, but about how much you are able to notice. Use this practice to deepen your appreciation for your life.

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Does it sometimes feel like you're slowly spiralling out of control?

Like you can't tell up from down anymore?

This practice is designed to help stabilize your attention in the body and lift the weightiness of your thoughts off your shoulders.

When sending off a crew into outer-space, Russian astronauts say: Miakoi Posadki. It means “Soft Landings.”

Listen in to this meditation to give yourself a soft landing in the midst of whatever you have going on in your life.

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Self-compassion may seem like a fluffy concept to some, but when we're hard on ourselves when things get hard, it lowers our failure tolerance and costs us the intimacy in our relationships and our capacity to take consistent action toward our dreams.

This meditation practice is inspired by the work of Kristin Neff. It is called a 'self-compassion break.'

If you're struggling or facing a difficult situation, give yourself a much needed self-compassion break by listening in to this meditation.

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Our brains are like super computers. But sometimes they get a little fried from so much thinking, analyzing, strategizing, and processing. We need a way to reboot because everything works better after it's been unplugged, even your brain.

This practice is designed to get you out of your head and back into your body so you can hit reset on your day. Let go of the unnecessary stress and tension of the 'thinking mind' and feel good about where you are right now in your body by listening in.

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The breath is one of the most powerful tools we have to improve our lives.

Athletes use it to push past their edge and perform. You can learn to use it to push past your mental edge to exercise more clarity and focus in your daily pursuits.

Discover this simple equal breathing practice to restore more balance in your life and improve your capacity to pay attention.

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The way we begin our day sets the tone for how we experience the rest of our day.

I like to say that everyday is a good day to have a good day. The best way to start having more good days is to decide at the start of each day that YES today will be a good day.

Good days don't just happen to us. Good days are made by how we show up for them.

Build the skill of creating good days in this first meditation in the The Mind Body Academy Podcast Meditation Toolkit.

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We’re all experiencing more time at home than we’re typically used to.

Full disclosure... I have become bffs with my furniture and I now regularly enjoy casual conversation with my walls.

The world “out there” feels unpredictable and uncertain.

The world inside our homes feels insulated and confining. Not quite like home.

Why is that?

Because right now we’re spending A LOT of time in our minds. 

We’re trying to predict how long this will last and what will happen next.

But when we come back to our breath and connect back to our bodies, we touch in to a place of refuge where life supports itself.

Where our breath is breathed and our heart beats without us having to exert any conscious effort.

It’s a beautiful relief to pause and BE.

To NOT have to fix, or change, or do anything.

To feel right at home wherever you stand.

And right now we need people like you to take a stand and stay home. 

Home in your home. 

And home in your body. 

Because we can’t control or clean up the mess this virus is making in the world and in our economies, but we can organize a few messy sock drawers in our minds and feel the comfort and warmth of being at home.

Listen to this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast to find out how to put your emotional home in order so you feel the comfort and safety of being at home in your body. 

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You probably DON’T KNOW how to breathe.

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Many of us breathe like we’re fish that are keeping their heads above the water.

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We’re drowning in a world full of air.

Stressed. Anxious. Depressed. Just trying to catch our next breath.

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We rarely (if ever) think to breathe.

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Really breathe.

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Consciously breathe.

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Yet, the breath is this air bridge between where you are and where you want to be.

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It regulates your stress.

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It allows you to discharge the intensity of your emotions and process them through.

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It spaces out your thoughts so you can think clearly.

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It’s a natural performance enhancer.

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It can allow to decrease inflammation in your body so you can speed up healing or support you in becoming healthier.

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And in case the breath’s resume isn’t impressive enough, it’s also what’s keeping you alive.

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Still got no time to take a breather?

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Better think again.

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When you learn to pay attention to your breath and use it as a tool, it’s not only your breath that will improve but your life.

Let your breath blow your mind and help you feel more alive! 

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To breathe with ease, take a deep dive into this episode of The Mind Body Academy Podcast. 

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It can make us feel very out of control. 

It can make us feel like we’re losing our mind a little bit (or a lot a bit).

It can make us panic watch the news, spend so much imagining that we might get sick that we feel sick, inhale all the food in the refrigerator, and be too flustered to get any focused work done.

Stress layered on top of our problems is itself a problem.

Stress is infectious.

It’s normal to get stressed, but when we stay stressed we aren’t thinking in solutions and we suppress our best ideas. 

In our frenzy to panic-fix what’s going on, what we’re really chasing after is the place where you can finally relax again and enjoy your life.

The success and relief we are all after isn’t about how much you hustle; It’s about how well you can relax.

The good news?

You can learn to relax NOW.

You don’t have to wait for the current situation to change.

Can I get a hallelujah?

Yes, you can not only survive but thrive through the caronapocalyse.

It may feel like the world as you know it is ending, but remember that the world is round so that the place that might feel like the END may also only be the beginning.

In part 1 of this 5 part series on Mindfulness, learn how to stress less with Mindfulness, not so you can get good at meditation but so that you get good at life.