Dr. Eric Holsapple is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years of university teaching and 30 years of mindfulness. He is the founder of Living in the Gap and the author of the forthcoming book, Profit with Presence: The 12 Pillars of Mindful Leadership. His popular workshops teach CEOs and professionals a different way to operate mindfully while improving the bottom line.

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Eric shares the successful business path he had been on and his epiphany about the need to change his lifestyle. The epiphany and actions he took resulted in the work he’s doing now.

First yoga and then meditation significantly changed his life path.

Mindfulness and Presence are the first Pillars of Mindful Leadership.

Eric explains what he means by “finding your true self” and the techniques he suggests.

Who we are is not what we do but who we bring to what we do. Understanding that who you are being is what matters is a big shift for most people.

Eric defines the difference between your inner being and your outer being and the value of aligning them.

Mindfulness can help understand emotions. Recognizing emotions, feeling them, and letting them pass through your system is how to deal with emotions.

When groups are made up of both men and women, the women often leave the men to better understand their emotions.

Pillars 1 and 2 are about creating clarity. Pillar 3 is about visioning where you want to go.

Eric talks about how to use vision, intention, and intentional action to create what you want.

Our commitments and our habits have to be aligned.

In the business environment, people are often afraid of going into the “woo-woo”.

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Profit with Presence: The 12 Pillars of Mindful Leadership  is available to pre-order

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Spellbound by Dr. Daniel Lieberman

James Kawainui, Ancient Wisdom Mentoring & Hawaiian Healing

I’ve spoken to a number of people recently who, despite being stable financially, worry a lot about money and their future. In this episode, I provide some suggestions for letting go of money worries.

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When you start worrying about money, ask yourself, “What am I afraid will happen if I run out of money?”

Worrying about money makes it harder to generate money. I explain why.

Worrying about your money can have a negative effect on your health.

You can’t just stop worrying about money, you have to teach your brain a new response to how you usually think about money. I give examples.

If you are worried about your financial future, you are making up a story that doesn’t exist. Tell a different story.

You need to develop the skills that are necessary to make more money. This includes financial skills, business skills, and more.

You can’t fulfill your dreams of a positive future unless you understand the habits that have gotten you where you are.

Create a superhero in your mind who keeps telling you that you’re doing fine no matter what you’re telling yourself.

You have the power to change your life if you’re willing to become aware of your habits and change the ones that aren’t serving you.

Start noticing how you talk to yourself and how you worry about money. When you notice how you are worrying, take a few deep belly breaths and tell yourself something positive about what you’re doing.

Your brain is wired to see the negative. This was originally a survival technique.

It’s a matter of teaching your brain how to re-perceive where you are.

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Astara

Take a look at The MetaMind Circle

As we approach the end of the year and the beginning of the next one, it’s a great time for reflection. In this episode, I mention a number of things that might help to think about.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

Becoming aware of the energy that surrounds us.

How to find peace of mind in the midst of the worldwide chaos.

How to develop empathetic detachment.

An attitude of acceptance and letting go.

Don’t expect other people to meet your needs.

Love, accept, acknowledge, and appreciate yourself.

Do something about getting out of uncomfortable situations and relationships.

You can make the decision to learn how to be internally peaceful.

Self-awareness and self-acceptance.

Allow life to happen rather than trying to make it happen.

Take care of yourself.

I have been looking for a unifying topic for all my information and what I came up with is Prosperous Living – A Holistic Path to Health, Wealth, and Happiness. In this episode, I ask you to define what prosperous living means to you.

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I’d like to suggest that you think about what prosperous living means to you.

In a previous episode, I had talked about making the decisions about what intentions you would like to make for the new year and actions you will take to move forward.

Making too many changes at once impedes progress.

Making any kind of change in your life can stimulate the moving stupids, which is a feeling of disorientation that you get when you try new things because your brain gets confused.

It can take a few months to get comfortable with something new.

If you make small changes over a period of time, your life will move in a positive direction.

Start making changes with things that are inconsequential, like cleaning off your desk or a corner of a room.

You have to find what works for you.

Something that you really want or would like to create, without buying anything, ask yourself what having that or doing that would require. Look at it carefully.

When asking the question, “who do I want to be” or “what do I want to do”, understand that your age makes a difference.

You have to discover what makes you happy and what your definition of happy is.

If you sit quietly with yourself or meditate every day, you will be more satisfied and more in touch with yourself.

As we get ready for 2023, it’s time to make the decisions – rather than the resolutions – that will move you forward. In this episode, I talk about what decisions to consider and how not to overload yourself with things to do.

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Make a decision to take care of yourself – if you want a better life.

If you don’t like where your life is today, then you have the option of deciding what you will do in order to change it.

The best way to make lasting change is to become very aware of where you are now and to choose one or two things you want to change.

The energy of change is prevalent on this planet right now.

It takes considerable effort to make lasting change in your life.

It’s important to love yourself, let go, and connect. Most people don’t realize how important the connect piece is.

In order to feel prosperous, you need a lot of people, love, and experiences that warm your heart.

How do want to feel next year?

What do you want to work on next year so you can move your life in a positive direction? If you focus your efforts on moving in a positive direction, you will improve your life.

For today, make a list of the things that you would like to be different in your life, the small things you can begin to work on.

Practice being okay with who you are today.

Start with small changes, one at a time.

Set feeling goals.

Every day, acknowledge yourself for something you have done.

To talk to Joan about coaching or The MetaMind Circle go to www.ProsperityPlace.com/call

This is the time of year that doesn’t feel “normal”. There are a lot of distractions and things happening that are not our usual activities. So, during the next few weeks, use the time to take a look and see if there’s something you want to change as we go into the new year.

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Tap into the energy of change and decide who you want to become.

We often need to share ideas and get feedback from other people. Other people can often see a bigger picture than we do.

No one person has all of the answers for you.

It’s really important for you to know and understand your Self.

Who do you want to be in the next segment of your life and how can you make that happen?

The energy of change, which is happening now, presents us with many opportunities.

How are you going to adapt to the energy of change and what help do you need to make it happen?

We are wired to need connection to other people.

If you learn to have better relationships with humans, you are going to have a better life.

What does prosperous living mean for you?

Happiness comes from satisfaction within you, not from money.

You have choices, and if you don’t like what your life is like now, you can make changes.

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Henry Lopez’s website

Podcast episode with Robert Pardi

The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours

This is a very short episode because of the holiday. On it, I mentioned that we are getting ready to slowly invite people into The MetaMind Circle.

Here are two links if you would like more information:

www.metamindcircle.com

Let us know you are interested here

Robert Pardi is one of those rare individuals who embrace change and live by a philosophy that he calls Possibility in Action™. He is a three-time author, compelling international keynote speaker, transformational life coach, and Adjunct Professor. After his young wife passed away from breast cancer, Robert re-imagined his life to achieve new dreams. He chose to leave his comfort zone by changing absolutely everything. He now shares the many life lessons he’s learned through his work and fashioned his life as an example of Possibility in Action™.

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Possibility in Action is Robert’s personal philosophy and he explains what he means by it. When curiosity leads you to see possibilities, you need to take action.

People often avoid looking into new possibilities because the brain is wired to want certainty.

Sitting in curiosity means being willing to not know.

When you identify with the path you’re on, it’s difficult to see your possibilities because the results are unknown and your brain is wired to tell you to be afraid.

As a child, Robert learned to overcome fear and to take the chance of moving forward.

If you don’t take chances, you’re going to get stuck in your own zip code.

If you’re waiting for a chance, you’re missing an opportunity. The discomfort of waiting can be greater than the discomfort of taking a chance.

Losing our life to fear is like dying a horrible slow death. For Robert, FEAR means Finding Excuses for Reaching beyond your comfort zone.

Rather than asking why I am holding myself back, look for the what and how.

People should not have a coach for their whole life. Use a coach to get beyond a certain blockage and then move on.

Diversity is really in our minds.

We are quick to give our power away by blaming.

When you step into fear, you are acknowledging that you don’t have control.

The more we try to fit in, the more we are betraying ourselves and we lose trust in ourselves.

No one has your answers except you.

Without action, nothing happens.

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Possibility in Action: A Journey to an Intentional Life

Robert Pardi's website

Robert Pardi on LinkedIn

Joan doing the Power Plunge

Breathing seems so natural because you do it every day. In this episode, you’ll learn that breathing not only keeps us alive, it also affects our emotions, attention, and how our brains process the world around us. Especially important is learning how to use diaphragmatic breathing.

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In times of stress, people often do shallow breathing – from the chest. Diaphragmatic breathing is much healthier and helps to relieve stress.

Here’s a list of some of the positive effects of deep diaphragmatic breathing.

I talk about how to do diaphragmatic breathing.

How you are being in the world is a choice. How you are in the world is a habit.

You can train yourself to notice when you are tensing up, and when you do how to use breathing as a release.

Being in a hurry or being nervous doesn’t help anything.

If you understand that you have control over how you feel and how you react to what’s going on, it will make your life not only easier but also more successful.

When in a state of stress or fear you can’t make the best decisions for you.

If you get in touch with and deal with the pain of your childhood, you will have less physical pain.

I asked myself what can a person do that is free and easy to do, and the answer is learn diaphragmatic breathing.

If you become aware of what’s going on in the world, you can prepare for the chaos and make decisions as to how you want to feel and act.

Articles:

How Breathing Shapes Our Brain

Benefits of Deep Breathing

What Is Diaphragmatic Breathing?

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When I was doing the episode that posted two weeks ago, I felt a strong energy moving through me that I recognized as anger. At first, I wanted to delete the episode because I was uncomfortable showing that much anger. In this episode, I share what I learned about hidden anger.

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Once I realized that I had gotten angry, I looked more deeply at it and realized that the anger was covering up other emotions, including feeling violated.

I also realized that feeling violated was a feeling habit that I developed in childhood and how that affected many aspects of my life.

If feelings aren’t expressed, they build up internally. In the case of anger, it turns into rage.

Unexpressed anger and other feelings can also turn into health problems and can be acted out through your finances.

I talk about self-directed passive-aggressive behavior as a way of acting out hidden anger.

Sharing episodes like this one is a release for me.

Emotions are the energetic force behind our life stories.

I’m hoping that you will give yourself permission to find a way to express your hidden anger. A lot of women are holding onto hidden anger because of the way they have been treated over the years.

The bottom line is for you to learn to trust yourself and to remember that you can’t get rid of something like anger, you have to replace it with something else. I explain.

If you find yourself frequently feeling unsafe, I talk about how you can teach your brain to feel safe even in difficult situations.

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Dissolve the Anger Money Connection

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