In this podcast, Anna is with Michael O'Brien. Breathe in...Breathe out... It’s time to stress less and pause, breathe, and reflect with Michael O’Brien. Michael is a qualified meditation teacher, executive coach, endurance athlete, and creator of the Pause Breathe Reflect Meditation and Relaxation app. He loves helping people accomplish hard things through mindfulness. He’s a
survivor of a horrific near-death cycling accident called his Last Bad Day and recently rode his bicycle across America. He has shared his personal transformational Last Bad Day (aka near-death cycling accident) story and leadership advice with Fortune 500 companies, at TEDx, and with Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Real Simple, ABC, and NBC.
They also talked about:
03:19 Mindfulness meditation
07:11 How Michael faced adversities
18:55 Taking a pause in life
20:42 The “Pause Breathe Reflect” app
26:16 Gaining awareness through mindfulness
37:22 What does freedom mean to Michael?
Quotes
“I think we pack a lot in the backpacks that we carry around a lot of rocks, boulders, stones, and pebbles, and we try to numb our pain, numb our suffering, and that's not a healthy way of dealing with it. So, through mindfulness and some other contemplated practices and just movement in general, we can deal with what's causing us pain and suffering in a healthier way.” -Michael
“You can't stop the waves in the ocean, but you can learn how to surf. And for me, mindfulness and mindfulness meditation is a way to surf the waves of stress.” -Michael
“Mindfulness allows us to open up our awareness. It helps us focus when we need to focus, and gives us this ability to meet our moments with some level of calm, giving it some space.” -Michael
“We can't get some of the things done, that we wanna get done, if we're hurting and struggling“ -Michael
“We're all going through stuff, so let's try to treat that stuff in a healthy way and not numb it away or ignore it or resist it.” -Michael
“When we slow it down just a bit. Not stop, but slow it down just a bit. We can invite flow into our lives. And when we have flow, we end up having more joy with our experiences and a lot of times we go faster and we put out higher quality work” -Michael
“This digital world that we're in, or this marketed world that we're in, we see all of this, this happy sometimes false lifestyle that we portray. We just need to be ourselves, whatever that is.” -Anna
Check out Michael O’Brien’s social media accounts:
www.linkedin.com/in/michaelobrienpelotoncoaching
www.instagram.com/pausebreathereflect
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