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In a world filled with trouble, we can all benefit by learning how to practice loving-kindness meditation. With a focus on sending the love in your heart to those near and dear to you, as well as those it might be more difficult to extend kindness to, loving-kindness meditation helps us to cultivate self-compassion and recognize the interconnectedness of the world.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from MBSR Every Day: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Written by Drs. Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein, this audiobook draws on the ancient wisdom of mindfulness to provide thoughtful perspectives and fresh techniques to reduce stress. This practical guide is full of clinically proven mindfulness strategies inspired by Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (or MBSR), a clinically proven program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

In this episode, Drs. Elisha Goldstein and Bob Stahl offer an opportunity to learn how to practice loving-kindness meditation along with insight as to the benefits of creating kind intentions.

This episode includes a brief guided meditation. If you are driving or operating machinery, please listen to this episode at another time. Listen to this meditation only when you can give it your full attention and have no other responsibilities to attend to

MBSR Every Day: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

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Today, you’ll learn how you can access the power of meditation for personal growth, self-healing, releasing anxiety, and living on purpose. Our guest is David Gandelman, a spiritual teacher and author of The 7 Energies of the Soul: Awaken Your Inner Creator, Healer, Warrior, Lover, Artist, Explorer, and Master. David is also the founder of Meditation School. David’s mission is to awaken souls on their path of growing into being human, and living an enlightened and purpose-driven life.

Dive deeper into your meditation practice — David makes learning to meditate easy and accessible!

In this interview, David Gandelman discusses the powerful benefits of meditation and how to make meditation a regular part of your life.

David Gandelman is a spiritual teacher, author, and the founder of the Meditation School app, and host of the Meditation School, Energy Matters, and Grounded Sleep podcasts. His meditations have been streamed millions of times. He has taught at Cornell University, NBC Universal, SAP, and numerous other organizations.

David holds a B.A. in Western philosophy from Rutgers University, which combined with his studies in Eastern spiritual traditions living in the Himalayas, as well as his experience as the director of a school for intuitive development and mysticism in Hawaii, informs a teaching style that connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor in order to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in learning to meditate and develop into their potential.

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When your mind has free reign over your feelings, it becomes difficult to find an awareness of the present moment. Thought patterns with a tendency to drag you into spirals of worry are all too common and can appear without a moment’s notice. Thankfully, stress relief can be found in the mindfulness techniques of learning to mind your thoughts and harnessing the power of the five senses.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook MBSR Every Day: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, written by Drs. Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. With a focus on practical advice to help ease the pressures of daily life, this audiobook draws on the ancient wisdom of mindfulness to provide thoughtful perspectives and fresh techniques. While learning to cope with worry and uncover deep hidden truths, Drs. Stahl and Goldstein provide the help you need to respond to your world with mindfulness, non judgemental awareness, and meditation techniques.

In this episode, Drs. Stahl and Goldstein encourage you to cultivate an awareness of the present moment, and your thought patterns, as a simple and easy path to stress relief.

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One of the greatest gifts of mindfulness is that we learn from the inside out that we are not our stories, not even the ones that tell us we are. We start to get better and better at recognizing that we have a choice in how we pay attention and what we pay attention to. You have a choice to become awake and dip beneath the stories, break your routine, let be, and practice “kindfulness”— four of the practices in this book—and then, instead of being stuck in old patterns, you will step into a life of greater freedom and possibility.

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Your talents are the innate skills that nature gave you to realize your uniqueness, and they are clues that can help you to find your purpose in life. You have been gifted with a unique combination of talents that equip you to walk through life with purpose. Assessing your physical, intellectual, and emotional abilities, will help you develop confidence and identify your uniqueness.

Today we are sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Why?: What Your Life is Telling You About Who You Are and Why You’re Here, written by Dr.s Matthew McKay, Sean Olaoire, and Ralph Metzner. This audiobook offers the tools to help you gain knowledge and awareness of yourself at the deepest level, reveal your personal path in life, and begin living life to its fullest.

In this episode, Dr.s McKay, Oloaire, and Metzner explains where to look to find your purpose in life, emphasizing the importance of your exploring your uniqueness.

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“This audiobook allows the modern Western mind to explore the deep meaning of an ageless, universal truth: Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve. Why? goes beyond philosophy and offers practical guidelines for mindfully participating in one’s own evolutionary process.”

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If you struggle with controlling your emotions and want to stop overreacting, it can be helpful to understand how the brain processes emotion. Marriage and family therapist Dr. Judith Siegel, author of the audiobook Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions, takes us through the most relevant aspects of brain chemistry and functioning and demystifies the role of your mind in overreacting.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions, written by marriage and family therapist Dr. Judith Siegel. Formed by emotional patterns, triggers, and your history, the habit of overreacting is one that can put you in many unwanted situations. This popular audiobook will help you learn how to neutralize overwhelming emotions and choose healthy responses instead of flying off the handle. 

In this episode, Dr. Judith Siegel walks us through how the brain processes emotion. To learn how to stop overreacting and get a handle on your responses, it’s important to take the time to understand what is going on inside your brain that leads you to overreact.

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“In this audiobook, I explain how beliefs, emotions, and physiological responses combine to create over-reactions. I examine envy, rejection, criticism, and control—everyday dynamics that frequently trigger overreactions, as well as ways to help you restore calm so that you can access responses that are thoughtful and appropriate. I also suggest ways to challenge beliefs and make peace with the past so that you will be less likely to react to situations that have triggered overreactions in the past.”

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Though experiencing heartbreak is a time of grieving, it does present a new opportunity to create the life you desire. Dr. Christina Hibbert, author of the audiobook Who Am I Without You? 52 Ways to Rebuild Self-Esteem After A Breakup, shares her thoughts on healing after heartbreak. What matters most to you? How can you incorporate it into your life? What do you want your future to look like? Focusing on these questions can help the healing process.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Dr. Christina Hibbert’s inspirational audiobook Who Am I Without You? 52 Ways to Rebuild Self-Esteem After A Breakup. With the 52 techniques and cognitive behavioral therapy detailed in this book, Dr. Hibbert presents all of the tools needed to find a new and stronger sense of self-worth. Finding yourself alone after a relationship can be scary and even cause you to question your identity, but by living with your head held high, you can rebuild yourself, your future, and your heart.

In this episode, Dr. Christina G. Hibbert shares her thoughts on healing after heartbreak by remaining present in order to create the life you desire.

Christina G. Hibbert, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and expert on women’s mental health, grief, motherhood, postpartum health, parenting, self-esteem, and personal growth. She is author of the award-winning memoir This is How We Grow. She is the founder of the Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition and is a popular and dynamic speaker. She lives in Flagstaff, AZ with her husband and six children. Learn more about Hibbert, her blog, speaking, and books at drchristinahibbert.com.

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It can be challenging to be an introvert in a world that favors extroverts and high energy. But Dr. Arnie Kozak, author of the audiobook The Awawkened Introvert has an encouraging suggestion — embrace being an introvert! In fact, the Buddha himself was an introvert! Dr. Kozak shares how accepting your introversion can help you awaken to your greater potential as a human being.

Today we are sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Awakened Introvert: Practical Mindfulness Skills to Help You Maximize Your Strengths and Thrive in a Loud and Crazy World, written by Dr. Arnie Kozak. Living in an extroverted world can be draining and discouraging, especially for those who recharge by being alone. By using mindfulness, you can learn how to harness your strengths as an introvert while minimizing your weaknesses. With just a few tools, it is possible to live confidently in an energetic world.

In this episode, Dr. Kozak suggests that introverts learn to embrace being an introvert. He shares the story of the Buddha, also an introvert, and his development of the four noble truths.

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Worry convinces us there’s danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode — even when there is no danger. In this interview, Dr. David Carbonell, clinical psychologist, anxiety expert, and author of the best-selling audiobook The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It shares advice on how to stop worrying. He offers new ways to respond to worry and anxiety, rather than trying to eliminate them.

Dr. David Carbonell is author of the best-selling audiobooks The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It . The Worry Trick shows how worry and anxiety hijack the brain, and offers powerful “counter-intuitive” strategy to help you put worry in its place and break the cycle of worry, once and for all.

In this interview, Dr. Carbonell discusses how easy it is to be fooled by our thoughts, and offers a more effective approach for how to stop worrying.

David A. Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is the founder and director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., a small group of psychologists which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias at several locations in and around Chicago.

Dr. Carbonell is also the author of The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

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Whether you are new to mindfulness practice, or a regular meditator, you may have wondered how to improve mindfulness meditation. Regardless of your level of experience, it may sometimes feel that your mind works against you or presents frustrations that ruin a peaceful moment. Creating a greater understanding of the obstacles you face in mindfulness meditation while learning compassionate responses will help you use each moment and breath as a path to a more fulfilling practice!

In this episode, Drs. Stahl and Goldstein demonstrate how to improve mindfulness meditation by sharing commonly faced challenges and how to respond to them.

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Panic attacks trick millions of people into fearing disaster and giving up so many of the activities they used to enjoy without fear. But you CAN regain freedom from panic attacks! Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the just released audiobook, The Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick (Second Edition). Written by clinical psychologist and anxiety expert Dr. David Carbonell, this audiobook will help you stop the vicious cycle that leads to panic attacks, and learn to master your anxiety.

The Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick (Second Edition) is a practical audiobook full of proven strategies and helpful advice on how to master your anxiety and panic and reclaim your life. Clinical psychologist and anxiety expert Dr. David Carbonell will help you understand the true nature of your panic attacks, including the vicious cycle of habitual responses that lead to debilitating attacks, how you can halt this self-destructive process, and the many ways you can start on a step-by-step journey that promotes recovery. This audiobook shares helpful methods from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that will help you regain the life you want to live.

In this episode, Dr. Carbonell shares helpful information about how to stop panic attacks and regain your freedom.

David A. Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is the founder and director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., a small group of psychologists which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias at several locations in and around Chicago.

Dr. Carbonell is also the author of The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

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Chronic Worry: How Your Thoughts Fool You
How to Beat Your Worries at Their Own Game
Overcome the Fear of Flying

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Dr. Carbonell has written a wonderful, inspiring and comprehensive guidebook for winning over panic attacks. While panic attacks are terrifying for the sufferer, they take over territory in a person’s life by playing a very simple but powerful game. In Panic Attacks Workbook you will find the solid and clever strategies
needed to win this mental game and take back your life.

Author of "Don't Panic"

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