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HOW TO FIND MIND-BLOWING HOPE & GUIDANCE THRU THE WISDOM OF AYAHUASCA! Rachel Harris, PhD | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Apr 07, 2017

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If you've ever struggled to find meaning in life, or with anxiety, depression, addiction, or PTSD, then do we have the Listening to Ayahuasca show for you!

Today I'll be talking with researcher and psychologist Rachel Harris, PhD, she's received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator's award, published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed Journals and is the author of a brilliant new read that's sure to change lives, Listening to Ayahuasca.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about wisdom from the plant world, for hope, guidance, healing, and direction in our lives.

This is a very special interview. I share my own personal journey with Ayahuasca and how it transformed my life. Rachel Harris, PhD shares her journey, and how she was called to research this amazing medicine for the jungle. And she shares her research on how Ayahuasca has affected, healed, and transformed the lives of people around the world. This is truly a mind-blowing, world-view changing interview.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What is Ayahuasca?
Where is it found?
How was it found?
What conditions can Ayahuasca help with?
What is its purpose?
Is Ayahuasca a drug or a medicine?
What is an Ayahuasca ceremony like?
How did Ayahuasca find researcher Rachel Harris PhD?
What was her first experience in Costa Rica?
What was the intention she set before the Ayahuasca ceremony?
What did she want to do after that?
What does it mean to be called to do the work?
What did she first learn from her experience with Ayahuasca?
What does Ayahuasca teach us about ourselves
How did Rachel begin researching Ayahuasca and people's experiences?
What are some of the key learning's people have gotten from their experiences?
What are some of the key themes?
What does love have to do with Ayahuasca?
How do relationships change after Ayahuasca?
How does emotional healing from depression, anxiety, and even PTSD take place?
Can people physically heal from illness, or even cancer after taking Ayahuasca?
What's the importance of having a guide?
How does Ayahuasca help people contact the deceased?
How does it change people perceptually?
What does divine gratitude have to do with anything
Are there any risks with Ayahuasca?
What is a good bad trip?
What does it mean to enter a relationship with grandmother Ayahuasca?
How does it change one's spiritual perspective with the world
Why is Grandmother Ayahuasca here in the west from the Amazonian Rain Forest?
What one homework assignment can we take away from here?
For More Info Visit: www.ListeningToAyahuasca.com

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If you've ever wanted more happiness and positivity in your life, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll talk about moving past the grumpies, overcoming anxiety and how to find your happy place, even when trouble's around.

We'll talk about key ways to link to a positive state, and how to hold on to, and cultivate happiness, even in difficult circumstances.

Plus we'll talk about my first Near Death Experience, how it transformed me, and what it taught me about happiness and positivity.

Positivity and Happiness Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How to anchor and stretch out the good moments?
How to succeed without the need to conform
What it truly means to do what you love and still find success
How you can link to a positive state and take you to a positive place anytime you want.
What poses or body positions can help you link with a positive state
What we can learn from EFT or tapping to help put you in a positive place
How to use visualization to recharge you.
How to use visualization to turn challenging moments into positive happy ones
How to protect yourself energetically from negative people
What it means to check in with whose emotions your feeling
What effect music has on our positivity or positive state – even if we're not consciously aware of it
What automatic writing can do to help us understand our emotions
How to avoid or move past emotion crash and burns
What's the importance of letting go
What's the significance of April 2, 2006.
What completely changed Michael Sandler's life
What we can learn about happiness and positivity from Michael's near death experience.
To find out more visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you've ever seen a loved one before they passed away, and heard their final words, or words in the preceding weeks and wondered what it really means, then do we have the Words at the Threshold show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Lisa Smartt, linguist, educator, poet and the found of the Final words project, and the author of an amazing book new book, Words at the Threshold.

In this show we look at people's final words, from a few weeks out, to a few moments. We'll look at what they mean, recurring themes, and why what we once thought was gibberish, may be anything but.

And we'll see what our loved ones are trying to tell us, in their last moments and weeks, and why it can make all the difference in our lives.

Final Words Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How did Lisa come to study linguistics?
What happened when her father was dying?
What was her experience in her father's last weeks?
What does it mean that our loved ones speak in metaphors?
What did her father's metaphor of the big art show mean?
Who is Raymond Moody and what did she learn from him about people's last words
What is the meaning behind there is so much so in sorrow.
How Did the Final Words Project get started?
How many people have been interviewed?
What are signature metaphors?
What's the importance of things coming in threes or fours?
Why is mentioning boxes so common?
Why is transportation such an important metaphor and what does it mean?
What did Steve Jobs say as his final words?
What do circles have to do with anything?
Why is what we thought was nonsense, perhaps anything but?
What can we learn from neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman about dying and the brain?
What can we learn from Dr. Eben Alexander?
What were Roger Ebert's last words?
Is our first and final language unspoken?
What's the sunset day?
Do our loved ones often come out of a coma just before they die?
What is terminal lucidity?
How common is after-death communication?
What does automatic writing have to do with after-death communication?
For More Info Visit: FinalWordsProject.org

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HOW TO SHIFT YOUR BRAIN INTO GENIUS MODE!!!! + Meditation! Olivia Fox Cabane & Judah Pollack| Health | Self-Help | Inspire Apr 04, 2017

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If you've ever wanted breakthrough ideas, and incredible creativity then do we have the Net and the Butterfly Show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Olivia Fox author of The Charisma Myth, and Judah Pollack, both former faculty members at Stanford's StartX and the authors of an incredibly creative and entertaining new book on breakthrough ideas, The Net and the Butterfly.

And that's just what I want to talk with them about today, about the art and practice of breakthrough thinking.

If you've ever wanted to find success, think outside the box, break-through paradigms, or re-invent your job, career, or life, then today's show is for you!

Breakthrough creativity Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What can we learn from Einstein and special relativity.
What's a breakthrough?
What's the difference between the executive network of the brain and the default network?
What can we learn from Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
What's the importance of switching back and forth between the Executive and the Default Network?
What does switching between the EN and the DN have to do with automatic writing?
What's the importance of sleeping on things?
What's the hypnagogic state?
What's the hypnopompic state?
What's the importance of each state and how do we get into each?
How do we access "genius mode"
What's the importance of mindless activities?
What's the importance of taking a shower or shaving?
What's the benefit of taking a walk?
Why do we want to change our environment?
What can we learn from Casablanca and We Are the Champions?
What's an exercise we can use to change our psychological environment?
What's the importance of nature for creativity?
What does LUMIAMI stand for and what's the breakthrough process?
What's the importance of Novelty
How do we practice brain plasticity
What's a great exercise to cultivate creativity in our mind
What do we do about our inner critic?
What are a few quick fixes for fear?
How do we reframe and bounce back from failure
What are supertools for creativity?
Why is a higher a purpose and altruism important
How does meditation and metta-kindness help with creativity?
What one exercise can you begin today to cultivate creativity?
For More Info Visit: TheButterfly.Net

THE POWER OF VISUALIZATIONS TO CREATE THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS!!! Marc Allen | Shakti Gwain | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Apr 03, 2017

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---Consider today's show the Law of Attraction in Action!---

If you've ever wanted to heal, overcome challenges, bring in more prosperity, or live the life of your dreams, then do we have the Creative Visualizations show for you.

Today I'll be speaking with Marc Allen, leader, writer, author, and composer and the co-founder of New World Library along with Shakti Gwain on her groundbreaking book, that's just hit it's 40th anniversary, with over seven million copies sold, Creative Visualizations.

Today we'll talk about Shakti Gwain's 8 million copy international best-selling book, and the creative visualization and affirmation techniques she teaches.

This is one of our all-time best interviews for sharing powerful techniques, rather than philosophy, on exactly how to do visualizations, how to do affirmations, and how to attract into your life whatever you desire.

Law of Attraction Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What happened to Marc Allen before his thirtieth birthday?
How did visualizations and affirmations completely turn things around?
What one exercise did Marc Allen do on his 30th birthday that was so incredibly powerful?
How do we do this exercise?
When did he meet Shakti Gwain?
How did they start writing an international best-seller?
What kind of creative visualization work did they do before publishing Creative Visualizations?
How did they print the first 2000 copies on borrowed money?
How did the book take off without any marketing or promotions, and what did visualization work have to do with it?
What's the power of affirmations?
What's the best way to use affirmations?
What are a few key pointers for affirmations?
What does it mean we have to dare to affirm?
What does it mean that energy is magnetic?
What are the best techniques for using creative visualizations?
What's the one single most powerful exercise we should try?
What's the "this or something better" statement?
What's the importance of relaxing?
What's the best time to visualize?
What are the four basic steps for effective creative visualization?
Does visualization mean you have to see a mental image?
What are the necessary elements for intention?
What's it mean to be connected with your higher self?
How do we overcome scarcity programming?
What one exercise can we begin today to bring about what we desire?
What's a self-appreciation meditation?
To find out more go to: NewWorldLibrary.com

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If you've ever wanted to reach your dreams or make great changes in your life, while feeling at your best, then do we have the pause on the mountain, ME time show for you!

Today we'll talk about stepping back, taking a break, assessing your situation, and figuring out the best ways to be you, and make great change.

And we talk about learning what it means to pause when you climb the mountain.

Jessica discusses her recent trip to North Carolina, what she hoped to gain, and why she structured it the way she did. In essence, it's about building a pause into your life, so that you can step back, re-evaluate, see where you're going, and how you want to get there.

If you're always on the go, you don't have time to come up with a good plan, and get stuck in the busy-ness of life. So today we talk about getting out of the busy-ness, and giving yourself the pause you need to build the life, and next steps to success (whatever that may look like) that you desire!

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What does it mean to take a break on the mountain?
Why is it necessary to take a pause before moving ahead in life?
Why do you want to stop the busywork when you're moving at full-speed
Why did Jessica take a break from interviews?
How did Jessica end up visiting Emerald Isle?
What did she hope to find when she was down there?
What was the importance of listening to the forest?
What did it mean to put pause into her days?
Why was it so important to add back freedom?
What was a John of God Crystal Bed?
What's the importance of doing things like massage or reflexology to put a pause in your day?
What in the world is aerial yoga?
What's the importance of daily meditation?
What did she learn about rebuilding your schedule and environment?
What did Jessica learn about doing subconscious work on forgiveness?
What was the importance of getting back out to nature and just being?
For More Info Visit: InspireNationShow.com

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If you've ever wanted to shift your life, discover what you're made of, and rock it toward your dreams, then do we have the deconstruction show for you.

Today we'll talk about deconstructing our lives, and tearing things down, in order to build something better.

We also talk about the power of getting uncomfortable, deconstructing & unraveling parts of your life in order to build something new.

We'll look at why discomfort serves you and can be a powerful, positive tool for direction and guidance in your life. We'll look at ways to manage your emotions, your time, to set priorities, and re-evaluate what's most important to you.

And we'll look at the spiritual significance of tearing down the old, in order to build the new.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What our ayurvedic body types have to do with anything?
Why you want to question everything and look at your limiting beliefs
How you can work to bring more space into your life
What's the importance of deconstructing your schedules to rebuild your life
What are deconstructions and how can they serve us?
Why disorienting can be a positive – and then how to reorient your life
What it means to make time for the deconstruction and reconstruction process
How to let go or heal your losses in order to be free and rebuild
What are closing rituals?
What's a technology Shabbat?
How do we use newfound time to serve our lives?
What it means to create space
What it means to be presence or mindful with your space and how you're engineering your life?
What it means to go with the flow, rather than trying to force doors open?
What it means to be between fear and flow – and what to do when you're there
What It means that done is better than great?
What it means to burn your telomeres, and why it's important to know
What's the importance of asking if something is serving you or not
What we can learn from Paul Sellig and his guides?
What's the book Michael Sandler has started writing
What does automatic writing have to do with anything
For More Info Visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com
What it means that everything is happening for us and through us, rather than to us
What's the importance of allowance in the decontruction process
What's the art of surrender

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

HOW TO OPEN YOUR THIRD EYE FOR INFINITE WISDOM & GUIDANCE! + Meditation! Ellen Tadd | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 29, 2017

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A beautiful interview with Ellen Tadd on how to connect with our consciousness, spirit, or higher self, how to get in alignment and be guided for our highest good!

You'll discover simple steps to opening your third eye, and how to use it.

And gain guidance, direction and insight, as learn how to see the world in a completely different way.

You may never look at the world in the same way again.

Personally, Michael speaking, this is one of this rare interviews where I'm now using her techniques daily, and will refer to them for years to come!

Third-Eye Opening Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How Ellen Tadd first began perceiving the world differently.
What happened when she told her dad she could see molecules
What was happening with her teachers growing up?
What happened to her mom, beginning when she was two.
How her mom's early death affected her.
What it means her mom gave her life at birth and vision at 17.
What is hand scrying and what does it have to do with anything?
How she learned she had a guide with her?
How do we start to discover who we truly are?
What's it mean to connect with our inner spirit?
What's an individual emphasis and the importance of gentle wisdom?
What's the First Error, and what's a karmic snowball?
What are cultural impediments?
What does it mean to change our focus?
How do we begin to perceive the world through our third eye?
What does it mean we're a solar plexus dominant culture, and how does this change when we open our third eye?
Why do we want to focus through the third eye?
What is attunement and what does it have to do with the third eye?
An exercise you can do right now to open your third eye.
A guided meditation to get yourself in attunement?
What's a unique and powerful three step meditation?
What's it mean to develop 3rd eye perception
How can you use 3rd eye perception to change your relationship with the world?
What's the Tadd technique?
How do we begin working with consciousness?
How is positivity our greatest protection?
What does it' mean to cultivate positivity?
What's the true importance of inspiration?
One homework assignment you can begin today.
For more info visit EllenTadd.com

TOP FIVE SIGNS YOU NEED A BREAK & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT! Google's Rachael O'Meara | Health | Fitness | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 28, 2017

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If you've ever felt overwhelmed burned out or stuck, then do we have the Pause for you.

Today I'll be talking with Rachael Oh'Mare ah, transformational coach, Google exec, a host of the Mindful Talks at Google program, US National rowing champion, and the author of a fantastic new book called Pause.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about harnessing the life-changing power of giving yourself a break.

She was a customer support manager at Google when she realized she was burned out and needed to reassess her path. The best way to do this was to take a "pause" a time out to create space for her inner voice to be heard and to align her actions to lead a more fulfilled life.

We'll talk about top signs you need a pause and what that may look like. We'll examine top types of pauses, how to take them, and even what to do when you only have a minute. Plus we'll even look at how to take a pause while single parenting!

Pause Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What is paid puppy leave?
How did Pizzeria Uno help her take her first pause in Europe?
What happened to Rachael five years ago while working at Google?
How was rowing, and she became a national champion, a means to pause?
How'd she end up at Double-Click?
How did she end up feeling like a floundering failure, and what were the options she was given?
What are the top five signs you need a pause
What her friend Kathleen told her when she first began her pause
What do yearnings have to do with taking a pause
What can we learn from her mentor's Bob and Judith Wright?
What can we learn from Judith right specifically about pauses?
What is some basic pause advice?
Why has Rachael dedicated her life to helping others find their pause?
What's the pause paradox?
What does it mean that a pause is about surrendering?
Why does a pause require courage?
How do we overcome the fear necessary to take a pause?
What's it mean to "busify" and how do we break this addiction?
What's a taser technique?
What can we learn about meditation and taking a pause?
How does mindfulness fit into the equation?
How can we take a pause in just a minute
What's a digital device pause?
What's a nature pause?
What can we learn from her experience at Burning Man?
How do we get back in alignment?
What homework can we begin today to bring more pause to our lives?
What can single parents do to give themselves a pause?
To find out more visit: http://www.rachaelomeara.com/

HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE EYES WIDE OPEN & CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY! Isaac Lidsky | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 27, 2017

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If you've ever been daunted or scared out of your mind, and had no idea how to overcome the obstacles you're facing then do we have the Eyes Wide Open show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Isaac Lidsky, Magnu Cum Luade from Harvard Law School, law clerk for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, entrepreneur, founder for Hope for Vision, teen star of Save by the Bell: The New Class, father of Triplets, and one of the most amazing, and inspiring people I've ever had the privilege of meeting, though I'm just meeting him now and he's the author of one of the most jaw dropping, unbelievable and inspiring books I have ever read, Eyes Wide Open.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about Overcoming obstacles and recognizing opportunities in a world that can't see clearly.

Isaac Lidsky knew he was going blind, while he played the new "Screech", or "Weasel" on the hit sitcom Saved by the Bell, the New Class. He raced to go back to school, get a degree and make a career for himself, assuming his life was over when he went blind.

Well, he went blind at 25, and yet instead of darkness, could see more than ever before. He had triplets, a harrowing endeavor for his wife and him alike, bought a multi-million dollar company that was plummeting through the floor, and somehow turned it around. And in the middle of it all, worked as a law clerk for the two female Supreme Court justices.

He has a powerful message to share on overcoming obstacles, and seeing way beyond your limitations, or living life Eyes Wide Open.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

When did he get his first TV commercial?
How'd he end up becoming Weasel on Saved by the Bell, The New Class?
How'd he end up going to Harvard at 16?
What was happening to his eyes at the time?
What does it mean that what we see is not real?
What is the bias that's taking place with our sight?
How was his blindness detected?
What happened after being diagnosed?
What was the fear like?
Why was the fear worse than the diagnosis?
What did he learn about fear by going blind?
What is awfulizing?
What happened after graduating from Harvard Law School?
How'd he end up working for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What happened to his plans for starting a family?
What were the 98 days spent in the hospital by himself and his wife
How did he end up with triplets and what was their harrowing ordeal?
How did he end up leaving law and buying a sinking company with three newborns?
What happened just weeks after buying the company?
What was the miracle that saved him from being completely wiped out?
How did blindness give him vision?
What did his wife do that helped him get through?
What does it mean that strength tested begets strength?
What did he learn about fear and how to view fear through the process?
What do we all need to know about fear?
What do we need to teach our kids about how to overcome obstacles and look at fear?
What homework would he give us to live our own lives Eyes Wide Open?
For More Info visit: http://www.lidsky.com/