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HOW TO RELEASE CHRONIC PAIN & BACK PAIN - FOR GOOD!!! + Meditation! Dr David Hanscom | Health | Fitness | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 04, 2017

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If you've ever struggled with chronic pain or back pain, or thought surgery was the only answer, then do we have the Back in Control show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Dr. David Hanscom, a complex-deformity spine surgeon of over thirty years, and the best-selling author of Back in Control.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about a roadmap to get out of chronic pain, and WITHOUT surgery.

That plus we'll talk OCD and panic attacks, shopping for used cars, jumping off cornices, migraines and the fourth of July, flat tires and labeling, how not to think of white bears, and what in the world we can learn from your daughter jaz, a tango party, and 20 dollars.

Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

What are the three steps out of chronic pain?
What is a neurophysiologic disorder?
What are imbedded pain pathways?
What's the importance of sleep?
What's expressive writing?
What's the relationship between anger and chronic pain?
When did Dr. Hanscom start having panic attacks?
What were the writing exercises Dr. Hanscom started doing for healing?
What's the gift of "extreme suffering"
What's the chronic pain patient's dilemma?
Are emotional and physical pain equivalent?
What happened shortly after Dr. Hanscom completely orthopedic residency?
What is active meditation?
What's the importance of mindfulness?
What's the importance of play?
What's the importance of gratitude?
What's the importance of forgiveness?
What's the power of commitment?
To find out more visit: http://www.backincontrol.com/

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If you've wanted to feel more awake, alive, on purpose, and energized, then do we have the show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Cara Badley, former team rollerblade pro skater, mental-strength coach, the founder of Verge Yoga, and co-founder of the non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement which provides mindfulness programs to schools in Philadelphia, host of the podcast Real Women, Courageous wisdom, and the author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show up and Shine.

Today we'll talk about how you can do just that, turn your life in a high definition, high voltage, on purpose experience. on purpose living with greater focus, energy, clarity and joy.

That plus we'll talk about climbing mount cardigan, skating central park, how to problem solve through walking, what in the world are sticky people, what's a sloppy brain, crazy busy, and why you don't need to force a frog pose, in order to feel good about yourself.

Questions and Topics Include:

How do you teach Villanova football players yoga?
What happened in her last track race as a Division 1 800 sprinter.
What shifted her permanently?
What athletes at peak moments are typically thinking about.
What is a verge?
What does 'let me do' mean?
What is a 'direct experience'?
What is living in High Definition
How she went from a professional skater to an investment banker back to professionally skating (for Team Rollerblade) again.
What is experiencing our life with high voltage energy
What is a simple way we can get more into a high voltage moment
What is skygazing?
What's the importance of shivasana?
Why Gentle is the New Strong
Why You Can't Get to Peace through Push
What we can learn from running to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
What is a sloppy brain?
What's a practice to ground yourself when you're in sloppy brain?
What's the importance of letting go of judgment?
What's the importance of the practice of being kind to yourself (with tenderness and humor)
What Scott McBride taught her about being kind.
What is the 'finding your love object' practice
What does it mean to show up right now?
Why drama drains and focus fuels
What are sticky situations and sticky people?
Lessons from Cayman
What does it mean to be fearless?
What's the importance of loving yourself?
Why loving kindness is the 'essential oil'
What advice for parents to help kids be more 'on the verge'?
Website: CaraBradley.net
1. On site will be info for free On The Verge app
2. Guided meditation primer practices
3. Yoga Videos
4. Moving Meditation
A guided 'be kind' meta meditation practice

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you're itching to get outside, enjoy the sun, then do we have the spring-fever show for you!

Today we'll talk about harnessing the energy of growth and change for the spring, to make great changes in your life, and leap ahead.

That plus we'll talk about making a sprint for the trails, sending loved ones out of town, and what in the world's a puppy cat???

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the energy or shift that takes place once things warm up
What's the importance of getting out into nature?
What's the excitement that takes place for the springtime
What's the difference in energies between the different seasons
How does the weather affect our energy levels
What does astrology say about different days for starting businesses and making big decisions
What can we learn from Natasha Alter about astro-cartography?
What we can learn from biodynamic farms and Rudolph Steiner
What different times to plant means for our lives
What in the world is a puppy-cat?
What we can learn from a study about a guy picking up girls at a park!
What we can learn from William Bridges and the different seasons
What's the importance of a growth phase
How to honor the season you're in
What it means to truly drop the judgment
How to be in a sweet special place in meditation
What it means to jump off the bridge and gone into the silence
What is gazing in meditation
What's the energy of moving
What's the importance of taking steps, even if you don't know where you're going
What we can learn from Tama Kieves and A Year without Fear.
Why you don't need to know every step before moving forward
What are the energy shifts that can take place when you start moving forward
What it means to put head over heart.
For more Info Visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com.

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If you've ever wanted a completely different way to look at, perceive, and connect with the world, then do we have the Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Stephen Harrod Buhner author of Herbal Antivirals, Herbal Antibiotics and at least 17 other books including one of the most important, profound, and paradigm shifting books I've ever read, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, our connection to the natural world, how to cultivate a completely a completely new realm awareness, and what it means for our day-to-day lives.

That plus we'll talk about Barbara McClintock, Tom Sawyer Syndrome, butterflies and first grade, sharing a metaphysical moment with grandpa, Lyme disease and Japanese knotweed, White Pine, and Clark's Nutcracker and what in the world can happen if it's the sixties and you long hair in Texas.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the importance of Einstein's words "We can't solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"?

What does it mean to look with luminous or child-like eyes?
What happened to people with long hair in Dallas in the sixties?
What are emancipation papers?
What did he learn from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?
What do butterflies have to do with Nazi concentration camps?
How do we abandon our preconceptions?
What does it mean to see and hear in the old way?
What does it mean to truly become aware?
What are the challenges with science and a deconstructionist way of perception?
How do we override our gating, or our limited scope of awareness?
What does it mean to shift our consciousness?
How do we develop our senses?
What does it mean to follow golden threads?
What do indigenous cultures understand about awarenss?
Where does imagination fit into awareness?
How do we see what is right in front of us, rather than merely looking at it?
What is seeing with caring or seeing with friendship?
To find out more visit www.gaianstudies.org

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If you've ever wanted to shine bright and live your life to the fullest, then do we have the dive into the unknown show for you!

Today we'll talk about the power of the unknown, stepping off the cliff, and why going where you've never gone before can be so powerful and enlightening.

That plus we'll talk about heading south, dolphins and beaches, looking inward, belly rubs and lounging in the sun, potato chips and core work, and what in the world skateboarding on volcanos has to do with anything!

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How to stay out of old programming
How to find your voice
How to be brave and put yourself out there
What surfing dolphins have to do with anything
How to surf the wave of intention
How moving can promote great change
Why stepping into the unknown can be so powerful
How moves can be paradigm shifts, and promote paradigm shifts
How to visualize and manifest
What "or something better" has to do with anything
Why it's important to put specific requests out to the universe
What it means to step into the unknown or something better
How do you get comfortable with the uncomfortable
What it means to strengthen the muscle of stepping into the unknown
What's the incredible importance of a first step
What do breadcrumbs have to do with anything
Why it takes "failing" to be able to move ahead
What's the mourning period before you can dive into the magic
What it means to be pivoting toward your dream?
What we can learn from Tama Kieves and A Year Without Fear
What it means to break free from the cocoon?
What's the importance of dropping attachment to step into the magic

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you've wanted to live an inspired life and leave the fear behind, then do we have Inspired and Unstoppable show for you!

Today I'll be speaking with Tama Kieves, visionary heroine, best-selling author, honors graduate of Harvard law school, best-selling author, and the author of an inspiring new book A Year Without Fear!

And that's just what I want to talk with her about, about how to live an inspired life, leave your fear behind, and what we can do to become Inspired and Unstoppable.

That plus we'll talk about the revelation vacations, the paradise café, playing it safe and law school, artistic spirit apartments, secret doctors and Chinese Restaurants, doodling in village inns, impulse shopped at the Tattered Cover, and what in the world serving chicken fingers and onion rings, has to do with anything!

How do we get clarity on what we want to do?
Why do we suffer until we live our dreams
What's it mean to relax and receive?
What's the importance of a slowdown?
What's an undoing process?
What's the importance of forgiving yourself?
What's the importance of patience?
What does it mean to live an extraordinary life?
What's the importance of a daily journaling?
What's the importance of commitment or being true to ourselves?
How do we get over fear?
What are several key learning's about A Course in Miracles
What does it mean to go all in?
What's the danger of being "realistic"?
What does it mean to live "unreasonably"?
What's it mean to show up with love no matter what?
What does it mean to follow the breadcrumbs?
How is self-love a brave act?
How do we honor ourselves for being just where we are?
What does it mean that love is at the wheel?
To find out more: TamaKieves.com

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you've ever wanted to feel more love in your heart and spirit all around you, then do we have the special show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Radhanath Swami a world-renowned spiritual leader and the best-selling author of The Journey Home, Autobiography of an American Swami, and the author of one of my new favorite spiritual books, The Journey Within.

Today we'll be talking about attaining divine love and living a more spiritual existence in each and every moment.

That plus we'll talk about cave dwelling in the Himalayas, the yoga of cooking, the secret of redwoods, hanuman's tail, and what we can all learn from monkeys!

Self-Help & Self-Improvement Topics and Questions Include:

What happened to his mother with a monkey near Mumbai
Understanding the monkey mind
The importance of treating a sentient being with compassion and love
In his first book, The Journey Home, how he tells the story of his travels to India and through the Himalayas, and how he spent time with a Saddhic Kaleshbaba, and what he taught him about living in the jungle
What's the importance of seeing other people and other things as children of God, with compassion and respect.
What the true wisdom is of seeing everyone with equal vision
How do we answer the question, who am I?
What's it mean to live in sacred space?
How we're affected by the people we're with, and our environment – important self-help tip!
What is the spiritual definition of 'success' and what we can learn from Hanuman
How to find love
What's the spiritual importance of satsang, or associating with uplifting people?
What's the spiritual practice of satana? (How yoga is a method of doing this too)
What is sadichar – living in a spirit of service and character?
About Hrishikesh and Reika
How we would treat people differently if we viewed people as gifts of God entrusted in our care
What he was given on the bank of a river that an orthodox hindu holy man had held onto for 40 years

For more info visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you've ever wanted a stronger, healthier heart, or to heal from heart-disease for good, then do we have the heart revolution show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Razi Berry, founder of the award winning journal naturopathic doctor news and review and the authoritative naturopathic resource for patients, thenatpath.com, and the creator of The Heart Revolution.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about the heart-body connection, and natural solutions to heal the heart, and keep it healthy in the first place!

That plus we'll talk about growing exotic fruit in the dessert, harry potter. herbs and magic, baking and chemistry, the power of unschooling, who in the world are Luna, Chocolate Milk, and Candy Licorice, and what in the world a Scottish Fold, has to do with anything!

Heart-Disease Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the real origin of heart disease?
What were your heart difficulties?
What happened to you in the hospital
How did you heal your heart
What happened with chronic fatigue and infertility?
How do you keep your heart open after tragedy?
What does it mean that the mind and body aren't separate?
What does bodyful mean?
What is the importance of nature for our hearts?
What is body awareness work?
How devastating is heart-disease to women?
What is going on with heart disease today
What does it mean people are dying of broken hearts
What does self-love have to do with anything
How can damage from the environment affect one's heart?
What does it mean that all healing is self-healing?
What does shame have to do with heart-disease?
What can we learn from Dr. Gerald Polluck about blood and the heart
What can we learn from Dr. Alan Christianson about the link between our heart and our adrenals
What can we learn from Dr. Joel Kahn about how to clean our arteries at any stage of heart disease (Note: he's considered the "sexiext Vegan Dr. Over 50!"
What can we learn from Jonathan Landsmann about the connection between oral health and heart health?
What can we learn from Dr. Knut Sroka about our heart's own bypasses
What do we need to know from Dr. Devra Davis about smart phones and health, and particularly our kids health
What can we learn from Dr. Rolling McCraty from the HeartMath Institute?
What can we learn from Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar about the impact of the environment on heart health?
If someone's been diagnosed with heart disease, where do they start?
To Find Out More Visit: http://www.TheHeartRevolution.Org

For More Info Visit: http://www.InspireNationShow.com

HOW TO TAP INTO YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT THRU GARDENING! + Meditation! Fran Sorin | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Feb 24, 2017

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If you've ever wanted a creative endeavor or the garden of your dreams, then do we have the Digging Deep show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Fran Sorin, coach, author speaker CBS radio news and Huffington Post contributor and the best-selling author of Digging Deep.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about unearthing your creative roots through gardening!

That plus we'll talk about Tallulah Bankhead, catching slugs, hunting for goblins, Irish Spring soap and old nylon pantyhose, taking risks and Robinia tress, and what in the world Locky Lee Boom Boom, has to do with anything!

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What does the 'flow' state have to do with creativity?
What does it mean to live creatively?
How did she end up in, and then out of broadcast media
Why did she write Digging Deep?
What's the importance of observing
What's a nature journal and what are nature walks
How can nature stimulate your creativity
What's wrong with asking someone what they want?
How do you discover your wishes?
How do we open up to new possibilities?
What does it mean to envision?
What can we learn from Henry David Thoreau?
What's the benefit of limits and boundaries?
What's the importance for kids in experimenting?
What's the importance of living with ambiguity?
How do we create an outdoor haven for butterflies?
What does Irish Spring Soap and old nylon pantyhose have to do with anything
What would it look like to replace our lawns with native grasses?
When's the best time to cut fresh flowers?
How do we grow the best tomatoes?
What's the importance of sharing?
What's the importance of celebrating?
What is unschooling?
For more info visit: Fransorin.com

For More Info Visit: http://www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you've ever wanted more focus in your life then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll talk about finding your focus whether in the minute to minute day to day, or for the long haul.

That plus we'll talk about the power of packing, free classes galore, books, books, what to do with books, and what living on the beach, has to do with anything!

Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

How to be focused
What are ways to make you the most focus
What's the importance of getting clear of your outcome
How to build your focus muscles
Key time management skills
What is a Time Timer and how can it help?
What's the importance of rewards?
What's a great way to keep track of your daily to-do's.
How to get unstuck if you're in a task
How to work with your energy's up and downs through the day
What's the importance of momentum
What it means to be on a railroad track – and what's the difficulty of switching tracks
How to protect your thought bubbles – to keep from losing thoughts
What's the importance of little moments of refocusing?
What's the importance of making your schedule mindless?
How you can use your transition time to your advantage?
What's the importance of getting up early, even if you feel you're a late-night person
What's the importance of internal time
Where does mindfulness and meditation fit into the focus equation?
What is internal tai chi and how can it help?
To find out more visit: FireItUpwithCJ and www.InspireNationShow.com