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If you've ever struggled to get healthy, lose weight, or with chronic illness or inflammation, then do we have the Healthiest Diet on the Planet, show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Dr. John McDougall, fearless pioneer, author of several nationally best-selling books, and author of one of my new favorite diet-for-life books out there…The Healthiest Diet on the Planet.

And that's what we'll talk about today, why the foods you love, pizza, pancakes, potatoes and more, are the solution to preventing disease and looking and feeling at your best!

That plus we'll talk about the protein myth, the calcium myth, why grains may be the ultimate paleo, miracle men and starchivores, natural Viagra, why the gladiators were barley men, and the irony of learning the greatest health secret in the world, from the sugar cane fields.

Health and Nutrition Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What did the AMA do in 2015?
What was going on in the food world in the mid 1960's and how is it affecting us today?
What's the leading cause of tonsillitis?
How Dr. McDougall had a stroke when he was young
What he learned when doctoring multigenerational sugar-cane workers
What's the concept of 'food poisoning'
What is the 'healthiest diet on the planet'?
Why are animal products poisons?
What in the world you do not want to do with your kitty cat
What's wrong with ghee or clarified butter?
What's the truth about omega fatty acids?
Why there's no such thing as a protein deficiency?
Why there's also no such thing as a calcium deficiency on a natural diet.
What unique qualities have to do with business and marketing foods
What is the cause of many auto-immune disorders including lupus.
What's an ideal diet for kids?
What's the recommendation for B-12 in kids and for adults?
What's the Mcdougall mobile cookbook app
How you can still eat your brownies
doctormcdougall.com
Why eating livestock is one of the best ways to help save the planet

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HOW TO LIVE A PASSION-FILLED, PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE! + Meditation! Elizabeth Murray | Health | Inspiration | Career | Self-Help Oct 28, 2016

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If you've ever wanted to find more purpose, meaning, or direction in your life, or to live a life in full bloom, then do we have the purposeful show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Elizabeth Murray, best know for her work tending Monet's gardens for over 30 years and for the beautiful book Living Life in Full Bloom.

Today we'll be talking with her about Life Mapping the process of matching your passions with your skills and talents to help you get on track and make a difference in your life, your families life, and in the world!

So today she'll take you through the process, help you uncover your dreams, reignite your passions, and begin to see how you can get where you want to be!

That plus we'll talk about bird feeders, binoculars, feather collections (yup, I've got one) and how in the world you might make bird-watching, or any other feathery habit a colorful part of your life!

Questions and Topics Include

What is life-mapping?
How do we live on purpose?
Why working "hard" isn't the answer
What is life-mapping 101
What are supplies for life-mapping?
How do we discover our passions – and our talents
What are the benefits of looking back at your childhood.
Why you want to look at your skills and talents
How you want to see how you can contribute in the world.
What are some tips for introverts
How to begin making a life-map
What is your north star or your heart compass?
Can life-mapping be done with teens or kids coming out of college?
How to literally listen to our dreams to live the lives of our dreams
How the Achuar in the Amazonian Jungle are a 'dream people'

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f you've ever felt, spun, blendered, of tipped upside down, then do we have the unblenderizing show for you! Today we'll be talking about what to do when things are spinning out of control, how to get them back under control, how to recognize what's going on, when to runout, and when to duck for cover. That plus we'll talk about a day made heaven, youtube milestones, intimidating weight-lifters, what to do when you've just got to BREATHE and what to do, when your ego goes mad!

Inspiring Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What's a day made in heaven?
Why the answer's often just around the next corner
Why it's so important to take a vacation
What we can learn from group challenges
Why things are not always under our control
What to do when things are spinning out of control
What are CJ's coping mechanisms when things are out of control
What does collective energy mean for each of us?
Why we make panicked decision when the collective energy is nervous
How to keep from getting sucked into the nervous energy all around me
What it means for your ego to go mad
Why you want to throw yourself outside, and when
What are your inner-child landmines, and what to do when you hit one
Why our electronics tend to go, when we're falling apart
What's the importance of coming from a place of heart
What's the importance of taking care of others and yourself during trying times
What does gentle, tender, and kind have to do with anything
What's the importance of stretching in your life
Who is the Body Language Guy?
What to do when your body wants to hide
What gestures mean about lifting, opening, and boosting your confidence and what we can learn from Amy Cuddy
What happened to Jessica at the gym
How to become mindful and aware of becoming small, and how to keep from going small
What's the importance of coming from the core?
What it means to be the eye of the storm?
What's the total life benefit of starting with the core?
What it means to go slow to go fast
Why are women and girls often such amazing swimmers
How to go farther and faster by doing less!
For More on CJ visit FireItUpWithCJ.com

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If you've ever wondered if you're gonna make it, how you're gonna make it, or how in the world to vault past your hurdles, then do we have the Everything Is Possible Show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Jen Bricker, one of the most energized and inspiring people I've ever met, and I haven't even met her yet! She's an incredible athlete, gymnast, areal artist (she's even toured with Britney Spears) and much more, and the author of an incredibly inspiring read, Everything is Possible.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about finding the faith & courage to follow your dreams.

That plus we'll talk about pink power rangers, the power of Alf, a trampoline and popcorn, the importance of the Lion King, lifeguard rescues by Robie , the importance of Hardees ham and cheese sandwiches with the white cheese instead of the yucky orange, and why in the world you don't want to leave your legs in the bathroom.

Inspiring Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

Why Can't is not in her family's vocabulary
What are words without actions?
What's the importance of the little red wagon?
How she went on intuition as a 5 year old girl
How her trampoline work helped her in life
Why she couldn't even comprehend disabled sports
How she went to championships and the junior Olympics in tumbling
What's the importance of the apple-tree in her back yard.
How she has an external gear and an internal, more contemplative or spiritual gear
What's the significance of hot ham sandwiches
Why you don't want to get hard on yourself, but where it can come from
What we can learn from Mark Woylnn and Inherited Family Trauma, called It Didn't Start with You
How she ended up at Disney
How did she prepare to put herself into the zone for shows performing with Britney Spears
How she found her adoptive family and the Olympian who was her sister
What are faiths and gifts
Can everyone cultivate a level of greatness inside of yourself
What it takes for greatness
What a happy life really means?
What it means to love yourself, and how has love changed her life?
What does intuition and spirituality look like to her?
How can you surrender from a place of strength?
How has she dealt with fear?
What does mind over matter mean to her? Aka mindfulness and mental strengthening
What does prayer and meditation look like for her (what's her spiritual practice)?
Advice for parents and children?
jenbricker.com and her book Everything is Possible
What it means that everything is possible???

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If you've ever struggled with wealth, and wondered why in the world others can get it, but no matter how hard you try or focus on it, it just doesn't come your way, then do we have the show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, Editor of one of my new all-time favorite books, by one of my favorite authors. It's The Miracle Power of Your Mind: The Joseph Murphy Treasury a compilation of 24 all-time favorites by Joseph Campbell, including The Power of Your Subsconscious Mind, Believe in Yourself, Fear Not, and Riches Are Your Right.

Today we'll talk about the power of the mind, and your subconscious to create anything you desire. We'll look at how it works, how to use it, what you don't want to do, and even the best ways to pray!

That plus we'll talk about surgery without anesthesia, the power of magnetized steel, and why in the world, you want to daydream while you're in a sleepy state!

Questions and Topics Include:

Why physical books are not dead
How did Mitch get interested in Joseph Murphy's work
What one concept from Joseph Murphy does Mitch keep coming back to?
How Joseph Murphy came to metaphysical philosophy and the positive thinking movement nearly a century ago
How the Power of Your Subconscious Mind sold 20 million copies
What is a good way to prayer (or ignite the energies of your own mind)
1. Why "Mind" and God may be seen as synonymous
What is the power and importance of "faith"
What is the importance of "confidence"
What ethics has to do with confidence
Why it's so important to cultivate a 'sense of success' and why it's so important to consort with people who build your success
A powerful piece of advice Olivia Newton John once had for young artists
What's the importance of the subconscious mind
What's the difference between the conscious objective mind and the much deeper engine
Is there a difference between Joseph Murphy's view of the Universe and The Secret
What Mitch's differences are with Rhonda Byrne about the Secret, and why Mitch applauds her for making it.
Why choice is so important and powerful in our lives
How do we turn things over to the subconscious?
What makes an effective affirmation?
What's the power of the placebo effect, and the mind-blowing results Harvard researchers found in 2010.
Why does Joseph Murphy believe Wealth is a state of mind.
Why Joseph Murphy says it's 'appropriate to pray for money'
How life is a kind of circuit and why you need the 'circuit to be complete'
What Joseph Campbell mean by "it's your right to be rich"
What are positive ways to affirm money
Why is it so important to cultivate your feelings?
Why it's so helpful to find ways to benefit all people
Why nothing is wrong with manifesting Mercedes
What does Joseph Murphy mean by "easy does it" which may have come from Alcoholics Anonymous's Bill Wilson
What is napitation and how naps can help for meditation
The importance of not straining
What does Joseph Murphy have to say about imagination (which is a term he got from Neville Goddard – who is perhaps Mitch Horowitz's favorite Positive Mind hero!)
Why "imagination is the engine of creation"
When do we start introducing this literature (New Thought Literature) to children
Find him at Mitchhorowitz.com
"What Do I Really Want" guided meditation

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If you've ever struggled to find your path, your purpose, or the meaning in your life, then do we have the You Are The One show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Kute Blackson, revolutionary teacher, speaker, and entrepreneur, and author of a life-transformative new book, I couldn't put down, You Are the One.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about a bold adventure in finding purpose, discovering the real you, and loving fully.

That plus we'll talk about, the importance of La La Land, a train in Bihar, stalking Spielberg, cliff jumping, turning down Hollywood, traveling on the camino, clark and the cow, making love to a post, the real power of giving bananas, and why in the world you need to chew your food 33 times.

Inspirational & Motivational Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

How his parents met and got engaged thousands of miles away, sight unseen!
How he ended up smuggled out of a coup to London
How Kute got obsessed by the purpose of life.
How he lost weight at 10 years old and began running every day
How we can start to bring out our inner greatness
Why we can all be great
How do we bring out our own potentiality?
How did Kute win a lottery for a green card to the United States
What's it mean to honor yourself and honor the vision
How he got to the US
How'd he end up going to India
How did he turn down Hollywood for a TV show?
How did he stalk Steven Spielberg?
What happened to him in a train station in Bihar, India
What's a liberation experience, and what happened with Clark in India
What's it mean to be a lion, looking like a mouse
Why do we play it small?
What happened with Clark and a Cow
What's it mean to learn our lessons and evolve
What can we learn about love?
youaretheonebook.com and find out about www.boundlessblissbali.com

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If you've ever wanted more long-term, genuine happiness, and positivity in your life, then do we have the Blue Sky show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Zen Master Joseph Emet, who's trained under Thich Nhat Hanh, has a doctorate in Music from BU, and is the author of Buddha's Book of Sleep, along with several beautiful others, and a new favorite mindfulness book of mine, Finding the Blue Sky.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, a mindful approach to choosing happiness here and how.

That plus we'll talk about practicing Laziness, a BEEing meditation, becoming a professional smiler, the difference between thinking and meditating, where in the world are the happiness police, and why in the world you don't want to keep poison ivy, thorns or crabgrass in your house.

Mindfulness & Happiness Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

Who is a professional smiler?
What can we learn from the Dalai Lama
What can we learn about smiling from Thich Nhat Hanh
How physical activity can help you be mindful and in the moment
Why happiness does not depend on your parents
How does mindfulness help us with disappointment and our expectations
How is freedom a Buddhist virtue and what does it mean
What the Buddha means about the sense of self that's more like a prison
How do we self-soothe with prayer or meditation?
What's it mean to go for the honey?
What does it mean to cultivate the garden of your heart and how is the Buddha doing so
Why you can't meditate with negative emotions – and why you need to be in a positive state of mind
Why Buddhist meditation is biased to positivity
How do we get to a place of contentment
What's the difference between being positive and positively annoying?
What's wrong with the rah-rah positivity books
How do we water the seeds of happiness?
How music helps exalt the mind
What is 2 weeks of compliments?
How do we stop driving with the brakes on?
What's it mean to become need smart?
What's it mean to practice 'laziness'
How does Thich Nhat Hanh promote laziness?
What are some of the do's and don'ts of meditation?
What's the power of the word yes?
What's the global world calculator?
To find more from Joseph Emet mindfulnessmeditationcentre.org
What's the value of a 3 minute meditation or meditation practice song break

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HOW TO RELIEVE PAIN & STRESS THRU MINDFULNESS!!! + Meditation! Vidyamala Burch | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 22, 2016

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If you've ever experienced chronic pain, illness, or discomfort, then do we have the YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAIN show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Vidyamala Burch, best-selling author of numerous books including Living Well with Pain and Illness, and the co-author of a very special new book, You Are Not Your Pain.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today. About using mindfulness to relieve pain, reduce stress, and restore well-being.

That plus we'll talk about being why you want to be a yacht, not a dinghy, taming the mustang of our mind, coffee meditations, what in the world happened to Roseto, the power of smiling, voluntary calf burning, and why more guys hit on the girls, when they're swaying from a bridge.

Mindfulness Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's happened in Vidyamala's family recently
What happened to Vidyamala at 17 in New Zealand
What happened when she was in an intensive care ward?
How'd she start working with Jon Kabat Zinn
How mindfulness and meditation began to help with the pain
How a Buddhist meditation retreat also began to help
How she developed a Mindfulness Based Pain Management program through a company called Breathworks
What was the significance of starting to help other people
What was a body meditation that she teaches in her book
What does gentle, kind, and tender have to do with meditation?
Why doesn't squashing pain or pushing it away work
What is the story of the arrow or the dart – from the Buddha
What's it mean to take the mustang of your mind?
What is secondary reactive pain?
How do we stop our secondary reactive pain?
What does pacing mean?
What is inner-strength and what does it have to do with mindfulness?
What's a zen Buddhist yielding mind
How do our brains automate for suffering?
What's a negativity bias?
What's a green zone and what is green zone 101?
What's the importance of nature and getting out into beauty?
How important is it to have a daily meditation practice, or simply a daily practice?
What are reminders to come back to the breath (and the power of the green dot)
What's the importance of non-judgment?
What's the balance between human beings and human doings?
What can we learn from Roseto Pennsylvania
breathworks-mindfulness.co.uk and www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk
What's the importance of making a random act of kindness
How do we flex the self-love muscle
What's the importance of smiling?
What is Mindfulness in Schools and what is .b?
What is FOFBOC?
What is a kindly breathing meditation?
A short guided meditation

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If you've ever wanted to feel better about living, feel great about life, leaves worries, guilt and heart-aches behind, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Alan Cohen a contributing writer for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and the author of 24 popular inspirational books, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog?

Today we'll be talking about his latest book, A Course in Miracles Made Easy.

We'll talk about moving from fear to love, how to go from a place of worry and concern, to one of joy, abundance, and happiness. And how to truly be at peace in the moment, no matter what arises.

That plus we'll talk about, Pete the Duck, authority figurines, lifestyles of the rich in spirit, and why God has memory issues.

(Plus a Guided Meditation)

Questions and Topics Include:

When was Alan first exposed to Course in Miracles?
How A Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore was written at the same time Alan was reading A Course in Miracles
How A Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore lifted and changed his mind of consciouisness?
How did Alan Cohen feel when he was reading A Course in Miracles?
How would Alan Cohen define A Course in Miracles
Why Alan Cohen wrote A Course in Miracles Made Easy – to help people understand and sift through A Course in Miracles
Where did A Course in Miracles come from and who scribed it?
Who was Bill Setford and Hellen Suttman
Was Hellen able to live A Course in Miracles after she scribed it?
Why a lot of medium's and channel's lives don't match their teachings
How A Course in Miracles isn't Christian, but is universal, even if written a bit in Christian language
How the Lesson of A Course in Miracles is Love
Why A Course in Miracles is not the 'anti-Christ'
How we are all love
How we are all beloved
How no one has truly sinned
How everyone belongs to Heaven
How we are all Children of God
What happened with Cliff Kline and the robber
How do we choose love over fear?
How do we recognize we're going into a place of fear?
Who played the voice of God in Moses?
Why you don't want to play it small and choose to be little
What's the difference between the small self and the great self?
Any exercises we can do on a moment to moment basis to cultivate our greatness
A technique from Christian Almayrac – Dr. Happiness
What does it mean to Get Real?
Why the world we think is real is actually the inside-out, upside down world
Why we don't want to 'get real'?
Why the Wright Brothers were told to 'get real'?
Why Alan Cohen doesn't work with realists, but instead visionaries.
Why Anwar Sadat only works with miracles
How the ego is scared bleepless by a change from the status-quo
Why the unknown is where the advancement takes place.
What Pete the Duck has to do with anything
Why it's ultimately important and extremely vigilant to watch our thoughts
Why you want to watch out for going down the rabbit hole of dark thinking
How Jersey Al used to still be alive and well
What's a great pattern breaker to let emotions go?
How we are all one and how we always meet ourselves wherever we go
What is an authority figurine?
How Mother Teresa stopped a war to save kids in Beirut during the war
How the only power is spirit
What does A Course in Miracles say about guilt and sin
Why there is no sin, only errors
Why God has memory issues – and sees only our love!
What are lifestyles of the rich in spirit?
How John Robbins wrote the Pulitzer Prize nominated Diet for a New America
What Steve Jobs said about the spiritual value vs. material value
How do you be a miracle worker?
What advice would you give for parents based on A Course in Miracles
Alancohen.com and now doing a life-coach training for people who want to become personal life coaches
Beautiful short guided meditation

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If you've ever felt disempowered or overwhelmed by the affirmations, afformations, meditations, law of attraction, journaling, chanting, automatic writing, tapping and more, when all you want to do is feel better, or head toward your dreams, then do we have the kind-and-easy self-help show for you!

Today we'll talk about where to begin, how to start, and how to keep from getting on the self-help treadmill to nowhere, stuck chasing your cheese.

That plus we'll talk about laying on the grass, enjoying the sun, the power of de-cluttering, little trips and dips, daily habits, and why Hawaii isn't just a state of mind.

Empowering Self-Empowerment and Self-Help Topics Include:

What anger may really mean
What's it mean to not trust the process
Why you don't want to give your power away
What it means to give your power away to a medical practicioner and what Anita Moorjani has to say about it
How can an inheritance be giving power away (or strings attached)
What can you do to regain or retake your power
What's a prisoner mentality?
What pain in the body, and in particular the back, can tell us
What's a redo or a reboot?
Where do you go when you're struggling or feel disempowered?
What it means to step back and listen to the message
What it means to slow down, and what it means to lay in the grass
What running fast, or too fast, has to do with anything and how running can be a metaphor
What's the spiritual significance of 'moving too fast'
What we can learn from Mark Wolynn's book, It Didn't Start with You.
What it means to have a lack of sensation in your body
What affect traumas have epigenetically on you from your grandparents
What uncontrollable tears can mean
What we can learn about the Five Elements from Dondi Dahlin
What's the importance of getting yourself out into the sun
What's the power of the sun at sunrise and sunsets
What's the importance of SAD lamps
What it means to bring the gentleness into the pace
What's the importance of self-care and spirituality of not taking things too seriously
What's the importance of decluttering
What it means to change your Luna Sandals!
What running with speed and flying along has to do with empowerment, spirituality, and our lives
What we can learn from Joshua Becker, The More of Less
Who is The Clutter Buster (Brooks Palmer)
What's the power of micro-habits
What's it mean to start with one – whether meditation, affirmation or anything else
What's a 29 day experiment and why is it important?