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Discover the Microbiome Solution & Get Healthy from the Inside Out! Dr. Robynne Chutkan | As on Dr. Oz | Self-Help | Inspire Aug 20, 2016

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If you've ever had stomach problems, digestion issues, constipation, a bloated belly, irritable bowel syndrome, or autoimmune disorders than do we have the gut healing show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Dr. Robynne Chutkan, one of the countries most recognizable gastroneterologists and the best-selling author of Gutbliss, the Bloat Cure, and her latest book The MicroBiome Solution.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, a radical new way to heal your body from the inside out, by healing your gut.

That plus we'll talk about hookworm therapy, the power of parasites, why you want your kids dirty, skipping showers, pharmageddon, the transformative power of goats, why you just might want to smell your son or daughter, the power of poop, and what your orthopedist dad will tell you to do, whether you've got a sprained ankle or the flu.

Gut Bliss and Microbiome Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's going on with our guts and our microbiome
What she learned growing up in Jamaica with a Hindu dad and guts
What cryptosporidiosis is and what is giardia and why are they triggering post-infection irritable bowel syndrome
What antibiotics are doing to our micribiome
Why antibiotics beget antibiotics and sinus infections
Why you want to check out the Dr. Terry Wahls protocol
What we now know about nutrition and the gut
What do we know about dairy
Are antibiotics in the water?
What's wrong with chlorine in the water?
What's wrong with hand-sanitizer
What is dysbiosis
What's the danger of NSAIDS –
What's the danger of birth-control?
What are wrong with low-calorie sweeteners?
Why artificial sweeteners are a risk for diabetes
What Dr. Michele Segar (author of No Sweat) can teach us for motivation
How sugar decreases your ability to fight infection
Why is the gut causing belly fat or us to get fat
What's a fecal transplant?
What's the danger of a diet?
What is rosacea and how do carbs affect it
What all carbs are not created equal
What are green bananas
What's wrong with sodium lauryl sulfate
What happened with her daughter
For more from Dr. Chutkan visit Twitter @drchutkan and gutbliss.com

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If you've ever had things go off track, off kilter, or come completely off the rails, then do we have the re-railing show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Jessica Lee about overcoming hurdles, getting out of the muck and the mire, and getting back on track…and making the best of it.

That plus we'll talk about potatoes gone bad, boats that float away, and why towels over litter boxes, make the best pillows.

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

What it means that everything happens for a reason
What's the power of prayer and when do you want to do it
What's the power of surrender
What are important wake-up calls for us
Why we need to let go of what doesn't serve us
What is the Dark night of the soul
- What Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about when it comes to a dark night of the soul
Why dark nights of the soul can be very helpful for you
How emotion can help you pivot
How these dark moments can be tremendous opportunities in disguise
What's a cosmic detox
Can dark moments be avoided
What Master Shen calls creative angst
Why you don't want to watch the #'s if you have a podcast
What is coherence and what can we learn from Howard Martin and Dr. Joe Dispenza about heart coherence
How you can shift the energy state of those around you.
What we can learn about flow from Bill Russell and the Celtics
What Michael's experienced about being in the zone when on his runs
Words of wisdom from HeartMath's Howard Martin from Heart Intelligence
What the monk Ajahn Brahm means about 'thank you, I deserve that'
What Simone Milasas means from the Joy of Business about being able to receive.

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HOW TO FIND MORE CONFIDENCE & FAITH - EVEN WHEN SHAKING IN YOUR BOOTS! CJ Liu | Inspiration | Career | Self-Help | Inspire Aug 18, 2016

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If you've ever felt, nervous, scared, at wit's end, or completely unsure what to do, then do we have the faith restoring show for you.

Today we'll talk about faith, what it is, where to find it, and why it might be hiding in Bablyon.

That plus we'll talk about wrong turns gone right, the benefits of family reunions, swimming in cold water, wearing bug-eye glasses, why the rockiest trails might just be the best for you, and why when hit by a lull or a header, you want quickly bear off a few degrees, make sure you sheet in hard, and that your Cunningham's tight.

Confidence and Faith Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

What it means to be questioning your faith
What it means to be doubling back in life?
What we can learn from Dimitri Moraitis
How living life is all about having experiences
And how 'bad experiences' are part of your soul's evolution
Is it wrong to feel a lack of faith in the moment?
What's the difference between short-term and long-term faith
Why it's so important to keep taking stpes, even, or especially if you're having a lack of faith
What's a dark night of the soul
What it means to be coherent, and why it's so important
What technique you can use to discover you're on track when you feel you're off.
What does closure have to do with faith and spirituality
What we can learn from family reunions
How Michael uses Tibetan Long Gom Pa spiritual breathing techniques to heat up in cold water and in snow
How Clark Allen used prism glasses to overcome a traumatic brain injury
How Meir Schneider teaches we can retrain our eyes and our minds by strengthening our eyes
What do running rocky trails have to do with faith?
What we can learn about faith from sailing, or getting a sail boat
Why you never know in the moment how much something will change you.

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THE INCREDIBLE 'BRAIN POWER' OF THE HEART & HOW TO HARNESS IT! + Meditation! Howard Martin – Heart Math | Self-Help | Inspire Aug 17, 2016

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Today I'll be talking with Howard Martin, one of the founders of Heart Math with Doc Childre and the co-author of The HeartMath Solution, considered a definitive work on the intelligence of the heart, and his latest work Heart Intelligence.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about Connecting with the Intiuive Guidance of the Heart to help you be more coherent, on purpose, and in harmony with your heart and mind, and all that you do.

That plus we'll talk about card table antics, dogs and horses, the power of freeze-frame, how to change the world, and why in the world hiking by yourself in the Santa Cruz mountains just might make them taller than they already are.

Heart Intelligence Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the energy of old-growth Redwoods
How HeartMath is beginning to monitor the energy in the Redwoods and fluctuation and changes in the energetics of these trees
How did Howard Martin end up working with Doc Childre
What Heart Intelligence is
How Howard went from being a musician to studying consciousness
How they began doing research on the heart
What exactly is heartmath, and where does it come from
What is Heart Rate Variability?
How is the heart communicating with other systems in the body?
What is heart rate variability analysis and why is it so important?
What happens when we're running the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems at the same time
What it means to get in a state of coherence and how do we do this
Do couples sync up together?
The story of Josh and Mabel (a boy and a dog) synching up
What HeartMath learned from a study by Dean Radin, PhD out of the Institute for Noetic Sciences
What is social coherence
What we can learn from Bill Russell of the Celtics being in the flow
A guiding meditation to transform your emotions
What do you do to overcome fear
What's the importance of self-love or self-compassion
Why if nothing else, it's so important to have compassion for yourself
What's the annual Heartmath event in the Maya Riviera heartmath.org to find out more.

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If you're looking for meaning or purpose in life, guidance and direction, or were simply touched by the book or movie The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and want to find out more, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be interviewing one of the most influential human potential authors of our time, Dan Millman, the run-away best-selling author of the book and movie The Way of the Peaceful Warrior along with more than a dozen more, and his most recent book, The Four Purposes of Life - Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World

Today we'll talk about Learning Life's Lessons, Finding Your Career and Calling, Discovering Your Life Path, and Attending to the Arising Moment.

In short, we'll learn how to become Peaceful Warriors and discover our path.

That plus we'll talk about Zen Sword Masters, 16 years to an overnight success, what we can learn from snood, and what in the world is unreasonable happiness?

Questions and Topics Include:

Why The Way of the Peaceful Warrior once went out of print.
How Dan Millman used Picasso's line: "art is a lie that helps us to see the truth"
Why doing cartwheels and somersaults doesn't help you much on a date.
Why it's the journey, not the destination, and what happens without a destination
What's the definition of success
What is the importance of presence, mindfulness (and meditation)?
What's the importance of a meaningful goal
Why the importance is NOT the specific goal, but the life lived on the way toward that goal.
Why the goal of life is not happiness à and what it REALLY is.
Why the earth is a divine school.
Why we repeat lessons if we don't learn them
What are the four purposes (like the directions of a compass) of life?
What's the difference between self-worth and self-esteem, and why self-worth is so important.
The importance of "How Good Can I Stand It Today!"
The importance of reclaiming our will.
How to take what we actually know and turn it into action.
What it's important to do after you dream big.
Several of Dan's books including: "Everyday Enlightenment"and "No Ordinary Moments"
Why he wrote 4 Purposes of Life.
Understanding the difference between career and calling
Why self-knowledge is so important
How this affects us and our life path: The difference between what we want to do and what we THINK we should do.
Why Dan liked girls who didn't like Dan.
What's the trinity of needs and why it's so important
What is time-travelling with your subconscious mind or time-lining, and why it's so helpful for decision making.
Dan Millman goes through timelining with us.
Who was MB?
What are the final two books Dan Millman is writing?
Who are the four primary mentors of Dan Millman?
What a life purpose calculator is and how to use it.
How to determine the core purposes of your life
What's the most important lesson Dan Millman wants us to get.
Why we shouldn't second-guess or doubt ourselves
What is the warrior spirit?
Why being a warrior is not (necessarily) about fighting.
What the game of snood has to do with life.
What Zorba the Greek has to do with anything.

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If you ever feel like you're being squeezed, short on time, short on attention, and short on the bandwidth you need to make smart decisions, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Peter Bregman, best-selling author 18 Minutes: Find our Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, and his latest award-winning book Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want!

Today we'll talk about stopping the clock and finding the time to make smart decisions, how to take steps forward, and how to take the time to assess the situation, without taking so long the ship goes down.

We'll also talk about Ted Talks, Ditching the Need to be Perfect, returning iPads, when a missing Rabbi's a good thing, why an experience is better than a performance, why it's so important to keep from being in Sea Kayaker magazine and why getting flipped upside, pinned, and spun out in the grand-canyon can actually help you relax.

Questions and Topics Include:

How going through the "worst" can open you up and relax you.
Why it's useful to visualize failure (as well as success!)
Why life isn't about making things perfect
1. What the difference is between performance and experience.
What the importance is of four seconds and what it means to us.
The importance of hitting the pause button before and after an event.
Why Warren Buffet may make all of his wealth in 2-4 decisions a year.
What's our sweet spot, and why it's so important to find.
What the importance is of our sweet spot and why we need to find it.
Why it's not necessary to try and be liked to everyone, but why we should try and have compassion for everyone.
What happened with Peter's Ted Talk.
How Peter learned to ditch the idea of being perfect.
Why the world doesn't reward perfection, it rewards productivity (and why productivity is the enemy of perfection).
Why the combination of confidence and humility is so important and should be cultivated.
Why questioning your own assumptions can be a great thing
What the difference between confidence and arrogance is.
How to begin cultivating a sense of confidence in yourself.
What Peter's meditation practice is, and why it's so important.
Why even a short meditation will help you stay grounded and in a special place.
What the importance of a breath is.
Why the most present moment in meditation is the moment you realize you're not being very present.
What's the importance of being present
What's the importance of knowing the outcome of what you're going for
What's the big picture goal of Four Seconds?
We are not the people we are sometimes pretending to be.
How it can help us to show up more as the person we are, rather than someone we're pretending to be.
Why fighting a parking ticket may not be the answer.
And why arguing never works
Why listening may be the answer
Why there's so much evidence that if you're willing to give, it comes back to you.
Why you should tune into the the upcoming Bregman Leadership Podcast!

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If you want to live the life of your dreams, overcome fears, and experience incredible joy and beauty in every moment…AND with more zeros in your bank account, and smiles in the bedroom, then this is the show for you!

We interview Marc Allen, author of Tantra for the West and one of the most successful independent publishers in the world. We discuss how he achieved his dreams, and guiding principles to help you achieve yours, while finding happiness and incredible abundance.

Marc co-founded New World Library (with Shakti Gawain) and has guided the company, as president and publisher, from a small start-up to its current position as a major player in the publishing world, publishing life-changing books such as those by Eckhart Tolle author of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment and Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams.

We discuss tantra, or pure mindfulness in every moment, and how to use it to truly achieve your dreams. We discuss finding your passion, overcoming fear, moving past "failure", and discovering happiness in every moment. Plus we discuss what Tantra means in the bedroom, and how you can take peak experiences with you throughout your day.

And we discuss why you don't need to be broke, just because you're spiritual. As an incredibly successful multi-millionaire who entered his 30's spiritual but broke, he shares tips for getting rich while doing what you love, and without sacrificing who you are or your spiritual beliefs.

If you've ever wanted to succeed or find greater inner peace and happiness, than this is the interview for you!

Learn how to live the life of your dreams, and experience the beauty of every moment! You'll leave with tools you can put in place right away, to start bringing a bigger smile to your face, and more zeros to your bank account. For according to Marc, you can scrounge for a hundred dollars, or a million, it's just up to how big you dream. And for Marc, he believes we can all dream higher, and can all succeed!

Additional Notes:

Marc Allen is the author of several books including:

He is an internationally renowned seminar leader, entrepreneur, author, and composer

Key Topics:

what is tantra?
Marc explains the outer, inner and secret levels of existence & how to uncover your "secret-ness"
how you can use "consciousness focusing" to dissolve emotional & physical pain
how Marc's time at a Tibetan Buddhist center taught him the power of affirmations
how Marc starts each day of his life
what Marc keeps in his "spiritual tool belt"
simple steps to settling arguments
how sex benefits everyone's consciousness, even those without a spiritual practice
how recalling "peak experiences" elevates your consciousness
the importance of alone time for Marc
how we are all given gifts to help complete the missions we are given in life
the techniques Marc used to go from a "poverty case to a multimillionaire"
an explanation of the "Cool Theory" and why it's important to examine what we think is cool
how to naturally open up your creativity
what Marc includes in his diet, including "gloppy donuts" and why
advice Marc tells every parent

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HOW TO PERFORM ENERGY HEALING - BACKED BY SCIENCE! William Bengston PhD | Alternative Medicine | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Aug 13, 2016

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If you've ever felt you could heal, help others to heal, or just wanted to learn about energy medicine, then do we have the hands-on healing show for you!

Today I'll be talking with William Bengston, PhD, sociology professor, self-proclaimed skeptic, President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and a leading researcher into the mystery and power of energy medicine, and the author of a must-read book, The Energy Cure.

Today we'll talk about hands-on healing, what it is, what it looks like, what the studies show, and how we can all do it.

That plus we'll talk about vaporizing clouds, God in a Bottle, why table tennis isn't for tortoises, turning down flat screen TV's, the power of charged cotton, and why in the world you don't have to be from Alpha Centauri, in order to help others heal.

The Energy Cure Self-Help and Self-Improvement Healing Topics Include:

Who was Bennett Murrick
What's the Boggle Effect?
How healings on people began
How William's chronic back pain was healed for life
How people began to heal, and what they could heal from?
How Bill ended up healing rats
How people went into 'spontaneous remission' for cancer
What were early experiments done in the lab?
How were mice healed from cancer and inoculated from cancer
Can healing be taught?
Why intention isn't necessary for healing
What is the Bengston Energy Healing Method?
What is 'cycling' and why is it so powerful?
What's a powerful past law of attraction method – that changes your brainwave patterns
How cycling can change your brainwave patterns
What it means to go from mindfulness to mindlessness
How can this be turned or reverse engineered into a conventional therapy
What he's doing across the country to put 'healing in the cloud'
To find out more about the Energy Cure and for the CD set 'Hands on Healing, a Training Course in the Energy Cure' or to do it live go to bengstonresearch.com

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR CHILD'S BRAIN/BODY TYPE TO HELP THEM THRIVE! Keith Wallace & Fred Travis | Parenting | Self-Help | Inspire Aug 12, 2016

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If you've ever felt there has to be a better way to parent, where you get along with your kids, work as a team, and overcome life's toughest situations, even meltdowns, then do we have the dharma parenting show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Robert Keith Wallace, PhD a pioneering researching on the psychology of consciousness and the founding president of Maharshi University of Management, and Frederick Travis, PhD, world-renowned neuroscientist who studies the brainwave patterns of children and directs the Center for BNrain Consciousness and Cognition, and both the co-authors of Dharma Parenting a fantastic book with an Ayurvedic take on parenting. I love it!

Today we'll talk about understanding your Child's Brilliant Brain for Greater Happiness, Health, Success, and Fulfillment, and to help make your life easier as a parent.

That plus we'll talk about and the enemy of fatigue, the dreaded B word, what's the difference between a looking day and a buying day, why families are no longer run by dictatorship, or by spanking for that matter what in the world's the car game, and why is a horse-drawn Amish vehicle worth 50 points???

Dharma Parenting Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

How'd they get into meditation
How long they've been practicing Transcendental Meditation – starting with Maharishi
What motivated them to write Dharma Parenting for kids
What families are not supposed to be dictatorships
How we learned how to parent
Why it's so important to learn how to get in balance
What we can learn from John Douillard of Mind, Body & Sport
1. ayurveda / ayurvedic parenting wisdom
What are brain-body types and what are doshas?
What Ayurveda has to do with parenting
What different brain stages have to do with parenting and how you talk with your kids
What dosha quiz you can find at dharmaparenting.com
Why is fatigue the enemy?
What it means to have a dosha out of balance
What's sleep inertia
Why our brains function best at 1.8 mph
How understanding dosha type can help with conception, gestation and pregnancy
Why a pregnant mother needs to be protected so that she doesn't feel threatened when she is pregnant
Why do we want to save our money and skip the stroller
What are the six tools of Dharma
Why you want to carry your children on your back
Why it's so important to walk at a child's speed, not at adult speed
What mirror neurons have to do with anything, and why kids learn by watching
Why don't we want to tell our child to stop crying
Why routines are so important for kids
And why and how it's necessary to change a brain state
What you want to do when there's a meltdown
Why it's so important to anticipate and adapt
What's wrong with reacting to a child with anger
What does electronics have to do with a child's behavior
Why don't we want to use food as a motivator
Why routines are so important to help kids from spinning out
Why mealtime and walk time is so important for parenting and our kids
Why electronics shouldn't be the tool for babysitting
What's the importance of an attachment relationship (from neuroscience)
Meditation, spirituality and a child
Why sitting techniques for transcendental meditation can be started at 10
Why kids can learn walking meditation at 4 years old
Why you want to start which meditation for children
Why doing yoga asanas together can be so important
dharmaparenting.com get a free quiz and 4 page report for yourself and your child

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If you've ever wanted more energy, vibrancy, and creativity in your life, then do we have the playful show for you.

Today I'll be talking with my ever-playful wife, Jessica about play. What it's all about, why we need to do it, and why it's so incredibly important for all that we do…and at any age.

That plus we'll talk about Nature time, nibblers, trying new things, exploring new trails, taking a child-like view of the world, and what's the powerful lesson Sir Meowsers has taught both of us about play.

Game Changing Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: