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The perfect guided meditation to help you get grounded & relaxed if you’re feeling uncentered, spinny, light-headed or out-of-control. Led by Katie Silcox, Tantric Teacher & Author of Happy, Healthy, Sexy: Ayurvedic Wisdom | Spirituality | Mindfulness |

Enjoy this beautiful, grounding meditation from Katie Silcox, Ayurvedic and Tantric Teacher, who brings ancient wisdom of the east to the modern times of the west (similar to Deepak Chopra).

--- Be sure to check out Katie’s Interview Happy, Healthy, Sexy Ayurveda – Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times – on Inspire Nation. ---

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, ungrounded, or like things are spinning out of control this is the perfect meditation to bring you back.

It’s a grounding meditation, meaning it helps settle you, get you back in your body, and helps you feel more centered and relaxed.

You’ll breathe easier, deeper, and more calmly. Your mind will stop racing and start to go still. And you’ll feel less overwhelmed by everything going on around you.

This is a 5 minute meditation you can use any time of the day to get you centered and plugged back in. It’ll leave you feeling more refreshed, relaxed, and calm, ready to take back on the day.

Enjoy and Namaste!

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[INSPIRE 119] TOM RATH--HOW TO LIVE FULLY CHARGED! THE 3 KEYS TO ENERGIZING YOUR WORK & LIFE! Motivation | Health | Self-Help Jan 06, 2016

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Do you ever wish you could have more in life, more energy, more happiness, more health, and more fulfillment?

Well if so, do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with researcher and ultra-best-selling author Tom Rath who has sold over 6 million copies of his books, including the 2013 #1 best selling book on amazon for the year, Strengths Finder 2.0, and the book and documentary we’ll talking about today, Fully Charged.

Today we’ll talk about what it means to live a fully charged life, and how we can find greater energy, more positive interactions, and greater meaning in our lives.

Plus we’ll talk about standing desks, sleeping more, taking frequent breaks, hiding our cell phones the importance of being 80% happy, and why your friends-friends-friends, may be changing your life without you even knowing it. That plus why Thomas Jefferson’s pursuit of happiness, may have been plain wrong.

Questions and Topics Include:

How Don Clifton, Tom Rath’s grandfather Influenced Tom’s life (they were putting together an online version of assessments) which lead to the StrengthsFinder.
1. Finished first draft of “How Full is Your Bucket” a NY Times Best-Seller.
How Don Clifton helped encourage Tom’s writing and helped Tom discover his strengths
1. The importance of helping others to discover their own talents as well.
How Tom Rath has been living with cancer since he was 16.
How cancer has helped Tom live a full life.
What does it mean to live fully charged?
How to live a more pro-active vs. reactive life
Why sleep is the most underestimated investment we can make in ourselves today
Why the surgeon general recommends 8 to 8 ½ hours of sleep “ammunition for the brain” for soldiers.
Why we don’t want to skimp on sleep
The story behind SALO in Minneapolis, and their active workplace.
Randy Pausch and Jeff Zaslow – headset on while riding bike for last months while battling cancer to get a book down.
The book Eat-Move-Sleep and journey from standard desk to a treadmill.
What Dr. Michael Merzenich says about children’s minds and movement.
Chuck Hillman and functional MRI’s and the brain, and how movement is a cognitive gain.
How to simplify health, and the importance of small little choices
1. Why everything is a net gain or a net loss
Brian Wansink, Mindless Eating, and how we can build our willpower up.
Why the more steps away we put things that aren’t good for us, the less likely we are to go grab them.
The importance of making good choices early in the day
What are positive interactions vs. negative interactions
Why social relations are the #1 improver of our health and wellbeing
Why emotions travel faster than words and are much stronger
1. From John Gottmans marriage lab
2. Why bad emotions and interactions outweigh good
Why quick positive feelings don’t linger around nearly the same way as the feelings from a fight or flight reaction
How your habits and happiness affects a friend of a friend of a friend.
1. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler studied 3 degrees of influence on people.
Why 80% positive is much better than 100% positive.
Why you don’t want to be insincerely happy, or make insincere positive comment (Barbara Frederickson did a study on this)
Why the mere presence of a cell phone can ruin a conversation or an interaction
Why we need to pursue meaning instead of pursuing happiness
Why it’s so important to understand how your passion makes a difference for others and why it’s so important (for life satisfaction) to pursue things that help others
Why experiences are so much more important that physical things
The deliberate practice study of 10,000 hours and what people MISS in that study
1. K Anders Ericsson.
  1. Well rested
  2. Took lots of breaks of rest, relaxation and refocusing

Turns out even if you want to be really focused, why you need to take frequent rest and recovery

Tim Walker who studied children in Finland who took 15 minute breaks per hour.

The importance of giving and focusing on helping others
1. Adam Grant’s work on people in call centers

Discover How To Live A Fully Charged Life With Tom Rath - One of the Most Successful Researchers & Best-Selling Authors (Over 6 Million Copies Sold!) On Human Performance, Potential, Success & Happiness | Inspiration| Motivation | Health | Self-Help

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BONUS GUIDED RELAXING, BLISSFUL MIND QUIETING MEDITATION (3 Min) | Michael Sandler | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help Jan 06, 2016

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Today we have a very simple, peaceful meditation that’ll help you get grounded, any time you need it.

I use this one quite frequently, particularly for short mid-day meditations, to help me quiet the mind, and relax quickly, so I can recharge and reboot, before the afternoon.

If you like this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show on iTunes! It’s the #1 way to help our rankings and help others to find these meditations too.

To check out our interviews, or hear more meditations by me, or our guests, visit our inspire nation show, or inspire nation show.com

Okay, this is a very simple meditation, almost as simple as it comes. Our whole goal is to relax the mind. And how do we do it, by simply feeling our breath come in and feeling it go out.

Nothing could be simpler…

[INSPIRE 118] ROBYN BENINCASA - HOW TO OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE! World Adventure Champion & Hero| Motivation | Health | Self-Help Jan 05, 2016

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Whether you’re looking to be inspired and learn how to succeed and overcome any challenge that stands in your way, or simply to build the greatest relationship or team you can, then this interview with best-selling author, world record holder, and team-building world champion is for you!

Robyn is one of the top motivational speakers in the world and one of the winningest adventure racers ever (don’t worry, she’ll share what that is!) shows you how it’s done. You’ll be drawn into her stories, fascinated by her adventures on rivers, yes, without a paddle, up mountains, yes, without oxygen, and all around the world as she created winning teams that could quite literally, climb any mountain!

You’ll learn what it takes to win, at anything. How to improve relationships, INSTANTLY.

And how to build a winning team, whether that’s a team of 2, 200, 2000, or even 200,000. There’s a reasons he’s one of the most sought-after speakers in corporate America. And a member of the only female fire-fighting squad in America!!!

She’s also leader of Project Athena, helping bring life and adventure back to those with disabilities. For she doesn’t see impossible, only possible in different ways.

You’ll be incredibly inspired by this interview. It’ll improve your outlook, your motivation, and your confidence that you can succeed. You’ll gain courage, inspiration, and how-to skills you can implement today to improve all that you’re doing.

Be prepared to laugh, to have fun, and to learn life-changing tips for success, in this entertaining, edge-of-your-seat interview!

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, mom with two kids, a business leader, seeking a new career, or anywhere in between, you’ll come away with a smile and a strategy for greater success in your life!

Learn how to succeed in this incredibly entertaining & adventure-filled interview with Robyn Benincasa World Champion & CNN Hero! Improve Relationships, Build Winning Teams, Win at Business & Overcome Any Adversity! Inspiration | Self-Help | Business

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Marc Allen, Author of Tantra for the West and Spiritual Publisher of Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior) shares a beautiful, short guided meditation to help you recharge and to heal. Perfect anytime of the day, particularly if you're in need of healing or greater inner peace.

Listen at work, at lunch or at home. Find instant peace, bliss, and healing for body, mind, and soul. A perfect way to start or end your day, and particularly great for a mid-day break. Enjoy.

Peace, Blessings, and Namaste.

Relaxing, Refreshing, Healing Meditation - Marc Allen, Author of Tantra for the West and Publisher of Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior) shares a beautiful, short guided meditation to help you recharge & heal.

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[INSPIRE 117] MICHAEL SANDLER & JESSICA LEE – HOW TO SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS & HAVE A KICK ASS 2016! Health | Self-Help Jan 04, 2016

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Hi Everyone, Jessica Lee here, your co-host.

It’s the New Year now, and to get things started off right, I want to talk with my super-positive co-host and ever-loving husband Michael Sandler about New Years resolutions, changes we’re making for the new year…plus hopes dreams, habits, and wishes.

So welcome back to the show Michael, are you ready to shine?

Before we dive right in, what’s one new thing you’re doing in the New Year?

Questions and Topics Include:

Getting to the Gym
Letting Go of Ego
What it takes to ‘Get Younger Next Year’ (like Dr. Chris Crowley’s book!)
Embracing Your Starting Point – whatever that may be!
The importance of having a routine
The importance of front-loading your workouts and priorities
Why Robin Sharma recommends taking 90 minutes each day that’s your time for the ‘big picture’ or sacred projects.
The importance of getting up early.
How you can use nature sounds for greater productivity, creativity, AND to help you sleep! (Plus entertain your kitty cats)
The switch to the Anthony William – Medical Medium, suggested 28 day diet detox.
The miracle diet Jessica and Michael have been trying.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo and the importance of decluttering for the New Year
How decluttering your space can help you think more clearly and be more productive
The differences in thinking for different rooms and environments
The value of spring-cleaning in January
What the future plans are for Michael and Jessica
What the future plans are for Inspire Nation
The importance of being over doing.
Why it’s so important to love yourself no matter what
And so important to Love Whatever Arises, which is what Author Matt Kahn says.
Why doing for the sake of doing can be your undoing.
Why the fast lane for personal growth is slowing down.

Learn How to Set Yourself Up for Success, Happiness, & Your Greatest Health for 2016 & Beyond - Michael Sandler & Jessica Lee Discuss Resolutions, Hopes & Dreams, and How We Can All Have a Kick Butt Year! Motivation | inspiration | Health | Self-Help

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For the start of the New Year, I have a very simple meditation for you today, the ten count. I’ve shared this one before, but will do it again with fresh, new, new years’ energy.

This is a great meditation, or mindfulness exercise, to step gently into the meditative waters, and begin working to tame your monkey mind.

If you like this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show on iTunes.

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And if you enjoying the meditations please drop us a line, let us know, and share your story. It’s your late night emails that help us keep going, when the going gets tough.

We send love, we send light, and many, many, blessings your way. Namaste.

Okay, this is a very simple meditation, at least on paper.

The goal is to simply to repeat 10 breaths, or ten inhales and 10 exhales, without hopping on a train of thought.

In other words, if you picture yourself in the train station of your mind, we don’t want to catch any of the trains (or thoughts) coming into or leaving the station. We can see them come in. Watch them stop, or head back on their way, but we don’t want to hop on the traincar and explore. You already have a great train, it’s the meditation you’re doing.

So we’ll simply inhale…and count to 5, exhale, count to 5, and do this ten times in a row…when a thought comes up, and it will…see the thought, but leave it alone. If it helps, you can say drop it…or thinking, or simply I am present a recent favorite of Jessica’s inspired by our upcoming interview with Paul Selig.

You can do this meditation sitting down with both feet planted firmly on the ground, or laying down on your back. Eventually, you could even, or espically do this walking, or running as well…it’s one of the first meditations we taught in our mindful running and mindful walking programs…

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[INSPIRE 116] MATT KAHN - HOW TO GET UNSTUCK & THRIVE IN THE NEW YEAR – PLUS THE LAW OF ATTRACTION! Spirituality | Self-Help Jan 03, 2016

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Though you’re hearing this in the New Year, it’s New Year’s eve here, and I want to talk about a topic most of us seem to struggling with, and that’s feeling stuck. WE could be feeling stuck at home, at work, spiritually, financially, or with our partner, but in some aspect of our life, almost all of us feel dis-empowered, or unsure where to turn. That goes for me as well. So if this sounds even remotely like you, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Matt Kahn, called back on the show by popular demand – and author of the best-selling book Whatever Arises, Love That!

I want to talk with Matt about the spiritual side of things, or perhaps a spiritual resolution, which seems most important to me for the new year.

And I want to talk about what it really means to be stuck, and why we may even want to embrace the confusion and the 'stuckedness'…even, or especially if we’re in the stinky stuff.

And I want to talk about slowing down, at a time we’re all speeding up. Evolutionarily we’re speeding up, as a race we’re speeding up, but also our to-do’s are completely out of control. And at this time of year we’re all thinking about new years resolutions, or how to make our to do lists, even longer.

So I’d like to talk about how we can flip things on their head for the new year, simplifying, slowing things down, and giving ourselves a chance to breathe, and our spirits the chance to soar.

That Plus a Question from a Miner in Australia - WHO I WISH TO DEDICATE THIS SHOW.

Questions and Topics Include:

Is doubt normal?
How do we move past doubt?
Why it’s important to love the one who is doubting.
How to turn the Law of Attraction on its head.
Why The Secret and The Law of Attraction is actually backwards.
How do we tell what is intuition?
How to realize our job is not to get out of our own way.
How to know we can’t screw things up.
How the mind works as an alert system of the heart
What do we do when we’re stuck?
Why nurturing the one with “the issue” makes all the difference
Why New Years resolutions don’t stick
How the Law of Attraction really works – and what it has to do with circulating energy
What the George Costanza affect (from Seinfeld) has to do with The Secret
What Indirect Manifestation is and what it means for us
Why the answer is circulating energy to get unstuck
Why manifestation comes from doing things differently
What’s the importance of doing things differently
What different is good.
The importance of getting rooted in one’s body.

How To Get Unstuck & Shift Your Life for the New Year - Plus A Spiritual Look at the Law of Attraction & Manifestation – Plus Resolutions & Happiness! Matt Kahn - Whatever Arises, Love That - Spirituality - Inspiration - Motivation - Health - Self-Help

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BONUS GUIDED RELAXATION & INNER HEALING MEDITATION - PERFECT FOR THE NEW YEAR! Matt Kahn - Spirituality | Health | Self-Help Jan 03, 2016

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Hi everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on inspire nation.

Today, we have a relaxing, guided inquiry & meditation from Matt Kahn, today's guest and author of Whatever Arises, Love That. This is a perfect meditation to do for the start of the new year. It will help you heal, to feel at one, to rewire and still the mind, and to gain a sense of greater inner peace, strength, and bliss. If you enjoy this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste.

For more information or to hear Matt's interview or more meditations from me or our guests visit our inspire nation show or www.inspirenationshow.com.

[INSPIRE 115] DR CAROLYN DEAN - TOP SIGNS YOU'RE MAGNESIUM DEFICIENT & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT! Health | Spirituality | Self-Help Jan 02, 2016

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If you’ve ever struggled with health issues doctors couldn’t solve, then you may be one of the 80% of people deficient in magnesium! Magnesium’s responsible for over 800 known processes in the body and counting. If you want to find out if you may be deficient, the simplest ways to remedy it, and the huge positive benefits this could have for your body, then today’s show is for you.

We’re talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean, a leading expert in Magnesium with over 30 books & 110 kindles on the life-changing benefits of magnesium.

First we’ll discuss the top signs we’re deficient, why the deficiency, and how it shows up in our bodies. We’ll learn what to take, what not to take risks, dosages, and how much is safe! Plus baths, and true “electrolyte” sports drinks you can make at home without all the sugar!

We’ll look at how to re-mineralize your body, reversing osteoporosis and getting stronger, healthier bones. And we’ll look at kicking heart-disease naturally, removing plaque from your arteries, eliminating heart arrhythmias and fibrillation, lowering blood pressure & cholesterol levels, and improving your triglycerides and blood lipid levels.

We’ll look at autoimmune & inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, lupus, MS, ALS and Parkinson’s, plus autism and epilepsy.

For fitness, we’ll look at preventing muscle cramps and fatigue. And how magnesium can dramatically boost energy levels, reduce fatigue and improve the quality of your sleep!

This is an incredible, not-to-be-missed show to boost your brain power, healthy & fitness, and keep illness and injury away!

If you’ve ever wondered why your energy levels were low, anxiety is up, and your skin’s aging prematurely, then do we have the show for you too!

Some of the topics covered include:

Signs of Magnesium Deficiency
What is magnesium?
What we should do about a magnesium deficiency.
Why it’s magnesium, NOT CALCIUM, that’s important for our bones
Signs your magnesium levels may be DANGEROUSLY LOW
Why Magnesium important for SKIN HEALTH
Why magnesium good for anti-anxiety
How magnesium reduce your risk of diabetes?
Digestion and magnesium
Best foods for magnesium
Magnesium for MS, ALS, and epilepsy
Magnesium for autism
Do Sports drinks contain magnesium?
How can we make homemade electrolyte drink?
CoQ10 destroyed by meds and protected by Magnesium
Eye twitching
Heart racing
Mineral loss in teeth from saliva
Magnesium deficiency causing an unhealthy balance of phosphorus and calcium in saliva, which damages teeth
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, and boosting your heart health with magnesium
Statins, high blood pressure, and magnesium
Migraines and magnesium
PMS and menstrual cramps and magnesium
Muscle cramps, exercise, and magnesium
Sleep, constipation, anxiety, migraines
Magnesium greatest predictor of heart disease
Vitamin D deficiency – Vitamin D and magnesium
Blood pressure medication
High cholesterol
Irritable bowel syndrome
Magnesium intake is inversely associated with coronary artery calcification: the Framingham Heart Study.
Are researchers using wrong forms of magnesium?
www.Requestatest.com magnesium RBC test
Why blood tests let us down and why “average” is not good at all.
Safe dosages and protocol to begin
Risks
Atrial Fibrillation and remineralizing your heart
Arthritis, kidney stones, osteoporosis (osteoporosis scurvy of the bone)
Prostate cancer
Are epson salt baths good?
Blood sugar and magnesium deficiency
Dosage – minimum for different people
Fluoride, fluoridated medications, and boron
Brain fog, ADHD, and magnesium
Asthma,
Constipation
Diarrhea,
IBS,
Colitis, Bronchitis,
Chronic Fatigue,
Cold extremities,
Diabetes,
Acid reflux,
Alzheimers,
Adrenal fatigue,
Blood clots,
Angina
Cholesterol elevation
Anxiety & depression
Insomnia
How much is initial amount to start out?
Starting with Epson salt baths and foot baths…see how it affects them.
ADHD and autism, better bowel movements… bowels relax, sleep better, stop being so irritated or irritable.
Magnesium citrate powder
REMAG
Magnesium more important than calcium for children’s bones
Magnesium and menopause
Stroke
Kidney disease
Hypothyroid, Hypothyroidism and Magnesium
Magnesium vs. boron for bones.

Why it’s magnesium, not calcium that’s important for the bones.

Why Aspirin may be dangerous and Magnesium may be better.

Find out why Dr. Oz, Dr. Mercola, and Dr. Weil think we’re struggling with magnesium deficiency. Find out why it’s critical for your heart, brain, blood pressure, immune system, digestion, blood sugar, muscle strength & more important than calcium...

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