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[INSPIRE 62 – PART 2] DEREK RYDALL - UNCOVER YOUR SIGNATURE PURPOSE & LAUNCH BEST LIFE! Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 09, 2015

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The How-To's of Emergence

This is part 2 of our interview with Derek Rydall prominent life coach to Emmy and Academy Award Winner,s Fortune 500 execs, and evolutionary leaders in business, spirituality and the healing arts. He’s the best-selling author of several books, including Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change.

In part one we learned how we all have greatness within, and like an acorn that grows to be a mighty oak, we can each grow into our greatness.

So in part 2 we’ll look at the how-to’s of growing this mighty oak, and how to discover the incredible power and inconceivably great destiny that lies inside each one of us.

It should be a life-changing ride!

Topics Include:

Life isn’t happening to you, but through you, as you and for you – it is a HUGE shift and reframing
- First stage of Emergineering – Vision – Seeing the Completed Vision
  - There is a seed of genius in you
  - A lot of problems we experience are a symptom of us not being rooted in our deepest vision
  - How do we figure out our deepest vision?
    - Vision Blinders
  - The Soul Profile - Exercise to see what’s trying to emerge in us
    - Think of three or four people who are amazing…
  - How to think outside of the fish bowl – will save the fish though!
  - Have to know where we are going, or we will get lost
- Second Stage of Emergineering – Congruent Conditions
  - Now can build on the direction we built in stage 1
  - Using Visualization to Get in Touch with the Frequency of the Vision
    - Careful not to focus on future, but on the frequency, to let your highest destiny come through!
  - Your destiny is beyond your imagination – Your imagination can only rearrange what we know
  - What’s most important is the imagination of the soul, not of the mind
  - How to go from Station B-Lack to K-RICH
  - Once you have the vibration, articulate what are the qualities of that vibration
    - What are the feeling qualities?
      - Break down each quality with LIFT practice
        
        Living in the FEELING Tone
        
        Look at people, places, objects, and activities
        
        Activate what gives you joy!
      - How to create a life by design, rather than by default, out of this emerging vision
      - To bust out, you need momentum so you don’t keep getting pulled back.
      - Remember you are complete
      - “If I am really this deeply supported in life, and if everything I want in life is already here, how would I show up in life?” What might I take a chance on, what would I start, what might I finish?”

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[INSPIRE 61] LAMA SURYA DAS - HOW TO GO BEYOND MINDFULNESS FOR PEACE IN EVERY MOMENT! Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 08, 2015

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel better, enjoy life more, and feel our oneness or our interconnected being-ness with everyone and everything around you, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking Lama Surya Das, considered one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama”. And He’s the best-selling author of 13 books including Buddha Standard Time, Awakening the Buddha Within and his latest book Make Me One With Everything:

Today we’ll be talking about oneness and inter-meditation, or connecting to everyone and everything around us. We’ll talk about why we should do it, how we should do it, when we should do it, and what in the world we have in all have in common with a hot dog.

Topics Include:

What did the Dalai Lama say about a hot dog?
Are we surfing the cresting wave of evolution
How have things changed?
You mention the Dalai lama giving high level teachings to thousands now, why is that?
Why did you write this book?
What is your mission?
Why is it so important to interconnect, and particularly NOW?
Is interconnection a relatively new idea or as old as the Buddha?
What was your experience in France in hermitage retreat with intermeditation?
What is intermeditation
What is Thich Nhat Hanh’s interbeing?
What is the difference between intermeditation – all inclusiveness, and mindfulness? Being aware or bringing all of our perception in?
When I forget who I am, I serve God, when I forget who I am, I am God ~Hanuman
Function Practice
Main Practice
Difficulties along the road?
I intermediate on subways, but my favorite is at intersections, with drivers passing by.
Co-meditation
Are we in a new era?
How have times changed?
Are more of the esoteric teachings being shared?
You spoke of the Dalai lama giving high level teachings before thousands now, why is this?
How do we find peace in ourselves, and bring peace to the world
Webination
Neoroscientists – Richard Davidson, and Dan Siegel
Tonglen – giving and receiving
Lojong – attitude transformation and spiritual refinement
Everyone is going to die someday, but who amongst us will choose to truly live
Atisha – the lamp master – systematized Lojong – “taming” or “mastering”
What is true attention or lucid attention and how do we cultivate it?
What is nowness awareness or presencing?
After attention is self-acceptace or compassion
Be aware of the fragile and impermanent nature of your life
1. Live the Buddhist tantric committment of looking at everyone and everything as Buddhas
Be aware of the implications of your motivations and consequences of your actions
My religion is kindness (I just said “My religion is We”
Co-meditating with the dalai lama
Co-meditating with our guides
Natural meditation – clouds, trees, etc.
1. Intermeditating with trees
2. Intermeditating with animals
The less full of myself I am, the more room there is for others.

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Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire nation. Today we have an extra-short, super-special relaxing mindfulness meditation from our guest Lama Surya Das, whom the Dalai Lama affectionately refers to as The Western Lama.

You can do this meditation anytime of the day, and almost anywhere, although I wouldn’t do it while driving.

To hear the full interview from Lama Surya Das or to hear more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com.

And if you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and rate and review it on iTunes, it’s the #1 way to help support us, and help others find the show, and as always gives you great karma points!

I send love. I send light. And many many blessings your way.

Namaste.

[INSPIRE 60] DR TERRY WAHLS - HOW TO SUPERCHARGE IMMUNE SYSTEM & FEEL BETTER THAN EVER! Ted Talk | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 07, 2015

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Perhaps you've seen Dr. Terry Wahl's viral Ted Talk with over 2 million views!

If you’ve ever had inflammation, an auto-immune disease, sore joints, heart-disease, asthma, high blood pressure, or if you’re just plain human, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’re interview Dr. Terry Wahls, one of the most extraordinary doctors out there. She’s come back from MS, and from a life in traditional medicine, to develop a functional medicine protocol to help us all live healthier, more energetic lives TODAY, and to come back from autoimmune disorders from MS, to Luppus, Lyme Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Fatigue, and the list goes on and on and on.

Today we’ll talk about the heart of disease, why at it’s source, it’s all cellular dysfunction, where it comes from, and most importantly, what in the world we can do about it, beginning TODAY.

That’s most important to me, that and kicking butt energetically. Jessica and I don’t have a show to run, but we want a family too, and we’re both coming back from long-term illness, her more than me. But if we admit it to ourselves, aren’t we all struggling in some way health-wise? We were never meant to be tired, achy, and old before our time, or brain-fogged at any age. And we were never meant to live on pharmaceuticals and a lifetime suppy of supplements.

So I am so excited to talk with Dr. Wahls today.

Show Notes and Topics Include:

Ted Talk – Mind Your Mitochondria
From Wheelchair to Walking
Did you believe you could come back – what possessed you to look for an answer?
History – steady decline even with aggressive treatment
Discovered institute of functional medicine
1. Redesigned life based on
2. Took functional medicine plus supplement approach
Ted Talk – 2 million views in 2011
Getting “younger”
All autoimmune disease is the same at it’s origin
1. Immune cells are at heart of how run biology
  1. Asthma, IBS, krohns, ulcerative cloritis, rheumatoid arthritis, schelarderma, psoriasis, MS, lupus, type 1 diabetes, acne, artherosclerosis, schizophrenia
  2. Most chronic diseases that aren’t affected may be found to be auto-immune in nature

Mold-toxicity syndrome
1. Auto-immune related
2. Chronic swelling in one extremity
  1. Damaged blood vessels, whether veins or lymph ducts leaving that limb
  2. Also autonomic nerves that regulate flow could be damaged
3. If exposed to bold, many of us our immune cells can attack, and clear it from system.
4. Some of us can’t clear them as well, cause damage to organs, rev up inflammation and if have auto-immune process make it more severe

What’s the difference between a diagnosis and a disease?
Difference between conventional and functional medicine approach
1. Example: uses IBS
2. Conventional: use immune suppressing drugs
Different “levels” for functional medicine

Create more health for your cells, and healthier cells make helather organs and healthier body
Basis is wahls diet plans
1. Level 1 – tons of vegetable
  1. e. 9 cups of veggies
  2. 3 cups is one plate – so 3 plates of veggies each meal
2. Organic grass fed meat – though can do it as vegetarian

Meditation
Moving the body every day
How is this diet different than standard paleo diet

What is ketosis
1. Can starve health-promoting bacteria in gut
2. Ketosis 6-12 months will help starve out candida
Make starchy vegetables raw – gut will ferment them into ketones and won’t
Berries and fruits okay

Limit apples, pears bananas

What are good fats vs. bad fats
1. Which to have, and which to stay away from
No gluten
No dairy – casein bad, but ghee may be okay.
The 1 month test

How do you tell if you have a leaky gut?

Algae and Seaweed
Sea salt vs. commercial salt
Don’t need dairy/calcium need vitamin D and K2
Digestive Enzymes
Zeolite, Clays
1. Can make you mineral deficient
Important tests to get
1. Don’t necessarily need tests
Need stress-reduction techniques
1. Importance of meditation for stress-reduction (mindfulness, yoga, breathing, etc.)
Usually can tell w/in 1 month moving in right direction
1. But hard to sustain because is in addiction
2. Remove from the house – get family’s support
Terrywahls.com
Currently recruiting for next trial – people with recurring MS with fatigue
Swank diet vs. Wahls diet

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BONUS SUPER-SPECIAL GUIDED RELAXATION MEDITATION! (5 MIN) Patrick McKeown | Inspiration | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help Nov 06, 2015

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Today you’re in for a special treat! I just finished an interview I’ll have up in two weeks, but I was so excited by what our guest shared, that like a kid in a candy store I wanted to get you this exercise right away!. So today we have a very relaxing, and powerful breathing exercise and meditation brought to you by our upcoming guest Patrick McKeown, a world expert on the Buteyko breathing method and author of seven books on the breath including the brand new Oxygen Advantage.

You often hear me talking about breathing in and out through the nose. There are many powerful reasons for that, one in particular is to help the mind go quiet, and rewire.

This exercise in particular will help you do just that. By practicing this exercise, you’ll literally making changes to your brain that will help you throughout the day, and any time you experience stress. This exercise will help you cultivate greater concentration, focus, patience, and relaxation, even under heavy stress. With practice it can even help you sleep better.

---Perfect Too for ADHD or a Hyper-Active Mind!!!---

It’s very powerful, which is why I practice it quite often, and I always stress breathing in and out through the nose.

Patrick will first discuss some of the benefits of this breathing method, then lead you in a very informal breathing meditation.

My recommendation is to listen through fully the first time, then go back to where the music begins and dive straight into the meditation, tuning out his words as you go along.

This is an exercise you can do any time of the day to immediately reduce your stress and quiet the mind. You can do this at work, at your computer, on break, at the dinner table, in bed, on a train, or almost anywhere you can think of. However, as a powerful breathing exercise that can dramatically quiet the mind, I do not recommend it while driving a car or operating heavy machinery.

If you like this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show. It’s the #1 way you can show your support, and help others find the show. And of course, there’s lots of great karma points involved. Now we’ve been told, it’s much easier to rate and review on a computer than you’re phone. But if you’re on your phone, you have to back out of inspire nation, type inspire nation in the search, then look for the ratings and review tab. Thank you so much.

We’ll have Patrick McKeown’s full interview up in about two weeks. To check our more interviews or meditations, visit our Inspire Nation Show, or inspirenationshow.com.

I send love, I send light. And many, many blessings your way.

Namaste.

[INSPIRE 59] DR BERNIE SIEGEL - HOW CATS & DOGS INSPIRE, HEAL & TRANSFORM OUR LIVES! As On Oprah | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 05, 2015

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If you’ve ever had your life touched by a pet, a friends pet, or even heard of someone’s life being completely transformed by the love of, or for an animal, then do we have a special treat for you.

Today we’re talking with Dr. Bernie Siegel, the best-selling author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles. He’s one of the most well known doctors there, who talks about humanizing medicine, compassionate care, and the choice to live fully and die at peace. In 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet

Of course, he’s also the author of the newly release Love, Animals and Miracles a book that speaks to my soul.

Today we’ll talk about the healing power of love and animals, how they’re much more than just furry or scaly creatures, and how they have an almost magical power to transform our lives and fit in, in our crazy world. If you’re looking for inspiration, or a smile, then today’s celebration of animals and the love and miracles they always bring is for you!

I can’t wait to hear the stories he’ll tell!

Notes from Interview Include:

Why Dr. Siegel is a Jungian Surgeon
Why a mechanical approach to medicine is broken
Why animals always come from the heart
What he learned from his pets
1. House rabbit
Past regression – once killed with a sword, now heal with a sword
Animals all get along as family
Even a turtle and fish became best buddies!
You can communicate with animals
Animals speaking to us
Animals at Nursing Homes
Animals healing us - the healing power of animals
Healing vibration of cats – the purring
Petting an animal changes your chemistry
People recover from heart surgery better if go home to a pet
For single women – get a dog, take a walk, you’re more likely to meet a guy
Cats, Laptops, and Keyboards
Being called to animal shelters
Animals passing away and the messages they give us
Furfy passing away – animals passing away in their sleep
1. Wants animals to be surrounded by love, with us when passing away, not at the vets, it’s a much simpler transition
Animals coming back “reinpregnating” vs. reincarnation
Animals are here to teach us, and they become family.
Save the worms!
What saving a turtle, the FBI, and guns have to do with each other.
Jackson Chameleons
Monty the snake
How do animals help us to heal?
Having an animal to care for forces our bodies to heal – particularly for seniors!
“The still pond” the mindful experience, or mindfulness experience of having a pet
We need to learn from our animals how to be in the present moment
Don’t focus on what’s not right, but focus on what IS right.
Why you should name a pet Sex.
Miracle Oscar and recovery from cancer
The healing power of touch
The power and importance of body memories
1. Transplants and body memories
Plus much, much more!!!

BONUS GUIDED EMPOWERING SACRED ANIMAL MEDITATION (5 MIN) Bernie Siegel | Inspiration | Relaxation | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 05, 2015

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Today we have a very special, short, yet empowering and healing animal protector meditation from our guest Dr. Bernie Siegel, best selling author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles, and his latest book, Love, Animals and Miracles.

You can do this meditation any time of the day, but I Iike it best first thing in the morning, to help me set the ton for a beautiful day ahead, and help give me strength for any challenges that may come my way. It’s a beautiful reminder for the special animal inside each and every one of us.

I’m part coyote or dog myself, and I may be a squirrel too. And I definitely love to run hills like a goat, and soar like an eagle!

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and rate and review our show. It’s the #1 way you can show your support, AND it helps others to find the show. This gives you huge karma points, and helps you too to soar like an eagle. A technical note, you may find it easier to review on your computer than your cell phone, on an iphone you have to back out of inspire nation, then find it again, in order to get to the ratings and reviews tab.

To check out Dr. Bernie Siegel’s interview on Love, Animals and Miracles, or to hear more meditations by me or our guests, check out our inspire nation show, or inspirenationshow.com.

I send love, I sent light, and many, many blessings your way.

Namaste. WOOF WOOF!

[INSPIRE 58] MARK NEPO - HOW TO EMBRACE CHALLENGES & LIVE LIFE TO YOUR FULLEST! As Seen on Oprah! | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 05, 2015

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There’s an expression I once heard from the late Dr. Wayne Dyer, you must die while you’re still alive, or you must almost go through your own death in order to truly live. Well, having gone through two near-death experiences, I think there’s something to that, though I’d never wish it on anyone.

But there’s a simpler way too, if we can open up our hearts, and learn from others.

Well today we have an amazing spiritual teacher on the show. His name is Mark Nepo. He’s the New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Awakening and his new book Inside the Miracle.

He’s experienced incredible suffering while having cancer not once, but twice, and at the same time as his former wife. But even in his darkest moments he didn’t become bitter, instead, he’s learned how to truly live, and I believe he’d even call it a miracle.

And that’s what I want to talk about today, about how to embrace life fully, to overcome fear, and to dive in in head on and heart-on.

Topics Include:

Why you can’t block fear, you can only let it through, like wind through a tree.
Radical acceptance
Letting go of the hopes and dreams and goals in order to open up
How letting go is the kindling of our aliveness
- Sometimes the dream doesn’t come true, but WE come true.
Story of Japanese monk Tetsugen
Pay attention to what brings you alive, follow what brings you alive.
- Trust literally means to follow your heart
- Respect literally means to look again
How to reframe and have trust in the middle of something difficult
- Under everything we go through there is solid ground.
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
Even if we fall down, we’re on solid ground…build from wherever you’re at, even if it’s a square inch.
Alcoholism vs. Make-aholism
Best way to honor someone we love is to be the best switch we can
Story of Janice and Tom
The teaching power of trees – rooted and leaves sway with the wind, they give
- We must be rooted, and we must sway or be flexible
A miracle is a process, not an event.
How to follow your heart
- Integrity toward aliveness
How to listen to your hearts
- Being in the present moment – mindfulness – closest to everything that ever lived
- Stay in that perfect present moment.
Your heart and your life are bigger than anything you can feel and experience
- Trust that our heart will find a way
- Whatever is opened in us is more important than what opens us.

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BONUS GUIDED RELAXING LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION (9 MIN) Michael Sandler | Inspiration | Relaxation | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 04, 2015

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Today we’re going to do a very special, kindness and compassion mediation. This is a great meditation to help you feel better, and help raise the vibration of the entire planet!

You can do this meditation any time of the day, and I especially recommend it for the middle of the day, particularly when you’re around others.

This meditation goes beautiful with today’s guest, Mark Nepo, NYT best-selling author of The Book of Awakening and his new book Inside the Miracle, who’s had to learn a thing or two about kindness and compassion, particularly for himself.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. Ratings and reviews are the #1 you can show your support, and help others to find the show. That plus it’s great karma!!!

To check out Mark Nepo’s interview…and yes he was on Oprah! Or to check out our latest meditations, visit our inspire nation show, or inspirenationshow.com.

I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way.

Namaste.

Okay, this is an exceptionally simple meditation.

You can do this anywhere, at any time. This is a go to meditation of mine on subways, in traffic, at intersections, or anywhere else people are stressed.

Emotion is an energy, which means a frequency…everything is a frequency. And the more we focus on the energy of kindness and compassion, the more we can change the frequency of everything and everyone around us.

Things like to come into vibrational harmony, hit a tuning fork, and everything around it begins to vibrate at the same frequency…and the bigger and stronger the fork, the more of an affect it has.

So the more you’re in a frequency of kindness and compassion, the more others will be as well…and if they’re not quite there, you’ll still help them to be a bit more loving, less anxious, and all-around feel better.

Best of all, you’ll feel better too. Science has shown that thinking of others, releases the most amazing healing, and feel-good chemicals and hormones in the brain, chemicals we can’t release when we focus only on ourselves...

[INSPIRE 57] JEN SINCERO - HOW TO HAVE THE MOST BADASS WEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS! Motivation | Career | Spirituality | Self-Help Nov 04, 2015

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Want to be a Badass, Kick a little butt, and live your greatest life possible?

Want the most Badass Wealth Consciousness in the world?

Then do we have the show for you!

Today we’re talking with Jen Sincero, super bad-ass success coach and the run-away best-selling author of YOU ARE A BADASS.

In her words a few years ago, she said goodbye to her home in California to travel the world indefinitely and encourage as many people as possible to live lives of unbridled awesomeness.

Unbridled awesome, who couldn’t use more of that?

So today, we’ll talk about being a badass, living a kick-ass life, why fear is for suckers, and how you can live a life of unbridled awesomeness!

That, plus the G word, doing, not spewing, loving the one you is, following your crotch…it’s not what you think, taking Hell Bent for Glory Action, plus how to make money your new best friend!

Topics Include:

Taking Risks is Essential
- Coaching
- Finding a way to get an 85K coach
Lighting a fire under you’re a**.
Raising your energy
Letting go of fear
Change your beliefs around $$$.
The crab affect – most often the people who love you the most pull you down
- We have made caring someone a negative
- Family – don’t add fear, doubt and worry.
Come from a place of expansive thought and belief
Having an expanded mindset.
Jen Sincero 6 Rules of Wealth Consciousness
and the Law of Attraction for Wealth and Abundance
Why you need an Audi over a Honda!
Becoming who you desire to be before you are that person
- You can’t create a new reality from the reality you’re presently in
Come from a place of abundance, not lack\
Want is a state of lack
Writing a letter to money
- Learn what is going on around money in your subconscious
- Question all the negative beliefs you have around money
Get clear with your desires, and the why’s behind it
If you want the car go drive it
If you want the house, visit the house
Get emotional and that will help you get over the challenges
Don’t need to know the how, just need to know the why
Have the emotion and the how will start to reveal yourself as you take those leaps of faith
Raise the frequency first
Hell bent for glory action
- Will get intuitive hits all the time when have higher frequency, will scare the heck out of you!
- Have the leap of faith
Getting the “BS” (big snooze, aka EGO) under control
Importance of mantras in getting past your big snooze
Life turning to (BEEP) before it turns to shinola!
Killing your ego or your old self
In nature there is no growth without friction
Consider friction a sign you’re on the right path
Meditation as medication! Critical as you’re expanding your mindset.
How to make your brain your b*tch.
- Meditation
- Not falling prey to negative thoughts, beliefs and words.
There’s nothing as powerful as a freight-train full of F-yeah!
Leading with your Crotch
- Put the fun back in and see what you can get away with!
- Remember done is better than perfect!
Fear is for suckers
- Can be your buddy
Healthy competition and peer pressure

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