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027 Nirmala: Be curious and discover who you are through mindfulness and meditation Nov 15, 2015

Show notes

Nirmala Daniel Erway is a spiritual teacher and author who is a deep believer in the positive benefits of mindfulness. He offers one-on-one, non-dual spiritual mentoring over the phone or through Skype. His mentoring is an opportunity to discover that limitless love is ourtrue nature and is possible at every moment. He has written several books including a poetry collection called Gifts With No Giver. Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona and has a website called Endless-Satsang.com where he shares his thoughts through ebooks and videos.

Contact Info

Website: www.endless-satsang.com

Most Influential Person

Everyone I’ve ever felt love for, including Nealum and my wife.

Effect on Emotions

It hasn’t changed them, except in their duration. When you’re in this place of curiosity, openness I find it interesting. When I feel sad, I go right down into the center of that sadness and notice all the associations and feelings. I’m so fascinated with it. I digest it, I get the sadness. aThen it’s almost gone in the moment I pay that much attention to it. It’s hard to call it sadness anymore, it’s just a new experience showing up.a

Thoughts on Breathing

When they do studies of mindfulness & meditation, they've found that anything you do to change your breathing will put you into a meditative space. Anything you do to your breath will change your state of consciousness.

Suggested Resources

Book: Living From the Heart by Nirmala (free on Nirmala’s website)
App: Timer

Advice for Newbie

Just play. If you can approach it like a game, a form of play or curiosity, that's the best way to learn.

026 Sharon Roemmel: Erase pain and find your true purpose with yoga Nov 11, 2015

Show notes

Sharon Roemmel will help you find your life’s purpose through yoga. She is a wellness and life coach, however learning with Sharon is not your usual Yoga experience; she’ll help you get connected to your divine supportand she’ll use mindfulness to help you claim true balance in your life. She has taught Yoga for over 20 years and believes Yoga is the perfect tool to help you align your body, mind and spirit.

Contact Info

Website: www.practicallyenlightenedyou.com
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Most Influential Person

Dan McLeod, Sharon's first serious yoga teacher - he embodied mindfulness with his yoga practice, his teaching and his groundedness.

Effect on Emotions

Helped me be more connected to them and helped me realize that anger is not something I have to hold back. I can feel anger and let it move through me. I tell people they can spend a lot of money on medical diagnostics or they can check in with their breath and that's a great, free, diagnostic to see where they're holding, how relaxed they are in the moment. They can learn a lot from their breath.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is one of the limbs of yoga. I like to use breathing as a diagnostic

Suggested Resources

Book: Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabot Zinn

Advice for Newbie

Start small, pay attention to your breath even for one minute, one time a day. Start paying attention to your body. Go for the low hanging fruit: if you're someone who finds it challenging to tune into your emotions, don't start there. Then as you get adept at one level, you move to another level.

025 Bryce Prescott: Rules of Success to Live a Balanced Life Using a Scientific Approach Nov 08, 2015

Show notes

Bryce Prescott studied finance at Brigham Young University and has a keen interest in business. In fact, he is an entrepreneur and business consultant with several successful business endeavors under his belt. Bryce helps business people take their businesses, their health andtheir lives in general to a higher a level of excellence. Bryce also has a podcast called ‘Rules of Success’ which has spawned a companion program called 'Apply The Science' which focuses on the principals of the book, 'The Science of Getting Rich' by Wallace D. Wattles.

Contact Info

Website: www.rulesofsuccess.com
Podcast: rulesofsuccess.com
Twitter: @iamMrPrescott
Instagram: @iamMrPrescott

Most Influential Person

T. Harv Ecker

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has affected my emotions and it allows me to observe them. It's more challenging to observe the emotion when it is positive and supportive than when it's negative, but it's the same practice nonetheless. I'm able to, from a different vantage point within my mind, recognize what the emotion is and diffuse the negative emotions like anger and frustration.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
Book: Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
App: The Holosync Program by Bill Harris (Centerpoint Research Institute)
App: Calm

Advice for Newbie

I would encourage them to check out one of these guided meditation programs. Go to www.choprameditation.com and get the 21 Day Challenge. Just try it. It's 15 to 20 minutes a day. Do it in the mornings in a quiet place. I would also recommend you to journal right afterwards.

024 Pat Flynn: Using a Weird-Looking Device to Get Insight Into Calmness Nov 04, 2015

Show notes

Pat Flynn is an online entrepreneur, a father and husband who puts family first and is one of the most personable, friendly business owners I know. Pat was laid off from his day job in 2008 and then started an online business. His blog and podcast called ‘Smart Passive Income” is wherePat shares amazing, abundant content and is completely open and transparent about his online learning experiences. Pat attributes mindfulness and meditation as part of the reason for his success.

Contact Info

Website: www.smartpassiveincome.com
Blog: Smart Passive Income
Podcast: Smart Passive Income
Twitter: @patflynn

Most Influential Person

Elon Musk (Founder of Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity)

Effect on Emotions

It's helped me get in tune with what's happening and also figure out how to get deeper into what those things are. Sometimes when I have conversations and I ask questions, whether I'm the one who's needing help or someone else, the surface level questions don't really get into the root of the problem. Like the Toyota Manufacturing strategy of the five whys, it's when you get deeper into those conversations that the realness comes out. So I try to be mindful of the fact that people's initial answers aren't necessarily 'the' answer.

Thoughts on Breathing

I'm a trumpet player and I would be very focused on breathing. Now I'm taking singing lessons on Skype to try to improve my public speaking and breathing has been very important with that. And so breathing is actually, in a lot of things, the foundation for great things. And so for those things, specifically the performance stuff, I make sure to focus on breathing because it's just the foundation of creating good sound. In life in general, it's just nice to breath in terms of giving yourself space. I work hard as an entrepreneur, but I also schedule in time to breath, or have space

Suggested Resources

Book: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
App: Calm App and the 5 Minute Journal App

Advice for Newbie

If you don't know what it's supposed to be like, it's ok. You're going to figure it out for yourself over time. You should get connected with other people who do know what mindfulness is about. You can learn as you go, you don't have to get it right the first time. You may not even know what you're doing at first, but the more you are conscious about the fact that you're trying to put this into your life, the more likely that it will.

023 Lynette Renda: Being motivated to build a relationship with yourself Nov 01, 2015

Show notes

Lynette Renda is a writer, with a masters in Fine Art and Creative Writing. She’s written 2 novels as well as abundant online content. Lynette is also a motivational speaker and coach and has an activeFacebook group called Motivate Me Ultimate Support System. She was an English teacher in a school for 12 years before moving on to become entirely devoted to entrepreneurship. Lynette believes mindfulness has delivered focus and clarity directly to her doorstep and as a result it has ultimately changed her life.

Contact Info

Website: motivatemepodcast.com
email: lynette@motivatemepodcast.com
Podcast: Motivate Me (Join the Motivate Me Ultimate Support System on Facebook)

Most Influential Person

Dr. Wayne Dyer (Lynette has 'Inner Wisdom', Volume 1 and 2 and she listens to his podcast)

Effect on Emotions

It's given me permission to be empathetic, to touch base with my feelings in a way that lets me [connect] like with nature, it puts me in a place that allows me to feel more openly and regularly without me thinking there's something wrong with me.

Thoughts on Breathing

Getting more oxygen into your body is great for your body, your energy levels and your focus. Specifically getting six deep breaths at a time is really great for your body and your energy level. Also what I've learned is that listening to your breath during meditation can calm yourself down ... it's about listening to your breath. Doing that distracts you from everything else that's going around, enough to relax.

Suggested Resources

Book: Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core by Dr. Bruce Schneider
App: Headspace

Advice for Newbie

Take the time to really understand what it means to be mindful and to understand that by being mindful you are really building a relationship with yourself. It is going to change your entire life and your entire perspective on life. Be mindful, get to know yourself better and look at the world through those new lenses. You will see that you're going to get more out of life because of it.

022 Neil Sattin: Sex, Intimacy and our Personal Mind Stories Oct 28, 2015

Show notes

Neil Sattin is a relationship expert and loves helping people just like you have fun, deep, meaningful relationships that matter. Neil loves to feed his curiosity about people and understands howcomplex relationships can be. Neil has been trained in Strategic Intervention through the Robbins-Madonnis Institute, and has completed a training in Source Point Therapy, by Bob Schrei & Donna Thomson. Neil has a thorough understanding of the corporate environment, having been involved in the corporate world for 15 years. Neil is also a podcaster; his show is called Relationship Alive. Neil and his partner are working on a new project called The New Love Paradigm.com.

Contact Info

Website: www.NeilSattin.com
Website: www.thenewloveparadigm.com
Podcast: 'Relationship Alive' on itunes or Stitcher

Most Influential Person

My father - he's been really influential in my life.

Effect on Emotions

It has effect my experience on my emotions so that they have much less power over me when things aren't going well.

Thoughts on Breathing

It's integral to the way I personally practice mindfulness

Suggested Resources

Book: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer and The Heart of Zen by Denis Kelly
App: Inner Balance by Heart Math

Advice for Newbie

So many new doors are going to open for you now that you're in this practice. Just get curious and really just be observant of how mindfulness is affecting you.

021 Anthony Hayes: Forget what you think you know, change your life with mindfulness Oct 25, 2015

Show notes

Anthony Hayes lives in West Palm Beach, Florida and grew up in Yonkers, New York. In 2008 he was a deckhand on a ship with Sea Shepherd Global, saving ocean wildlife from the treacherous Japanese Whaling Fleet. From 1999-2005 he was a DJ. In 2011 he studied to bean ordained minister at Universal Life Church Monastery. At one point, Anthony wrote, “the last 10 years have encompassed some of the darkest, most trying times of my life.” Anthony has a podcast and blog called Me, Myself and I Radio, and he uses his podcast as a tool to inspire his audience. Anthony is also busy writing a book called, The Science of Being. Anthony is a strong believer in mindfulness and uses it in his life on a regular basis.

Contact Info

Website: www.MeMyselfAndIRadio.com
Podcast: Me Myself and I Radio

Most Influential Person

Anthony's uncle who was one of his martial arts teachers. Anthony says, "He showed me a lot of ways to look inward."

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has helped me realize how deep my emotions actually go and how to look at situations a little differently and be able to analyze them a lot more.

Thoughts on Breathing

Everything starts with the breath. The more you're able to control the breath, the more you're able to control the rest of your body. Breathing is the end all, be all of everything mindfulness anywhere in life.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Science of Self Realization by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
App: Headspace.com by Andy Puddicombe - There is a great free app there, excellent for beginners or seasoned mindfulness people.

Advice for Newbie

Forget what you think you know because you have no idea. Try it (mindfulness). It can not hurt to try it.

020 Tyler Bishton: Expanding Awareness of How You Think & Move Through the Feldenkrais Method Oct 21, 2015

Show notes

Tyler Bishton teaches the Feldenkrais method of somatic education, enabling people of all age groups to move more easily. He is also a Martial Artist and Massage Therapist, workingwith clients to help them move along the continuum between impossibility and elegance. He brings people into being Mindfully present in many different ways , until it becomes as easy for them as breathing. Tyler believes that as you expand your awareness of how you think, sense, feel and move, the possibilities for personal improvement and human development are limitless.

Contact Info

Website: www.tylerbishton.com

Most Influential Person

Moshe Feldenkrais, the Creator of the Feldendrais Method

Effect on Emotions

It has given me a space to decide what I want to do with the emotion that I'm experiencing, whereas before I would react kind of in a knee-jerk way and just fly off the handle, I now have the ability to take a deep breath, take a step back, and chose how I want to respond and see if that's different to the way I'm feeling.

Thoughts on Breathing

I use it like a canary in a coal mine situation. I have developed a habit that if I feel myself breathing in a way that I don't find comfortable, I let that set off the alarm bells in my head that I'm missing something. That's an opportunity for me to become present and make the changes that are more useful for me at that time.

Suggested Resources

Book: Feldenkrais: The Busy Person's Guide to Easier Movement by Frank Wildman
App: Meistertask App (Task Management Software) and MindMeister (an online MindMapping Software) These two apps link back and forth.

Advice for Newbie

Start right now. And when you find yourself not doing it, start again.

019 Pompe Strater-Vidal: Being Mindful is Joyful, Relax and Breathe Host Says Oct 18, 2015

Show notes

Pompe Strater-Vidal is a monk in the Soto lineage of Zen Buddhism and has been teaching meditation for over 35 years. She studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute and atAnderson Ranch in Colorado and is trained specifically in Shodo, the Japanese Zen art of brush calligraphy. Pompe recently hosted the Relax and Breathe Summit, an on-line event where amazing guests helped the audience learn simple mindfulness breathing techniques to release tension and reduce stress.

Contact Info

Website: www.RelaxAndBreatheSummit.com
Website: www.PompeStraterVidal.com
email: pompe@relaxandbreathsummit.com

Most Influential Person

Suzuki Rochi

Effect on Emotions

I've learned to dis-identify from my emotional reactions, so less reactive.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is a crucial element of mindfulness practice. Breathing is something we always do when we're alive. If I bring my awareness to breathing , it always pulls me back into the present moment. It's very simple, I can do it wherever I am, whatever I'm doing.

Suggested Resources

Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Rochi
App: www.RelaxAndBreatheSummit.com A 3 Video Series Called Relax and Breathe Now

Advice for Newbie

I would say give it a shot. What have you got to lose ... some stress?

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