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047 Hilde Larsen: Gratitude Will Put You In A Sense Of Awareness Every Second Jan 24, 2016

Show notes

Hilde Larsen is a Detoxification Specialist, speaker and Certified Health Coach. Eight years ago she was diagnosed with severe rheumatoid arthritis and lyme disease. Her road to recovery has includeda healthier lifestyle and raw foods, and now Hilde is thriving, living a vibrant life of passion, devoted to sharing her success story to the world.

Contact Info

Website: www.InspiredByHilde.com

Most Influential Person

Eckhart Tolle

Effect on Emotions

It has led me to acknowledge them, accept them and work through a lot of them. And to make them a part of my aware life.

Thoughts on Breathing

I had to learn to breathe again. I was breathing so shallowly, I wasn't even aware of it. Breathing Pranayama has been a great practice for me and I've done rebirthing. I love breathing, and breathing is connecting, connecting with God. We are breath, without it, we're not here.

Suggested Resources

Book: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
App: None

Advice for Newbie

Find a good meditation practice. Just sit still. Close your eyes and sit still and see if you can get your mind to shut up. It's hard, but that's what I would say. Meditation, definitely.

046 Allan Misner: Keep Balance To Find Encouragement and Enlightenment Jan 20, 2016

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Allan Misner is a (CPA) Certified Public Accountant and a CIA (Certified Internal Audit). He is also passionate about being physically active and healthy and believes wholeheartedly in the practice of mindfulness. As part of this focus on health, Allen is active asa Certified Personal Trainer. He has also worked in various industries including oil and gas, retail, technology, hospitality, manufacturing and for 16 years as an internal auditor.

Contact Info

Website: www.older.fitness
Podcast: Older+ Fitness Podcast

Most Influential Person

My wife. When I leave my office, I drive home, get inside my head and let all the stress from the day go, so when I get home I can really be with my wife.

Effect on Emotions

When I'm doing well (with mindfulness), I'm very calm, serene and happy.

Thoughts on Breathing

This is where I struggle the most and so that's why I like to use guided meditations.

Suggested Resources

Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
App: Headspace

Advice for Newbie

Mindfulness is not just about meditating and it's not just about points in time. Just easing into a couple of minutes in a ritual; it can be as simple as when I'm brushing my teeth at night to get ready for bed. When I'm done with that I should have cleared my mind and made myself ready. It's those little moments when you sit down and prepare yourself for what's about to happen that's going to help you be successful.

045 Manny Wolfe: Take a Step Back, Let Go and Check In With Your Heart Jan 17, 2016

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Manny Wolfe is a speaker, business coach, musician and author. He fully believes in giving whatever of value he can share with others. This includes voice coaching and speech consulting. Mindfulness has beena central part of Manny’s life for years and it has allowed him to chose a life of purpose and passion, doing what feeds his soul. Manny is the host of his own podcast called, The Steep Side of the Mountain.

Contact Info

Website: www.TheSteepSideOfTheMountain.com
Email: manny@thesteepside.com
Podcast: The Steep Side of the Mountain

Most Influential Person

Bruce Lee

Effect on Emotions

I try to teach them the same things that I now practice in my life. Mindfulness specifically, checking in with your heart to bring yourself right here, right now is the best way I know of to get out of future tripping and to be able to get yourself back into a calm, action plan making state of mind.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breath is life. We breathe differently according to what our parasympathetic nervous system is feeling. The key is that breathing can change the parasympathetic nervous system. So breathing to me is connected to mindfulness because I know that shifting the way that I breathe can change my whole physicality, change my state, and therefore change my reality.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy by Thomas Cleary

Advice for Newbie

Literally, physically, check in with your heart. Realize when your thoughts are drifting off, which is getting out of mindfulness, and to get yourself back to the present moment, think about your heart. Feel how its beating, feel how it feels in your chest. That will not only bring you back into the present moment which allows you to be mindful, but it also centers your thinking in what is called the heart centered capacity.

044 Jenny Fenig: Ask Is This True, Kind and Necessary to Respond Mindfully Jan 13, 2016

Show notes

Jenny Fenig is a yogi, and a fun, spirited woman who loves helping other women find their calling, whether it’s through yoga, entrepreneurship or their own personal life journey. Jenny lefta successful, corporate six-figure job as an event planner 7 years ago and has never looked back. She rebuilt her life from the ground up as an on-line entrepreneur, using her knowledge of yoga and her corporate planning expertise to help other women get more out of life. Jenny is also host of the suitably named podcast ‘Get Gutsy’

Contact Info

Website: www.jennyfenig.com
Facebook & Instagram: Jenny Fenig ( Say hi)
Podcast: Get Gutsy
Free Gift: PDF - A Synopsis of how to find your calling in the world. That's what mindfulness allows you to do. www.jennyfenig.com/calling

Most Influential Person

My sister, Julie. She passed away when I was a teenager. I was 16 and she was 12. She had cancer and I watched the way that she weathered that illness. She was a girl of faith and she's allowed me to develop my faith in mindfulness because I know that served her well during her short, yet perfectly orchestrated life. She's still impacting people today, more than twenty years after her passing.

Effect on Emotions

I am able to really be in my body and to feel things. I wasn't always able to do that when I was younger. I allow things to pass through me and that's something I learned from Michael Singer's book, The Unteathered Soul. Allow things to pass through us, we don't want things to get stuck. Mindfulness allows things to simply flow through me.

Thoughts on Breathing

Every breath I take; conscious, inhale, exhale. I do this so much with my clients and students now. I am grateful to be able to lead them through this practice and with my children. If you start being mindful around that, today your world will change, guaranteed.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
Book: Get Gutsy: A Sacred, Fearless Guide for Finding Your Soul's Calling and Living Your Dream by Jenny Fenig
App: Asana (Project Management Tool)
App: Insight Timer

Advice for Newbie

Start today, no excuses. Tune out what much of the world focuses on because I'll tell you it's not mindfulness. You'll start recognizing that [mindfulness], as you start developing a 'witness mentality'. Meditation allows you to have an 'observer' mentality. You will see that much of the world is engaging in things that are not healthy and high vibration. This is not to be in judgment of those people or think that you're better. It's simply to be that witness and to 'be the change you wish to see in the world', as Ghandi said. The more that you do this, the more you'll impact people in the world, even those who you think are not open.

043 Jiro Taylor: Re-Condition Yourself by Making Conscious Choices Jan 10, 2016

Show notes

Jiro Taylor is an adventurer from the heart. He loves surfing, skiing, exploring and digging deep into the philosophy of peak performance. Jiro is fascinated to learn what drives others to satisfy theirhunger for peak performance and he does just that as part of his podcast called Flowstate Performance. Jiro is an avid meditator and mindfulness enthusiast based in Manley, New South Wales, Australia.

Contact Info

Website: www.flowstatecollective.com
Podcast: Flowstate Performance
email: Jiro@theflowstatecollective.com

Most Influential Person

Thich Nhat Hanh

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has allowed me to have the superpower to observe a thought before it's fully developed and therefore to make the choice as to whether I want to transform that thought or let it run. This has meant that I can abort thoughts or I can shift negative thoughts into positive thoughts or judgmental thoughts into more reasonable thoughts. This has had a huge effect on my self-worth and my compassion that I feel for other people.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is the anchor to the here and now. Breathing is our life force. Breath is everything. When we breathe mindfully and deeply we are actually putting ourselves into a different autonomic nervous state, a very calm and relaxed state.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Art of Meditation by Matthieu Ricard (The Happiest Man in the World)

Advice for Newbie

Just do it and enjoy the practice. This is not an arduous task or a thing you have to strive toward. This is about coming home to who you really are. This is about catharsis and release, self therapy and self love.

042 Ed Donato: Surfing and Mindfulness to Reach Your Flowstate Jan 06, 2016

Show notes

Ed Donato is an entrepreneur from Western Australia who works in the food industry with his wife, operating a holistic catering company. As a busy Dad and entrepreneur in the catering niche, Ed found it necessary tolearn how to stop feeling tired and regain energy. He loves to pass on his knowledge and help parents learn how to be healthy, energetic and happy too, in his podcast called ‘The Ed Talks’.

Contact Info

Facebook: The Ed Talks
Twitter: The Ed Talks
Instagram: The Ed Talks
Website: www.TheEdTalks.com/morningenergy

Most Influential Person

Thich Nhat Hanh

Effect on Emotions

Calming. It's allowed me to take control before I lash out at my wife or my son. I stop and realize he's a little boy.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing allows me to focus on something to begin that process of slowing down all those 70,000 thoughts that are coming into our mind in the day. By focusing on the breath it helps me to slow down and to get control of the thoughts in my mind.

Suggested Resources

Advice for Newbie

Make yourself realize there are proven scientific benefits that mindfulness works. It's not just 'woo-woo', it definitely works. It eliminates disease, it increases growth hormone, it makes you look younger, gives you a better night's sleep. Really find the reason why you want to do it and use that as a driving force. Then focus on your breath as a way to begin the practice and make it short. I only do just five minutes in the morning.

041 Melissa Mattern: Reach Your Inner Mindfulness Through The Psychic Genius Jan 03, 2016

Show notes

Melissa Mattern is a professional psychic known as The Psychic Genius. She’s energetic and fun and is committed to peace, daily mindfulness, meditation and living in love. Gratitude is a central theme in Melissa’s life, including being thankful for what she learned afterreceiving word in 2009 that she had breast cancer. Clients say - psychic readings with Melissa help bring clarity, release, joy and bring a big dose of inspiration to their lives. Previous to being an entrepreneur, Melissa was employed in corporate America where she learned many lessons about how to be highly successful on-line.

Contact Info

Website: www.ThePsychicGenius.com
Facebook: ThePsychicGenius
Twitter: @whispersmelissa

Most Influential Person

My kids, when they were babies. Also my cat.

Effect on Emotions

I was the biggest swayer of emotions you could meet, I was all over the place and had the hottest temper you can imagine. I loved to scorch the village. Now that I am more mindful, I know I can take a breath and come at things more from a place of love and from a place of understanding and wanting to make things right rather than just getting my way.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is everything and nothing. It's as important as you make it. There are some days when I realize I'm not breathing and I need to breathe. For me meditation starts with that first breath and that tells my body and mind mind and my soul that, hey it's go time, kids, and we're going to meditate.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

Advice for Newbie

It doesn't need to be complicated at all, in fact the least complicated meditation is the best. That can be breathing, a 16 second meditation where you breathe in for 4, hold for 4, let out for 4 and hold for 4. You don't need a fancy cushion, you don't need anything fancy, you really just need to breathe and to spend a little time. You don't have to start with an hour.

040 Eric Tivers: When You Notice Anxiety Don't Try to Push it Away Dec 30, 2015

Show notes

Eric Tivers is a psychotherapist and licensed Clinical Social Worker, sharing his expertise with clients as a consultant in private practice. He specializes in ADHD as well as high functioning autism. Eric is anational speaker, coach, and he also hosts the popular ADHD reWired podcast. Eric laughingly refers to himself as a recovering perfectionist. Eric actively practices mindful awareness in his personal and professional life.

Contact Info

Website: www.adhdRewired.com
Facebook: Eric Tivers
Twitter: @EricTivers
Podcast: ADHDRewired

Most Influential Person

Dan Harris (Author of the book, 10% Happier)

Effect on Emotions

It has allowed me to explore anxiety and in a very paradoxical way because I don't judge my anxiety. When I noticed anxiety, I sat with the physical sensation without trying to push it away. I became more aware of it, so it didn't heighten it and at the same time it made me realize at a certain point that I was getting anxious on a regular basis.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is always there when we look for it. It's one of the easiest things for us to pay attention to and when we focus on our breath, we can expand outward from there. When our thoughts are racing, when we're feeling anxious, we can always just focus on our breath.

Suggested Resources

Book: Rising Strong by Brene Brown
App: Sleep Cycle

Advice for Newbie

If you're a skeptic of mindfulness, I would suggest reading the book 10% Happier by Dan Harris because Dan Harris was also a skeptic. Try it. Figure out what you're hoping mindfulness will bring.

039 Mark Bowness: Take Control of Your Mind to Live Your Desired Level of Success Dec 27, 2015

Show notes

Mark Bowness is a speaker and coach whose goal is to be an inspiration to his clients. Based in Melbourne, Australia, his focus is on helping you make a life change that will transform your mind, body, spirit, relationships and wealth. He works with coaches from around the world to help thembuild businesses that will change peoples' lives, and he also has a Facebook group for coaches called 'I Work In Personal Development', with over 12,000 members. Mark also runs a movement called 'Life Change - The Revolution'. He says he is "addicted to empowering people to live the life they were created to live." Mark has studied psychology, spirituality and NLP, which stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. He also holds a degree in theology, which has given him more dimension in his work with life coaches, business coaches and personal trainers.

Contact Info

Website: www.lifechangetherevolution.com

Most Influential Person

Eckhart Tolle

Effect on Emotions

It's enabled me to be aware of my emotions and to respect my emotions and also to rein them in when my emotions aren't serving me at that particular moment in time.

Thoughts on Breathing

I love being aware of breathing, this deeper level of breathing. Being in the moment and meditating, allowing myself to breathe deeply. I just feel a deep sense of connection with the world when I'm breathing deep and I focus on the fact that as I'm breathing, the planet earth is breathing at the same time. This beautiful level of connectiveness inspires me.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
App: www.calm.com

Advice for Newbie

Go at your own pace. Mindfulness is literally whatever that means for you in that moment with regards to taking control of your mind. Just take baby steps and allow the beauty of those baby steps to transform your life in that moment and just awaken you to new levels of understanding. Just enjoy the process.

038 Kamala Chambers: Discover the Power in Being Gentle With Yourself and Others Dec 23, 2015

Show notes

Kamala Chambers is a relationship coach, mentor to online entrepreneurs and best-selling author. She is host of ‘The Lasting Love Podcast’ and also a business show called ‘Thriving Launch Podcast’. Kamala is an entrepreneur, hashitch-hiked in 12 countries and is constantly learning from her many clients. Kamala believes being aware of your breath and your body is part of the secret of mindfulness. She suggests you frequently ask the question, “how can I relax more deeply right now?" The result, she says, will be magical.

Contact Info

Website: www.lastingloveconnection.com
Website: www.thrivinglaunch.com
Podcast: Thriving Launch & Lasting Love Connection

Most Influential Person

My first mentor in energy medicine school really helped to kick me off in that path.

Effect on Emotions

Definitely more steady and even when I am paying attention to the moment rather than just riding off on whatever emotion comes.

Thoughts on Breathing

It's all tied in with the breath. If we're holding our bodies tight and we're not breathing, how can we pay attention to what's happening in the moment.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
App: Lasting Love Connection App

Advice for Newbie

It doesn't have to be complicated if you just practice taking a few deep breaths at a time and just notice what's happening in your body and noticing your sensations; the touch, the taste, the colors of the room. The more you practice, the easier it gets.

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