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If you’re of a curious disposition, have a positive outlook, are devoted to, or even have a passing interest in making yourself a little bit better (let’s set the bar low and aim for 1%) then I’m very hopeful you’ll enjoy listening to my podcast.

Latest Episodes:

1% Better Live with Tofe Evans - EP078 Aug 29, 2018

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Tofe Evans is a Thought Leader, Endurance Athlete, & Limit Pusher.

Eben Alexander & Karen Newell - Near Death Experiences & Living in a Mindful Universe - EP077 Aug 24, 2018

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Eben Alexander & Karen Newell - Near Death Experiences & Living in a Mindful Universe - EP21 S2
Welcome to the 1% Better Podcast.
This is another show of many firsts.
It’s my first with two guests on the other side of the mic/studio (virtual studio via skype).
It's my first interview with a #1 New York Times Best Selling Author in Eben Alexander.
I believe it's my first with someone who experienced a Near Death Experience (NDE) so vivid and long in duration (he was in a coma for 7 days where he was technically brain dead) that he was able to write a book about it called Proof of Heaven.
In the show, Eben is joined by his life partner, Karen Newell, who is the co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, which creates brainwave audio recordings that help you enter and engage your own consciousness in order to connect to inner guidance, achieve inspiration, improve wellness and develop intuition.
They are the co-authors of their most recent book living in a mindful universe which we also discuss on the show.
There is a full summary of the topics covered and questions asked below if you would like to review over it before or after the show.
What would be really cool? If you took a minute out to rate/review the podcast on iTunes (links below). I write that every week. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to word it for it to happen :)
Topics covered:
•NDEs
•Meditation
•Mindfulness
•Consciousness
•participatory anthropic principle – worm holes and black holes
•Putting awareness on the heart!! – activating stored emotional traumas
•The voice in the head – The annoying room-mate!
oAllow the higher soul take over
•Quantum Physics
•Beliefs – Limiting Behaviours
•Love, Compassions, Forgiveness,
Mins 0-2mins – Rob Intro & Background to interview
Q1 – 2mins – Eben – talk about the story that lead to Proof of Heaven?
•Neurosurgeon world view – Physicalism – this was how viewed
•The journey unfolded to show him this was not the way!
•November 2008 – into a Coma for 7 days
•Blessing of it all – Neocortex was destructed – extremely deadly case of bacterial meningitis
•What he witnessed was a far richer and more real and alive world – none of the scientific explanations work – this is why Proof of Heaven worked!
•The Earthworms Eyes View – the world he lived in during this time!!!
•Slowly spinning white light – imagery, meadows, lights, orbs, choirs,
•The awareness was far beyond anything he could understand!!!
•Impossible to describe this into words!!
•Guardian Angel – identity of this came clear 4 months later
•Message – you are deeply loved and cherished forever!!!
•Space & Time collapsing
•Deep Time then entered the core!!
Q2 – 9mins – Human Language couldn’t describe – was there feelings liked?
•NDE – Grayson scale – scored in the upper 2% every reported
•Atypical – Amnesic in his own life – no memories – starting with an empty slate!!
•Now wanted to read the NDE – but only after writing down 20k of this experience
•Still uncovering the lessons now
•Eben had a blank slate as he couldn’t remember anything before the coma
•Consciousness
Q3 – 12mins – Conditioned from when we’re born – within that world? Time & Space?
•Felt like months or years!
•We see as time in this material world – it’s not as the way it seems to work!
•Quantum Physics
•Participatory anthropic principle – worm holes and black holes
•We need to expand our models of understanding
•Deep Time – Past and Future existing in the NOW!
•We can get to these in deep meditation – our brain is just a filter!!
•Going within can be so crucial – this is why we can do!
•Karen Newell – Co-Author – Sacred Acoustic – Deep Transcendental States!!
Q4 – 16mins – Meditation prior to the NDE?
•Discuss this in Living in a Mindful Universe
•Chapel Hill in College – Parachuting team!!
•Initially wanted to play Rugby and do Jumping first!
•Parachuting – Silver Mind control – form of meditation – helped with Freefall formations
•He couldn’t see this role in other aspects of his life! He didn’t take it to school\
•1976 to 2011 – a gap – meditation started again and work with Karen!
•Using Sacred tones to revisit these states!
•Practice of going within
Q5 – 19mins – Coming out of the Coma – To write about this?
•First few days – Amnesia was gigantic – coming back – 7 days later – had no recognise of anything – all his scientist knowledge was long gone!
•Words & Language – days
•8 weeks – everything came back – more complete than before!!
•Assumed the NDE was way too real to be real!
•Memories are as shape and clear now as they were then!
•NDE memories are not at all like a drug effect – these are richer than a real true-life experiment – these don’t change over time!!
•Grayson – writing a study about his case - Dying to be me!
•Examples of others that had NDE – Case report – simply points out damage to Neocortex – but yet came back from!!
Q6 – 24mins – putting the book together – was there fear in sharing this?
•4 months after – realising who his guardian angel was
•He realised he couldn’t just bury this!
•He knew this was a big risk, but he knew what he discovered he couldn’t bury this!
•Starting to glimpse many scientists were also far along this pathway!
•Admitting we should be looking into this more!
Q7 – 27mins – Meditation and A Gateway into this?
•Meeting with Karen Newell
•The Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness – why would anyone think that it does?
•Karen was on a different path – not looking at science as offering the truth!
•Science wasn’t answering the purpose questions
•Only know things for certain when you have the FIRST HAND Experience!
•This was something Karen could do using remote viewing, and she could create these experiences in her own life!!
•SOUND is a critical experience creator
•Focusing on the NOW moment!
•Creating Sounds – to help people get into the NOW moment – beyond the time and space of here now!
•Using the Binomials beats, etc
•This technology can help get out this!
Q8 – 32mins – Recommendations for those starting out – the best form?
•Searching for the best methods?
•We all have slightly different versions of what that is?
•Frustrations are very common
•The mind is our friend when we want to go to Harvard and get a PhD!
•But it’s not a big helper when we want to find out deeper feeling state!
•Deep state of meditation – much less about words – more about feelings!!
•Get the MIND out of the WAY
•Brainwave technology really helps!
•Listening to the sound helped bring into the expanded state of awareness!
•Tool – imagine the breath coming in and out of the heart!!
•Releasing these traumas – emptying ourselves from these old traumas
•The Voice in the Head – the annoying roommate is there!
•The lower brainstem – millions of year ago – part of evolution
•The sound frequencies are connecting into this part of the brain stem!
•A bigger effect at a much deeper level
•binaural beats
•Reuniting with the god-force
Q9 – 39mins – Is there a preferred way when using the beats?
•Recommended lying down
•Really want to make the body profoundly relaxed
•The mind / awareness is still alert
•Some caveats – if you fall asleep very easily
•Finding a relaxed position
•It can be done as a walking meditation
•Experiment and find what work best for them
Q10 – 43mins – Different Techniques – Benefits? Experience? How quickly?
•Cumulative effects can’t be stressed enough
•Can start to see improvement
•As we start to change – we just know who we are!!
•It can happen immediately
•Calmer!!
•The tones are having an impact
•TM – the standard – 20mins x 2 times a day
•20mins is a measurable impact – do it at least 4 times a week
•20mins is enough to start
•Develop the ability to stay in longer periods – start to interact with deeper states
•Longer periods – allow to go deeper!
•1 hour 15mins as a minimum is a good starting point!
•Example – Eben’s son with studying
Q11 – Silent Retreats – Using the Beats? For longer term!!
•Intensive works – 5 times a day x 45mins recording – more expanded states
•Weekend retreats!
•Can be very life transforming – get exposed to another side of yourself and the essence of who you really are!
•Teaching people to find out who they really are!
Q12 – Always on and always connected – looking for that!
•Escaping what is true and what is not true!
•We need to get a clearer view
Q13 – Consciousness – New Models
•New models emerging
•Living in a mindful universe
•Get rid of the materialist or physicalist universe
•Leading Fathers of Quantum Physics
•The mind is a reducing value
•Measurement Paradox in QP
•Come to the conclusions we live in a mental universe
•Free Will can have a tremendous influence on our life!
•Placebo effect – 30% shows this defies materialist model!!
•Medical world is stuck in Materialism!!
•Filter Theory!!
•We are sharing ONE Consciousness – Lots of examples here
•Changing our Belief!!! False Limiting!!!
Q14 – Intuition & Consciousness – Related
•The Mental Universe is us!
•No soul is left behind
•The more we can become more conscious of this, the more we can improve
•The inner essence
Connect in with Eben & Karen:
•Latest book – Living in a Mindful Universe
•www.EbenAlexander.com – 33 day journey – email each day from the book!
•The community of thinkers are engaging and is worldwide and growing daily.
•Sacred Acoustics's website (Karen's company): www.sacredacoustics.com
And people will want to have these:
Link to the FREE online course, 33-Day Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
www.ebenalexander.com/33days/
Link to the FREE 20-minute sound meditation, OM:
https://www.sacredacoustics.com/pages/free-download-sign-up

Davidji - Journeying, Finding Greater Grace & Stillness, and 21 Day Challenges - EP076 Aug 16, 2018

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Davidji is an internationally recognized stress-management expert, corporate trainer, meditation teacher, and author of a number of critically acclaimed and Bestselling books
In December 2015, Davidji was named a Trailblazer in Yoga & Ayurveda by Spirituality & Health Magazine (http://spiritualityhealth.com/100trailblazers).
Early this year, I discovered Davidji through a meditation app and was instantly take by his voice, which has been dubbed the ‘velvet voice of stillness’. I’ve been listening to some of his guided meditations ever since.
So when Davidji agreed to come onto the 1% Better podcast to talk about his how journey, from corporate world to a life of purpose, fulfilment and happiness, I was more than delighted. We recorded it over skype and video and I could see Davidji was in a much more lush surroundings on the west coast of the US than I was as you can hear the birds signing!
Some of the key topics we cover during the conversation are summarized below. It’s certainly one of my favourite shows as I can relate in many ways to his journey.
I hope you enjoy the show. A breakdown of what we talk about with timings detailed below.
Timings & Topics:
1min – The velvet voice of stillness and how this came to be
2min – Earliest Memory – the divine principle of rebirth – keep dying to the past, reinventing ourselves is key. Davidji’s Mother dying at an early age. Getting the book Ulysses by James Joyce. Advise to keep journeying.
4min – Growing up & early formed values? – grew up in New York. Effort & Focus drilled into him from birth. Always been driven and had a vision. Not necessarily seeking money but wanting to be the best version of himself.
6min - Started to question his purpose & reason for being. 9/11 was a big impact on his view of the world. In the wake of this, everything Davidji believed turned out not to be true. He started to question the purpose? What will be his legacy? What is this all about?
10min – Was there a first tool or first step?
•Started to meditate in College – getting hit with a bamboo stick when a though came in!
•Over the years, practiced different forms of meditation, some lasting longer than others!
•More in corporate world, the practice then dropped away.
14min – Corporate world 20 years ago to now?
•Mindfulness in general, not just in work, has come a long way in 10 years
•Example of Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs all meditate
•Working with the Dublin Gardaí (police force) last year
17mins – Deciding to leave the Corporate World & becoming the COO at Deepak’s Centre
•Left the Job and went to Oxford England with Deepak Chopra and learned meditation techniques – he realized after a few days meditation, he felt joy and lightness for the first time in years.
•Then headed to India in search of the guru and answers
•Went to Deepak in California and approached him about becoming part of the centre leveraging his business skills
•Every day, he them became a teacher of meditation and working in the centre’s business
•Finding the blend here and working in the centre for 10 years.
•In 2012, Davidji decided to move out on his own and start on a new journey with these skills
25min – Quid Pro Quo & The Perfect Job
•An energetic exchange in every relationship is key
•Be willing to serve at a certain level and be ready to receive it back
27min – Intuition & Big Picture?
•Our ability to take a step back and realize it’s not all about the step right now!
•Meditation helps you connect with stillness and see how the bigger picture fits into
•Daily meditation has helped Davidji see the world coming at him in slow motion
31min – The Sweet-spot, the space between our thoughts & the Gap
•You are not your thoughts
•We have 60-80000 thoughts per day!
•We are not our physical body
•Then who are we? We are the space between our thoughts – this is the place we can then truly find peace – This is the key!
•When you meditate, the more you get into the gap
•Cultivating our ability to witness – accessing beyond space and time!
•When you come back into the real world, you bring a small bit of this back
•Our next words and thoughts are just that little bit more reflective
•Bringing more purpose and stillness into the moment
38min – Ego comes up & how you can control this?
•Look at your ego – a sense of self
•That moment you have the impulse to respond – this will give you time back
•Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles? – Lao Su?
41min – 21-day meditation technique and challenge with Steve Covey
•How this took off and grew
•Years later how this took another turn
•Making 21 days into the 40-day challenge
•The 40 days of transformation program for the last 5 years
45min – Does meditation work for everyone?
•Anyone can meditation and you can do it anywhere
•Be more mindful doing activities
•Pattern interruptions will help you be a better version of yourself
49min – Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha
•Explaining a mantra
•You will still have thoughts
•Oneness is the progressive quieting the fluctuations of the mind!
50min – Book recommendations
•Man’s search for meaning – Victor E. Frankl
oWe can’t avoid suffering but we can choose how we want to cope with it!
•Sacred Powers – Davidji
•The Mothman Prophecy with Richard Gere
•Steven Covey – 7 Habits of Highly successful people
1% Better Takeaways:
•Keep journeying
•Practice what you chose every day! Everything needs a daily practice
•Taking a 21-day challenge & a 40 day challenge
Connect with Davidji:
•www.davidji.com

1% Better Live - Solo Random Show - EP075 Aug 14, 2018

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In this live show, I discuss a wide range of topics including:
* The story behind the Rosanna Arquette Episode
* International Podcast Day
* Upcoming show with Davidji
* Podcast listening Apps & Stats
* One Minute Monday
* Blogging
* Coaching
* and lots more!!
Check it out

1% Better Live with Maryam Henein - Vanishing of the Bees - EP074 Aug 07, 2018

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Maryam Henein is a filmmaker and writer and owner of Honey Colony. You may of seen Maryam’s documentary, Vanishing of the Bees (narrated by Ellen Page) that came out a few years ago. She is also owner of the Honey Colony which is a company that aims to put honesty back in the food supply.
Check out this live episode of the 1% Better Podcast. More details in the show notes after we go live.

Paula 'Paz' Tooths - Practising Positivity, Social Media Influencing, & Human Rights Missions - EP073 Aug 03, 2018

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Welcome to the show!
Paula has had quite a varied and fascinating career so far. From journalism, TV Production, Event Management, Human Rights Research, Life and Business Coaching, Authoring books developing Wellness and Social Media Influencing. She is also a Mother. She is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, but her career so far has brought her far and wide.
I connected with Paula earlier this year as I was interested in learning more about her career as well as her experience in the area of social media. As she has a following on Twitter of almost half a million, I was keen to understand her strategy and approaches to that.
While that was the original interest, as Paula talks through her career, I began to realize there was a lot more to her than just having nearly half a million followers on twitter.
During our broad ranging conversation, I learned a lot about Paula’s positive approach to life, her passion for learning and always looking to help others.
I recorded this interview on International Day of happiness (20th March) which was a fitting day as Paula does look towards finding happiness.
Just some of the key points we discussed include:
•Leading with a positive mindset
•Life challenges with an Autistic Son and how she’s worked to keep positive
•A career in TV & Communications skills
•The importance of team work
•Executive Producing Events including a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert
•Dealing with the demands of performers
•Project Management & Event Management
•Taking on a new challenge in the area of Human Rights research in Kosovo
•Seeing first hand that atrocities that war can bring and how strong people can be
•Moving back to London and starting out in the area of Social Media and Marketing
•Developing Social Media Strategies in Facebook and Twitter while still early days with both platforms
•Training in Homeopathy
•Becoming an author in 2013 and publishing a series of books
•Having a busy mind and always looking for ways to be positive
•As a life & business coach, finding ways to help others via social media
•Fighting for her customers & followers rights though social media
•What a typical day looks like?
•Paz’s 2 main pleasures in life
oHelping others be successful through coaching
oCooking for others
•What does the future hold?
oConcerns about Brexit and how it could impact her future
oHaving a plan B, C, D & E
•Holding her Mother as her greatest influencer over her life!
•Advice that stands out from her past!
1% Better Takeaways:
•Learn to be happy - this is the biggest secret!
•The Theory of the 5 in Social Media
oHave 5 ideas online every day
3 from others
2 from you – 1 with business & 1 about you!
•Always have a Plan B
•Social Media advice from her experience so far
oConsistency is key across all your platforms – same picture, bio and header!!!
oFocus on Instagram is exploding – more video is great
oBuild out a strategy but be open to test out posts at different times
oUse of tools like Hootsuite can be very useful if you’re building a full on strategy
oTwitter is becoming a platform of complaints!
oThe use of Tor Project online for positive results
•Be genuine with your followers and engage with them
Connect with:
www.paulatooths.com
Twitter - @paulatooths

Live Show with Jeff Bogaczyk of the Mind for Life Podcast - EP072 Jul 31, 2018

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Live show with Guest Jeff Bogaczyk
Check out Jeff's site - Mindforlife.org

Colin O'Brady - 7 Summits, 2 Poles, 1 Goal & 2 World Records (rebroadcast) - EP071 Jul 27, 2018

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Hi all,
Welcome to another episode of the 1% Better Podcast.
I have the full show notes with all links to Colin on the episode page on my site here - www.robofthegreen.ie/episodes/ep39-colinobrady/
Thanks for listening,
Rob

John Murray - Duchenne Smiles, Self-Acceptance Gaps, & Selfie Psychology – EP070 Jul 20, 2018

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Welcome to the 1% Better Podcast.
This week’s guest is John Murray. John is, primarily, a Headshot Photographer. But as you’ll hear from this conversation, he has many other strings to his bow. He’s been adding new skills and competencies over the years and is clearly a lifelong learner that has a passion for what he does.
John talks about the neuroscience and psychology of photography, how we read images, how we read each other, Duchenne smiles v squinch, what is the self-acceptance gap, picture avoidance syndrome (PAS), the impact and benefit mindfulness has had on John, and so much more!
Please go to the full episode page on my site for a detailed summary with 1% Better Tips and book recommendations.
The link is: http://robofthegreen.ie/episodes/johnmurray-ep17s2
Enjoy the show.

Live Show & Q&A - EP069 Jul 17, 2018

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Sharing updates, answering questions, maybe even a skype call? We'll see how it goes!

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