The Inner Frontier with Jonny Miller Meditation Myth-Busting, Finding Alignment & Living an Effortless Life with Michael King
From Over-Efforting to Ease
- Shift from proving worthiness to feeling enoughness.
- Focus effort on internal alignment for effortless action and joy.
Safety and the Nervous System
- People's breathing patterns can reveal a lack of safety in their nervous systems.
- Co-regulation and creating safety can allow relaxation and access to ease.
Productivity vs. Emotional Fluidity
- The obsession with productivity often leads to resisting uncomfortable emotions.
- However, emotions are gateways to the soul, not obstacles, and should be embraced.
This is a really unique episode—Michael King has been a mentor of mine and dear friend for nearly four years now. If it weren't for some of our conversations I'm not sure that The Inner Frontier would even exist, at least not in the form that it does today.
I find some of his perspectives and approaches to meditation and life so refreshing and my goal for this conversation was really to tease out some of the ideas and radical concepts that he has shared with me privately over the years.
Some of the questions we explored:
😬 What is the case for living life from a place of ease rather than over-efforting — which is something that I've wrestled with for a long time, as well as how our experience of reality is shaped by who we are and our beliefs.
🧘 Some common meditation myths and pitfalls that he sees with meditators with varying levels of experience as well as how he recommends navigating the landscape of meditation and the vast number of options and traditions and approaches out there.
📝 And finally, he also shares a really powerful framework for feeling into and moving through any challenging emotional experience or resistance.
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Michael is also launching the third iteration of his Meditation Teacher Training early next March which I was a student in two years ago. What I learnt in that training profoundly shaped not only my work as a founder coach but also deepened my own practice and my relationship to my own mind and emotional landscape. So if training to become a meditation teacher or deepening your own practice is something that calls to you, I would absolutely recommend getting in touch with Michael. He's generously offering The Inner Frontier listeners, $200 off the 2022 training — just mention Inner Frontier when you reach out.
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🔗 Links
🧘 Check out the Meditation Teacher Training 2022
👋 Find Michael on Instagram @kingsmeditationandmentoring
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