Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

We will learn: 6 game-changing productivity tips.  The most powerful questions to ask yourself.  How small changes to your language affect your mind. Today we’re going to learn a bunch of tools for your toolbox. This episode is going to be a little different and a lot of fun so I know it’s going to be really helpful.Our guest is Linda Bonnar, Coach, Author, Trainer, and Educational Wellbeing Consultant.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/214 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How your past can help you heal.  How to let go of rightness in a relationship.  The 5 Elements of Intimacy. Are you ready for a serious relationship but just can’t seem to find the right one? Or maybe you keep committing only to realize you keep ending up with the same issues. And you’re starting to think that maybe the perfect person for you just doesn’t exist.But maybe you’re just looking for love in the wrong places.When you find your own guiding star, then you can find someone else who is at least headed in the same direction.Our guest is Venus Castleberg. Venus is on a mission to help others to break free from the endless cycle for love – the kind that is based on hopes, dreams, and utopian ideals. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x68 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: What happens in our brains when we get hooked on something.  How anxiety and craving are related.  A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle, whether it be a craving or an anxiety loop. Today we're learning how to move beyond our cravings, reduce stress, and ultimately live a fuller life.Our guest is Dr. Jud Brewer, New York Times best-selling author, neuroscientist, addiction psychiatrist, and thought leader in the field of habit change. He is the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, where he also serves as an associate professor.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/213 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How our childhood narrative creates the stories we tell ourselves as adults. How we know if we need to rewrite our narratives. A 4-step process for rewriting your story.  The enneagram is an ancient personality typing system that provides profoundly accurate insights into our automatic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.In episode 123 we explored the different enneagram types (so go back and listen!). This episode we will learn how to use that information to uncover your true self.But we have more power than we give ourselves credit for. And understanding yourself better is the best place to start.Our guest is Ian Cron. He is a bestselling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal priest, and the host of the podcast, “Typology.” His books include the Enneagram primer The Road Back to You, and The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x67 Follow me on the Wisdom app here! Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: Why emotional invalidation is the first deadly sin.  The secret to de-escalating emotions in just a few minutes.  How to get through to unresponsive people. Today we’re going to learn how to calm an angry or upset person in 90 seconds or less. And I will tell you, it’s not only easy to learn, but so far I found that it works miraculously.Our guest is Douglas Noll, award-winning author, teacher, trainer, and a highly experienced mediator.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/212 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How experiencing trauma and tragedy can make you more receptive to new spiritual paths.  How meditation helps stay resilient in the face of challenges.  How to allow for the possibility of a spiritual awakening, even if you’re a complete skeptic. Have you ever gone through something that changed your entire life? I think we all have actually, whether we know it or not. But sometimes something happens and in that moment we know that nothing will ever be the same.   We don’t remember most of our lives. We remember key moments that, for whatever reason, had an impact on us. And we tend to remember where we were for big events, such as the events of September 11, 2001. Today’s guest remembers right where he was also, because he was actually on the bottom floor of the first tower that collapsed. A moment like this can make or break us. Either the pain is too much, so we use whatever we can to escape, like addiction, isolation, depression or even suicide. Or the pain is too much, so we use it as a catalyst to make positive changes that lead to a life even better than where we started. It’s always a choice. Whether or not it feels like it, it’s always a choice. But I also know that when you’re in the darkness, it’s hard to find your way to the light. So today we’re talking to someone who found his way. Our guest is Kushal Choksi who narrowly escaped the attacks of 9/11 and used his experience to find meaning and design his life around the quest for peace.  Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x66 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: Why we are all so prone to addiction.  How we are losing the ability to tolerate even minor discomfort.  How to fix our pleasure pain balance. Have you ever struggled with an addiction? Or even just the urge to over-indulge?You’ve probably heard that some people are just born with the gene that makes them more susceptible to becoming addicted to things. Maybe you identify with that susceptibility, or maybe you think you’re immune to addiction. But the truth is really none of us are. The survival mechanisms in our brains make it a risk for anyone. Yes some people tend to fall deeper and harder into it, and this can be from a number of factors, including childhood trauma or other environmental factors... but still... addiction doesn’t really discriminate.And now, our technology is exploiting the very reward centers in our brain that tend to lead to addiction. So we’re all just a little bit closer to it than we’d like to admit to ourselves.So in a world of indulgence and over-consumption, how do we avoid or get ourselves out of the cycle of destruction that comes with addiction?That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and author of “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/211 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: What the goal of the inner work is.  How your partner can help you reveal your soul’s work.  The themes of consciousness we must work through and ascend.  If you want to experience lasting positive change, you have to do the work.   But what the fluff is “the work”?   When I first started going down the road of spirituality, I was just focused on the destination. I felt like I needed to fix myself. I had no idea how long it was going to take, I just knew that I was not there yet.   The problem is, when we get so caught up in the person we want to be, or the goals we want to accomplish or how far we still have to go, it’s actually really easy to fall into a mindset of lack.   And guess what… That illusive “work” that everyone talks about, is done in the now. It’s how you’re choosing to be in this moment, not tomorrow or next week or next year. Now.   Welcome. You’re in the now.   So now that we’re here, what do we do? That’s what we’re talking about today.    Our guests are Mat & Ash, best known as The Yoga Couple. The influential couple is internationally recognized for their holistic healing work, authentic yoga teachings, and as the creators of The Inner Work method.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x65 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn:  How to differentiate between urgent and important.  How our labels and limitations affect our time.  An intuitive process for deciding what really matters. The first step is the commitment to finding the time. If you go through your life believing you don’t have time, rather than believing there is always a way, then your reality will be exactly what you believe it to be. You will not be able to find the time. The next step is the logistics.  In a world where everything is competing for our attention, how do we find time to do what’s important, when we’re also juggling the hardest job in the world: parenting? That’s what we’re talking about today.  Our guest is Christy Wright. She is a No.1 national best-selling author, personal development expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show. She’s been featured on Today Show and Fox News, and in Entrepreneur and Woman’s Day Magazines. Since 2009, Christy has served at Ramsey Solutions, where she teaches on personal development, business, and faith. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/210 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How traditions can write our families’ stories.  How to give your family the gift of spontaneity.  How to overcome resistance to tradition from older children.  Plus a ton of ideas for year round family traditions. What are your favorite childhood memories? What traditions did your family have that you always looked forward to?   Making memories and traditions for your family can be a lot of hard work. So it’s easy to convince yourself they don’t really matter and just skip them, but those traditions might be the thing that sticks out the most when your children, or even when you think about your lives.   They’re something that everyone in the family can look forward to. They can be the points of stability in a chaotic world.   So how do we start to make traditions that our families will look forward to for a lifetime?    That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Jessica Smartt, author of Memory-Making Mom and Let Them Be Kids.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x64 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices