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We will learn: How our personal struggles actually influence our biology How to examine the 4 points of your personal compass Why letting in is just as important as letting go It seems the most interesting, complex and inspiring people I know have all been through something really hard. They’ve struggled somehow.Struggles help us develop resilience. Often in order to survive, we start searching for things – help, resources, conversations, maybe something inside ourselves like our own strengths. But not everyone who struggles finds their light. Some stay in the darkness. Some feel beaten down by their experience and just can’t seem to find the strength to get up and out of it. They feel like the world is against them, or they’re a victim of their own circumstance. So what’s the difference? Why do some people’s struggles seem to make them, while others break them?So how do we start to find that meaning? How to we start to recognize the wisdom in our own achievements? Instead of just the details of our own stories?Our guest is Kirsten Beverley Waters. She is a Yoga Medicine teacher, fitness coach, author, and motivational speaker. She credits the low moments in her life with enabling her to find her voice and harness her powers. And today she dives deep into an exploration of personal experience and how our individual stories and struggles help shape our biology, giving breath to our individual superpowers.Show Notes: mindlove.com/154 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 to open your mind to become more attuned to serendipity  How to turn unexpected encounters into opportunity How to better foster your connections to turn them into something meaningful Have you ever noticed that some people just seem to have really good luck?  Do they have like cosmic signals attached to each of them that tells the universe how to respond? Or are they approaching the world differently?That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Christian Busch. He’s an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the Director of the Global Economy Program at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, and also teaches at the London School of Economics. And He’s a cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network.His most recent book is called The Serendipity Mindset. And his main message is that serendipity isn’t about luck in the sense of simple randomness. It’s about seeing links that others don’t, combining these observations in unexpected and strategic ways, and learning how to detect the moments when apparently random or unconnected ideas merge to form new opportunities.This is action and data driven knowledge from a practical expert, with a clear blueprint for how we can cultivate serendipity to increase innovation, influence, and opportunity in every aspect of our lives.'Show Notes: mindlove.com/153 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 to take bold moves before you have it all figured out How trauma passes down and how to move through it How to push yourself to not just survive but to succeed   Humans have a co-existing need for individuality and belonging. We want to be our own people, and we want our unique identities to be know, but we also want to fit in and belong.   Now imagine being a refugee… you had no choice but to leave your country… you don’t speak the language well, you already feel displaced, and you end up somewhere that doesn’t exactly make you feel welcome.    How would that affect you?   How would it change the way you viewed yourself and the world?    Today’s episode tells the journey of a refugee and how her struggles affected her daughter.   Our guests today are Lan Cao and her daughter Harlan Van Cao. Lan was born in South Vietnam and is now a professor of international economic law and has written two novels. Harlan is a freshman at UCLA. Both just completed a mother-daughter memoir Family in Six Tones.   So for those of you who think you’re too young or too inexperienced to get a publishing deal or to do whatever other big dream you keep talking yourself out of, you’re going to want to hear this.   Show Note: mindlove.com/x19See 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 our early experiences impact our relationships through attachment styles The inner beliefs that affect each attachment style the most How to reprogram our minds to transform the limiting programs we’re holding onto to Have you noticed certain patterns in your relationships?Maybe you tend to get a little too clingy a little too fast? Or maybe when it starts to get serious you pull away. Or maybe you don’t set any boundaries and then suddenly snap and lash out.Where do these patterns come from? That’s what we’re talking about today, specifically Attachment Theory. Attachment theory describes how our early relationship with a parent or primary caregiver, creates our expectation for how love should be. Our guest is Thais Gibson.She is an author, speaker and co-creator of the Personal Development School. She has a MA and over 13 different certifications ranging from CBT to hypnosis. And she’s best known for her work and research on Attachment Theory and how trauma impacts our adult romantic relationships. And she’s also the author of The Attachment Theory Guide. She’s created her own system which integrates our personal core wounds, limiting beliefs and emotional patterns at the subconscious level to give us deeper insight into ourselves and our relationships. Show Notes: mindlove.com/152 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 suffering prepares us for enjoyment and happiness The first step to finding our way out of our mental suffering How to navigate the emotions and thoughts that are surfacing right now both inside ourselves and within our personal relationships   Whether you’ve gone through something big and traumatic, or just feel overwhelmed by the day to day hardships, we all suffer. Even those that seem to have everything handed to them on a silver platter will find a way to create their own suffering. What if the number one thing you can do to ease your suffering is to figure out how to love yourself… actually realizing who you are at your core and understanding how to meet your own needs on a moment to moment basis.   Our relationships with ourselves are the most important relationships we have and ironically the ones that tend to be the most neglected.    Until we start connecting with ourselves and finding our own center, we’re going to continue to be thrown by everything happening around us.   So that’s what we’re talking about today.    Our guest is Blake D. Bauer, the author of the international bestselling book You Were Not Born To Suffer. He is a world-renowned teacher and speaker with an extensive background in psychology, alternative medicine, nutrition, traditional healing, and mindfulness meditation.    His expertise comes from his personal experience overcoming deep suffering and addiction as well as what he’s learned helping over 100,000 people worldwide.   Sign up for Mind Love Premium here.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: The elements of behavior change and how to approach it How to use emotion to create lasting habits How to form communities to help make change a lot easier You know how devices like your phone and computer have a power-saving mode? Your brain has one too. It’s the autopilot system that takes over when you’re doing repetitive tasks, like driving to work or brushing your teeth. Your body and brain work in perfect harmony, almost like everything you do is carrying out a mission with total efficiency so you to perform better without even thinking about what you’re doing.The catch—this system is super valuable, but it’s also what makes it so hard to change our habits! Today, we’re going to talk about the actionable science behind building and breaking habits. The tips and tricks for real lasting change.Today we’re talking to BJ Fogg. He’s a Behavior Scientist and founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University and he founded the Behavior He’s not only a researcher, he also teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits Academy and wrote the bestselling book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything.Show Notes: mindlove.com/151 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 can you open your mind and heart to what is holding you back How to  open yourself up to the psychic dimension How to integrate the ego for a more unified self What’s your relationship to your ego? We get a lot of mixed messages about ego. I think the first things I understood about it was just what it means to have a big ego, or to be egotistical.What if instead of shunning the ego, we integrate it. We acknowledge its intention, even feel grateful for it, but just understand there are more pieces to the puzzle that need to be considered before just act on the ego’s impulse.Thinking about the ego this way can be a pretty big step in self love. And moving away from separation and towards unity. Because how can we really feel unity with our full selves if we’re resisting such a big part of our own humanity?So that’s part of what we’re diving into today. Our guest is Vincent Genna. Vincent is known as the “tell-it-like-it-is” and a truly authentic Spiritual Teacher and Psychic Therapist.Vincent also teaches all levels of psychic and mediumship skills, including communicating with animals. He’s got a big personality and is such an amazing story teller so this will be a fun episode.Sign up for Mind Love Premium here.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: The energies beneath our challenges Healthy vs unhealthy fear and the main causes of both How to connect with the center of your heart chakra to gain power and insight The biggest oversight we make in our spiritual journeys is to bypass the man experience.We think we can just overshadow any pain or negative emotion with positivity. Or shun our ego out of existence. Or we deny that we have any fear at all, because somehow fear is the opposite of love.Right now, we are experiencing a collective trauma. Healing really involves both our human and spiritual selves, to fully integrate what we’re going through into who we are becoming.If we bypass the human side of it, like denying our sadness or our pain, and trying to just overpower with the positive, or if we deny the spiritual side of it, like not paying attention to where energy may be blocked in the body, we don’t clear our the unresolved trauma. We miss half the lesson either way.So today we’re talking about our subtle energy bodies and how they affect our physical realities.Our guest is is Cyndi Dale. She’s an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant and the author of 27 books about energy medicine, intuition, and spirituality.Show Notes: mindlove.com/150 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

Sign up for Mind Love Premium for the full episode here.We will learn: The 3 causes of mental suffering: desire, aversion and delusion What we should be paying attention to during meditation How to apply non-attachment to everything we do I believe every religion, philosophy, school of thought, way of life… has something to teach. I like to go into ideas with the mindset of “what can I take with me from this?”So today, we’re going to take some lessons from Buddhism. Without knowing much about Buddhism, it quickly started to positively affect my life, sometimes with something as simple as a quote. There are so many good ones: “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”“Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”“If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”There are just so many nuggets of wisdom that you can directly apply to basically every area of your life. If you’re a student of meditation, or you’re curious about it, it actually originates with the Hindu culture and Buddha was a Hindu.So today we’re diving into the Buddhist teachings we can all benefit from, specifically with inner self talk, meditation and just processing our lives.Our guest is Cynthia Kane. She’s the bestselling author of How to Communicate like a Buddhist, Talk to Yourself like a Buddhist, and How to Meditate like a Buddhist.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 stress and trauma disconnect us from our bodies The link between the body and emotions How to reconnect to the body to heal stress and trauma A powerful breathwork exercise you can do every day We’re forgetting what makes us human, we’re cutting off important people because of their beliefs that by the way are shaped by their own unique life experience.So with all the divisiveness, accepting people and seeing the good in their intentions no matter what their beliefs is critical to healing the planet.I’ve found the best way to do that, is to notice when I’m living in my mind and use that as a trigger to move into my body.We’re talking to Sam Skelly. She’s a 7-figure entrepreneur, a speaker, best-selling author, and wellness coaching expert. Her podcast is Hungry for Happiness and she started her focus on emotional eating and body love and then moved into breathwork, all things that have to do with reconnecting with our bodies.Show Notes: mindlove.com/149 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