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Forgiveness… sucks… lol totally kidding, but it is really freaking hard. But science shows being hurt or disappointed puts a huge strain your health.⠀⠀Holding a grudge puts you in fight or flight mode which affects your heart rate, blood pressure and immune response. People who hold onto grudges are more likely to experience severe depression, PTSD, they’re more likely to die of heart disease. ⠀⠀Forgiveness reduces cortisol, regulates your stress response reduces risk of heart attach and even helps you sleep. But for most people, forgiveness isn’t just an event, it’s a process that requires a little soul searching and self-reflection. And it’s definitely not always easy. Especially at first. That’s what we’ll be talking about today.⠀⠀Our guest is Terri Levine, she’s the founder of Heartpreneur, and a best selling author, most recently of a book called About to Break - The Path to True Forgiveness. ⠀⠀We will learn: ⠀⠀ How to shift the way you view people to release resentment Why it’s not our job to teach anyone a lesson A process to fully forgive yourself and others ⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/107 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

Stress rises around the holidays, which means people get tense. And for a lot of people, Thanksgiving might be the first time they’ve seen their families since easter, or maybe even since the year before. So there’s a lot of calibration that goes on.⠀⠀Topics like politics and religion and money are all taboo subjects. But discussions about progress shouldn’t be off-limits. ⠀⠀But how do we argue while coming together instead of falling apart?⠀⠀Our guest is Buster Benson. As the mastermind behind top-performing teams at Amazon, Twitter, and Slack, Buster basically mastered hard conversations in stressful environments. His article cognitive bias went so viral, viral he got a book deal. ⠀⠀We’ll discuss the psychology of those awkward, unproductive conversations and how to avoid it.⠀⠀Today we will learn: How cognitive bias affects everyone How to stay confident when you’re put on the spot How to diffuse tense moments with a few strategic questions ⠀Show Notes: mindlove.com/106 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

Crystals have thousands — sometimes millions — of years of the Earth’s history stored within them that you can harness to tap into the best version of you.⠀⠀And I’ll tell you what. The more I learn about them, the more the concept makes sense. ⠀⠀Everything is made of energy and crystals have an especially intense energy field, and they also have the ability to store information. Crystals have thousands — sometimes millions — of years of the Earth’s history stored within them that you can harness to tap into the best version of you.⠀⠀Did you know hard drives and flash drives are powered by quartz crystals?⠀⠀I know the power of crystals but I still have so much to learn, so today’s episode will help us get more intentional with crystals, and our guest today has made it super simple.⠀⠀We’re talking to Heather Askinosie, a leading influencer on the power of crystals, Feng Shui, and holistic healing. She’s also the co-founder of Energy Muse - which is a provider of handmade crystal jewelry.⠀⠀Today we will learn⠀⠀ How crystal really work How to program crystals for maximum benefit Specific ways to integrate them into your daily life BONUS: Crystal magic to get you through the holidays, including, protecting your energy, releasing stress, connecting with your family, and even eliminating your holiday debt ⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/105 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

Most of us grew up with a view of history that seemed more like a boys’ club, where women slowly fought for equal rights leading us to our reality today. But for many reasons (ahem… the patriarchy… ahem) much of the real history of women has been left out.⠀⠀A deeper look at history tells a different story: Women were powerful, sacred; full of wisdom and intuition and connection to goddess energy.⠀⠀Today we’re talking to Amy Macree, a Holistic Health Expert and author of A Little Bit of Goddess.⠀⠀She’s going to give us An introduction to the Divine Feminine, a deeper history of The Goddess, and how we can connect to our own goddess energy⠀⠀We will learn:⠀⠀ How to know if we need to balance out our masculine and feminine energies⠀ Concepts and traditions from the time of goddess worship that have been erased from history⠀ How we can embody goddess energy to elevate the planet ⠀ ⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/104 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

Every human knows what we should do, but most of us aren’t doing it.⠀⠀So what if you could hack into your mindset and start to work the same magic that a coach would? What if you could start to shift your mindset to see your own issues from a fresh perspective? What if you could start to view your next steps more logically instead of emotionally? What if you could hold yourself accountable?⠀⠀What would change for you?⠀⠀Today we’re talking to Dr. Sasha Heinz. She’s a Developmental Psychologist and Life Coach, is an expert in Positive Psychology. She specializes in lasting behavioral change, and the science of getting unstuck.⠀⠀So today she’s going to teach us some of her methods that we can actually take home and use on ourselves.⠀⠀We will learn:⠀ Why it’s so difficult to change unproductive, harmful, even dangerous habits even when we really want to change How to create feelings of willingness to do the things we know we should do but keep putting off How to change how you frame your goals to make them more manageable⠀ ⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/103 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

What we breathe, eat, absorb… all of it affects our health. It’s what fuels our bodies. If anything we’re breathing, eating or even putting on our skin is not clean and our, it’s actually doing harm. Our bodies aren’t able to function properly.In the last few years I’ve gradually swapped out all my cleaning products, all the things I put on my skin, I bought a pretty good water filter… but there was one thing I only recently addressed, and that’s AIR QUALITY.In response to the Los Angeles fires, this episode feels even more urgent.Today we’re talking to Vinny Lobdell - he’s president of HealthWay – a family run business specializing in customized air cleaning systems for major hospitals, hotels and commercial office buildings. He is also the Co-Founder of Intellipure, the most effective home air-filtration product on the market.Also, Vinny is kind enough to give Mind Love listeners an exclusive discount of 10% off your air purifier, or any purchase from their website. So be sure to use the code MINDLOVE to get your discount.My husband and I got the Ultrafine 468 for medium to large spaces.Today we will learn: How air quality impacts our overall health Useful tips for your daily routine to create a non-toxic home How to choose an air filter that’s right for your home Learn about finding the right air filter for you here: mindlove.com/airSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Empaths feel and absorb other people’s emotions. We’re basically highly sensitive. ⠀⠀I sent out a survey a few weeks ago and ask what your biggest struggles are to painting a positive mindset, and one of the most common responses were absorbing other people’s negative energy.⠀⠀So I suspect that many of you are on the empath spectrum as well.⠀⠀It’s important to identify if you’re an empath or not because then you can actually learn to work with your sensitivities instead of being held back by them.⠀Your sensitivities can be a gift. It’s almost like heightened intuition.⠀⠀You can sense when something is wrong, when people are lying, or saying they’re fine when really they’re upset. You can connect to the universe’s guidance more deeply.⠀And best of all, you can start to learn where your real emotions end and where other’s begin.⠀⠀If you’ve a partial empath or just have trouble not taking on the bad vibes from other people, this episode will be highly valuable for you as well.⠀⠀Today we’re talking to Dr. Judith Orloff. Her book The Empath’s Survival Guide was a life-changer for me. And now she’s someone out with her next book Thriving as an Empath, 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People.⠀⠀We will learn:⠀ How to stop absorbing other people’s stress and negative energy How to create healthy boundaries in your relationships Empath protection strategies including a bunch of journaling prompts to start to connect with your gifts.⠀ ⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/102 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

Are you trapped in a job or career or even a life that you don’t love? Maybe You keep hearing about people quitting their jobs to pursue their passions and think, “that could never work for me.” Maybe you have bills and a family. Maybe you’ve invested too much in your current career to let it go.⠀⠀Or maybe, you don’t even really know what your passion is, or what would truly make you happy.⠀⠀If this sounds like you, there’s nothing wrong with you. We aren’t taught this stuff. We’re taught to fit in, and match these academic standards of math and writing and reading books that don’t really affect our lives at all, and when our uniqueness shows, we’re often called weird for it.⠀⠀Our life paths shouldn’t fit a standard. Most great things don’t fit a standard. It’s the things that fall out of normal, that create greatness.⠀⠀There’s a reason it’s called extra ordinary. How do we step out of the ordinary?⠀⠀Today we’re talking to Marianne Cantwell. She was a digital nomad before there was a word for it. She was one of the first to start writing about quitting your job to forge your own path.⠀⠀We’re going to learn some unconventional but really practical steps find or create a career tailor made for you and the life you want to live.⠀⠀We will learn: How to know if you should quit your job⠀ How your anxiety can be a gift in your decision making⠀ An action to start now to give you clarity on what you really want to do with your life⠀ ⠀⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/101 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

What if you could learn anything in just a few months? From learning a language to becoming skilled guitar player…⠀⠀What you learn becomes a part of you. It levels you up. So learning helps you become things. So let me ask this in another way, you could learn anything deeply and quickly, Who would you become?⠀⠀Growing up, most of us were taught specific ways to learn, but those ways aren’t very efficient and for some people, they’re not effective at all.⠀⠀The ability to learn fast and well is critical for more than just hobbies. You can learn new skills for your job, and you can even reinvent yourself for a totally new career.⠀⠀This episode is jam packed with actionable information… actually a whole proven framework about how to master any skill quickly.⠀⠀Today our guest is Scott Young, author of Ultralearning.⠀⠀Scott undertakes interesting self-education projects, like attempting to learn MIT’s four-year computer science curriculum in twelve months and learning four languages in one year… and what he’s learning from all this learning, he’s sharing with us.⠀⠀We will learnThe most effective learning methods to learn anything deeply and quicklyHow to design a learning project you can actually accomplishNew training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention⠀Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/100 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

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