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BIO Wim Hof got his nickname “The Iceman” after he broke a number of records with regards to resisting cold. Some of his feats include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts, running a half marathon above the Arctic Circle on his bare feet, and standing in a container while covered with ice cubes for more than 112 minutes. Wim is convinced that our bodies are capable of doing the same exceptionally things his body allows him to do. Therefore, he has developed his Wim Hof Method that gives ordinary people the tools to take control over their body. Wim’s motto is: “What I am capable of, everybody can learn”. With his Wim Hof Method, he teaches people from all over the world, including celebrities and professional athletes, to control their bodies and achieve extraordinary things. Over the years, Iceman Wim Hof has drawn the curiosity of a number of scientists. They have subjected Wim Hof and even some of his students to various controlled experiments, with the goal of unraveling the secret behind his method. The outcome of one of these experiments was that by applying the method, regions in the periaqueductal gray were activated. This is a part of the brain that is the primary control center for pain suppression. This is a promising discovery that could lead to a potential role for the WHM as an endogenous painkiller, and reflects results we already see today in people who effectively use the WHM to combat conditions. In another experiment, practitioners of the Wim Hof Method were able to control their sympathetic nervous system and their immune response, while they were injected with an endotoxin. Trained participants showed fewer symptoms, lower levels of proinflammatory mediators, and increased levels of plasma epinephrine. This could mean that the Wim Hof Method is an effective tool to battle symptoms of various autoimmune diseases. Learn more about Wim and Wim Hof Method on Wim’s website. LINKS Wim’s Website Wim’s Science and Research Wim’s Live Workshops Wim’s eLearning Courses Wim’s Facebook Page Wim Hof Method Facebook Community Page Wim’s YouTube Channel Wim’s Instagram Wim Hof Method Free App in Google Play Wim Hof Method Free App in iTunes Store Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM086 – Exploring Meditation with The Iceman, Wim Hof appeared first on About Meditation.

This week I’m delighted to share my interview with Bud Torcom, CEO and Co-founder of Mazama Media, a digital media agency and a member of Facebook’s exclusive Small Business Council. As Bud’s company grew, he took on more and more stress and anxiety. He realized he needed to reduce his anxiety and attempted to start meditating on his own. He became frustrated when his mind kept wandering while he was counting breaths. Bud gave up after a few days. About a year later, Bud discovered a guided meditation app called Calm. It was a game changer. His experience was so enriching that he decided to introduce meditation to his employees by creating a meditation nook in his office. In this interview, Bud talks about this experience and how to reduce anxiety in your organization. I hope you find it as helpful and fascinating as I did. BIO: Bud Torcom is the CEO and co-founder of Mazama Media, a digital marketing agency that offers high-quality social and digital media solutions for businesses. Mazama Media focuses on the individual needs and personalities of clients to create unique and engaging social media content, and the company is part of the prestigious Facebook Small Business Council. In addition, Bud is a member of the Forbes Agency Council, which has recognized him as an industry leader among advertising and media strategy firms. LINKS: Bud’s Website Bud’s LinkedIn Bud’s Facebook Bud’s Email Calm Meditation App Headspace Meditation App BOOKS: Bud Recommends: Leaders Eat Last Letters to Lucilius Morgan Recommends: The Obstacle is the Way Ego is the Enemy The Daily Stoic Mindful Work Marcus Aurelius Meditations Mindful Work Podcast Interview   The post OM085 – Introducing Mindfulness into the Workplace with Bud Torcom appeared first on About Meditation.

BIO: Gabriel Baldwin began learning mindfulness as a fifteen year old at a mindfulness retreat for teenagers at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS). As a depressed and bullied teen, learning mindfulness was invaluable to overcoming these challenges. As a staff person on these retreats since 2008 he has now participated in well over 25 with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) and IMS. After transitioning out of a successful career as an engineer and consultant in the field of energy efficiency and green construction during his 20s he now teaches mindfulness in public schools and after school programs and camps in Greater Boston and beyond. He has now taught mindfulness to over 3,500 youth. Gabriel has trained with Mindful Schools, Mindfulness in Schools Project, Calmer Choice, iBme, Center for Adolescent Studies, and the Hakomi Institute. He attends regular silent retreats and weekly sits at local meditation centers. He can also be seen in parks around Boston doing Primal Practice, a playful embodied movement practice that draws from multiple yoga, martial, meditation, and movement disciplines. LINKS: Gabriel’s Website Gabriels’ book recommendation: How Emotions are Made by Lisa Fieldman Barret Ph.D If you are interested in teaching mindfulness in schools and would like to apprentice with Gabriel in the Boston area, Contact him here. Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM084 – Helping Students Practice Mindfulness in the Classroom with Gabriel Baldwin appeared first on About Meditation.

I recently had the privilege of reconnecting with an old friend of mine, Tola Oguntoyinbo, an artist and entrepreneur living in Chapel Hill, NC. I had a blast in this conversation with Tola. In addition to exploring how meditation practice compliments his art, we explored Tola’s life-changing experience on a 10-day Vipassana Silent Retreat. Vipassana–a non-sectarian technique which focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body–is one of India’s most ancient meditation techniques. If you’ve been curious about going on a retreat yourself, definitely check this out. Or, if you’ve struggled with stress, I think you’ll find this interview helpful. If you liked this interview with Tola on Vipassana Meditation, you’ll love these other interviews and articles focused on Vipassana: OM064: How To Practice Vipassana Meditation BIO: Tola Oguntoyinbo is an artist and entrepreneur living in Chapel Hill NC. You can find his artwork @ babatola.com or check out his current start-up project @ shinebig.com. LINKS: Tola’s Website Tola’s Start Up Project – ShineBig.com. The post OM083: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Meditation with Tola Oguntoyinbo appeared first on About Meditation.

BIO Errol Doebler is the founder of Leader 193. He brings passion to leadership based on his experience as a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, FBI Special Agent and SWAT Operator, as well as his time as a leader in the private sector in New York City and Washington, DC.  Errol’s diverse experience in leading combat operations, international terrorism and criminal investigations, and business transactions provides his clients with a unique, unparalleled perspective on leadership. He believes that each person has the ability to lead and inspire. Errol is committed to applying his leadership experience directly to the specific needs of his clients. LINKS: Errol’s Website Wim Hof Method Website Errol’s Email Errol’s Blog Errol’s Twitter Errol’s Instagram Errol’s Podcast – Leadership in Tech Errol’s LinkedIn 10 week training program with Wim Hof (Price is $199) Super Human World of the Iceman, Watch this Vice documentary with Wim Hof Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM082: Former Navy Seal Errol Doebler on Wim Hof Meditation appeared first on About Meditation.

Bio Julie is a Chopra Global certified meditation and Ayurveda instructor. Author of Shout from the Rooftops in Your Stilettos, she helps thousands of people tap into the field of infinite possibilities and remember their true nature, which is perfection. She teaches regularly at the Chopra Center’s Perfect Health program and hosts workshops and retreats in Philadelphia and San Diego. She has served on The Chopra Center’s leadership team as Senior Manager of Digital Products where she helped to bring online programs to life featuring Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Martha Beck, Dr. Andrew Weil, and others. Visit bijaliving.com to transform your daily life into an extraordinary adventure of synchronicities and magical coincidences. You’ll receive new guided meditations, mindfulness tips and manifestation techniques. Links Julie’s Website Julie’s Email Free access to Community Meditation More on YouTube Follow Instagram Like on Facebook Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM081: Julie Hunt Chopra Global Certified Meditation and Perfect Health Instructor appeared first on About Meditation.

Bio Matthew Ferry creates lasting results by teaching you how to be happy now, regardless of the circumstances of life. For over two decades, he has coached and trained CEOs, top sales professionals, entrepreneurs and Wall Street heavy hitters to thrive during chaotic and devastating circumstances. Matthew Ferry is the worlds preeminent authority on The Drunk Monkey, his nickname for the mind, and the underlying cause that blocks you from attaining what you truly desire. As a happiness and success expert, he literally wrote the book on The Drunk Monkey and is passionate about sharing his street-tested techniques to get it under control so you can make more money, have better relationships, and finally experience the balance and life satisfaction you’ve been craving. Known as a global thought leader in personal transformation, Matthew Ferry has penned many powerful books and life-changing programs including Instant Inspiration, The Truth Virus, Transforming Fear into Action, Creating Sales Velocity and Ridiculous Bliss. If you are ready to get into massive action on your goals while being in a state of unexplainable happiness and peace, then Matthew Ferry’s provocative, left field approach is perfect for you. Links: Pick Up Your Gifts from Matthew Here Matthew’s Website Matthew’s Facebook Page Matthew’s Youtube Channel Matthew’s Article Ten Myths About Enlightenment Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM080: Matthew Ferry on the Path to Enlightened Prosperity appeared first on About Meditation.

Bio Sandra Bershad, MA is an Intuitive Mentor, Psychic Channel and Transformational Guide for Conscious Visionaries, Leaders, and Highly Sensitive Empaths. Devoted to revitalizing the wisdom of every person’s true essence, Sandra empowers her clients to excavate what no longer serves them and transform their limiting beliefs and programming so that they can consciously actualize the highest vision for their lives. Recognized for her intuitive gifts, she has appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, A&E’s Psychic Children: Their Sixth Sense, Good Morning America, and The Doctors. Links Sandra on Elephant Journal Sandra’s Website Sandra’s Instagram Sandra’s Facebook Get a Health IQ Quote The post OM079: Sandra Bershad on Psychic Powers and Daily Meditation appeared first on About Meditation.

Julia Rymut In this episode, Julia Rymut and I explore the arc of her meditative experiences. From her early adventures in India and her misadventures in a spiritual ashram to her more seasoned Buddhist practice today, Julia and I riff on the journey of growing into a mature meditation practice. Julia is a yogi, meditator, writer, and founder of taratrue.com. She helps people discover what makes their life happy, meaningful, and full of ease. In her classes on yoga and meditation, you learn to release stress and move freely. Learn more about finding your embodied wisdom at TaraTrue.com. Quote Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ― Rainer Maria Rilke Links TaraTrue The post OM078: Julia Rymut Beyond the Bliss of Meditative Experiences appeared first on About Meditation.

What’s the point of meditation? There are lots of different takes on this based on your religion, your mode of practice, your philosophy of life, etc. But for many of us, we meditate to feel better. We want to bring some much needed peace and stability that’s missing, into our lives. To relieve stress. To fill our hearts, minds, and beings with some sense of silence, stillness, and deep peace. But how do we support our own practice and our motivation? Because yes, of course, the most important thing is to show up every day and actually do our practice. What if I were to tell you that there is a way for you to turbo charge your meditation practice? Metaphorically speaking, to drink a cup of meditation coffee. Because there are ways that you can do that. And there is one way, in particular, that I want hone right now. And it’s not really a secret. In fact it’s something that most mystical traditions have integrated into their teachings. But there’s more to the picture than just hitting that cushion each day. We’re making choices all the time that affect the clarity and the quality of our consciousness and that’s what I’m talking about. And in the end, that’s one of the main purposes of meditation. To cleanse and clarify our awareness. And this point was reinforced for me recently in a dramatic way. Let me give you the short story. I went on a weekend retreat recently with my men’s group. There was meditation and yoga and some other activities, but fundamentally it was a spiritual retreat and all the guys I went with are also serious meditators. So I decided to do a cleanse for two weeks leading up to the weekend retreat. So for that time, I gave up alcohol, caffeine, dairy, bread, sex, masturbation, and basically resolved to keep my body as clean as possible. And as many of you know, I lived in an ashram for 14 years, and we did this kind of purification on a pretty regular basis. But it’s been 4 years since I lived in the ashram and there isn’t the same external support system nor the culture of support. So I just did this on my own steam. And I was reminded of how powerful this experience is. Again, it wasn’t new for me, but by the time we were driving away from Boston to the retreat center in Friday afternoon, I already felt that the retreat was well under way. I felt deeply clean. I felt like I was already in a meditative state. But what does that mean exactly? Because, I don’t think it was just the absence of those substances in my body that made me feel so good. I think the more significant aspect of that cleanse had to do with the choices I was making every day. The renunciation. So, one of the central principles of spiritual practice, which is what meditation is, is renunciation. Another way of saying it is resisting your desires…mostly for pleasure and comfort. And that’s just not very popular in our culture. But the truth is, doing this makes you strong. Here’s what I mean. So for these two weeks I gave up those things I mentioned. And slowly but surely, they stopped controlling me. Which is to say that usually I spend a lot of time, often unconsciously, devoting energy, intention, and awareness to how I’m going to satisfy my desires. When am I going to get that next coffee? When can I have a glass of wine? When can we have pizza or pasta for dinner? Yum yum I can’t wait? A staggering amount of our background processors are conditioned to think about these things. But when you give them up, all that energy and awareness gets liberated. It gets freed up and your normal carnal desires aren’t controlling you. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with satisfying these desires. I want to make that clear. But everyone should have the experience of giving them up for a while and seeing what happens. Yes, you will go through a period of withdrawal but it doesn’t last. And when you persevere, it feels incredible. I felt so strong and so clear after two weeks. And my awareness was light and easy and buoyant just like my moods. And so by the time I got to the retreat, I felt something significant had already occurred. Meditation was smoother, simpler, deeper, and more satisfying. There was less static in my field of awareness. After I did this, I was raving to my wife about it. She grew up in a muslim household, and they used to fast from sunup to sundown during Ramadan for a whole month. No food. No water. And she just said, with a big smile, of course! Now we can fast for the month of Ramadan together. But the point I wanted to emphasize is this…when we sit down on the meditation cushion, there are all sort of things coalescing into that one moment. It’s the momentum of all your choices. All your habits. All of it. It all matters. And when you take on your core appetites for pleasure…whether that’s food or sex or alcohol or whatever. When you take a break from all that, you realize how much space it takes up. And how free you feel from it all. And meditation is all about space and it’s all about freedom. So, why don’t you give it a shot? Do you want to supercharge your meditation practice? Trust me, doing some variation of this, you will feel it and you’ll know that there are deeper currents, often invisible to us, that govern our awareness, but they don’t need to. So let me know what happens. I’m curious to hear if you try it. Quote So many veils and illusions separate us from the stark knowledge that we are dying. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sir Thomas More, I heard, wrote these words just before his beheading: “We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?” To feel the full force of your mortality, and to open your heart entirely to it, is to allow to grow in you that all-encompassing, fearless compassion that fuels the lives of all those who wish truly to be of help to others. The post OM077: Fuel Your Meditation Practice with this Not-So-Secret Ingredient appeared first on About Meditation.