Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by negativity then do we have the how to get over a funk show for you. Today we’ll talk about all things funk, how we got here, what we can learn, and how in the world to get out of the funk without falling to pieces. That plus we’ll talk about foundation building, awareness of my unawareness, rewarding and loving myself even in small progress, second fast, five-year recap, funky epiphanies, people falling in apart, Saturday night spells, skit skiing bliss, and who in the world is the real Jane Doe (deer that is). Key Points Discussed: An interesting and energetic time period with people falling apart left and right (03:06) Forgetting the mind map making and how it screwed up a whole day (06:16) Being attached to her motherly role, crushing from worry about her son, and overcoming the whole thing with action (09:54) Surrendering and asking whomever we pray to for the insight and wisdom to know what the next is (11:33) Dealing with the negativity in our mind: Advice from the Dalai Lama (14:04) Performance/Achievement addiction and what it’s all about (17:49) The entrepreneurial dilemma that every entrepreneur experiences (20:30) How we are so overwhelmed by trying to get through life and the emotions we experience on a daily basis (24:00) Falling into wholeness by leaning into the source of one’s fear (30:20) The life review process and the value of discernment (34:50) Seeking purpose and the ten gentle turns that will definitely take place along the path (43:23) Setting the intention each day to work towards what we believe is good for us (44:27) CJ’s form of letting go by adopting a fast mimicking diet (50:00) The most important and positive experience of Michael’s life that had to happen to shift him in an amazing direction (56:58) Doing what we need to do in the moment and loving ourselves up no matter what (1:00:00) Additional Resources: www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever wanted greater happiness in your life, then do we have the Good Morning, I Love You show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Shauna Shapiro, clinical psychologist, mindfulness and self-compassion expert, the creator of an amazing viral TED Talk, and the author of a beautiful golden book in mindfulness, “Good Morning, I love You” And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about the power of mindfulness and self-compassion to rewire your brain for calm, clarity, and joy. Key Points Discussed:  What happened to you when you were 17 and playing volleyball (03:31) The waterfall monastery, the English speaking monk, and what Shauna practiced at the monastery (06:18) How our entire lives are a meditation and how what we focus on grows stronger (11:01) The happiness set point theory; We are as we are (11:52) The superhighways of habit versus country roads (14:20) The power of focusing our minds and having laser-like attention (18:09) Beating ourselves up and the energy it costs us (21:08) The myth and disease of perfectionism that we all have in the west today (22:17) Learning how to become our own ally and being on our team (25:36) How do we apply mindfulness, kindness and common humanity in handling a child’s tantrum? (30:21) Working with soldiers with PTSD and the profound story of the soldier who had never spoken (32:14) The mistaken belief that self-judgment and shame makes things okay (36:58) Practicing forgiveness to free our hearts and what forgiveness really means (39:15) How compassion makes us more accountable (43:00) Why we often feel worse before we feel better when we start practicing mindfulness (44:21) Showing up for the beauty in our lives and training our minds into our being so we can change our happiness set point (47:00) Additional Resources: Good Morning, I Love You By Dr. Shauna Shapiro Wherever You Go, There You Are By Jon Kabat-Zinn www.DrShaunaShapiro.com www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever struggled with fear and anxiety, then do we have a year without fear show for you. Today I’ll be speaking with Tama Kieves, freedom Ninja, visionary heroine, inspirational best-selling author, and the author of a beautiful daily read, “A Year Without Fear” And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about five-minute shifts to let go of fear and become inspired and unstoppable.  Key Points Discussed:  What’s the scariest thing that’s ever taken place in your life and how did you take action? (04:01) Would you say the fear was pushing you away or calling you forward? (05:12) How things falling together, chaos and fear lead to new growth (06:19) The love in disguise that is fear and letting go by listening to the voice that empowers us (07:34) 5 ways of discerning what fear and love really are (09:03) The damning effect of adopting a “Shoulda-woulda-coulda” mentality (12:00) Living into every moment in this life and realizing every moment is here for our good (13:47) Picking one thing when it comes to sources of self help content (18:22) Overcoming fear by doing what we’re individually here to do (21:19) The misleading nature of thinking that we can always live in trust, love, joy, and grace all the time (25:28) The fire hose of the universe, the value of losing the sense of time, and how a different experience answers fear (29:24) Trusting the process, coming back home to ourselves and giving the universe another chance (32:49) How recognizing the seeds of our greatness can change everything (38:15) Seeing everything with love and taking scared Tama for a ride (41:45) What you’re doing now is what is creating the greatness to come (44:54) Getting past the addiction of picking on our ourselves to step forward into love (46:51) How would you encourage people to become an open-hearted warrior? (50:15) Experiencing magic by taking a risk (51:43) How love kicks in when we take the pressure off ourselves (53:15) Additional Resources: A Year Without Fear By Tama Kieves Thriving Through Uncertainty By Tama Kieves www.TamaKieves.com www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever felt stuck, lost, or unsure where to turn, then do we have the positive momentum show for you.  Today we’ll talk about putting yourself out there, taking steps forward, watching your thoughts, and experimenting, experimenting and experimenting some more to create positive momentum in your life. That plus we’ll talk about Hare Krishna, energy buffet, coronavirus, shiva lingam, 7 daily meditations, less error, clarity of thought, YouTube alignment, starting new shows, trips to Boulder, pivots and shifts, and what in the world goes bump in the night? Key Points Discussed:  Getting back from India and getting grounded (04:10) What did this trip mean to you in as far as stepping forward and gaining momentum is concerned? (06:08) Adopting the mindful practice of repeating something that helps get us into a special sacred space (11:05) Watching our thoughts and being more discerning of what we want to keep in our heads and what doesn’t serve us (13:48) Michael’s clarity of thought and how they are starting a new show that will help shift the world (21:16) Getting dreams and synchronicities about starting the projects he’s been aiming at (25:00) The YouTube alignment piece: How YouTube recently called out the unreal subscribers from people’s channels (30:48) Feeling the inevitability of becoming closer and closer to a goal (38:40) Calling in the assistance that is always there around us and how powerful it is (41:08) The unrealistic belief that one person can solve all our issues and being our own spiritual guru despite having people to help us (46:55) The deer in the yard that couldn’t stop staring at the tomato plant and having the herd of deer grooving on them (51:49) The Hare Krishna energy buffet and the amazing experience of meeting Radhanath Swami (57:52) Having faith that we will endure and watching our thoughts and keeping them pure (1:05:50) Additional Resources: www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever wondered how to make a real difference in the world, then do we have the Love Anyway show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Jeremy Courtney, one of the world’s true heroes and the epitome of an open hearted warrior, the founder and CEO of Preemptive Love Coalition, a relief and job creation community working to end war, and the author of one most powerful life changing and must read books, “Love Anyway”  And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how and why to end war, the real work on the inside, and what in the world is preemptive love? Key Points Discussed:  What did 9/11 mean to you? (03:25) How did grandpa no-no’s path affect the trajectory of your life? (05:22) Seeing people do triple flips in war zones and former war zones: How love and pain changes us (08:03) The mission in Turkey and what it was all about (09:50) A Jesus way of living and how it cracked his heart (13:05) Experiencing a profound spiritual experience and stumbling into a higher way (15:08) What in the world made you visit Iraq? (20:26) What the people were like in Iraq and his journey of assimilating into the new norm (27:45) Who is brother B and how did he influence your life? (30:47) Loving first and asking questions later: Jeremy’s brand of religion (35:10) What happened when the genocide started? (46:42) How responding quick in times of violence actually stops the spread of violence from one person to another (50:00) Can you carry us forward in the timeline of 2014 to approximately today in Iraq? (54:24) What do you mean by something is wrong with our maps and our way? (58:47) Diving in on the inside on an individual and group basis of seeing the richness within rather than just the topography that we think we’re seeing on the surface (1:04:26) There are no victims on the other side of preemptive love (1:07:23) Additional Resources: Love Anyway By Jeremy Courtney www.LoveAnyway.com www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever struggled with addiction, or know someone who has, then do we have the We Are The Luckiest show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Laura McKowen, the author of a harrowing, brilliant, and beautiful look at living the sober life, “We Are The Luckiest” And that’s just what I want to talk her about today, about why everything we think we know about addiction is wrong, and the surprising magic of living a sober life.  Key Points Discussed:  How long have you been living a silver life and when did you first realize that you had an addiction challenge? (03:17) Taking the quiz and how she convinced herself that things would be fine (04:22) Staying sober for ten months when she was pregnant (04:58) The drinking culture at her workplace and the role it played in her alcoholism (07:22) Taking ownership and how it can save one from being a victim (12:08) The importance of taking things one step at a time (16:35) Looking into our shadow self instead of pushing it away (17:17) Being on the train of “I’m about to drink” and the medical miracle that kept her from drinking (20:46) How she had to be honest and realistic to make it in her sobriety journey (26:50) The value of having interrupters and how they keep one on track (28:58) The pain of feeling the internal disconnection from her inner goodness and wisdom (34:02) Emotional sobriety: The biggest piece of work she had to do (39:30) If we lie to keep the peace, we start a war within ourselves (42:24) What’s the pregnancy principle? (43:48) Building a new life and how it requires a lot of care, attention and focus (45:20) The game that most of us think we’re playing is not the game we’re playing (48:24) Additional Resources: We Are The Luckiest By Laura McKowen www.LauraMcKowen.com Laura on Instagram www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever wanted to communicate better than do we have the Say What You Mean show for you! Today I’ll be talking with Oren Jay Sofer, retreat and workshop leader on mindful communication, a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher’s Council, and the author of a beautiful new book on mindfulness and non-violent communication skills, "Say What You Mean." And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. Key Points Discussed: What was Oren Jay Sofer’s early life like, and the trauma he experienced? How did he turn to India and Buddhism? What was Oren’s fascinating with language? What did Oren learn from Thich Nhat Hanh? What is Thich Nhat Hanh’s “right speech”? What is non-violent communication? How’d the idea to bring meditation to non-violent communication? What is somatic experiencing? Why does kindness often disappear in conversation? What is mindful communication? How does mindfulness give us back our lives? How do we cultivate presence? What can we learn from Godwin Samararatne about “where does it hurt”? What’s the anacronym “WAIT stand for”? What’s the importance of “space” in a conversation? What’s the important of a pause and what does that mean? What does kindness and compassion toward oneself mean for conversation? What’s the zulu greeting Sawubona mean for us? What’s the importance of consciously choosing our intention? What can we learn from Daryl Davis about his communication with the KKK? What’s enlightened self-interest and what’s its importance? What’s the importance of curiosity and care? What can we learn from Aikido teacher Terry Dobson about non-violent communication? What’s the importance of being aware of our emotions? Additional Resources: www.OrenJSofer.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever wanted to drop the darkness and move toward the light, then do have the Spirit Hacking show for you. Today I’ll be speaking with Shaman Durek, a sixth generation shaman and author, activist, and women’s empowerment leader, a new best homie, though he doesn’t know it yet, and author of my absolute favorite spirit book of the year, “Spirit Hacking“ And that’s just what I want to speak with him about today, about Shamanic keys to reclaim your power, come out of the dark, and light up the world. That plus we’ll talk about bread and circuses, temporary spirit blindness, Martin Luther King, a love beach and bone free hands, shamanic harmonic ninja sorcery, and what in the world a white stork sitting on your head has to do with anything. Key Points Discussed:  When did spirits first start visiting you? (03:19) The challenges he had growing up with his father and the one thing that helped him become a rebel (04:21) Getting seizures in a jungle in Belize and the experience of crossing over to the other side (06:39) How we are multidimensional beings and every universe and planet is a living dream (17:54) Rejoicing in the choice to be a loving interruption in people’s lives (21:00) What are bobbleheads and what in the world is darkness? (22:50) The “Oh Goody” factor and what being a being of light is all about (31:39) How the consciousness of reality is based on how we see it (39:43) What’s a BVP (Biggest Victim on the Planet) and what’s the danger of playing this game? (43:15) The concept that life has to be hard and we have to suffer in order to have a good life (49:20) Breaking away from the perception people have about how a shaman should be (55:53) Cherishing our gift, giving everything to it, and being around people who recognize the diamond in us (57:20) Additional Resources: www.ShamanDurek.com Shaman Durek on Instagram Spirit Hacking By Shaman Durek www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever struggled with people who drain you, then do we have the Dodging Energy Vampire show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Christiane Northrup, New York Times Best Selling Author, visionary pioneer in the field of women’s medicine, and the author of a liberating new book, “Dodging Energy Vampires” And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to protect yourself from energy vampires. That plus we’ll talk about broken wings, milligrams of love, electronic sun downs, what on earth are super traits?, and what in the world is an imprint removal program?  Key Points Discussed:  What in the world is an empath? (03:14) How tough a place the world is for sensitive souls and understanding empathy as a superpower (07:40) The time to stop being lone wolfs, come together as one, and act (14:10) Are energy vampires hoovering us on purpose? (17:27) The people who have the easiest time dying because they’re focused on others (22:45) How do we begin to set boundaries in 2020? (28:20) The importance of having a buffer to observe what happens (33:24) How do we clear old energy or get it off of us afterwards? (37:06) What to do when we have Cluster B individuals in our lives (42:53) How we can use mother earth to help us (45:31) Empaths being light workers and how they can stand in the light (48:28) Protecting ourselves from energy vampires by knowing what we’re dealing and learning to say no (50:16) Additional Resources: www.DrNorthrup.com www.AutomaticWriting.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.Instagram.com/InspireNationLive And to follow Inspire Nation on Tik Tok simply go to InspireNationShow on Tik Tok

If you’ve ever wanted financial freedom, then do we have the Values Factor Show for You. Today I’ll be talking with The Secret’s Dr. John Demartini, the best-selling author of over 40 books including the Values Factor. And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today about the secret to finding financial freedom and creating an inspired and fulfilling life! Topics Include:  What happened when Dr. John Demartini was told he’d never be able to read? How did his dad help prepare him to be an entrepreneur? How’d he end up on the streets at age 14? How’d he end up big surfing in Hawaii – and almost die??? How did Dr. Demartini finally learn to read and what happened when he went back to school? How did he eventually become a multi-multi millionaire? What do the rich know that the poor do not? How do we view purchases as assets or liabilities? What do we need to know about appreciables and depreciables? How do we get true financial freedom? Why aren’t we getting the financial freedom we’re looking for? Is money the root of all evil? What are other money beliefs that are holding us back? What was Ed Tullison? Who was Paul Brag? What does saving a dollar an hour have to do with becoming a millionaire? Why did John move into the Trump Tower alongside Steven Spielberg and how’d he come to live on “The Ship”? What are some key traits of billionaires? What’s the importance of thinking long-term? To Find out more visit: DrDemartini.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com And to support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation