Mindfulness Mode

Tim Shurr is President of Shurr Success, Inc., a leadership and sales training company that saves companies 6-figures by lowering high employee costs! After studying human behavior for the last 32 years and facilitating over 15,000 Hypnosis sessions, Tim discovered how to upgrade unconscious mental programming so you can achieve at the highest level. He’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX NEWS and the TEDx stage. Tim has written six books including Get Out Of Your Way and One Belief Away, which releases in January 2021. Tim is also an award-winning speaker and host of the popular podcast, How To Be Mesmerizing! Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.TimShurr.com Book: One Belief Away by Tim Shurr Podcast: How To Be Mesmerizing with Tim Shurr Most Influential Person Dr. Denis Waitley One of the kings of the personal development movement. Earl Nighting ale like him personally. His psychology of Winning program became one of the best selling audio coaching programs of all time. Patricia Frip The Queen of Presentation Skills Ford Sakes A marketing expert Effect on Emotions It's everything. Without mindfulness you end up in stress and anxiety. With mindfulness, you find inner pieces. And I call it inner pieces because you get pieces of it and then you go through the other human emotions and then you find your way back to peace. But you're not in inner peace all the time because you need all of the other emotions to channel you, to challenge you, to help you grow, to help you remember what not to do. Anger, worry, fear, stress, shame, guilt, are all useful emotions if you use them to your advantage. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing through your nose, down to your belly and slowly exhaling is the first step to every thing. Suggested Resources Book: Cracking The Success Code with Brian Tracy and other authors including Bruce Langford Book: One Belief Away by Tim Shurr App: Inner Winner App by Denis Waitley Bullying Story I was bullied all through school, all the way up to my senior year when I actually had a fight at a dance with the bully who had been torturing me for three years. I actually won that fight and still felt bad about it because I'm not a fighter. Related Episodes 398 Hypnotic Business Systems So You Can Work Smart; Jason Linett 219 Get Unstuck; Learn How From Shira Taylor Gura Please Support our Sponsor Use hypnosis to help others stop struggling with their Deep rooted issues like weight loss, smoking, painful experiences. Are you a coach or a healer who would love to have new skills to help your clients. Hypnosis can help people reach goals faster and easier than you thought possible. Become a hypnotherapist. The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers world-class training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

Dr. Richard Shuster is a clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, and CEO of Your Success Insights, which helps consumers, corporations, and athletes achieve peak performance. He is also the host of The Daily Helping with Dr. Richard Shuster: Food for the Brain, Knowledge from the experts, Tools to Win at Life which is regularly downloaded in over 150 countries. Dr. Shuster’s clinical expertise and podcast have been featured in such publications as The Huffington Post, NBCNews.com, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and others. He is also the president of Every Kid Rocks, Inc., a 501c3 which helps schools provide therapy services to children. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: ww.drrichardshuster.com Podcast: The Daily Helping Special Offer: Get The POWERS 2.0 Assessment and personalized success guide. Receive the first month free with coupon code “MindfulnessMode”. Most Influential Person Hal Elrod (Author of the book, The Miracle Morning) Effect on Emotions Mindfulness allows me to take a step back. There are similar tools we use in cognitive behavior therapy that allow you to be an objective bystander so-to-speak to emotions and recognize that the world isn't doing this to you. This is something that's happening and you have a choice as to how you respond to it.  Thoughts on Breathing Breathing is really important. Shallow breathing is not great, it's that deep, diaphragmatic breathing … I do that every day. I have a red-light therapy panel that hangs on my wall and I stand in front of that thing for twenty minutes every day and I do my breathing during that. So I get to combine those two so I know I'm getting at least twenty minutes of deep breathing every day.  Suggested Resources Book: 10 Percent Happier with Dan Harris App: Insight Timer Get The POWERS 2.0 Assessment and personalized success guide. Receive the first month for free with coupon code “MindfulnessMode”. Bullying Story It happened to me a bit in elementary school. I've worked a lot with children who have been physically and sexually abused. Mindfulness isn't going to make the bullying stop. You as a parent or you as a victim would have to take some kind of action to make that stop. If you have a mindfulness practice, you're better able to handle the stress of what that looks like. [With mindfulness], you are going to be less prone to internalize what's being said about you. Related Episodes 183 Create The Life You Love With Dr. Paul Jenkins 261 Mindfulness, Quantum Physics and Healing With Dr. Anastasia Chopelas 380 Anchor Your Energy Says Dr. Harold Komiskey Special Offer POWERS 2.0 is a comprehensive & dynamic assessment designed to accelerate your success in business & in life. It assesses for key strengths and obstacles.  It can also help you improve your work-life balance and instantly comes with a comprehensive personalized success guide. Use coupon code “MindfulnessMode” to get the first month free. Our Sponsor Stop struggling with Deep rooted issues like weight loss, smoking, painful experiences. Would you like to reduce the stress and anxiety in your life? Hypnosis can help you reach your goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. Ever thought of becoming a hypnotherapist? The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

Jerzy Gregorek is a world champion weightlifter, poetry writer, and the co-author of "The Happy Body", a science-based mindful exercise & nutrition program, which connects what the body needs and what the mind wants with the better person you want to be. Jerzy has won 4 World Weightlifting Championships and established a world record that still stands today. Jerzy has been mentoring clients for over 30 years and The Happy Body program has reached more than 30,000 practitioners throughout the world, including numerous Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley luminaries, people with chronic conditions, people of all sizes and shapes. In 1988, Jerzy earned an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications including The American Poetry Review. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.TheHappyBody.com Book: The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation by Jerzy Gregorek   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jerzy.gregorek Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehappybody Instagram: https://twitter.com/thehappybody Most Influential Person Jerzy Popieluszko, a Priest I knew in Poland who became a Catholic saint.   Effect on Emotions Mindfulness helps me to stay with the poems. When I write a poem, I meditate. Every time that I work with a poem, I'm in a mindful state. In a class I was teaching, a woman told me she didn't have thirty minutes to exercise every day because she had two jobs. When I was driving home I was thinking how could a person not have thirty minutes in a day to create this micro progressive system so they could get better in life. So I came home, went to my meditation room for four hours and then wrote a poem. I went back to the class and read the poem and the poem was very moving to everyone. The women said that the poem moved her. (Jerzy shares the poem later in the episode). Thoughts on Breathing I created singularity of the brain within one repetition and there are six things that happen with one repetition. Inhale and then holding the breath, flexing the seven body parts, lifting, stretch, return, and exit.  All six things repeat, and those six things create the mantra and that singularity and mindfulness that happens during this time creates thirteen minutes of exercise system when they exercise that way. They also feel like they meditate. So they are completely mindful during the thirty minutes. Suggested Resources Book: Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation by Bob Roth Book: The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation by Jerzy Gregorek App: n/a Bullying Story I was one of the shorter boys and of course the communism was there too, and communism was tough. When you are thirteen, you sense what parents are going through. They were persecuted and they have problems so you feel it. When I was around thirteen I was bullied, badly. I had to walk to the school, not a long walk, maybe a quarter of a mile. During this walk I would be caught by boys to get money, and they would hold me upside down by the ankles and shake me to get money from me. There was constant bullying.  Final Words of Advice I think that we need to focus on goodness, the goodness in every way and fight for it. The goodness is getting more flexible or stronger or more mindful. The goodness is be kind in the world. The goodness is to love people as they are and give them the science of what to do to get better. Goodness is to choose hard choices verses easy choices in life to create micro progressive systems. Goodness is an amazing thing because goodness also creates self-control and self-discipline, delayed gratification and it is a sign of virtues. I think the stoics were right that virtues are more important than almost anything that we do in life.  Related Episodes 388 Total Heart Health With Renowned Physician-Scientist Dr. Robert H. Schneider 313 Let Life Flow Like The Seasons Says Krysti Turznik 162 Running To Focus On The Inside With Diz Runs Host Denny Krahe Special Offer Thinking of launching your own podcast? You’ll need a host where your episodes live. Podbean is awesome and for 12 years has existed specifically for podcasters. It’s only $9 a month, no matter how much content you upload. They have great stats too. Help support Mindfulness Mode AND get a month of free hosting with our affiliate link. Go to www.Podbean.com/PodbeanMM Our Sponsor Stop struggling with Deep rooted issues like weight loss, smoking, painful experiences. Would you like to reduce the stress and anxiety in your life? Hypnosis can help you reach your goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. Ever thought of becoming a hypnotherapist? The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com  

Boho Beautiful is a travel, yoga and lifestyle brand founded by Juliana Spicoluk and Mark Spicoluk creating positive content for the body, mind and earth. With content centered around yoga, travel, fitness, vegan food, self-awareness, conscious living and guided meditations, Boho Beautiful has grown to over 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube, 300k+ followers on Instagram, sold tens of thousands of books & programs online, and inspired and been inspired by so many wonderful people from all over the planet. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: bohobeautiful.life The Boho Beautiful App: www.bohobeautiful.tv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bohobeautifullife Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bohobeautifullife Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cexercize/ Most Influential Person Juliana: Mooji  See him on Instagram Mooji.Official Effect on Emotions Mark: Mindfulness has taught me the value of a well thought out response versus a reaction. A reaction, I find, comes from a place in you that is very driven by emotional frequencies in your body where I think response and thinking, taking a breath and mindfulness, I think that represents a true authentic reaction rather than some kind of weird human instinct. Thoughts on Breathing Juliana: Breathing has been a huge part of my mindfulness practice because it's the one tool that allows me to ground myself any time I feel that I can't get ahold of my emotions or my reactions or my thoughts. Practicing different breathing techniques, like the 3-part breath or Wim Hof; all of that allows me that conscious awareness of me bringing in more prana and that life energy into myself and my body into my being which reminds me that I'm in control of that energy. Suggested Resources Book: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle App: BohoBeautiful App Get it at www.BohoBeautiful.tv Bullying Story I think there are endless stories of bullying in everyone's life, in ours for sure. Taking it into the present moment; bullying in business. Our life is very public on Youtube and we like to share our experiences. These days we're trying to do that even more. We get so much positive feedback from our community, which is amazing, but from time to time, of course, there is negative feedback. There's so many trolls in the internet. That's been such a great test of mindfulness because you can have hundreds and hundreds of positive comments and there's be that one comment, that one person that decides to say something nasty and then your mind just focuses on this one individual. Related Episodes 118 Help Yourself First; Yoga Trainer, Katherine Di Lullo 026 Sharon Roemmel: Erase Pain and Find Your True Purpose With Yoga 485 Yoga Wisdom Beyond The Mat; Kelly DiNardo Special Offer Get the Movie about how to implement The Law of Attraction, “How Thoughts Become Things” (This is an affiliate Link). Learn how to manifest the life of your dreams, with Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Marie Diamond, Travis Fox, Meagan Fettes, and others. Our Sponsor Stop struggling with Deep rooted issues. Do you want to lose weight, or are struggling to overcome a painful past experience? Do you have an unwanted habit or behavior you'd like to be rid of or you'd like to reduce the stress and anxiety in your life? Hypnosis can help you reach your goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. Ever thought of becoming a hypnotherapist? The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

Blake D. Bauer is the author of the international bestselling book You Were Not Born To Suffer. Each year he helps thousands of people who cannot find effective support from conventional psychology, medicine, or religion. Blake is a world-renowned teacher and speaker with an extensive background in psychology, alternative medicine, nutrition, traditional healing, and mindfulness meditation. Based on both his personal experience overcoming deep suffering, addiction, and adversity, as well as his professional success with over 100,000 people worldwide, Blake’s pioneering work integrates what he’s found to be the most effective approaches to optimal mental, emotional, and physical health. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.unconditional-selflove.com Book: You Were Not Born To Suffer: Overcome Fear, Insecurity and Depression and Love Yourself Back to Happiness, Confidence and Peace by Blake D. Bauer Most Influential Person Eckhart Tolle, and his book, The Power of Now Effect on Emotions It has helped me have a healthy relationship to my emotions in a way that I never could, and for me, mindfulness helped me build the psychological strength and container to accept and process my emotions without judgment or overwhelm. Thoughts on Breathing I would say your breathing is the number one key to mindfulness to accessing your capacity to create the life you want, to love wholeheartedly. It is the most important thing because it literally is your life and it's how you grow your life, heal your life, expand your life, because as soon as you don't breathe, you're gone. Suggested Resources Book: Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor Book: The Power of Now by Eckharte Tolle Book: You Were Not Born To Suffer: Overcome Fear, Insecurity and Depression and Love Yourself Back to Happiness, Confidence and Peace by Blake D. Bauer App: Calm App: Jerry and Esther have an app I recommend called Ask and It Is Given. App: Rhonda Burne, author of The Secret has an app called The Secret Daily Teachings. App: Also check out any Hayhouse apps. Bullying Story I was bullied by my older brother and by my parents. My biological father was physically abusive to me when I was young. I believe on the healing journey, we need to get our thinking to a place where we learn how to take responsibility for everything because when, in your psyche, you get to a place where you take responsibility for anything and everything, then there is no part of your psyche that can be a victim anymore. Related Episodes 246 Escape The Grip Of Desire Says Buddism 101 Author Arnie Kozak 209 Hug Your Bully To Your Heart Urges Lily Wong 130 Ditch Your Emotional Obesity and Deal With Your Anger Says Laura Coe Free Gift Do you have sleepless nights? Get the  ‘Sleep Naturally' Guided Meditation by Bruce Langford. Deep, easy sleep is yours to enjoy.  Drift off to sleep with a calm, gentle voice. Rest comfortably, without effort. Click here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/Sleep Our Sponsor Stop struggling with Deep rooted issues. If you want to lose weight, or are struggling to overcome a painful past experience, have an unwanted habit or behavior you'd like to be rid of, or you'd like to reduce the stress and anxiety in your life, hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help you reach your goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. Ever thought of becoming a hypnotherapist? The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen have recently published a co-written book called ASK! The Bridge From Your Dreams To Your Destiny. Crystal Dwyer Hansen is an international speaker, researcher, corporate consultant, author, and entrepreneur who travels the world with her husband, best-selling author and entrepreneur Mark Victor Hansen, speaking, inspiring, and teaching leadership. Mark Victor Hansen is an American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today, with more than 500 million books sold internationally and more than 100 licensed products. Crystal and Mark . Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.AskTheBookClub.com Book: Ask: The Bridge From Your Dreams To Your Destiny by Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen  Most Influential Person Mark says Crystal is the most influential person in his life. Effect on Emotions Crystal says mindfulness has affected her emotions tremendously. It helps me realize that whatever is going on outside of me that's causing me to feel these things can always be questioned and it's not necessarily the truth. If I go inside and be still with myself, then I can find the truth.   Thoughts on Breathing Mark's thoughts on breathing: Breathing is everything because breathing brings you back to center. I wrote a forward to a book called Three Deep Breaths, by Thomas Crum. Three breaths are what you need to take before you go into meditation, I believe. It relaxes you, it centers you, and you get in touch with your soul, the essence of who you are, the god in you, that's what I believe.  Suggested Resources Book: Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace B. Pert App: Ask – The Book Club (www.AskTheBookClub.com) Bullying Story When I was in 8th grade I got a ride to school with the minister in this purple car. It was embarrassing to go to eighth grade in a purple car. We arrived at school and I had grown so tall, so fast. I was the tallest kid in class at 6′ 4″ and 13 years old. I was gangly and uncoordinated. I wrote to the radio station, WLS in Chicago. Wrote to the Great Pumpkin, who would answer every kid's question. My question to him was, Dear Great Pumpkin, my name is Mark Victor Hansen, I go to Webster Junior High School, I'm in Eighth grade, I'm 6′ 4″ and too tall for my class and I'm uncoordinated. So we're in the car with 6 kids and this question comes over the radio. He says, I'm going to tell you what to do today, Mark. “Cut off your head and carry it to school in a paper bag.” Every kid kept asking me, where's my bag.   Related Episodes 133 Connect With What Is Bigger Than Ourselves Suggests Conscious Millionaire Author JV Crum III Using The Success Principles During Challenging Times; Jack Canfield 301 Live Your Purpose With Author Leah Weiss Free Gift Become more calm, focused, and happy by reading the top 12 books recommended on the Mindfulness Mode Podcast. This 14-page ebook entitled '12 Must-Read Mindfulness Books' outlines each of the top books recommended by guests on the show. Get your digital copy now at  MindfulnessMode.com/top12books

Dr. Shalini Bahl-Milne is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Search Inside Yourself teacher, and an award winning researcher.  As a result of her 15 years of research, Dr. Bahl-Milne provides customized solutions for business, education and political clients. Her solutions include mindfulness skills needed to disrupt harmful default habits to cope with stress, become more resilient to life’s obstacles, and live with empowered choice for personal and collective fulfillment. Dr. Bahl-Milne’s understanding of neuroscience, psychology, and management is instrumental in helping her structure specific mindfulness solutions for her clients. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.knowyourmind.training email: shalini@knowyourmind.training Most Influential Person Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness Teacher and author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has helped me befriend my emotions. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing is so important. It brings me back to my present, back to the present moment. Suggested Resources Book: Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein App: Insight Timer App: The Simple Habit App Bullying Story The thing that comes to mind is living in the culture of how women are supposed to look. The culture is the bully. One never escapes it because it becomes us. It took me a lot of time of looking at myself with compassion. The brain is sneaky. It hides and it shows up in very sneaky ways. Related Episodes 447 Discover Your Energetic Solutions Through Sheevaun Moran 285 Visionary Yoga: Beyond Fitness With Mariko Hirakawa 250 Achieve Your Theta State With Mindfulness Says Kallen Diggs Free Gift Get the Awaken With Focus 12-Minute Guided Meditation by Bruce Langford. Be alert and focused after waking. Feel invigorated, fresh, and dynamic. Let your vibrancy feed those around you. Be the energetic person you desire to be. Click here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/AwakenWithFocus

Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a surgeon specializing in heart/lung transplants and is also the author of 5 books, his current publication entitled “The Art of Human Care”. This beautiful book answers the question, how can we change the world throughhealing. Illustrations by his daughter and Dr. Tetteh's personal life-altering, near-death story explain how his life journey profoundly affected his approach to health care and ultimately led to The Art of Human Care theory. Currently, Dr. Tetteh is a Thoracic Staff Surgeon for MedStar Health and WRNMMC and most recently served as Command Surgeon for the National Defense University. During the interview, Dr. Tetteh explains how his experiences helped him embrace the mind-body-spirit​ connection. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.doctortetteh.com Book: The Art of Human Care by Dr. Hassan Tetteh Most Influential Person Victor Frankl, Author of Man's Search For Meaning Effect on Emotions I have been uncharacteristically called an atypical cardiac surgeon. In the operating room, everyone always says, how come he's so calm. That calmness is because of mindfulness. Just taking time, having peace and presence of mind. That's how mindfulness has impacted me. It's given me a great amount of equanimity at times of duress. Thoughts on Breathing Mindfulness is very central and it's foundational to keeping myself centered and I also believe it helps to regulate my heart rate. I wear a sensor watch so I'm always proud of myself when my resting heart-rate is in the 40's. Sometimes I can get it down to 41 or 42. I'm also a runner so I should qualify that. I don't take any beta blockers. It's my way of saying to myself, I'm doing well. Suggested Resources Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book: The Art of Human Care by Dr. Hassan Tetteh App: Any timer app. Bullying Story I got my son to learn how to meditate at a young age so he could use mindfulness in his life. He embraced mindfulness and found a lot of value from it. I remind him now that he's in the stress of high school with a rigorous curriculum that he should use it as a way to bring himself back to present. It will give him the calm and the space to look at the world and understand how you fit into life holistically. Mindfulness gives me the opportunity to have gratitude and that has been very helpful. Related Episodes 116 Be A Go-Giver and Recognize Ego, Speaker Bob Burg 329 The Body Whisperer Will Give You Your Body Back; Erin Burch Define Your Values For Conscious Success; Dr. John Demartini Free Gift Become more calm, focused, and happy by reading the top 12 books recommended on the Mindfulness Mode Podcast. This 14-page ebook entitled '12 Must-Read Mindfulness Books' outlines each of the top books recommended by guests. Get your digital copy now at  MindfulnessMode.com/top12books

Judi Miller is an author who has devoted much of her life to personal development and helping others excel in a constantly changing environment. Judi has trained with some of the world’s most spiritual visionaries.She began her career as a Certified Public Accountant and went on to excel in the world of corporate finance. As an author, coach and speaker, she will inspire you to live a more passionate life, filled with greater clarity, joy and happiness. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: JudiMiller.net Book: Perfect: A Path To Love, Forgiveness, and Transformation by Judi Miller Most Influential Person Dr. Sue Morter Effect on Emotions Mindfulness helps me to get back into my body. Emotions tell the truth. Thoughts and stories are not always true. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing gets me back into my body. Breathing is spirit. It is the essence of who we are. Just breathing sensors me and grounds me. Suggested Resources Book: Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff Book: The Energy Codes: The7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life by Dr. Sue Morter Book: Perfect: A Path To Love, Forgiveness, and Transformation by Judi Miller App: Omvana by Mind Valley Bullying Story Because I was different, because I looked different and because I had eleven fingers, I was sometimes bullied as a child. But that's not where I felt the most damage. I believe it's because I created a story about the bullying. I created a story that I was different and that I was unloveable. We know that through the Law of Attraction, what we hold is mirrored back to us. It's like a magnet. So if I feel different, I'm going to bring all those experiences into my life. The day before I married my husband, of course, because I felt different, I attracted a man who was totally different from me. The night before our wedding, a relative of his said, your mother-in-law is really upset because you're Catholic, your father-in-law is really upset because you're Asian. That really hurt me. So I refused to ever spend time with my husband's relative who said that. Related Episodes 097 Turn Adversity Into Mindfulness; Kim Ades 128 The Healthy Way To Process Grief; Ramona Rice 173 Get Wired For Joy; Michelle Gielen Free Gift Do you want to become more calm, relaxed, peaceful, and content? If so, you can learn how by downloading this free ‘Waves of Content' Meditation by Bruce Langford. Unlock the secrets of calm by downloading the meditation here at MindfulnessMode.com/wavesofcontent

Jonathan Hammond is a teacher, energy healer, shamanic practitioner, and spiritual counselor. Before beginning his work in holistic health and spirituality, he had a career as an award-winning actor, appearing on Broadway and on television. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Jonathan is an Interfaith minister and certified spiritual counselor. He also holds certifications as a Master Teacher in Shamanic Reiki, in Cherokee Bodywork, in Ho’oponopono and is an ordained Alakai (leader or guide) through Aloha International. He teaches classes and gives lectures in Shamanism, Energy Healing, Spirituality, and Huna at the One Spirit Learning Alliance in NYC, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and other major venues around the world. He has worked alongside shamans in Mexico, Brazil, Bali, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Hawaii. The Shaman’s Mind: Huna Wisdom to Change your Life is his first book. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.JonathanHammond.com Book: The Shaman's Mind: Huna Wisdom To Change Your Life by Jonathan Hammond Most Influential Person Lama Surya Das, Author of Awakening the Buddha Within Effect on Emotions Mindfulness is paying attention to my feelings, befriending myself. Befriending yourself, that's the purpose of mindfulness. It is not Zen, floating away on a cloud of ice-cream. The purpose of mindfulness is to befriend what's happening in you so you can do something about it. Thoughts on Breathing The breath is a paradigm for everything. When the sun rises in the east, it's heat causes the earth to exhale. That exhale is called transpiration. It releases it's breath, which then begins the cycles of life. You can think about breath in terms of, we're living and dying in every moment. That means we're starting over in every moment. There is death and rebirth in every moment. And that's what the breath signifies to me. Suggested Resources Book: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach Book: The Shaman's Mind: Huna Wisdom To Change Your Life by Jonathan Hammond App: Mind Valley Academy / Sounds True Jonathan encourages you to listen to the teachers you admire as well as read their books. Bullying Story It's so important that when we are mistreated as children, that we teach children that this happened to you, but this isn't you. You need not identify with anything that happens to you, it's just what's happening. Related Episodes 274 Mind, Body, and Spirit with John Stix 261 Mindfulness, Quantum Physics and Healing; Dr. Anastasia Chopelas 109 Breathe In The Universe with Michael Weinberger Free Gift Do you have sleepless nights? Get the  ‘Sleep Naturally' Guided Meditation by Bruce Langford. Deep, easy sleep is yours to enjoy.  Drift off to sleep with a calm, gentle voice. Rest comfortably with little effort. Click here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/Sleep