Inspired Evolution with Amrit Sandhu 🙏🏻

Dr. Daniel Goleman and Amrit dive deep into developing emotional intelligence, with focus on leadership. They talk about self-awareness, how to manage your emotions, self-motivation and empathy, how to handle a relationship, and creating stability within yourself. They also converse about the impact of emotions on you and others, developing focus, types of focus, performance vs. stress levels and “good work”.Dr. Daniel Goleman is a psychologist, science journalist, lecturer, and the author of the best-selling book Emotional Intelligence amongst others. He is also the host of First Person Plural podcast and Key Step Media publisher, co-director of Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, co-developer of the Goleman EI, and former science journalist for the New York Times.Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to recognize and manage your own feelings and to recognize and respond effectively to those of others. This tool with four domains helps you be more successful in all aspects of your life. Self-awareness (keystone of EI), to recognize and understand how emotions help or hurt what you do. With this tool you have a sense of how others see you, a sense of your strengths and limitations which gives you self-confidence, and clarity on your values and sense of purpose.Self-management, to handle your emotional reactions, control impulse, and to recover from life’s upsets.Once you have mastered these skills, relationship management flows in naturally leading to leadership and interpersonal effectiveness.Some stress is vital, but too much can shut down your brain’s ability to work well. This is a “frazzle state” that can be balanced in many different ways. Meditation is an excellent option. Get your own PSI stress/renewal balance here: ttps://www.keystepmedia.com/shop/psi/#.YVtXJppKi1s Tune In: Welcome Dr. Daniel Goleman to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)What is Emotional Intelligence?:(03:20)The importance of self awareness for EI: (03:46)Venting when you're angry prolonging your mood: (06:41)Performance vs stress levels: (13:51)The importance of focus in present times: (21:23)Moving into self-motivation: (28:50)The importance of empathy: (32:06)Emotional stability linked with focus: (44:00)Different types of focus: (47:19)The importance of mindfulness for self-awareness: (49:27)Deep vs wide approach to mindfulness: (52:16)Connect with Dr. Daniel Goleman:Website: https://www.danielgoleman.info/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielgolemanJoin the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Mikey Lee, a sales expert, mindset master, culture architect and public speaker. Mikey is a corporate come spiritual, social entrepreneur. Through his organisation, Beyond Success, Mikey is dedicated to his mission, to support and transform the lives of CEOs and executives across the globe.He is the founder of Soul’d, culture specialist at Sharetree and founder of Island of Men, a men’s wellbeing charity.Mikey and Amrit talk about the importance of coming back to our own spirit and the natural inner perspective that we carry to be able to define our own success so we can move beyond the success defined by others.They converse about what it means to be living on a hamster wheel, how to step off it and face the challenges to heal and walk back a purposeful life.They dive deep into the meaning of “beyond success”, all that helped Mikey build himself up after breakdown, the resistance that many of us carry to take time to ask ourselves purposeful questions and what the world would look like if it were moving beyond success.Mikey spent the first part of his career scaling the corporate ladder in real estate development. He became a top 10 national real-estate agent. All he had and all that he would do defined him in a societal context as a “successful” being.  Mikey describes this life as one that would’ve satisfied The Wolf Of Wallstreet. He had everything he wanted, yet that wasn’t enough. He believes many of us live our life on a hamster wheel that turns because of the constant validations and judgements that come from society. But things changed when in 2016 he was hit by depression. Emotionally disconnected, spirit destroyed, with suicidal thoughts, Mikey began his process of recalibrating what truly mattered to him. People appeared in his life and supported him in different ways. Guided by renowned coaches, while immersed in the study of holistic practises, Mikey began to redefine what a successful life truly meant. He realized he wanted to live a life well beyond success as defined by others.He connected and participated in men’s well being and health circles that led him to create his own men’s health organization called Island of Men. And meditated to find stillness. Coming into stillness gave him a broader listening and understanding of what truly mattered. His life became more simple, no longer chasing but celebrating with gratitude.Ever since, Mikey has been on a mission to inspire others so they don’t go through the pain he went through, and give them the opportunity to explore life in a spiritual, peaceful and blissful way.He discovered that absolute fulfilment came from a life of service. The more he shows up and gives, the more he receives. Mike’s life is full but he shines when he has an opportunity to be in service with one of his offerings. And his core offering is “redefine success”. He gets paid for doing what he loves to do the most and this is the expanded life he wishes to inspire on others.Fear and beliefs deep within hold you back from making a living out of what you most love to do. It can take a lot of work on yourself, but it is possible.This healing journey is about taking time to step into stillness and ask yourself what does a successful life mean to you, and once you have done that, you can start to create ideas of what you wish to do. The whole process involves taking small steps as you continue to step into stillness and learning from the wise who have been on the path before you.  Tune In: Welcome Mikey Lee to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)Where “beyond success” came from and it’s meaning:(01:38)What made Mikey successful before his breakdown:(04:17)What helped Mikey build himself up:(09:00)Finding healing in stillness, gratitude and presence:(15:17)The importance of recalibrating success in order to have mental health:(21:47)Resistance to take the time to ask oneself purposeful questions:(27:38)Mikey’s intentionality to take someone off the hamster wheel:(35:12)Encountering those who can’t stand the chaos off the hamster wheel:(38:29)The awe in spiritual connection:(46:07) Imagining a world moving beyond success:(53:07)Connect with Mikey:(56:33)Connect with Mikey Lee:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mikey.Lee111 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikey_lee_ivany/ IOM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IslandOfMen/ IOM: https://islandofmen.com/ IOM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islandofmenaustralia/ Soul’d Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mind_body_sould/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikey-lee-ivany/ Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Michele Maselli, known as Mickey Space. He is a musician, DJ, artist, Gita Yoga Teacher, Yin Yoga teacher, and teacher trainer. He is the founder of Sparkly Yoga and specialises in holding space as a DJ, or as a Yoga teacher. Mickey and Amrit talk about how Mickey started cultivating the practice of yoga, the challenges faced coming from a creative world to a society that is totally structured, and how he feels being in harmony with his passion for music, yoga and his spiritual path. They also cave into how he reconciled the balance of effort and surrender in asana, the evolution of consciousness and enlightenment, the importance of presence on a journey exploring consciousness and finally what Mickey does to keep vital.Mickey has a diverse upbringing, both Italian and Australian and is influenced by many cultures; hippie revolution & psychedelic culture, The Beatles, punk and grunge, house and techno, and hip hop.While Yoga in the West adopted a physical practice, these western musicians were getting their influence from the East. The use of psychedelics would open their minds to a deeper reality within and seek answers to questions. This experience took them back to India and the essence of yoga.Intrigued about this spiritual aspect, Mickey began to do meditation, go to asana practices and learn new concepts while working on visual animation.In the mid 90’s he went to India, but following his natural inclination to go with the flow, he stopped off at Thailand on the way and ended up living there for eight years. During his stay, he went on a trip to India and on his return he opened a bar where he was able to perform his profession as a DJ.In 2004 he went back to Australia and worked as a Dj for a living, and in 2007 graduated with a 900 hour in depth teachers diploma. He teaches full time from Vinyasa to Yin Yoga and sound healing. Being a passionate DJ, Mickey also introduces music and free flowing movement into his classes. In 2018, he became a teacher trainer.His never ending spiritual journey unfolds towards the idea that self realization is the enlightened state of being and that no material wealth can determine that. The yoga asana practice of effort and surrender is the balance to be able to live in this material world. Even towards the journey of self realization a sense of effort is needed as well as a balance of deep surrender. Diving deep into the evolution of consciousness and enlightenment, he realized the age of this physical world travels in repetitive cycles just like nature. Yukteswar called them “The Yugas” referred to a 24,000 year cycle; that has a 12,000 year descending cycle (where man loses touch with the highest teachings) and a 12,000 ascending cycle (where the lost wisdom is relearned again)Presence is the essence of consciousness and yoga-sutras are the formula to achieve ultimate presence. In the 2nd “yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah” yoga happens when there is control of the thoughts, the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. Your mind is a tool to reach an enlightened state and operate in the world. It’s the ego that takes you away from the present moment.Mickey is vital. He believes it is about having a strong practice and a positive attitude towards life. Tune In: Welcome Mickey Space to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)The beginning of yoga as a cultivated practice: (00:03:47)Challenges from a creative world to a structured society:(00:24:25)In harmony with music, yoga and a spiritual path:(00:31:26)Reconciling the sense of effort and the balance of deep surrender:(00:37:13)Cycles of consciousness vs a linear theory of evolution: (00:43:09)“Presence” on Mickey’s path exploring consciousness?:(00:54:38)What keeps Mickey vital:(01:04:49)Mickey’s last inspiring words:(01:12:04)Mentioned resources.“The Holy Science” book by Swami Sri Yukteswar: https://amz.run/4vIA “Autobiography of a Yogi” book by Paramahansa Yogananda: https://amz.run/4vI9  “Yoga-sutras: collection of texts written by Patanjali” - book by Swami Satchidananda: https://amz.run/4vI8 Connect with Mickey Space:Website: http://www.sparklyoga.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sparklyyoga/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickey.spaceThe Yoga Creative: https://theyogacreative.com.au/team/mickey/ Summer Healing Yoga: https://www.summerhealingyoga.com.au/yoga-teacher-training/ Sparkly Yoga Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkn8PP1Ltl8J9R_B8tqYzMQ DJ Mickey Space Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DjMickeySpace Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mickeyspace Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Matt Coldrick known as Pan Electric. He is a musician, producer and coach.Matt and Amrit talk about the story behind the breathtaking theme Sweet As Rain with roots in Ethiopia. They dive deep into how music came into Matt’s life, coming home from the east to the west as a major influence in his life, the importance of crafting spirituality in different ways, the pythagorean philosophy and the ratios of music, and how sound heals. They also talk about community, the importance of music within the community and the way they unite, what it is to be disenfranchised from singing your song and the place music holds in our lives.A new guitar in hand and listening to a devotional song of George Harrison set Matt’s soul off on a spiritual journey. In the 90’s Matt became a pop player playing in many festivals worldwide. This life soon made him unhappy and he was given an opportunity to do something different that wasn't about money.He went to Ethiopia with a film director behind Live Aid to make a documentary to avoid kids reaching an early death. Matt contacted Ethiopian folk musicians to play their music and they were able to get fantastic recordings for the soundtrack. Back in England he finished that song and created “Sweet As Rain”; five years later they combined it with African folk. Matt tried to reconnect with the Ethiopians to honour their work, but it was impossible. Years later in Melbourne, he knew a lady involved in Water Charity connected with Ethiopia. Feeling guilty that he hadn't been able to give royalties to the musicians, he decided to donate the equivalent to Water Charity. It was a relief, but he keeps on donating and trying to find these amazing guys.There is a strong sense of connection to spirit in Matt’s story. As a result, he has produced beautiful sounds. Amrit deeply connects to his story and sees the link this sound has with The Inspired Evolution. If you enjoy this music, please donate here: https://watercharity.com/ Matt now lives in Greece because he disagrees with England’s politics - he considers himself European - and he is still recovering from coronavirus. He has done a lot of meditation and is on a journey to use music as a healing tool. He doesn’t know where this journey goes, but he is going to go with it.Coming home from the east to the west has been a huge influence in his life. He has the capacity to embody aspects of faith as a result of exploring many others and believes spiritual diversity prevents us from falling into a sense of dogma. He has tapped into Greek origins, discovering with Pythagoras you could heal using sound and harmonic frequencies, Chinese herbalism, and now Franciscan spirituality. Music is being used in many different ways. It congregates people and connects different cultures, promoting diversity and growth. Matt believes context and community are key to living in a more meaningful way. There are many views of ethical value and no human is an island unto himself. There is an emotional context in sound. Music's rhythmic power enchants us into a world that disrupts conventional narratives to be able to tap into our inner narratives and helps us harmoniously connect about things that are not easily said. “We were singing before we were speaking” Many of us feel disenfranchised from the sense of song because it is at the forefront of the commercial process of selling popular culture. Tune In: Welcome Matt Coldrick to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)How music came into Matt’s life:(00:04:09)Timeless quality about music:(00:06:46)What brought Matt to Ethiopia?:(00:12:00)About Matt in Greece:(00:31:06)From east to west as a major influence in Matt’s life:(43:40)Crafting spirituality in many different ways:(00:47:29)Music within a community and the way they unite:(00:53:31)What disenfranchises one from the sense of song:(01:08:28)How Matt and Amrit connected:(01:14:23)Mentioned resources:Pan Electric - Track Sweet As Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIE1VzPPiE Whale Song Music by Inner Child: https://innerchildmusic.bandcamp.com/ “Music both describes and destroys time” - Quote by Edgard VarèseApukuna: https://soundcloud.com/apukuna Nora Bateson: https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/ Connect with Matt Coldrick:Website: http://www.mattcoldrick.com/Pan Electric Website: https://panelectric.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/panelectric1/ Bandcamp: https://panelectric.bandcamp.com/ Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TW: This episode contains conversations about depression and suicide.In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Daniel Mangena, manifestation coach, international speaker, entrepreneur, podcaster, and bestselling author. He is the CEO of Dream With Dan.Daniel and Amrit, talk about how to manifest abundance, the meaning of ”stop meditating”, how important courage is and the importance of being grateful before the things happen and how to do that.After losing his fortune twice and receiving a late diagnosis of Asperger's, Dan was on the verge of suicide. He settled a framework as a lifeline while he struggled with suicidal thoughts. A four step method for getting inside of yourself, learning to take responsibility for your own life, and ultimately manifesting what you desire out in the material world.His method led him to move into a more holistic whole abundant place. He wrote Stepping Beyond Intention CHECK here: https://amz.run/4sJP, and started helping others overcome adversity to become abundant.Many people consider abundance only as money in their account. But it manifests in infinite ways. To attract abundance into your life you need to feel it within, be conscious about it, and connect with it. It is your birthright. It is a constant journey of expansion, making yourself able to accept more and more so that you have more and more to give.People must interrogate the intentions they have with the heart; the mind wants, the heart gets excited. And then clean their intentions by having these conversations of where did the desire come from. It’s about digging deep and disrupting what’s happening at an unconscious level and choosing what you want to experience. You need to pull back the layers of narratives that are not yours and hold you back. Dan put too much weight on his beliefs about what other people thought about him, to the point of seeking a way to end his life. Self-belief and positive inputs led him to be present and make powerful choices to create change. Dan has now this resource, narrative and evidence that it is not all hopeless if depression comes back.Those who are competitive have to take from others. Those who are creative understand that we are all abundant from birth. They recognize there is enough for everyone and if they honour the natural law of nature, things are going to flow to them. Dan believes that when we stop judging that dark sides exist, we can pull energy back from that and sit in peace with it. Dan explains what he means about “stop meditating”. In order for meditation to have its desired effect you need to actually step back into physical reality, where you can take physical action. People have been taught to focus on their inner-work, and that is great only if they are in service of a physical destination.Dan believes a lot of courage is needed for a small change and every single change requires courage. Reality unfolds to our expectations. If our expectations are positive and we celebrate them in advance, that is gratitude. Being grateful in advance is a starting point where the creation of things happens. You can do this before reaching the outcome because the quantum model shows the fact that everything is happening here and now.Tune In: Welcome Daniel Mangena to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)What abundance means according to Dan: (03:31)Abundance and the multi dimensionality of abundance:(06:10)Suicidal moment and how the intention emerged:(09:27)What has Dan transformed in alignment to?:(16:14)How to reprogram the subconscious:(18:15)How to heal the “lack” within the “want”:(22:14)Defining abundance for ourselves: (27:14)Competition vs. creation:(30:03)How to connect to what is really yours:(36:59)The importance of taking courageous action:(41:25)Gratitude for things before they appear:(45:54)Connect with Dan:(49:43)Daniel Mangena’s books:“Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide, Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life ”: https://amz.run/4sJJ“The Dreamer’s Manifesto”: https://amz.run/4sJQConnect with Daniel Mangena:Website: https://dreamwithdan.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedreamerceoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamerceoYoutube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMdAvGk6xa5fptmdULliJrgTwitter: https://twitter.com/dreamerceoLinkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreamerceo/Podcast Do It With Dan: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-it-with-dan/id1381226331Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit has the privilege to welcome back Eric Edmeades, serial entrepreneur, business speaker, business & marketing mentor, storyteller, bestselling author and a pioneer in evolutionary biology, nutritional anthropology, and behavioral change dynamics. He is the founder of Wildfit, Business Freedom, and Speaker Nation, and has owned businesses in a variety of industries. Eric and Amrit, talk about personal development and business development as two things that go hand in hand. They dive deep in working ON your business vs. working IN your business, what it means to be self employed vs. what it means to be a business owner, and how to grow a business to achieve business freedom so you can spend your time and money doing what matters most to you.Personal development is key to building a successful business. If you want to build an exceptional business as well as an extraordinary life you have to work on yourself. The more you work on you the better your business is going to be.Every business starts in the self employment phase and needs you to be there. But, you can be self employed and keep working in the company all your life, or you can start as self employed with the intention to build an enterprise to the point it will not require you anymore and in time have a life of its own. The transition to business owner depends on your mindset. Once you have decided you are going to build an enterprise, you make distinctively different decisions on a daily basis and while you take action you are thinking how it affects your eventual plan. Decisions are risky but necessary, especially when it comes to investing. Eric shares practical examples to explain why investing time and money on your company can help you beat competition. Criteria can be the same whether you are talking about selling your time or whether you are talking about creating a business, you still have to choose what is the basis upon which you want to make money. Eric believes you must consider if it is fun, if it is going to make an impact and finally if it gives you some money. When you love what you do, you show up with passion and that makes a distinction.Working IN your business is totally different to working ON your business. As a business owner you have to figure out which are the tasks you hate doing and start a plan to take on the right people to do them for you. Your task is to work ON your business through marketing and taking assets that can be useful in other markets to expand the business. and achieve freedomLearning through others' experience and asking for their advice to avoid the challenges of solving problems that have been solved by others before. This way you become more creative and optimistic, and you can apply that to another business or even solve world problems.Empathy is vitally important for building a business. You need this skill to associate the emotional conditions of your clients and your team. The way you treat your team is how they will treat their clients.Edmeades is actually working on a book focussed on his principle “evolution gap”. It is the gap between our very slow genetic evolution and the very fast and increasing piece of our social structures and technologies. It explains why it is important to not make decisions under stressLevel up your life with unlimited access to every Mindvalley Quest Program (over 30+ programs). All Yours. Instantly. https://inspiredevolution.com/recommends/mindvalley/Tune In: Welcome Eric Edmeades to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)The beginning of Eric’s new business: (03:28)Self-employment vs. enterprise:(08:38)From starting a business to having a life of its own:(11:55)Transition from self employed to business owner:(13:19)Is business for everybody and does it take a certain type of personality?:(19:06)Showing up with passion:(27:01)“Having little to no idea about a business” as an asset:(29:04)Why “the world needs more bord entrepreneurs'':(36:21)How important is personal development to running a successful business?:(40:53)The importance of empathy:(50:15)Taking decisions under stress:(52:38)Mentioned resources.Wildfit: https://getwildfit.com/about/ Business Freedom: https://businessfreedom.com/ Speaker Nation: https://speakernation.com/ Connect with Eric Edmeades:Website: https://ericedmeades.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericedmeades/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericedmeades/Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn6e2Ojjnm7kc3AOZ0-VOzwTwitter: https://twitter.com/EricEdmeades Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericedmeades/Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Jon David, “Apukuna”, a DJ, music mixer and ceremonial medicine musician. He is one of Amrit’s favourite artists on SoundCloud, a huge music and audio online platform that lets people discover and enjoy the greatest selection of music from the most diverse creator community on earth.Amrit and Apukuna, talk about Apukuna’s journey of creativity, his electronic music, ceremonial medicine music and how it has all come together. They dive deep into him cultivating a particular sound and how he found himself during the process. They also cave into how being even more himself expressing his gift to the world helped him become more well received. Apukuna has been involved in electronic music for more than 20 years now. In the last 12 years he has also been playing ceremonial medicine music on his guitar with amazing people such as Darpan and others. In the last 3 years he has begun to blend/mix these two worlds together into something unique called Apukuna, sharing it on SoundCloud where he is building his own community. In the Quechua language “APU” means spirit of the mountain (Apukuna plural)Three years ago he was creating more dance floor friendly mixes trying to remain accessible to his listeners, but at the beginning of the Pandemic, he decided to let go and drop further into himself, his own love. He opened himself up to feeling comfortable and brought through what felt true to him. He began to cultivate a new spiritual sound, his sound, one of love, energy and healing that is being highly praised globally. Something out of this world.Apukuna is looking forward to, once things get back to normal, take these new sounds and adapt them to live settings. He wants to bring this love and energy into all of his mixes. His intention is to draw dance and listeners into something that is familiar, and then blast them with this new frequency of love. There has been a lot of learning about himself through putting mixes together. The mixing process is tough and takes a long time, it can even take weeks. It requires patience, perseverance and being somewhat meticulous. Apukuna is very meticulous and recognizes how challenging it is to others as it is to himself, but he sees it as an enormous gift and is grateful for this “superpower”. Having had experience with reflection of who and what he is, he now takes a reflection, listens to it and tries to learn from it. Being meticulous is the part of himself that has helped him live and sustain his life doing what he most loves to do. He strongly believes we must learn how to look at and love more those elements we all carry in ourselves that can be either a blessing or a challenge.What he does with music is for himself and then shares it as a gift. He is following the intuition of what feels good to him and he trusts it. He is following his passion, wants to share it and then see where it goes. Furthermore, he shares a little preview of what is coming next. Breath Medicine Mix 002 is brewing up right now and there is an intention to use it in breathwork sessions. Apukuna’s dream is to be in front of a crowd of people where he can play mixes, bring in his guitar, bring in his voice and integrate all of them together. Nobody knows, but it is quite likely Apukuna not only will be about mixes but about producing songs too.Towards the end of this episode, Apukuna shares a jaw-dropping mix he has prepared especially for the Inspired Evolution Tribe.  “Music is medicine and medicine is music”Tune In: Welcome Apukuna to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)The beginning of exploring music and mixes: (04:04)From remaining accessible to doing what was true to him:(11:12)Learning about himself when putting mixes together:(15:36)How much of putting mixes together is his career and how much of it is his passion:(21:44)Realizing that challenging elements we carry can serve us:(26:52)About dream mixes and mixes that are brewing:(32:23)Last words to the audience:(39:09)Special mix for the Inspired Evolution Tribe:(41:43)Mentioned Resources:Darpan: https://www.darpan.com/Connect with Apukuna:Website: https://soundcloud.com/apukuna Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApukunaMusic For just a glance of this beauty, listen to Amrit’s favourite mixes: Spirit Bear:https://soundcloud.com/apukuna/apukuna-spirit-bear Return of The Bird Tribes: https://soundcloud.com/apukuna/mix-apukuna-return-of-the-bird-tribes-2020Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Ben Irvine and Simon Wade, who have come together to build an intentional and organic community in Eltham, a beautiful place in the heart of Victoria, Melbourne.Ben, Simon and Amrit talk about the project, their vision and how they are going to manage the power dynamics and challenges that pop up, what inspired them to go on this journey and the resources that guide them, and the importance of eating together. They also talk about community and why it is so important to live life outside the paradigm of what we all call normal and live differently. After watching pioneer architect Charles Durrett’s presentation on cohousing and doing a lot of research, Ben decided he wanted to build a community far away from isolation. A village where he could live together with his loved ones and others in community creating close bonds. A village where the members could feel free to have their own beliefs, ways of being and ways of relating to the community. With this idea in mind and having partnered with a developer, Ben got in touch with Simon to be his left hand. Simon, in total agreement with this vision, agreed to be part of this new project. This project consists of the development of 26 private dwellings for 40 adults and following Charles Durrett’s Danish model and book “Creating Cohousing'' where he describes the whole concept. This successful model lays emphasis on community, sustainability, village living, shared resources, affordability and eating together. The village is not founded on ideology. From a business point of view, Simon refers to it as a decentralized movement with bottom-up decision making instead of top-down hierarchies of demand and control. They talk about agreements and self management but with the relational space as the centre. They gather frequently in circles to talk and move forward. Every meeting starts by sharing a circle and eating together. Amrit refers to it as “breaking bread together”. These are the most important factors for healthy and successful community cohesion, especially when facing power dynamics. This relational space helps everyone come into resonance with each other and have a harmonious relationship, which allows new ideas to arise and decision making easier. Ben believes community feels like something we have to learn how to do again. Simon believes it is about embracing the fact that we live in a relationship with the earth on which we stand, with our family, friends and loved ones and it is our job to turn this relational space into a beautiful one. They share the same vision. In today’s society, there is a lack of community they would like around them. Every family lives in their own atomic unit often disconnected from the people around them facing adversity and doing things by themselves. These guys want to reimagine life as a place where people can learn from each other and give support and encouragement. A place where people connect and thrive at all stages of life, where kids don't need to rely only on parents and can thrive growing up with community and other kids as well and a place where the elder’s don’t have to live alone any more. Tune In: Welcome Ben Irvine and Simon Wade to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)About Ben and Simon’s project:(03:01)About Simon and Ben’s visions coming together:(07:39)Powering a community without an ideology:(20:52)About the serendipity indicating they were both on the right path:(32:04)Deciding factors in terms of intentionality behind to the location:(34:13)Simon and Ben’s interpretation of agreements:(37:01)The importance of community according to Simon and Ben:(43:53)Mentioned Resources:Menergy website: https://menergy.org.au/ Cohousing presentation by Charles Durrett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01H2YVarugA“Creating Cohousing” book by Charles Durrett and Kathryn McCamant: https://amz.run/4oZH Property Collectives. https://propertycollectives.com.au/ “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” book by Tyson Yunkaporta: https://amz.run/4ocA Connect with Simon Wade:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simonvwade Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcNUmeb-pAVi5ka26uFUIow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonvwade/ Connect with Ben Irvine:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afriendlikebenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/benmagnusshibari/ Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Inspired_Evolution/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Don Jose Ruiz, a Toltec Master of Transformation and modern-day Shaman dedicated to sharing the wisdom of the ancient toltec to sacred societies all around the world. Don Ruiz is an international bestselling author of many books and recently wrote The Wisdom of the Sharmanic Animals.Don Jose and Amrit, talk about the importance of awakening to the artist that lies within you. They converse about how important it is to be present and honest with yourself, and do a lot of inner work to connect to the medicine of your heart. They also dive deep into why you should be kind and show respect to others as you do to yourself, and how to reconnect to your spirit so that you can live a life in alignment to your heart rather than “domestication”.Don Jose shares insightful stories to bring his message to this episode and the world. He converts his wisdom into practical, everyday life concepts that will help you transform.Toltec’s wisdom of kindness passes on from generation to generation to keep one and another kind in a world that is totally unkind. It’s tradition is considered a fundamental path of healing and spiritual growth. To be toltec means that you are an artist of your own life. Everybody is a unique artist of the spirit and here to create. They believe we live in a world where everything is possible. Once you step into it, your dreams are born. We all came into this world with wisdom, as natural lovers of life and abundant in kindness. Soon after birth, personal beliefs begin to build up through socialization from our parents and people in general. We create a false reality about the world around us becoming conformists to other’s ideas and judge when we fail to conform to the expectations. Don Jose calls this “domestication”. Instead of creating your own work of art and listening to what your heart is asking you to do, you emerge into life as a version that is not you.We can recover our “authentic self” back. Ruiz believes you can unlearn the beliefs and expectations that lead to unnecessary suffering and pain, and through mastering awareness and transformation, you can redirect your energy and create the life of your dreams. There are many challenges in domestication. Ruiz believes you first have to trust yourself to be able to trust the world. You begin thinking another way. You think clearly and start to question everything. When you think negatively you can recognize it as a bad habit. The way to get rid of that habit is by being discerning, not believing those negative thoughts and instead trust in your inner feelings.Don Jose calls this the moment we wake up, and when we start opening this channel our lives begin to change because we are no longer thinking negatively and attracting negativity. Any negativity that comes into our presence dissolves. And that has a ripple effect because as the Toltec tradition teaches, we are all messengers. That is why we must pay attention to what message we are sharing with others.We must keep on doing inner work to connect to the medicine within. As Ruiz says ” Either you choose a plastic garden or a beautiful garden that needs your care” Which do you choose?Tune In: Welcome Don Jose Ruiz to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)What it means to be toltec and the artist of your own life: (02:28)The relationship with the medicine within and the influence it has on others:(04:39)The frustration of being kind because expectations are not met:(07:04)Walking the path of honesty to connect to the medicine within:(09:06)The challenge of domestication when fighting for your innate self:(11:14)Willingness to find a new openness to live as fundamental beings:(15:04)Setting out messages that will be received in the world:(19:28)The importance of family:(26:38)People more primed than others to the artist way?:(29:19)How to cultivate connection to openness:(32:44)The essence of storytelling and what it means to Ruiz?:(35:44)Don Jose Ruiz books: "Shamanic Power Animals” https://amzn.to/37xk2eo The Wisdom of the Shamans” https://amzn.to/3lUmRyM “The Fifth Agreement” https://amzn.to/2UcqJzE “The Medicine Bag” https://amzn.to/3lTLwDy Connect with Don Jose Ruiz:Website:https://www.miguelruiz.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ToltecLife Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/donjoseruiz/ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTwSKaGU-DpjGG0shxdEkJw Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, Amrit welcomes back Dr. Dain Heer, a change-maker, body whisperer, speaker, co-creator of Access Consciousness, and a renowned author of many books. “Body Whispering: A New Way of Seeing, Being and Healing” is his latest best-seller, you can get it here: https://inspiredevolution.com/recommends/body-whispering-by-dr-dain-heer/Dr. Heer and Amrit, dive into a deep conversation about judgement vs. intuition, the tightrope between ego and humility on our path of greatness, how to get rid of perfectionism and begin to access our conscious awareness and reconsider our choices to create and live a life of greatness.We were all born with curiosity but too often judgment gets in our way. Judgment is something made up and keeps us stuck in a cycle of no choice and change. We avoid living in the way we uniquely could because we lie to ourselves. We focus on what we have decided are our faults and flaws, and that leads us to stress, anxiety, severe depression and a bad quality of life. Dr. Heer refers to judgement as a tiny ball of reality with what is right, wrong, good and bad and beyond it exists an endless reality of possibilities. The only way you can get there, is by having another perspective. You can let go of self-judgment and choose to follow the song of your heart towards greatness. The whispers lead you to more of that. When you are closer to doing the things that are true to you, you start to feel lighter and happier, and when you're closer to judgement and fear you feel heavier and sadderChange is not easy. But if you are afraid of doing something and do it all the same, no magic can show up because no magic can get in. Fear is a distracted implant; an implanted point of view. The place from which you act determines your experience of the action. Don’t act from fear. Act from a place of excitement and joy and kindness, and you will create whatever you want to. There is a tightrope between ego and humility on our journey of greatness. Amrit firmly believes that humility is the best recourse in so many instances. But if your ego insists on pushing to be humble and over humble yourself, you are running the risk of not honouring the gifts that life has given you and the blessing of life itself. It is difficult but we have to find the balance.They revert to judgement to confirm this. You are judged if you go too far one way and if you go too far the other way. That tightrope is based on a reality where judgement has value. You need to be willing to be present with everything as it is. Being present helps you see other possibilities and choices available. As stated by Dain, perfection is the ultimate judgement. According to Amrit, it is a “bourgeois” resistance. Many people wait for their ideas to be perfect before they get shared. “If you are above 80% let it go because you are never going to get more perfect than that”Dain states that instead of struggling for perfection, struggle for greatness. In greatness there is no judgement, you have a universe of possibilities and there is freedom and joy. We are energetic human beings by nature. If we could acknowledge that capacity that we have to perceive sutilities and awareness of energy, we could use it to navigate life. Level up your life with unlimited access to every Mindvalley Quest Program (over 30+ programs). All Yours. Instantly. https://inspiredevolution.com/recommends/mindvalley/Tune In: Welcome Dr. Dain Heer to Inspired Evolution!: (00:00:00)Judgement vs. intuition: “The voice in my head versus the song in my heart”: (06:12)About the difficulty in doing the things that are true to you and fear: (11:10)Humility vs. ego in regards to greatness: (24:20)Perfection as the ultimate judgment or as a “bourgeois resistance”: (32:14)Previous episodes on Inspired Evolution:How to Expand and Embrace Openness: Dr Dain Heer on how to Expand and Embrace OpennessStop Judging to Access Consciousness: Stop Judging to Access Consciousness with Dr. Dain Heer | Inspired Evolution | Amrit SandhuConnect with Dr. Dain Heer:Dain’s site: https://drdainheer.com/ Website: https://www.accessconsciousness.com/en/about/ Latest book: https://bodywhispererbook.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrDainHeer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dainheer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dr_dainheerLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dainheer/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dainheer/_created/Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DainHeer   Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/  Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.