We will learn: How our childhood experiences influence our innate parenting habits.  How to bring awareness to our expectations and our triggers.  Easy practices to find stillness in the small moments.  As simple as the concepts of mindfulness are, it’s also a new way of living, which involves breaking other habits to create new ones. So it takes time to feel natural in it.    But as life changes, so do our needs and habits, so at times our mindfulness practices need a revamp.   I am experiencing one of those phases now as I’ve stepped into a new role of motherhood, because right now, my self care can not always come first.   So how do I prioritize myself while also being an attentive mother and managing my home and pursuing my purpose?   In what ways can I fit in small practices throughout my day that will make the biggest difference?   That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest today is Josephine Atluri, expert in meditation and mindfulness, and author of a new book focused on mindfulness specifically for parents.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x61 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Mindfulness for Parents with Josephine Atluri • X61

We will learn: How school suppresses a child’s natural learning.  Myths about literacy and teaching children young.  Better ways to help a child learn literacy, numeracy and socialization.  While I’m raising my own child, I’m also healing my own inner child.    One thing I’ve realized is that so many of the things I’m learning about raising him… like communication, how to teach him, how he learns… are also relevant to how I deal with my own inner child.   The way I speak to myself is so similar to how I should speak to him. Connecting through emotions before logic. Letting curiosity lead.   Even if you’re not planning on having children, there’s a wealth of info on how to care for yourself. Healing your inner child is all about re-parenting yourself.    So today we’re going to be talking about how to foster skills that are actually helpful in the age we’re living in - whether you’re teaching these skills to your real child, or your inner child.    Our guest today is Kerry McDonald, author of multiple books, including: Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/206 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom with Kerry McDonald • 206

We will learn:   What defines empathic reception.  Why do empathic people have to tend to what’s out of balance in their lives to gain authority over their sensory abilities.  How to honor the collective space and filter emotional debris.  Plus I’ll teach you a tool at the end of the show on how to perceive a person’s first energy field.  Empaths feel the emotions of other people. They are highly sensitive, physically and emotionally. And the level of empathy can vary from person to person, almost like a sliding scale.   People can become highly empathic in response to trauma, but they can also be born empathic. Either way, if they don’t learn to manage it, they aren’t yet an empath. They’re just a sponge.   Because potential empaths absorb other people’s emotions, many potential empaths are a little bit volatile. They can experience very high highs and very low lows for seemingly no reason.    To become an empath instead of just a sponge, sensitive people must learn how to discern which emotions belong to someone else and which emotions are their own.   Being an empath is basically like having a 6th sense. So beyond just learning to manage it or protect yourself, you can also learn to heighten your gifts in a way that serves you and other people.   And that’s what we’re talking about today. How to consciously evolve your empath sensitivities.    Our guest is Signe Myers Hovem, author and a spiritual counselor who teaches workshops and training in the art of being an empath. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/205 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sponge or Empath: Consciously Evolving Your Sensitivities with Signe Hovem • 205

We will learn:  What we can learn from different cultures around managing emotions.  Why we cry.  Healthier strategies to cope with sadness. How often do you get sad? What does being sad feel like to you? How long does it usually last? Are you sad right now? Do you even know? Do you know the answer to any of these questions?   We all have feelings, so we should know these things right? But I don’t think most of us do know the answers to these questions… well, some of them at least.   Our words create our realities. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be “fine”. I want to feel good, like really good. So why am I reinforcing a mediocre reality with words that keep me in the in-between… that space of just coasting. Not feeling bad, but not feeling good… so really just not feeling anything. What kind of life is that?   Maybe actually admitting and really feeling our sadness is the only way to feel the true depths of our joy.    Well that’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Helen Russell, bestselling author, journalist and speaker. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x60 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to Be Sad, Better with Helen Russell • X60

We will learn:   How to move through our emotions with the FEEL framework.  How to get your body in balance after physical trauma.  The power of primal breakdowns.  Do you make a conscious effort to feel your feelings?    Really think about that question and be honest with yourself, because it’s not as obvious as you might think it is.    If we’re feeling our feelings by sinking into our victimhood, we’re likely building up more emotions than we’re releasing.   And if we don’t consciously release those emotions, they will find a way out, only in ways we have even less control over. They might come out by random breakdowns, or by lashing out at people we love. It could manifest as depression or anxiety.   So today we’re going to learn a better way to feel. Our guest is Ashley Bernardi, author, media relations strategist, and certified Life Designer®.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/204 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Give Yourself Permission to Feel with Ashley Bernardi • 204

We will learn: How all of life’s activity occurs because cells communicate.  How very different cells—bacteria and brain cells, blood cells and viruses—all speak the same language.  New discoveries on intelligence in nature.  I believe that over time, science will begin to prove spirituality.    The cool thing about science is that each new discovery is a possible foundation for a thousand other discoveries.   And these discoveries begin with a thought. A question. A desire to explore what this information could mean.   I think too often we wait for other people to tell us what’s real instead of engaging our imagination enough to ponder it ourselves.    So we end up building walls around our own mindsets with skepticism or blind obedience rather than seeking expansion and greater understanding. Today we are opening our minds to new discoveries in science, and I’m going to challenge you to ponder what these things might mean... even if only for your own practice in contemplation. Our guest today is Dr. Jon Lieff, nationally recognized neuropsychiatrist and foremost expert on cellular communication science. Links from the episode: Show Notes:https://mindlove.com/x59 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Our Cells Communicate • X59

We will learn: The real reasons we are all so busy.  How to identify the right goals and go after them strategically.   How to map out implementation by thinking in waves.  It’s not really a secret, we live in a short term world.   Back in 2000 a study came out that we had about a 12 second attention span. By 2015 it had dropped to 8 seconds on average… shorter than that of a goldfish.   A shorter attention span causes shallow information processing. Longer attention leads to better memory and sustained attention is always linked to deeper information processing.   So much of the relentless pressure in our culture pushes us toward doing what’s easy, what’s guaranteed, or what looks glamorous in the moment. So how do we shift to doing small things over time to achieve our goals—and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard?   And that’s what we’re talking about today.    Our guest is Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of multiple bestsellers. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/203 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World with Dorie Clark

We will learn: How smartphones are designed to work against our happiness.  How to stay connected while disconnected.  The brain benefits of boredom.  Have you noticed your phone time taking away from other important moments in your life?   I’ve always been a tech person so I have a tendency to overuse my smartphone.    Recently I made some customizations to my smartphone and my phone use immediately dropped 80% which is awesome.    I shared my customizations on social -mindfully using my computer- and I got a bunch of DMs about it so I know a lot of you are suffering from a little tech addiction yourselves.   So today we’re going to learn how to live our lives a little less plugged in. Because maybe disconnecting from the online world is what we actually need to connect with the offline world.   Our guest is Joe Hollier, multi-disciplinary artist, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Light Phone, a phone designed to be used as little as possible. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x58 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Disconnect with Your Smart Phone to Reconnect with Your Life with Joe Hollier • X58

We will learn: Why your best ideas often get rejected.  How to disarm the forces of resistance that act against change.  How to transform the very frictions that hold us back into catalysts for change.  Collectively, we have access to more resources than we’ve ever had, but we’re also less happy, more stressed, and fatter than we’ve ever been.   So something, or some things, are just not working.   The problem is, we might be sad, fat and stressed out, but we think we’re comfortable.    The funny thing about the comfort zone is that it’s really just familiarity that creates the illusion of comfort.   And when someone comes around with a new idea, we tense up and resist it because we just don’t want to pop our own comfort bubbles.   So how do we break through the resistance?   How do we get people to say yes to ideas that are fresh and new and awesome, but just not yet familiar?   That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Loran Nordgren, teacher and researcher of the psychological forces that propel and prevent the adoption of new ideas.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/202 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Overcoming Resistance to Change and New Ideas with Loran Nordgren

We will learn:  The causes and consequences of bullshit.  How to spot the signs of bullshit.  How to make better decisions for yourself.  Nowadays, it’s so difficult to decipher what’s truth, and what’s just a load of crap spewed to make a profit.   Unfortunately most people don’t have time to research and wade through the mountains of available information and so they trust what they’re told and hope for the best.   However, there are benefits to a healthy bit of skepticism.    It’s important to know what the stakes are on either side so you can make an informed decision.   It’s hard to question our own beliefs, but it always helps me see the bigger picture, or at least understand people better, even if my beliefs stay the same at the end of it all.   So today we’re going to learn to detect bullshit so you can more effectively make informed decisions.    Our guest is Dr. John V. Petrocelli, author and experimental social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science of communication and decision making.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x57 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit with John Petrocelli • X57

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