Do you ever wonder what you’re most incredible self is truly capable of, if you were giving half the chance? What you could do, build, achieve, design how you could thrive or shine, if only there was a way!

Well if this sounds even remotely like you (and this means pretty-much all of us) then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Bernie Roth, cofounder of the Stanford D. School, one of the world’s pioneers in robotics, and the primary developer of the concept of the Creativity Workshop. He’s one of the most empowering people you’ll ever meet, and he’s also the best-selling author of one of my NEW favorite books on achieving your dreams, called, The Achievement Habit

Well today we’ll talk about moving past the what if’s and the if onlys…SO you can stop wishing and start doing, and take command of your life to achieve goals you once never thought possible.

That, plus we’ll discuss the power of crap-ups and why streaking may be the greatest thing in the world!

Questions and Topics Include:

1. What is the D School at Stanford?
2. What is the Achievement Habit?
   1. Getting the best out of what you have
   2. People feel better and accomplish things
      1. One group saved 75,000 kids
   3. Help people own their projects, so they’re only pass/fail, do, or not do…
   4. Changing Yoda – There is no Try only Do
      1. Do = Power vs. Try = Force
      2. If really want to get something done, you’re not trying you’re doing
      3. If you want to try you’re efforting, but if you do, it’s often less effort than the trying.
      4. Example he uses: try and pull a water-bottle from my handle
   5. How to go from Trying to Doing and why Reasons are Bullshit
      1. Excuses get in the way of doing
      2. Needing a reason to be reasonable
      3. Keep calling yourself on your excuses!
   6. The GOOOOOOOD exercise
      1. An exercise to point out the BS
   7. Paying attention to the opposites
      1. Why the opposite of what is said may be the truth
   8. How do we get unstuck or go to a higher level
      1. Discusses meeting with Microsoft
      2. If you solve the wrong problem it’s not going to help you.
      3. To get unstuck figure out what the real problem is.
      4. Students went to Myanmar to help farmers pump water, but turns out it was the “wrong” problem, the “right” problem was a need for light and how much of the farmer’s income was coming from burning extremely unhealthy and expenisve kerosene lanterns and candles
   9. How to change your self-image to a doer and an achiever
      1. First, you give everything in life it’s meaning
      2. Achiever in Google Who felt inadequate – have to get past it
         1. Do this by doing something one step at a time
         2. Get yourself a goal and do it, don’t try to do it, do-it.

• Avoid the idea of pipe-dreams.
  1. But if really want to do something, need the intention to do it, and the attention to get it done (Intention Followed by Attention)

1. Friend (Harold) who loved Russian Cossack Uniforms
   1. Became an example of doing, rather than trying
2. Have to commit or it may not happen

1. Difference between trying and affirmations
   1. Affirmations are funny
      1. Two kinds of Affirmations
         1. Bernie is the handsomest man – the affirmations you don’t quite believe, but people believe the negative stuff about them
      2. Need to get the world to give you the signal
         1. Get this by doing and succeeding
      3. The Gift of Failure & The Bias Toward Action
         1. Don’t sit around thinking about making a move, when you get an idea, make a move!
         2. For example, if you want to ask someone for a date, don’t sit around wondering for 3 months, but ask her for a date.
            1. May work, or may not, but will get to the end and find some success much sooner than sitting around wondering about it.
         3. Michael: The Million Dollar Demo
         4. Has a class called Launch Pad – You do what the design thinking methodology helps you do. Have to make income w/in 10 weeks.
         5. Students from India came in with an ipad ap idea.
         6. Turned into an incredibly successful idea – a 90 million dollar idea!!!
         7. Human nature don’t want to do it until perfect
         8. It’s okay to make a mistake, it’s a fantastic way to learn.
         9. How we used Design Thinking to Build Inspire Nation – Woo Hoo!
      4. The Importance of Language in everyday speech
         1. Example I can’t vs. I won’t –
         2. I can’t is powerless
         3. I won’t is God Like, it’s a choice
         4. Saying things in a way that’s empowering vs. a way that’s disempowering.
            1. Test can’t do something vs. won’t do something and see how it makes you feel
         5. The danger of the conjunction but
            1. It’s a negative, or a damper, or in improve, it’s “blocking”
            2. Energy shift difference between But and And

• Big fight with his publisher, publisher kept putting but in book, he kept replacing them with And.

1. Helping vs. Assisting
   1. Saying you’ll help makes them feel powerless
   2. Assisting feels like you’re lending a helpful hand
2. Group Habits
   1. Why is Streaking or Running Naked Beneficial?
   2. Why energy shifts and “interruptions” are terrific and great shifts in energy, they change the atmosphere. The wilder and more bizarre the interruption the happier he is.
   3. Welcome and support the streaks in your life
3. How do we build resiliency into our lives
   1. The winning is not the whole thing, it’s taking part that’s important
   2. Train kids to be important with the effort, then doesn’t matter if the goal is successful this time
4. How do you train people to move past the tribe?
   1. Gets to appreciating the voyage over the destination
5. The benefit of hanging in there and getting things done, rather than winning awards
   1. What means something is the daily flow of your life
6. How do you help motivate others
   1. One little step at a time, one victory at a time
   2. 3 steps forward, 1 step backwards is quite alright.
   3. A matter of reinforcing people’s abilities to do stuff, and helping them feel more powerful
7. How do you train yourself to ignore distractions?
8. What is a crap up?
   1. Prototyping is very important in our lives – means trying something
      1. Could be a skit, a play, a conversation, a letter
      2. Most people make mock-ups

• He has preliminary mock-ups, called crap-ups…just do SOMETHING to see what works and what doesn’t work
  1. Do something SO simple, but do something simple.

(If you like Stephen Covey and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, You'll Love This Interview!)

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Today we have a very special mindfulness exercise that will help you relax, rewire, and quiet the mind. This exercise can be done any time of the day, and overtime you can use it while going about your daily activities!

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way to show your love for Inspire Nation, and to help others to find the show. That and of course, it’s boat loads – toot toot, of karma points coming your way!

To check out our latest interviews and here more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com.

I send love, I send light, and many, many blessings your way. Namaste.

Okay, this is a meditation or exercise I use quite frequently, especially over recent days as I’m doing some pretty fun rewiring of my mind, and I’m going to have you do it at first, slightly different from how I’m doing it.

The goal of this meditation is to help you catch repeated thoughts before they start creating an endless loop in your mind. Ideally we get to learn how to drop all thoughts, but it’s the repeated offenders that get us the most. It’s said we have 60,000 thoughts a day, and that 90 some-odd percent of those are the same thoughts over and over again.

So those are the thoughts we’re going after…

A Beautiful, Relaxing, Mindfulness Meditation To Help Rewire Your Mind to Quickly Catch & Release Repeated Thoughts & Let them Go to Quiet Your Mind | Inspire | Inspiration | Motivation | Inner-Peace | Spirituality | Relaxation | Happiness | Self-Help

If you’ve ever wondered how to get fit, become an athlete, or simply enjoy something for the pure act of doing it, without the need for accomplishment, accolades, or perfection, then do we have the show for you.

Last year, right before he retired from public speaking, I had the rare opportunity to interviewed John Bingham, aka The Running Penguin on his career as a back-of-the-pack runner and running journalist on mindfulness, enjoying running for the pure joy of it, and his zen-like approach to athletics and life.

A self-proclaimed former smoker, drinker, and fat guy He’s written numerous books on the subject, including confessions from a running penguin, and would call himself an accidental athlete.

His humor and attitude toward life are incredibly contagious, and you’ll leave this interview feeling inspired, uplifted and ready to run or take on your day, whether at the front of the pack, or the back.

So have fun, enjoy this interview, and above all else, Shine Bright.

Inspire Nation Accidental Athlete Topics Include:

• No matter where we get to, we’re a winner
• How a former fat guy, smoker, drinker could be writing about running
  • Became a runner’s world columnist – wrote about the FUN he was having
• How to enjoy the ride, irrespective of the pace
• Why children have a great time until told they’re not as good as someone else
  • Why kids (and we should) simply play and enjoy the experience for what it is
• How to re-define success
  • Finding what your best is, and pursuing that as your goal
• Zen and Motorcycle Riding
• Zen and Running – something magical about flowing along
• Setting “reasonable” expectations
• 700 miles on a motorcycle – not trying to get away from something, not trying to get away from somewhere
• Spokesperson for the back-of-the-packers, aka the Penguins
• John has helped change the face of running
• What it’s like being a back-of-the-pack runner in a marathon
  • Back of the pack is where the interesting people are!
    • Alcoholics
    • Interesting Life Stories
  • Trying to have an honest interaction with the people he’s around
  • Discovering true fellowship
• What does it mean to be living in the moment?
  • Circus musician and being in the moment, you can’t go back and get a bad note, just keep playing!
• What is a Warrior Penguin?
• How to bring your warrior inward vs. outward
• Definition of word equilibrium – balance between overdoing and underdoing – magic point
• What is a Runner’s High?
• Pre-Run or Pre-Event (life) Checklist!
• Letting go of your expectations
• “Journey into a healthy lifestyle” – keep that sense of wonder
• Why the not-so-great days may be better than your great days!
• Can’t separate what he’s doing from who he is – needs to be integrated into who he is
• Knowing when to say when – if you’re saying “I’m going to have a miserable day” the importance of choosing not to do it
• What to be wary of: Easy to substitute one addiction for another
  • Cannot make running (or anything) one more thing we do to ourselves rather than for ourselves.
• Last words of wisdom before retiring
  • Express as completely as he can the gratitude for the lifestyle he’s been able to enjoy.
• What brings John the greatest sense of inner peace?
  • Learning to be present for every moment that’s happening!

For More Information visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Be Incredible Inspired as You Discover How to Find the Pure Joy in All You Do, Even Working Out & How You Too Can Accidentally Become a Runner, Athlete or Anything You Desire!

Inspiration | Motivation | Zen | Business | Career | Spirituality | Mindfulness | Health | Fitness | Running | Happiness | Zen | Joy | Inner-Peace | Self-Help

Today we have a very special Easin’ into the Season meditation to help you leave your early holiday stresses behind.

You can do this meditation anytime of the day, even, or especially mid-day when the hectic hustle and bustle of the holiday season almost seems like too much.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and please rate and review our show on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews mean the world to us, and greatly help others to find the show.

To check our interviews, or hear more meditations from me, or our guests, please visit our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com.

I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste.

Okay, for this meditation you’re going to want to be sitting down comfortably, or laying down on your back.

As always, I’d like you to begin gentle breathing in and out through the nose, all the way down to your belly.

Breathe in and out, nice and slow.

Now I want you to imagine any potential burdens you may have right now…

Relax & Release Your Worries & Concerns During This Stressful Time of the Year - A Perfect Guided Meditation To Gently Float Away in the Bliss & Basque in Inner Peace! Inspiration | Relaxation | Motivation | Serenity | Mindfulness | Healing | Self-Help

Today we have a very special show for you, on a very special day. Because today Inspire Nation turns two…two months old that is.

Yes, hard as it is to believe, we’re only two months old, and already one of the top-ten self-help shows in the world, with listeners in 116 countries and counting.

How in the world did we do it, and reach this rapid success… well, that’s the topic of today’s show!

I’ll be interviewing your dependable host Michael Sandler, my loving husband on how in the world we went from zero, to top 10 in just 8 short weeks!

That plus why in the world, we’re working 16 hour days, and what it means to be a unicorn! Yes, I said unicorn.

Questions/Topics Include:

1. Was Becoming a Radio Show Host Always My Dream?
2. How did we go from the Mindful Running Program to Inspire Nation?
3. Did you rush to get a program started once you moved from Hawaii?
4. What does it mean to have a “fire lit under you’re a**?”
5. How did you take inventory about your passions?
   1. Making a love-letter to yourself about what you’re most passionate about.
6. How do you come up with the idea?
   1. What does it mean to be in a blender?
7. How did you determine your “avatar”?
8. What’s wrong with the expression “Sell them what they want, give them what they need”
9. Why making a fake persona or turning down the flame doesn’t lead to greatness
   1. Why it’s shutting off the tap and why that hurts bad
10. How am I surviving working so many hours?
11. Is it healthy to be working so hard or so many hours?
12. Why are we able to shine?
13. Where are we drawing our energy from?
14. What do we dislike about typical internet marketing, or the marketing we felt we “had” to do in the past?
15. How we’ve let go of perfectionism, persona, and so much more.
16. Why a journey of a thousand miles really begins with a single step

For More Information Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

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Today we have a very gentle, healing, soothing, and recharging meditation.

It’s one I like to use if I’m not feeling well, sore, anxious when I wake up, or a bit exhausted. In fact, I used it this morning after a late night’s recording session. It helps recharge my body, makes me feel better all over, and I believe even helps boost my immune system.

That, and it’s super simple to do.

You can of course, do this meditation any time of the day, and I love it just after waking, or immediately before bed.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way you spread the love, and help others to find the show! That, plus of course, it’s instant great karma points. And who couldn’t use that?

To hear more meditations from me, or our guests, please visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com.

I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way.

Namaste. Woo Hoo!

Okay, you can do this meditation sitting upright, but I recommend laying down for it if at all possible.

As always, I’ll have you begin with some gentle deep breaths, in and out through the nose.

Then, as you continue to breathe deep, I want you to imagine being enveloped, or covered, in a blanket of golden heavenly light...

A Beautiful Guided Meditation to Help You Relax, Recharge Feel Better & Even Heal – Perfect if you’re exhausted, didn’t sleep well, over-stressed, feel a cold coming on, or have soreness in your body. Inspiration | Spirituality | Mindfulness | Self-Help

This is part II of our 2 month anniversary show on Inspire Nation! Woo Hoo! In this part we’ll dive into all the lessons we’ve learned from daily interviews, and a show that never sleeps.

Plus the creative process, creative angst, the extreme importance of mindfulness and efficiency, and why it’s so important to do things your own way. That plus Jordan and The Voice, and why you need to bring out your inner unicorn!

Prepare to shine bright!

Questions & Topics Include:

1. The beauty of a daily show and learning to let go
   1. A daily show is forcing us to:
      1. Prioritize
      2. Use resources wisely

• How to reach the most people

2. Hal Elrod of The Miracle Morning mentions an effect, you’ll use whatever time is given to you.
   1. Forces greater efficiency
   2. Forced Daily progress
   3. Working to hone skills before you get assistance
      1. Want to be open and new sponges
      2. Rather than to have entrenched habits
   4. Why moments where we’ve been stuck have taught us the most
   5. Why podcasting and interviews has become a giant game of chess.
   6. What’s coming next for us
      1. Honing Skills
      2. Opening Coaching Back Up
      3. Writing books based on what we’ve been learning
         1. Recurring themes keep coming up
         2. Patterns keep coming about
      4. The importance of watching our energy levels
         1. And why birthday cake and Halloween candy’s out, at least for the moment!
      5. What TV show Michael is addicted to
      6. What Jordan and The Voice Have to Do with Inspire Nation
      7. Why being a tinkerer is so important and helps bring out the divine within us
      8. Why we should each try to be our own mystical Unicorn
      9. Why it’s so important to do things our own way or let our unicorn-self come out
      10. Why sawing off our horn is a really bad idea
      11. The difference between getting through life adequately, and letting your horn out so you can shine!
      12. Be open and honest to our true selves
      13. Importance of being true to who you are

For More Information Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Learn the Secrets Behind the Success of Inspire Nation, Now One of the Top 10 Self-Help Shows Worldwide & How to Apply Them To Your Life & Dreams! Jessica Lee Interviews Michael Sandler | Inspire | Inspiration | Motivation | Business | Career | Health | Law of Attraction | Self-Help

Have you ever felt there had to be an easier way, that working, striving, and pushing as hard as you can, just isn’t getting you where you really want to go?

If so, then do we have the guest for you!

His name is Timber Hawkeye, he’s the best-selling author of the Buddhist Boot Camp, an inspiring book to help you shift and improve your life, almost one breath at a time.

It’s a fantastic read on Buddhism, but you don’t need to be a Buddhist to enjoy it!

Today we’re going to talk about the true meaning of freedom, success, and happiness, or about how we can live more and work less, or at the very least, live more, by worrying less!

Timber Hawkeye Topics Include:

1. His History: From Tibetan Buddhism to Zen
2. Looking to move past hierarchy, dogma, and chanting in a foreign language
3. Was looking for something that felt right
   1. Travelling from the core of the intentions
   2. Had to remind himself taking off robes was taking a step inwards
4. How Buddhist Bootcamp came about
   1. Letters over 8 years, a collection of personal insight on simplifying life
5. How the movie Fight Club externalizes the internal conflict we each have.
   1. Is about us each being a soldier of peace in the army of love
6. At job co-worker celebrated 30 years at same job. He had been there 10 years and decided he had to leave. Sold everything and moved to Hawaii to simplify.
7. Look within – write down how you’d like to live
   1. Ask are you making decisions that bring you closer or farther from where you want to be
   2. Realized success means being happy
8. Importance of time in Nature
   1. Never saw outdoors
9. Take out whatever ingredient is making your cake bitter.
10. Aloha is not a state you go to, but a state of mind you can bring with you
11. Creating new healthy patterns that help us remain calm no matter what is happening to us.
12. We create our own suffering and are victims of our own choices. It is how you react to life.
13. Making the distinction between feelings and emotions
14. No one can make you feel anything without your consent
15. Sit Happens
16. Shutting off the chatter
17. How do we move past fear?
18. Why the uphill climb to happiness is much better than a lifetime of suffering or pain
19. How to replace anger with gratitude
20. Don’t have to identify with incidents that happen in our lives
21. Talking with the Dalai Lama – All of us dealing with the same thing
    1. Self control
    2. Compassion
    3. Freedom from anger
22. Asks an important question for balance before making any big decision:
    1. Is what I’m about to do going to complicate my life, or keep my life simple?
23. Importance of Core Values – write out your core values
24. Thoughts become words and words become actions
    1. Just change your actions – go to the core and it will inevitably change how you think and how you think.
25. Focus on your own journey
26. Every day is a good day, some are just better
27. Ted Talk on BuddhistBootCamp.com
28. Last words of Wisdom: Let Go – ease up, just relax, it’s not that important

How to Find True Freedom, Success & Happiness In Each Moment, So You Can Shift, Improve & Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest! Inspiration | Motivation | Inner Peace | Business | Career | Spiritual | Spirituality | Buddhism | Religion | Health | Self-Help

Today we have a short, relaxing walk-in-the-woods meditation, inspired, by a recent walk I took myself.

It’s fall here in the northeast, and I wanted to share a gentle tromp through the leaves with you to leave you relaxed, refreshed and at ease.

If you like this meditation, please leaf us with a HUGE favor, and please rate and review our show on iTunes. It helps our rankings, and helps others to find the show. Thanks so much.

And to hear more meditations by me or our guests, visit our inspire nation show or inspirenationshow.com

I send love. I send light. And many many blessings your way. Namaste.

Alright, are you ready to begin?

We’ll have you start by taking some nice, gentle slow breaths, in and out through the nose.

Now as you continue to breathe, we’ll go on a very short journey.

Feel free to close your eyes so you can travel in your minds eye.

We’re going to head out onto a nice gentle trail next to some giant oak. It’s early fall, so the air is crisp, clear, and a perfect 68 degrees...

EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY RELAXATION & PURE BLISS OF A GUIDED MEDITATION THROUGH THE WOODS ON A CRISP FALL DAY & LEAVE YOUR WORRIES BEHIND | Michael Sandler | Inspiration | Motivation | Mindfulness | Meditation | Health | Visualization | Inspire | Self-Help

If you’ve ever wanted to reduce stress, feel better, supercharge your health, take control of your weight, sleep better, or simply to quiet your mind, then do we have the show for you!!!

Today we’ll be talking with Patrick McKeown, a world leading expert in Breathing, Health, Fitness, and Asthma, and author of the groundbreaking book, The Oxygen Advantage.

Now I’m biased, I’ve used Patrick’s techniques for years, and have been blown away by the results. I’ve taught it to my athletes, to everyone I coach, and I even try and include it in my meditations. I’ve found his techniques to be life and well as health transformative.

So today we’ll be talking about simple changes in your breath you can make to feel better, reduce stress, supercharge your fitness, eliminate asthma and shortness of breath, help you sleep better, and even to lose weight.

Topics Include:

1. How an asthmatic became a world-leader in breathing education
2. Why everyone, from CEO’s to athletes needs to learn about breathing
3. The Oxygen Paradox
4. How to breathe when you’re stressed
   1. When we get stressed our breathing gets faster
5. Why a “deep breath” isn’t really a deep breath
6. Why proper breathing at rest is so important
7. The danger of “overbreathing”
8. The Bohr Effect and why it’s so important to ALL of us
9. Why Carbon Dioxide isn’t what we thought it was
10. What is the BOLT – Body Oxygen Level Test
11. How to take your own BOLT test, and why it’s so important
12. Why Noses are for Breathing and Mouths are for Eating
    1. Nitric Oxide – the molecule of the year
    2. Why Nitric Oxide is so important for the body – an only comes from the nose!
    3. Nitric Oxide is also the mechanism for Viagra!
    4. Helps with stimulation for men and women as well
    5. Why taping your nose at night, may stimulate you for extra-curricular activities in the morning!
       1. How Nasal Breathing At Night Stimulates Sex-Drive and Libido in both Men and Women
13. Why baby are obligatory nasal breathers
14. If baby’s become mouth breathers they are at high risk of sudden death syndrome
15. Processed foods may be leading to mouth breathing
16. Why nasal breathing creates perfect faces for kids and babies
    1. Affects teeth
    2. Changes shape of jaws
    3. Affects overall health of child for entire life
    4. Dramatically affects sleep of a child (sleep apnea)
    5. Link between ADHD and breathing habits
17. Book “Shut your mouth and save your life” by George Caitin
    1. Documented Native America traditions
       1. Found mothers would close baby’s mouths after breast-feeding
    2. Robert Fright – Hyperventilation syndrome – nose removes ¾’s of germs and bacteria from incoming air.
18. How to decongest the nose
19. How to reset the respiratory process in the brain
20. How breath-holding changes your fitness levels
21. How to simulate high-altitude training through breath-holding
22. Why stress & quick breathing makes it difficult to think.
23. How to get more oxygen to the brain

Part 2 topics include:

1. A simple exercise to quiet the mind
2. How to use breathing to get your best night’s sleep!
3. How to improve your overall health through changes in the breath
4. How to eliminate asthma by changing how you breath
5. How to lose weight through changes in the breath
6. Plus much, much more!

For more info visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Health | Meditation | Mindfulness | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have a very special relaxing meditation from our guest Patrick McKeown, author of the amazing new book, The Oyxgen Advantage.

This meditation can be done in the morning or at night, and has great long-term benefits if done on a regular basis.

If you enjoy this meditation, please do us a favor and rate and review our show on iTunes, it’s the #1 way to send your love, and help others to find it as well!

To hear Patrick’s interview, or more meditations from me or our guests, please visit our inspire nation show, or inspirenationshow.com.

I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste.

A beautiful soothing meditation to put your body, mind & soul at ease. Helps relax & rewire the body for greater focus, patience & inner peace throughout your day, plus melts stress away. Patrick McKeown, Author of Oxygen Advantage.

Inspiration | Motivation | Mindfulness | Breathing | Spiritual | Spirituality | Health | Healing | Self-Help

This is part two of our fascinating interview with Patrick McKeown, a world-renowned expert in the field of breathing, and the best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage.

In part two we’ll look at more of the incredible benefits of changing your breath, and how to begin. We’ll cover relaxation, rewiring the mind for less stress and anxiety, how to get a better night’s sleep, eliminate sleep apnea, increase focus and reduce adhd systems, and for athletes or those looking to get in better shape, look at the performance, health, and fitness benefits from simple changes to your breath. Yes, you can literally boost your VO2. And yes, it can help you loose weight too!

That plus how you can reduce or eliminate asthma in both kids and adults, by changing the way we breathe.

This is one power-packed interview, so let’s dive right in and shine bright. 

Topics Include:

1. When you’re stressed you breathe quickly and can’t get oxygen to the brain
   1. So you can’t think
2. Gives us an exercise to rewire the body so we can cope with stress much better.
   1. Repeating for just a few short weeks makes structural changes in the brain
   2. In 3-4 minutes can take someone from a flight or flight response to a rest and relax response – from sympathetic to parasympathetic
   3. This exercise helps reduce snoring – helps reduce sleep apnea
   4. Focusing on air shortage anchors mind on the breath – aka silences mind
   5. May be better than many meditation techniques because almost automatically quiets the mind
3. Nasal Breathing for Improving Sleep Quality
4. Humans were meant to breathe through nose
5. Only 4 animals breathe through mouth, but are still nasal breathers
6. Farm animals only breathe through mouth when they are very sick
7. Athletes are missing the most important part of training
8. Oxygen is sexy
9. Everyday breathing affects your fitness and affects your sport
10. The performance benefits of working on the breath
    1. More enjoyment
    2. Improved performance
    3. Can improve VO2 Max
    4. Improved Economy
    5. Reduce exercise induced asthma
    6. Reduce stress on the heart
    7. Lower heart rate
    8. Less inflammation
    9. Less injuries
11. Asthma and over-breathing
12. How asthma is curable if we get the breathing under control
13. For parents with kids with asthma
    1. Watch your child breathing
    2. Is the mouth open?
    3. Do they snore?
    4. Are they holding their breath?
    5. Are they changing positions in sleep (obstructive sleep apnea)
    6. Huge link between sleep disorders and ADHD
14. For adults with Asthma
    1. Pay attention to the breath
15. Lower the breathing rate, lower the body weight
    1. When you change breathing, weight loss occurs
    2. Eat more when stressed
    3. Eat less when unstressed
    4. When using the breath you reduce stress, and reduce appetite
    5. High altitude individuals are thinner
16. Wrap-up – why everyone should look at their breath

Learn how to boost your fitness, performance & sex drive, dramatically improve your sleep, health & well-being, plus reduce weight, quiet your mind & even improve asthma, all by changing how you breathe!

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Did you ever wish you could be happier right now, much happier? That life could be, well, happier in each moment, more puppies and roses, or that at least the sun could be shining more than half the time?

Well then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Tal Ben Shahar, a former Harvard pyschology professor and a leader in the field of positivity and happiness. He’s also the author of the best-selling book: Choose the Life You Want: The mindful Way to Happiness.

Today we’ll be talking about at least 10 key ways to CHOOSE Happiness in Each moment, plus the power of smiling and why we both do it before starting the show, plus why we might want to forgo that new Porsche, and instead head for Cabo pronto. Arriba!

Interview Topics Include:

1. Got into studying happiness because wasn’t happy studying computers
2. Generosity Brings Happiness
   1. There was a study that gave you money to go shopping
      1. Shoppers high had 1 day stick – then gone
      2. Those who were give money to instead give away, had more stick, even a week later

• Hebrew word natan, palindrome, same word backwards, because of the relationship of giving and receiving

3. Being Present Brings You Happiness
   1. Eric, Blind Home Designer
   2. Hellen Keller
   3. Brings happiness and boosts immune system
4. Being in a state of Gratitude brings you happiness
   1. Hellen Keller was a consummate appreciator
5. Being Present and Grateful is a super-powerful happiness duo
   1. What Barbara Frederickson calls heartfelt positivity – feeling good in the moment
   2. Einstein , either nothing is a miracle or everything is
6. What are key ways to be mindful for happiness
   1. Like working out
      1. Can go to gym
      2. Or bring activity to everything
   2. Mindfulness
      1. Can meditate
      2. Or can make every moment a mindfulness practice
   3. Listening to someone contributes to their physical health
      1. Kids self-esteem is higher
      2. Also affects employees in workplace – sick less when listened to more by boss or colleagues
      3. One of best predictors of job productivity is the answer to “do you have a best friend at work” – having someone hear us out.
   4. Having Pets contributes to wellbeing and happiness
   5. In every moment can cultivate mindfulness
      1. Amy Cutty – Physical Posture
      2. Doing dishes can be mindful
      3. When eating –
   6. 5-10 minutes a day of mindful eating a day can improve our wellbeing
   7. Posture can improve wellbeing, happiness, and body chemistry
      1. High power pose –
         1. Rooster pose or big-shot pose
      2. Increases testosterone and reduces cortisol
         1. Demostrates confidence
      3. Weaker pose
         1. Increases stress hormones, decreases testerone
         2. Hunching forward at computer isn’t good for our psychology
      4. The permission to be human
         1. Allowing ourselves to experience any and all emotions
         2. Difficult of self-help gurus
            1. Can’t be happy all the time
            2. Cannot suppress or block emotions
         3. Allowing yourself to experience emotions
         4. The idea of the lucky person – phenomenon of luck and Dr. Wiseman
            1. More open
            2. Interpret events differently
         5. Be a benefit finder, not a fault-finder
         6. How to become more of a benefit finder
            1. Teach it
            2. Write about it
            3. Have reminders around you
         7. Bringing humor and lightness to your life
            1. The healing power of humor – Norman Cousins
               1. Prescribing humorous activities – the power of humor is remarkable
            2. Ellen Degeneres
               1. Combining Dance and Humor
            3. The Wonder Drug video on Happiness.tv
               1. Ellen and TBD (Too Busy Disorder)
                  1. So important to do less rather than more
               2. Changing our beliefs and the mind-body connection
                  1. How do we shift those beliefs
                  2. Carol Dweck –
                     1. Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset – self fulfilling prophecy
                  3. Having a fixed vs. a growth mindset
                  4. Shoot for more positive experiences – even small experiences
                     1. The value of experiences over goods
                  5. Supporting a child’s dreams
                  6. Spirituality – having a meaningful, purposeful experience
                     1. See your work as significant or purposeful
                     2. Doesn’t have to be in a great or big experience or ah ha moment, it can be in just about every moment of our lives.
                  7. Happiness is in the details – in the minute-to-minute decisions we make
                     1. Jon Kabat Zinn – wherever you go, there you are – being present to the experience

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Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have a very short happiness meditation to help you find a ray of sunshine in any moment, in any situation. This meditation goes well with today’s guest, Tal Ben Shahar, a former Harvard Positivity Professor and author of Choose the Life You Want: The mindful Way to Happiness.

You can of course do this meditation anytime you want, and use it as a mantra or reminder to bring you back to a state of happiness in any moment.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. Ratings and Reviews are the #1 way to send happiness our way, and to help others to find the show. Thank you so much!

To listen to Tal’s interview or hear more meditations by me or our guests visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com.

I send love. I send light. And many many blessings your way. Namaste.

Okay, this is a very simple meditation.

To begin, I’d like you either sitting up good and tall, which is a position of confidence, or laying on your back on the floor.

First I’ll have you begin with a few nice, deep slow breaths. In and out gently through the nose.

Next I’d like you to imagine one of the most positive experiences of your life. It could be something recent. It could be from your childhood. It could the birth of a child. Your wedding day, or anything else that made you feel on top of the world.

As you continue to breathe in and out, take a minute and put yourself back there…

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We’ve been talking a lot lately about bringing out the gifts within each us and living your greatest life. But what do we do if we don’t know our gifts inside of us, or have no idea where to turn with them?

Well, as the expression goes, who you gonna call…ghost busters? No in this case you’[d call Sue Frederick, a Career Intuitive, who helps people discover their greatest path and wrote a beautiful book I see your dream job.

Today we’ll cut through a bit of the confusion, and talk about uncovering our gifts and discovering our own paths, whether that’s in our current field, a new field, or somewhere out in Far Left Field. In short, today we’ll learn how to unwrap the gifts we came here with to discover what on earth you were meant to do.

That, plus we’ll learn ENERGETIC PERSONAL RESUCITATION, OR EPR, or how in the world to tun up our vibes and shine extra bright!

Topics Include:

1. Following our soul path
2. Using different tools to intuit our soul path
3. The importance of meditation and listening to our inner voice/intuition
4. Determining what your gifts are
5. Do what you run from
6. How do you connect the dots once you know what you’re passionate about?
   1. Getting moving
   2. Taking Baby Steps
7. Meditation practice to access intuition
8. Effectiveness of a Sanskrit mantra
   1. Om Namashiviya
   2. Shifts energy to a higher frequency
   3. In higher frequency and energy realms fear is replaced by love
9. Shifting Energy
   1. Tools
      1. Gratitude
   2. Understanding the innate sweetness inside of each one of us
   3. Get back to our nature, bring that to work, to relationships
      1. Helps us connect soul to soul
      2. Get past ego, get past personality, get past fear
   4. Helping people bring out their “sweetness”
   5. From Debbie Downer to Thank You Dad
   6. Using laughter to slay the downer dragon
   7. Why do we need to take action right away once we’ve discovered our path
   8. Counseling kids on their greatness
   9. Have to go after your passions
   10. Have to bring your energy to the table

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Today we have a very special meditation to help us release burdens and fears and vibrate at a higher level. This meditation is from our recent guest, career and life intuitive Sue Frederick. It’s called the Break Your Heart Wide Open Meditation, and it’s perfect if you’re having a rough day, tough time, grieving or need to let go of pain to help you raise your energy and move forward. I think it’s something we could all benefit from!

A brief note on this meditation, she’ll ask at one point you put your hand in front of your heart, with your thumb and forefinger together. I want to describe this too you. Please take your right hand and flip it palm up. Now place it palm up, right in front of your heart, up against your chest.

Keep it palm up, touching your chest, but touch your thumb and forefinger (first finger together so they make a circle). This in essence will be your scooper or shovel you’ll use in the meditation to help you remove and release pain, worries, and concerns. She’ll coach you through it, I just wanted to make sure you can visualize what you’ll do with your hand.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and rate and review our show on iTunes, it’s by far the #1 way you can help cheer us on, and HELP others find the show. And yes, you get boatloads of karma points for doing so. Thank you so much!!!

To listen to Sue’s beautiful interview on following your soul path and finding your dream job, or to hear other meditations from me or our guests visit our inspire nation show or inspire nation show.com.

I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way.

Namaste.

Leaves your fears, worries, and burdens behind with this meditation designed to help you raise your energy, overcome challenges & move ahead! Sue Frederick | Inspiration | Intuition | Motivation | Spiritual | Mindfulness | Healing | Spirituality | Love | Religion | Self-Help

If you’ve ever felt a twisting in your gut, nervous, anxious, or a dreaded fear that just won’t go away, like there’s a piano just above you getting ready to fall, then you are NOT alone, and do we have the show for you!

Today I’m interviewing Kevin Davis, Anxiety Coach and Co-Host of the top-rated Anxiety Coaches Podcast!

We’ll talk about why we all face anxiety, what it means, and most importantly what we can do to leave it behind. Anxiety shouldn’t stop us from loving the lives we lead, or leading the lives we’d love.

Plus we’ll also look at what to do when panic does come up, so we’re not immobilized or feeling sick to our stomach.

Today we’ll cut those strings to the dangling piano, and work to free ourselves from the fear so we can truly Live Fearlessly.

Topics Include:

1. Kevin’s Near Fatal Car Accident
2. What is PTSD?
   1. What is CPTSD – complex PTSD
      1. Multiple Events
      2. Childhood
   2. How Anxiety and PTSD Involves daily triggers and replaying of the events
      1. Leads to not trusting one’s body
   3. How Kevin pulled himself out of the hole
      1. Started using guided visualizations – that relaxation time, doing that every day, trains the brain (exercises the brain) to help you to calm down.
   4. As long as you’re human and have a pulse, you’ll experience some anxiety at some point.
   5. Definition Anxiety
      1. Worrying about things that may or may not happen in the future
   6. Lao tzu on Anxiety and Depression
      1. The How To’s – There is no simple rescue, it is a practice
         1. Focus on past, have depression
         2. Focus on future, have anxiety
      2. The most important thing:
         1. Finding the trick that works for you to force yourself back into the moment
         2. Focusing on something
         3. For example Public Setting…
            1. Mindfulness – focusing on a distant person in great detail
            2. Rubber-band snapping on wrist to force you back into the present moment
         4. What is Anticipatory Anxiety and How to Control It
            1. Anxious now and more likely to be anxious in the situation
         5. How to Use Visualization for Success to Control and Eliminate Anxiety
            1. Racing in Europe and burning success or an automatic response into your body and mind
         6. Key Point: Don’t let your thoughts have so much power!
         7. com

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Take a relaxing stroll on the beach and watch your worries wash away in this beautiful guided meditation by Kevin Davis, co-host of The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Mindfulness | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have a relaxing, stress-reducing, guided beach meditation from our recent guest Kevin Davis, co-host of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, or theanxietycoachespodcast.com.

You can listen to this meditation any time of the day, my favorite for this is mid-afternoon on a day off, or in the evening, just before going to bed.

To hear Kevin’s interview or more meditations from me or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com

And if you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. It’s the #1 way to help us, and help others to find the show, and of course, it gives you beach loads…haha of karma points. Note: it’s much easier to rate and review on your mac, if you’re on your iphone, you need to back out of inspire nation, type inspire nation show in the search bar, then click the ratings and review tab. Thanks so much for your help on this one!

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We’re always talking about how YOU can improve yourself and YOU can change your life, but it’s often exhausting and filled with worry, and how do we know what’s best for us anyway?

Well if you’ve ever wondered if you’re trying too hard, striving in the wrong direction, or have no idea where to go-or how to right the ship, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Toesha Silver, and she’s here not a minute too soon! She’s the best-selling author of Outrageous Openness and the recently released Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Surrender.

Today we’re going to talk about a very powerful way to live. It’s called Outrageous Openness, or how to be open to the world around us and the divine within or how to seek a divine plan so life happens through us, and for us, rather than by us. That plus why giving away your Seinfeld collection, may just set you free.

Topics Include:

1. Life happening through you and for you, rather than by you
2. Scammed by scammer, but the money returned
3. It’s about creating space to allow
4. Not about chasing, pushing, grasping
5. Tosha’s Story
   1. Was very sick for 3 years
   2. Idea of offering to a force of love
   3. Not about asking for help with “my” problem
   4. What would happen if it stopped being my problem, my life, the “small self” ownership
   5. If I get out this life is now owned by you, show me the actions you want me to take
   6. Felt hopeless because illness had gone on so long
6. How do you stay out of the trap of striving, wanting, and worrying
7. Right action begins to happen through you
8. So important to create space rather than pushing to make it happen
9. Offer it to the divine and say “show me the first step”
10. What’s the Trouble with the Law of Attraction
    1. The energetic part is great, we attract according to our vibration
       1. Keep vibration high will attract to that
       2. If it’s low (anger, darkness, etc.) will attract to that
    2. Trouble is, it’s often used to give a shopping list…like shopping list to Costco
    3. Problem is, there’s often a divine plan that’s far greater for us
11. How do we let go without losing our grandest vision
12. Think of what you’re doing on behalf of love, and love knows all the steps that need to happen
13. Instead of saying I need say I offer
    1. Need hands open to receive.
    2. Become able to bless the obstacles
14. Vision boards are beautiful, but very limiting, very small
15. I am here to serve love,
16. Think of inviting Love in as an ally
    1. Use very simple prayers (and meditation) of invitation
       1. Help me to center, help me to trust love
    2. Having a God Box – putting all of your worries in your God Box
    3. How to let go (of Seinfeld) and de-clutter
    4. Having a sacred fire with our vision boards
    5. The breadcrumb trail – when what you desire is offered to the divine you start to get shown a trail
    6. Offering does not mean passivity
    7. How to listen and hear – an inner knowing
    8. How do we cultivate the inner knowing
       1. Part is through the prayers – offering it over
    9. It’s not do more, strive more, give more, but instead get centered and OFFER back
       1. Completely different recalibration of your energy
    10. What Surrendering Really Means

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Discover Why the Law of Attraction & the Secret Can Leave You Exhausted, While Outrageous Openness Leaves You Recharged, Rejuvenated & At One with Your Highest Good! Tosha Silver | Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Spirituality | Career | Love | Self-Help

Hi everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on inspire nation. Today we have a very short, relaxing and liberating meditation from our recent guest, Tosha Silver, the Best-Selling Author of Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead.

This meditation can be done any time of the day, and I highly recommend it if you have big decisions or heavy burdens that are weighing on you.

If you like this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show. It’s the # way you can support the show, and help others to find these special meditations. That plus it’s great karma points!

To check out Tosha’s beautiful interview, or hear more meditations from me, or our guests, check out our inspire nation show, or inspirenationshow.com.

I send love, I send light. And many, many blessings your way.

Namaste.

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Relax and Release Your Burdens to the Universe or the Divine. You’ll Feel Lighter, More At Ease, and More Connected & Centered, Body, Mind & Soul! Tosha Silver – Author Outrageous Openness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

Do you ever feel there’s greatness inside of you, a higher purpose or calling, something grander more meant for your life, if you could only figure out what it is or how in the world to tap into it. If so then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Derek Rydell prominent life, business, & career coach to Emmy and Academy Award Winner,s Fortune 500 execs, and evolutionary leaders in business, spirituality nad the healing arts. And he’s the best-selling author of several books, including Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change.

I must say, Emergence it one of the most radical books on life change I’ve read, but I mean that in a GREAT way.

For Derek Rydall empowers you to be your most amazing self, one much grander than you ever could have imagined!

So today we’ll talk about Emergence 101, about understanding who we truly are, how to discover our gifts, and to grow from the tiny humble acorn, to the magnificent oak, we were each meant to be!

Topics Include:

1. Why “Self-Improvement” is an oxymoron
2. What “the end of self improvement” really means
3. Derek’s story for self improvement, which didn’t work.
   1. Why he was:
      1. Suicidal
      2. Addicted to Drugs and Alcohol

• Struggled to drive across bridge without pulling it off the edge

1. Coral Reef Near-death experience – Had to surrender
2. Discovered the “self” trying to improve was a fiction

4. Went to monastery to become a monk
5. Learned we’re not broken –
6. Instead we must learn how to dust off the perfection which is already there
7. We are already perfect, whole and complete!
   1. The challenge with the Law of Attraction is that it’s trying to attract, improve or achieve from a limited perspective
   2. Attracting from a limited perspective creates a barrier or resistance to what is already trying to emerge.
   3. It’s like trying to serve two masters or ride two horses at the same time
8. Law of attraction – manifestation cycle – why it often doesn’t work
   1. The true meaning of whole-work, not homework.
   2. How to tune in to our true self
9. How to know “you are already whole and complete”
10. Are you congruent with this truth?
11. Why Ego and The Tribe get in our way
    1. Ego is designed to keep us the same – is an artifact of our evolutionary growth
       1. So tribe tries to keep us down, and ego tries and prevents change – isn’t letting us evolve
          1. Happens in our “tribe” called our family as well, is a vestigial protective device
          2. Need to separate yourself from that until you can hold your space in that expanded place.
       2. THE EMERGENCE MODEL – Whatever’s “missing” is what you’re not giving
          1. Because the truth is, everything really truly is within you.
       3. How to be the light
       4. Emergence is the “ultimate weight loss program”
       5. How to turn on the divine power within.

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Feel Incredibly Inspired, Empowered, Motivated, Energized & Blissfully Relaxed with this amazing meditation! Led by Derek Rydall Best-Selling Author of Emergence & Coach to Top Hollywood Stars & CEOs! Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have an amazing treat for you. This is one of the most empowering guided meditations I’ve ever experienced. It’s led by Derek Rydall, Best-Selling Author and Coach to Academy Award Winning Hollywood Stars and Top CEO’s. It’ll inspire you to bring out your best as well.

You can do this meditation any time of the day, and expect to feel like a rock star and completely on top of the world when you finish.

If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way to show your love, and help others to find the show. And of course, it’s mega-great karma points. Thanks so much! A key note: we’re told it’s easier to do on a computer than a phone, if you’re on a phone, you have to back out of the show, search for inspire nation, then looking for the ratings and review tab.

To check out Derek Rydalls equally incredible interview and more meditations by me and our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show, and InspireNationSHow.com.

I send love, I send light. And many many blessings your way.

Namaste.

(Similar meditations to Wayne Dyer or Deepak Chopra, or NLP work by Tony Robbins)

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The How-To's of Emergence

This is part 2 of our interview with Derek Rydall prominent life coach to Emmy and Academy Award Winner,s Fortune 500 execs, and evolutionary leaders in business, spirituality and the healing arts. He’s the best-selling author of several books, including Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change.

In part one we learned how we all have greatness within, and like an acorn that grows to be a mighty oak, we can each grow into our greatness.

So in part 2 we’ll look at the how-to’s of growing this mighty oak, and how to discover the incredible power and inconceivably great destiny that lies inside each one of us.

It should be a life-changing ride!

Topics Include:

• Life isn’t happening to you, but through you, as you and for you – it is a HUGE shift and reframing
  • First stage of Emergineering – Vision – Seeing the Completed Vision
    • There is a seed of genius in you
    • A lot of problems we experience are a symptom of us not being rooted in our deepest vision
    • How do we figure out our deepest vision?
      • Vision Blinders
    • The Soul Profile - Exercise to see what’s trying to emerge in us
      • Think of three or four people who are amazing…
    • How to think outside of the fish bowl – will save the fish though!
    • Have to know where we are going, or we will get lost
  • Second Stage of Emergineering – Congruent Conditions
    • Now can build on the direction we built in stage 1
    • Using Visualization to Get in Touch with the Frequency of the Vision
      • Careful not to focus on future, but on the frequency, to let your highest destiny come through!
    • Your destiny is beyond your imagination – Your imagination can only rearrange what we know
    • What’s most important is the imagination of the soul, not of the mind
    • How to go from Station B-Lack to K-RICH
    • Once you have the vibration, articulate what are the qualities of that vibration
      • What are the feeling qualities?
        • Break down each quality with LIFT practice
          • Living in the FEELING Tone
          • Look at people, places, objects, and activities
          • Activate what gives you joy!
        • How to create a life by design, rather than by default, out of this emerging vision
        • To bust out, you need momentum so you don’t keep getting pulled back.
        • Remember you are complete
        • “If I am really this deeply supported in life, and if everything I want in life is already here, how would I show up in life?” What might I take a chance on, what would I start, what might I finish?”

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel better, enjoy life more, and feel our oneness or our interconnected being-ness with everyone and everything around you, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking Lama Surya Das, considered one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama”. And He’s the best-selling author of 13 books including Buddha Standard Time, Awakening the Buddha Within and his latest book Make Me One With Everything:

Today we’ll be talking about oneness and inter-meditation, or connecting to everyone and everything around us. We’ll talk about why we should do it, how we should do it, when we should do it, and what in the world we have in all have in common with a hot dog.

Topics Include:

1. What did the Dalai Lama say about a hot dog?
2. Are we surfing the cresting wave of evolution
3. How have things changed?
4. You mention the Dalai lama giving high level teachings to thousands now, why is that?
5. Why did you write this book?
6. What is your mission?
7. Why is it so important to interconnect, and particularly NOW?
8. Is interconnection a relatively new idea or as old as the Buddha?
9. What was your experience in France in hermitage retreat with intermeditation?
10. What is intermeditation
11. What is Thich Nhat Hanh’s interbeing?
12. What is the difference between intermeditation – all inclusiveness, and mindfulness? Being aware or bringing all of our perception in?
13. When I forget who I am, I serve God, when I forget who I am, I am God ~Hanuman
14. Function Practice
15. Main Practice
16. Difficulties along the road?
17. I intermediate on subways, but my favorite is at intersections, with drivers passing by.
18. Co-meditation
19. Are we in a new era?
20. How have times changed?
21. Are more of the esoteric teachings being shared?
22. You spoke of the Dalai lama giving high level teachings before thousands now, why is this?
23. How do we find peace in ourselves, and bring peace to the world
24. Webination
25. Neoroscientists – Richard Davidson, and Dan Siegel
26. Tonglen – giving and receiving
27. Lojong – attitude transformation and spiritual refinement
28. Everyone is going to die someday, but who amongst us will choose to truly live
29. Atisha – the lamp master – systematized Lojong – “taming” or “mastering”
30. What is true attention or lucid attention and how do we cultivate it?
31. What is nowness awareness or presencing?
32. After attention is self-acceptace or compassion
33. Be aware of the fragile and impermanent nature of your life
    1. Live the Buddhist tantric committment of looking at everyone and everything as Buddhas
34. Be aware of the implications of your motivations and consequences of your actions
35. My religion is kindness (I just said “My religion is We”
36. Co-meditating with the dalai lama
37. Co-meditating with our guides
38. Natural meditation – clouds, trees, etc.
    1. Intermeditating with trees
    2. Intermeditating with animals
39. The less full of myself I am, the more room there is for others.

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Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire nation. Today we have an extra-short, super-special relaxing mindfulness meditation from our guest Lama Surya Das, whom the Dalai Lama affectionately refers to as The Western Lama.

You can do this meditation anytime of the day, and almost anywhere, although I wouldn’t do it while driving.

To hear the full interview from Lama Surya Das or to hear more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com.

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I send love. I send light. And many many blessings your way.

Namaste.

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