Mindfulness Mode

Jack Canfield is well-known for The Chicken Soup For The Soul books and also for The Success Principles. Throughout his life, Jack became familiar with certain principles of success that he used in the late 1980s to create the Chicken Soup For the Soul series, even after being turned down by 144 publishers. Jack shares the same principles of success that he used to succeed back in the ‘80s, in his book, The Success Principles: How To Get From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be.

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Contact Info

• Website: www.TheSuccessPrinciplesWorkbook.com
• Book: The Success Principles Workbook

Most Influential Person

• Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Tibetan Buddhist lama and mindfulness teacher: www.DawaTarchinPhillips.com

Effect on Emotions

• Mindfulness has kept me more calm and more neutral. Sometimes people think I don't have any feelings.
• I've learned that most of my feelings come from thoughts and if I'm aware of the thoughts and can deal with them at that level, then I don't have to have the emotional outbursts.
• I still cry when I see cats and skunks playing together on YouTube. I cry at movies. I don't cry so much about loss. I cry more at the joy of beauty and love.

Thoughts on Breathing

• I do breathing exercises as part of my yoga and my meditation practices in the morning.
• I studied Kundalini Yoga with a yoga teacher back in my '30s [and learned] to do that breath of fire real fast.

Suggested Resources

• Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Books: Anything by Thich Nhat Hanh (Here's an example: The Art of Living)
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Bullying Story

• My dad was an alcoholic, and he got violent when he got drunk. If I wasn't careful, I would get beaten, so I would literally hide inside the radio.
• I would wait till he went to bed so he couldn't find me because he was violent. So I got bullied by him. He was a verbal bully as well as a physical bully.
• I got bullied as a kid in school too.