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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.

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523 Stage 4 Lymphoma Survivor, Bruce Roger Matson

Wednesday Apr 15, 2020

Wednesday Apr 15, 2020

Bruce Roger Matson is an educator of 28 years and his experiences include being a teacher, administrator, bus driver, and coach. He is also a stage 4 lymphoma survivor. Starting in January of 2014, he endured 18 sessions of chemo and eventually a month of radiation during the summer of 2018. He is now cancer free! During this very humbling time, he not only relied on his faith, but earnestly sought to learn and grow in his Christianity. The book he recently published is a by-product of his faith journey.

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Most Influential Person

  • Jesus Christ

Effect on Emotions

  • “I learned to be patient and contemplative before I speak.”
  • “I'm much better in cotrolling my emotions.”

Thoughts on Breathing

  • “If you can control your breathing, you can control your thoughts and emotions, you can calm your self too.”

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Bullying Story

  • “A legally blind girl was being bullied in my first day as a building principal.”
  • “I talked to the boy who bullied the girl without raising my voice. He promised to never do it again. After a few weeks, he is now helping and defending the girl.”
  • “It was all in painting the picture of being mindful to this girl. What it meant to be in her shoes.”

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Laughing In The Face of COVID19; Dr. Madan Kataria

Tuesday Apr 14, 2020

Tuesday Apr 14, 2020

Dr. Madan Kataria is the founder and originator of the Laughter Yoga movement worldwide. A medical doctor from Mumbai, India, is popularly known as the ‘Guru of Giggling’ (London Times). Dr. Kataria says that Laughter yoga is the ultimate protection plan against the coronavirus, after all, laughter is known to strengthen the immune system. Dr. Kataria started the first laughter club back in 1995 with just 5 people and now it has grown into a worldwide movement of more than 16,000 Laughter Yoga clubs in over 100 countries

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Most Influential Person

  • My mother – She never went to school and was the mother of 14 children. She was a classical example of mindfulness because she was totally involved in the family. She inspired me to become a doctor.

Effect on Emotions

  • Laughter yoga has helped me to balance my emotions. First, it works like a catharsis. All the negative experiences and emotions from the past that are not in my control, they are all sitting in my subconscious mind. How can I release those? Laughter works like a catharsis, it's a release mechanism.

Thoughts on Breathing

  • Your thoughts are connected to your breathing. With stress, your breathing gets faster. I cannot control my thoughts, but I can control my breathing.
  • The way you can change your thoughts is by changing the way you breathe. So laughter yoga and breathing exercises help you to bring down the number of thoughts and relearn how to breathe from the belly and from the diaphragm.
  • That brings more parasympathetic balance and you become more relaxed.

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Bullying Story

  • We introduced laughter yoga in 2010 in different schools and we were just doing 5 to 10 minutes of laughter exercises with school children.
  • And our focus was not bullying, but the focus was helping children to reduce stress, improve their oxygenation, academic performance.
  • But surprisingly many teachers in Bangalore's schools, they reported that laughter yoga has helped in their school to stop bullying. When children start laughing, the bullying takes a back seat, so this was a surprise element for us.

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522 Drink Less In 7 Days; Georgia Foster

Sunday Apr 12, 2020

Sunday Apr 12, 2020

Georgia Foster is a world-leading therapist, specialising in overdrinking behaviour. Her drink less courses have a 95 percent success rate and in her new book she shares the secrets of this success. Georgia uses short questionnaires and tick boxes to help the reader establish how they currently relate to alcohol and then gives simple, practical steps to take back control of their drinking. Georgia qualified with distinction at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and has been working as a clinical hypnotherapist since 1995. She has been featured in some of the most well read newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, the Guardian, Metro, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmopolitan. She is a regular guest on Sky News and The Morning Show (Australia). Georgia lives in Australia but delivers regular workshops in the UK.

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Most Influential Person

  • Her Mother, 81, Yoga Guru

Effect on Emotions

  • “It changed my relationship with me, love relationships, friendships, food, alcohol. It has been a domino effect throughout my lifetime.”

Thoughts on Breathing

  • “It's one of my big strengths, working with my breath.”

Suggested Resources

  • Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
  • Book: Drink Less in Seven Days by Georgia Foster
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Bullying Story

  • “I was attracting unhealthy relationships and I was in a relationship that was not with my self-esteem. So I had to change my mindset and hypnosis helped with that.”

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Easter or Passover Meditation of Peace

Friday Apr 10, 2020

Friday Apr 10, 2020

This will be a different kind of Easter or Passover than you’ve probably ever had. We’re in lock-down or quarantine because of covid19. Almost all of us on the planet are being careful to observe social distancing. Please take this seriously. Stay at a distance from others, at least 2 meters or 6 feet away.

Today I’m sharing a meditation to bring peace and groundedness to you.

I will offer certain phrases and leave time afterward for you to gently repeat them in your own mind.

The phrases will help you become grounded. They’ll help you find peace.

There will be a lot of repetition here. That’s where you’ll find relief.

I encourage inclusiveness, I encourage to let go of being judgmental, to accept what is.

I encourage being connected rather than being alienated.

To be caring rather than being indifferent.

The phrases will be simple and general, yet will empower and support your well-being.

The phrases I’m offering will be an act of generosity.

Let me be safe, let me be healthy, let me feel peace and let me feel contentment.

Feeling peace and contentment means, let life not be such a struggle.

Let me accept life, let me live in the moment and be willing to remain in this moment.

Remember this is not about forcing or about pushing to make something happen.

It is about allowing, about letting go to make room for what works.

Let me be safe, let me be healthy, let me feel peace and let me feel contentment.

We’re not focusing on fear or anxiety, we’re focusing on what’s pure, what’s natural, what is.

The more we can accept what is, the more we’ll thrive, the more we’ll be able to support each other.

Let me be safe, let me be healthy, let me feel peace and let me feel contentment.

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Find Happiness and Success Even Through Traumatic Events; Forrest Willett

Thursday Apr 09, 2020

Thursday Apr 09, 2020

Forrest Willett is a sought-after speaker and survivor of two traumatic brain injuries. The first was at 2 years old and the second was when he was 31, his life was forever as a result of a violent car accident. He had to relearn all the basic necessities over again – reading, writing, the ability to speak fluently, memory was a big issue. Forrest suffered from depression for over 5 years. He was 31 years old with a 2-year-old son, he had an excellent career, his business was booming. He felt helpless and hopeless. He was forced to make some tough decisions, like taking 100% responsibility for his life and giving up all blaming and excuses and complaining. To begin to overcome these limitations he had to quit looking back. He would wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and expect his former self to be there. He realized he did have a new chance at life, he could start over and make his new life a great life.

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Most Influential Person

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Effect on Emotions

  • I would say that mindfulness has taught me to love and accept myself just the way I am. When I can do that, that's all I need in the world.

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Thoughts on Breathing

  • The breathing lessons that I've learned from my speech therapist and my occupational therapist are that they fill the brain with oxygen and get the oxygen flowing in the brain.
  • People who are depressed and anxious .... would probably take short, shallow breaths. Take in deep breaths and hold it for a few seconds and relax, it calms your whole body.

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521 Get Ultimate Freedom By Automating Your Business; Paul Maskill

Wednesday Apr 08, 2020

Wednesday Apr 08, 2020

Paul Maskill is the Founder of The Ultimate Freedom Mastermind. Paul used focus and determination to to build a business from $0 to $500k in 4 years and then sold it for a lucrative return. Paul then set out on a new mission to help other small business owners automate their business so it can thrive without them, enabling them to leverage their business to build a life they love. Paul is the host of a podcast called The Business Owner's Freedom Formula Show.

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Most Influential Person

Effect on Emotions

  • “It allows me to remove some emotions from my decisions but it also allows me to have more emotions for other people.”

Thoughts on Breathing

  • “When I focus on my breathing, it does make a big difference.”

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The Key To Mental Toughness With Mani Vaya

Monday Apr 06, 2020

Monday Apr 06, 2020

Mani Vaya is a passionate advocate of mental toughness. He has also been meditating for 20 years, having started as a teenager because of huge challenges he was facing in his life. Mani is a former Physicist and Electrical and Computer Engineer who went on to manage huge cell phone product launches. He has since become an entrepreneur with the ‘2000Books' Youtube channel and podcast where he interviews top business and self-help authors. Mani teaches mindset and mental toughness strategies as part of his work at 2000books.com.

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These challenging times are tough for many of us. Understanding how to have mental toughness can help us take control and move forward in the best way possible, leaving behind overwhelming stress and panic. One of the quickest ways to learn mental toughness is right here:

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520 Build Nervous System Resilience With EMPATH*ology Founder, Lola Pickett

Sunday Apr 05, 2020

Sunday Apr 05, 2020

Lola Pickett is an empath and leading authority on boundaries & nervous system resilience for introverts, empaths, highly sensitive people. She is passionate about using her expertise to help others so they can prevent sacrificing themselves. She is the founder of the EMPATH*ology Method™ and author of the Wild Messengers Tarot.

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Most Influential Person

  • Thích Nhất Hạnh

Effect on Emotions

  • It has made me be able to tolerate them. I can feel all the feelings without getting lost at them

Thoughts on Breathing

  • “When I am having anxiety or panic, breathing is the only thing that works to help re-center me.”

Suggested Resources

Bullying Story

  • “I was bullied a lot as a child. I had a very hard time making friends because I was always a very independent thinker, very sensitive and tuned in. I always refused to be like everybody else.”
  • “My mom helped me see that all I'm left with at the end of the day is my self. I have to be right with myself and feel good about who I am inside then they can't win.”

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Use Mindfulness To Pivot During Anxious Times

Thursday Apr 02, 2020

Thursday Apr 02, 2020

Bruce (00:01):

Welcome to Mindfulness Mode and welcome to this special edition. I want to share some thoughts and ideas with you as we move through covid19. I mean, it's such a challenging time for a lot of people and, and it may not be for you, maybe it's not challenging for you at all, but there's one thing that I totally believe in. I think most people who are realists believe this. I'm not a pessimist. I can be an optimist, but I consider myself a realist. And that is that our world has changed in a major way. It is changed in a monumental way and we're going to start to see over the next few months what those ways really are. But man, wow, I was out today. I was in a store, one of the very, very few that's still open.

Bruce (01:03):

And I will tell you that people are so hesitant to be anywhere near each other, which is good because we must practice social distancing. We must do that to flatten the curve. But I mean, fear is settling into people. And, and I understand that completely because in my family we have some fears, we have a lot of fears, especially with my wife being a critical care nurse and working on the front lines and going in and have them tell her that, you know, she's only going to be given, you know, three masks for a 12-hour shift or two masks or a 12-hour shift or that there are only enough of those kinds of protective devices to last for a few more days. Man, that is scary. And my wife is not an alarmist, so I mean these are, these are challenging times. There's no question about it.

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519 Become A Realized Leader With Harvard Professor, Daniel P. Brown

Wednesday Apr 01, 2020

Wednesday Apr 01, 2020

Daniel Brown, Ph.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and has served on the faculty for over 38 years. A senior meditation master, Dr. Brown has trained and taught with top Indo-Tibetan Bon & Buddhist lamas for more than 48 years, including lineage holders from some of the great schools of Buddhism. He is the author of 24 books, and winner of the 1999 Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law for outstanding contribution to forensic psychiatry.

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Most Influential Person

  • Menri Trizin

Effect on Emotions

  • “Emotions has no grab to me anymore.”

Thoughts on Breathing

  • “If I don't breathe, I don't stay alive.”

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