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Therapy approaches the past and coaching projects you into the future, however if you have a backpack of baggage from your past, then you will carry it forward into your future. Claire started her practice through shiatsu and started learning how the mind and the body are inextricably linked. Chronic pain affects themind in big ways and chronic negative thoughts will also affect the body too. She became passionate about Shiatsu massage and through this came across Bodymind Centering., which is a systemic approach where everything is linked. When you touch one part of the system it affects everything else. Shiatsu comes from Japan and Bodymind centering comes from the US.When some of her clients started coming to her with traumas, she decided to start helping more with trauma healing through bodywork. Body is not just the physical body - there's the energetic body, emotional body, intellectual body, and even spiritual body. So bodywork encompasses the entire system that comprises a body. Every pain and every problem has a meaning for you, especially if it has been going on for years. The questions to ask is how this pain is affecting your different bodies - energetic, emotional, etc. There are some books that indicate which pain relates to what life experiences. Although this can be useful, it's not always the case, because we attach meanings to our pain. What we think and what we say can affect the pain in the body. For example, one client believed that she was carrying her fear in her lower back. However, what this created for her was a belief that until she gets rid of her fear, she will get rid of her back pain, thereby making it impossible to relieve her pain. By giving her permission to let go of her pain and accept that she will always have fear and that it doesn't necessarily store in the back helped her relieve her pain.You can get into the body and physically do some somatic work to get rid of the pain, but most of the time people don't care why that happened if they don't have the physical manifestation of the pain any more. The important thing to note is that our present is creating our future. Balancing everything out by being okay with your present will really help with your future. It starts with finding peace with your past issues. From there, you can envision your future, know where you are going, and take the steps along the journey.If you come down to what you really need, then you can leave space for the most important needs to be met as opposed to chasing specific goals of where you want to be. This also helps with the process of enjoying the journey as opposed to getting to the destination. It's a constant assessment of re-evaluating what you need and what is most important. This helps you shift from being a victim of circumstances to a creator of their lives. Most people don't know what they want, which is why coaching is so valuable. Coaching provides a mirror to a person to help them see their blind spots and how they can get past those and start living a happier life with more clarity on what they want. A coach asks the right questions and does not let them hide, because it's very easy to hide from yourself and not so easy to hide from a coach.When you understand your values and what's important then there is no procrastination, because you know who you are and what best serves you. Seeing the patterns and the sheer fascination with life and more ways to get in touch with life and lives is what keeps Claire in her practice and serving others through her coaching techniques.Your story is a part of you but not necessarily who you are. It's very easy to put people into boxes, and yet the stories we tell ourselves only go as far as we allow them. Control is ultimately in our own hands. When Claire's father committed suicide, it shifted her, especially since he was always putting on a happy face and being the life of the party. This lead her to a curiosity of life and how the human mind works.Claire's top tips:1. Be resilient. Be okay with who you are no matter what, even if you want to be someone else.2. Recognize the pain, and be with it. Pain and suffering are two different things. Pain is inevitable. The meaning and attachment we put on pain leads to suffering.3. Don't resist. Suffering is resistance. Say, "Yes, and..." This way you can see all the possibilities and be able to move forward or ask for help.Learn more about Claire at Integrally Alive: http://www.integrallyalive.com/

There's an island in Panama called Isla Viveros that is basically uninhabited. There are only about eight houses and a beach clube. The whole island has zero infrastructure. It might as well be deserted. And yet, here exists a handful of what used to be multi-million dollar homes that are now rendered worthless - at least from a selling perspective.That's the keyword here: perspective. It's all a matter of how you look at it. The people who have homes there really have the dream vacation area - a private island to themselves. Albeit, they have to bring everything with them when they go - from gasoline to food to other basic items. So why are these houses here?There's so much we hear about failiure and success in life and in business and yet there are these loose corners in history that go unnoticed - Isla Viveros is a perfect example of this. It began as a beautiful vision to turn the island into a resort area that would rival Isla Contadora, the famed tourist destination for wealthy expats. There was a whole plan in place and yet the entrepreneur who began the endeavour sank millions into the project and then left it high and dry. According to the home owners there, he doesn't want anyone else to continue the project or build on the land. Therefore, the project was left unfinished, save a few gorgeous homes from the early adopters.We can learn so much from stories like these as it brings into perspective what it means to be a visionary and the lives that we impact whether or not that vision becomes realized. In this fast-paced world, we can feel like we're not seeing the progress that we want to see. As the saying goes, it takes 10-20 years to be an overnight success.Looking at history allows us to put certain things in perspective. For example, how come in the late 1800s Panama was able to effectively erradicate Yellow Fever when modern countries today cannot do so? Take the Panama Canal, for example. The project failed several times costing millions of dollars, which is trillions in today's time, and thousands of lives until it was finally finished and opened in 1914. What most don't know is that the first idea for the canal was in the 1500s. That's a full 400 years before that idea turned into a reality.Coming back to Isla Viveros and the people who live there, it's quite possible that in only another ten or even 15 years, something else will transpire and construction could begin again. Nevertheless, how you look at your decisions and life today is all that really matters. There's hope and faith, but they will only take you so far, and sometimes, all we can do is wait and simply be who we want to be in that process.

Following your dream is not easy. It does take work, and we can also underestimate what can be done in a week over what is done in a year. Mika only thought of Future Hippie one year ago and now it's a reality."If someone would have told me what would be in the way on this journey, I would've said no. However it's such an amazing journey following your dreams. Sometimes you put a wish out into the universe, and then it happens with a little work and a lot of love."A way to find out what to do next is to keep writing out what's important to you. Mika recommended an exercise she did at a community class that helped her realize how important Future Hippie is to her and why.First, write a list of ten things that are completely into?Then take three of them out.Then take out another three.Then finally take out one more so that you are left with three. This helps you get clear on what you really want and what's most important.The most important thing for me right now is Future Hippie and working toward making this retreat center absolutely amazing.For Mika, it's about cultivating a healthy lifestyle on a daily basis and not just retreating once in a while to escape. Let's say you have a super busy lifestyle for the rest of the year and you need to retreat from all the other activities and doing a detox from everything. After your journey and your holiday, you go back to normal. At Future Hippie, we cultivate balance and integrate healthy uses of technology.It's not about extremes, it's about finding the middle path. You can have the beach side yoga classes with coffee and a place to work and really integrate mindfulness into a daily practice. There's no need to go to extremes. Basic living with all the necessary stuff and nothing too fancy and that's the lifestyle we want to create for ourselves and for others. It's about complete integration and making yoga and mindfulness available for the majority and for normal people."The most surprising component that we didn't plan for was the vegan cafe. It was never in the plan, and I'm really happy about it," Mika said.Never forget to trust in life. It may not turn out exactly as planned. It might be even better!Find Future Hippie at https://futurehippie.life/ and on Instagram.

After two years of travel and soul searching, Zaid Fredericks teamed up with an artist and friend to turn the world's dreams into one, big global art piece. The intention is to get people to dream together and see what other people around the world are dreaming. Constellations wants to connect more people through dreams and open conversations on how dreams can be used for the benefit of humanity.They started with a small art piece created from collecting 250 dreams and presenting it at a gala dinner. It got them thinking, what would the power be of a billion dreams? They've spoken at the United Nations to show how dreams have power over humanity and support the sustainable goals and raise awareness to a wider group of people. The project is still in its nascency and the two are still analyzing how the to tie the dreams to support a wider vision of helping the people see the bigger picture of saving the planet.The best way to get to understand your dreams is to start writing them down. Take notes on your fascinations and what moves you, then you'll start to notice patterns as to what your dream really is. Another way to access your dreams is to do breathwork. It's a great tool to getyou into your body and understand at a deeper level what you are feeling and what really is your dream. It's hard to dream because of our limiting beliefs and our conditioning. Once you have the dream, Constellations puts your dream into a capsule and creates an origami star and art piece that is a physical representation of their dream. The impact of seeing your own dream shows that it is possible and really starts some interesting conversations as to what the world is really dreaming about. You can also look at other people's dreams for inspiration and re-exercise the dreaming muscle.When Zaid was in recruitment, he'd ask people what their dream job would be and 75-80% of people would say something completely different than the job that they were interviewing for. Most people were stuck on fear or social pressure. It helped him understand that people need to change their narrative to see what is possible for their dreams. Once you start dreaming, doors open and the universe conspires to make it so. Take the time to listen to yourself and your dreams. What's your dream?Follow Constellations on Instagram at @constellations_art

New Year's resolutions are often forgotten after only a month, mostly because we keep them vague. Why is that? One of the things I've uncovered after some research and combining a few different goal setting exercises, and it comes down to the emotions we associate to them. We can place positive or negative ones. The choice is yours. Instead of picking resolutions that are arbitrary, I found that it's better to list out your whys, whats, and aaociated feelings. Here's the process I went through to hack my new year's resolutions and why I think it works:List out at least 5-7 of your Bes, Dos, and Haves. Who do you want to BE? What do you want to DO? and What do you want to HAVE? Allow yourself to free form flow. Don't think about how you will get there. This part is to uncover what it is that really makes your heart sing. Play and imagine that everything is possible.Add emotions to the items. What would it feel like once you already have accomplished these things? For example, visualize yourself already in your ideal weight. What does that feel like?Choose 2-3 of the ones that you really really want, ideally at least one from each column. - the most important ones.Add a cost to each of the important ones that you've starred. What's the financial cost? What is the time committment? What is it going to feel like if I spend the time and/or money on this? The idea here is to understand the trade-offs and allow your creative brain to come up with solutions that you wouldn't normally have thought of. For example, if you want to fly first class - what's the actual cost or is there something else that you could do, such as acquire airline miles to offset the extra cost.Take a break, walk away or jump up and down.For each of the important ones you chose, write out the very next, easy action. Break it down into a task that could be done today. For example, look on United for the number of miles required for a one-way, business class ticket from Kuala Lumpur to Cusco. Another example, make a decision on whether or not to publish or self-publish.Take that action today!When you allow yourself to focus on the just the very next step, your creative brain will start to answer those questions. This is really valuable because sometimes we focus on too many things, trying to piece together all the puzzle pieces without actually looking at each one and seeing where they fit.Once you've mapped this out, you'll have a rough idea of what your time and costs are for the month.

Robert Riopel went from $150K in debt to financially free in 9 months. He shares his insights and journey on how he and his wife accomplished this and much more. Financial freedom means a lot more than what people think, and it’s also very much in reach for all of us. It just takes a bit of thinking, a bit of honesty, and working smart instead of working hard. The biggest mindset shift was why he and his wife spent money the way they did. Having awareness and understanding about your spending habits allows you to take control and really make some changes.There are three elements of change: Awareness (What exists?) Understanding (Why do you think what you think? Where did it come from? Reconditioning (Take the mindset and cellular shifts to look and think in a different way) Most people aren’t willing to take a look at their life and see honestly what they can do to move their life forward. The answers are usually right in front of us. Success does take work, but people don’t realise that they are going to work their butts off for less money anyway. Why not do it for more money? After taking the Millionaire Mind Intensive, they began systematising their Domino’s pizza franchise, which was not in the best location. Soon enough, several people wanted to buy it, and a deal of a lifetime came through as a result of them sticking to their integrity and knowing what they are worth. Remember that you are earning a living from 9-5p, but what you do from 5-9 you create our life. Set up passive incomes in the mornings. It takes systems and discipline. Another great avenue for success is having accountability partners who can support you on the journey. People are often afraid to ask for help, when in reality, vulnerability is strength. Success loves commitment, you must show up every week and also be grateful for what you do have. There is a difference between determination, devotion, dedication, and discipline. You need all of them for success. There will also be times when you want to give up. How do you move forward then? Say to yourself: “Look at what I’ve accomplished, can I take one more step?” Breath, say yes, and go. That’s how you get where you want to go. Don’t forget to take breaks. Most people don’t take the time to have a break. Our conditioning tells us: “You’re being lazy, you have no passion or drive” or whatever we watched or heard our parents say growing up. We become just like them or the exact opposite. Beliefs get formed where we grow up. We’re taught to work hard, hard, hard or you’re not working up to your full potential. When in reality, it’s all about what you can do in the moment right here, right now. Maybe it doesn’t live up to other people’s expectations but that’s their crap and not yours unless you take it on. Instead of being caught up in your own crap, observe your mindset .Why are you thinking what you think? What’s the next step forward? Become disassociated with the negative thoughts in your head. And trust that it all ties up together somehow. Another tip Robert gives is that the greatest gift anyone can give this world is to show up as you are. People will either appreciate you for it or not, both are great. We can only be who we are, and we must keep learning. Life is life, but at least enjoy the journey and always look for the lessons. Remind yourself to breath and just keep going. Facebook Robert Riopel Success Left a Clue Podcast

What is love? There are so many answers to this question and not one is satisfactory to any one person. And yet, if we’ve thought of some kind of love, even if we haven’t seen it or any example of it, the chances are it likely exists. Because how else would you have even thought of it? Who knows, perhaps it’s your gift to the world. Let’s take a piece of love and put it in the context of a relationship… a romantic relationship. Is it reasonable to expect that one person can fulfil a person’s need for love in the all realms - physical, romantic, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual? I’ve come to realise through my own personal growth that love comes in many, many forms and many manifestations thereof. I’m not just talking about love languages, although that has been an exceptionally useful model to navigate behaviours and differences in how we give and receive love. However, as with all models, they're flawed and come with limitations. So just as there is no one love, there is no one model or system to look at love. Either we craft our own or we stitch together a few models, piecing the things we like so that we have a Frankenstein model, which in essence is still making our own. A while back, I wrote that love is a feeling and a commitment as well as a choice. That seemed to satisfy me at the time, and yet as I dug deeper into the topic of love, I realised how avoidant that statement is. Yes, it is true. You can choose love or not. You can feel love or not. But it avoids the actual answer of the question what is love? Or rather what does love mean to me? And in parallel to that, what is love in relation to the people and things in my life… yes things, because we can have love for things. There are several men who have come into my life over the last year. They’ve all showed me deeper meanings of love by their actions and expressions. Two have cried in my arms and one simply messaged me to say that I’m beautiful, just because. One was in love with my soul. One was afraid of my emotions, because he never wanted to see me hurt. I’ve cried with every single one of them, and they’ve sat with me and allowed me to be a complete and utter mess. In each moment I’ve spent with each of them, they’ve shown me deeper, kinder, and newer waves of love. I’ve seen them through challenges at work and challenges with the women they date. These men are my proof that real men exist in this world and don’t expect or want anything from me other than for me to be fuller and fuller expressions of myself. How did I get so lucky?Now let’s take the women in my world. I have so many beautiful, powerful, and raw women that inspire me on a daily basis. These women come in a variety of flavors and dances of love. They accept for me for me and allow me to express femininity in the realm of true sisterhood. They didn’t judge me when I complained about people in my life. One sat with me and listened to all the stories I had made up in my head about a situation. When I exhausted myself after 30 minutes of talking, she asked if I had felt better after sharing all of that. When I said I was still angry. She responded, "eYah that’ll continue to happen. Let it go. Allow it to evolve. In time, it will pass." It was a reminder to me why I love stories so much. All kinds of stories. Life is a series of stories from one to the next. Stories are moments and moments are just a cycles of breathes. So what is love? I love all of these people in my life, and I only went over close friends. There’s still family - living and dead, pets - living and dead, memories and dreams which may or may not be real or realised. I encourage you to write an exhaustive list of the things and people that you truly, deeply love.Ask yourself questions like can we reasonably accept that one love can fulfil all our wildest dreams on all realms of existence or is there a reason we have so many different levels and layers to love in our life? And is it so wrong to call a man or a woman beautiful while they or you are romantically involved with someone else? Is it expected that those words of admiration and other love languages are required simply from the partner and not the friend or other? That sounds like a lot of pressure to me. If it takes a community to raise a child, why wouldn’t it take a community to keep a relationship whole and complete? There’s nothing more beautiful than shared experiences with your partner and your community or tribe. If we did more of that then the whole world shares in love and community. What a beautiful thing that would be.

Creative writing is another language in which we can express and also look at our own personal development. By allowing your mind to play and simply have fun with the craft, you are sending a message to the rest of your body to trigger new perspectives and moments from your life. What you write is very much authentically you, especially when the creative exercise is timeboxed.Write a poem about a word in one minute. The act renders quality and perfection useless and allows the brain to simply create art without the fear of whether or not the result would be good. Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter, because you're choosing to access a different part of the brain so that we can release any unspoken trauma and step into transformation.Then it comes to sharing your art. By sharing it you release even further becomes it now becomes something that you own, rather than something that owns you. It's the same as validating your creative business ideas. What is it that you really want to create and does it impact others? The same is for creative writing. By sharing we practice the art of nonattachment and move through resistance to overcome the challenge and become the strength and force that drives your creativity and ideas forward.Writing is a powerful tool that only humans have to express and create. We have this for a reason to document and share collective human knowledge, which all began from creativity. Take a few moments to write a short story in 5 minutes that is a true story about you. Then see what you want to do with this story. Do you want to change it? Do you need to sit with this story? Do you want to share it?Let me know what you think about this exercise in the comments below.

Finding a purpose is a lot of pressure. It can cause stress and anxiety, and creates a mindset of looking outside. What if we could reverse engineer this process and find ourselves first? Start with who you are and what are your values before seeking higher purpose in life. Core values are a way to bypass unnecessary challenges of life to get to where you want to go.Sid went through this process of uncovering his core values of connection, belief, and service. He began asking better questions, such as: what can I do to live my values every single day? Based on his core values, one avenue for him was being a coach, which involves having deep conversations with people to uncover beliefs and also grow. He immersed himself for 3 months, outlining what kind of coach he needed to be to live these values. His purpose evolved into exploring human connection at deep levels by creating spaces for people to be who they are. He then realised that if he had started the other way around, looking for purpose first, he would have gone into a skill that he's good at instead of what he enjoys. He read 3 books: Supercoach by Michael Neill, which breaks down personal growth into 10 different methods of coaching. The Prosperous Coach by Steven Chandler and Rich Litvin, which discusses how to build a business one conversation at a time. The Book of Coaching by Ajit Nawalkha and Dr. Neeta Bhushan, which outlines you as a coach, your methodology, and your business. What are core values? Core values are the framework to get to any one of your potential paths, instead of only looking at what you "should" be doing or only what you “enjoy." It's a more balanced approach.Once you discover your values, they show up everywhere. Every decision starts with: am I living in alignment with my values? It becomes a very simple framework to prevent the noise of the world from drowning you. It’s a compass of how you show up in the world.How to find your core values? Building your timelineStep 1: Go through your years of life. Ask: in order to become who I am today, what were the different events, experiences, and moments that I can remember? Don't overthink. Start from whenever you remember (e.g. 7 years old).Step 2: In each of these experiences, what was happening outside of you? Step 3: What was happening inside of you as a result of those external experiences? You must feel it in your body, go back to those moments and live them once again. Step 4: What was the core thing or things that I was valuing? Write all of them down and move on to the next moment. You will see similarities of values. Step 5: Based on all of these things that you value, if you had to categorize them, what are the ones that you value the most? Choose 3. This is a process designed to be repeated as we uncover deeper layers of emotions. Do core values change? Core values are dynamic. You add experiences and memories as you open up yourself to new ways of living as well as new perspectives on your life. Remember, core values are not something a friend or family member can suggest or that you pick from a list. Your values are who you are right now, not who you want to be. There's no shortcut. You have to go through the experience of life to discover and accept who you really are. What about conflicting core values? Even if values change over time, there will be one value that you know because you feel it in your bones. The way you learn is to ask: what was the conflict? and why was there a conflict? If that pattern of conflict persists, that means that your #1 value might actually be different. Finding core values is a lifelong discovery. Place these values where you see them often. The more you see it, the more you step into it. What can we do to use values to make a decision once you have your values? The test is to ask yourself: what would it be like if I took this decision based on this value or against this value? Then compare and contrast. You’ll start to notice that it’s never really about the decision you make, but rather the consequences of that decision. The strength to live it and accept it are embedded in your values.Tips Understand that core values exercise is an interactive and continuous process. Don't over-analyze. The beauty of this process is that whatever comes first is ALWAYS right. It’s a heart exercise. Time box this exercise, especially if you are an over-thinker.Connect with Siddharth Anantharam.

Kiruba self-expressed that he wears three hats life: running a digital marketing agency in Chennai, teaching as a professor, and growing food on his organic farm.For Kiruba, a happy life is doing the things that he finds enjoyable, even if they are seemingly disparate. The one thing in common is him. What does authoring a book about a Sirian refugee who lived in Kuala Lumpur airport for 200 days has to do with organic farming or digital marketing? Easy, he finds it interesting and enjoyable.Conventional wisdom says to go deep into one area of expertise, and yet we find ourselves wanting to do more. A well-lived life is aboout creating a balance and also designing the experiences you want to have in your life, even if it might take years to accomplish. Each of these compnents of Kiruba's life feeds into one another. The agency affords him the ability to work on projects he enjoys, the ones that really matter, and to also work on his farm on the weekends. Eventually, he plans to turn his farm into a retreat center to provide people with deep immersions on goal setting, book authoring, leadership, and life design.The first step is making the decision to go for it. Sometimes, you do have to burn your bridges and not build safety nets, otherwise you will ultimately rely on them instead of pushing yourself toward your dream life. Take the jump and think about what it is that you enjoy and how you can do it a little differently than the rest. Then put the best quality and most amount of passion into it so that others can't help but ask for your services.The other thing is to remember that we do live in the real world and responsibility is unavoidable, although it can be enjoyable. Have multiple passion projects, but remember the balance of life and what rhythm will truly work for you.Over the years as a podcaster and entrepreneur, Kiruba shared that successful people all have a pattern, regardless of their domain. That pattern is having clarity and a vision that is larger than life. It's the big, hairy, audacious goal. If you don't have one yet, then start building your bucket list, something all successful people have. The psychology behind bucket lists is that it helps you push yourself to constantly perform better.Asking yourself the question: "what makes me happy?" allows your brain to start building more and more ideas. It ignites the creativity centers in the brain. After some time, the fuzziness starts to disappear and things fall into place about what you actually want to achieve. Then, it'll be time to put it into action. we can achieve much more than we think we can, when we do something consistently on a daily basis. It’s about showing up to whatever it is that you want in life and allow the universe to take care of the things you can't control.Pay attention to the aha moments in your life - and take action on them. Don’t just listen.When creating a bucket list, it helps to go somewhere completely unfamiliar and beautiful. Be together with a tribe of people that speak your own language and have accountability for each of those goals. This, in essence, is a mastermind of peers who can help push you forward and toward your goals.Also don't forget that building a bucket list should be an enjoyable process. It’s easy for us to stress ourselves out about what we want to achieve. When it starts feeling like work, then there’s a problem. When writing, assume you have all the time and money in the world and that there will be no judgement or repercussions from other people. What is it that you would enjoy doing? Remove your limitation and keep pushing yourself to write a very long list - take a few days, weeks, or months. Make it excruciatingly long list, and then you can start a few things that really really matter to you. You might even start to notice patterns and themes. Choose the ones that give you goosebumps that you would want to look back on your life and be proud that you achieved that, then block your calendar for achieving them. Even if it’s only 10 minutes a day and schedule it! If it's not in your calendar, it won't happen.

When Maximiliano “Max" de Campos was an engineer and a rugby player in Montevideo, Uruguay. When a shoulder injury had changed his life completely. It was a moment of awakening where everything he was told about life and society had changed for him. Max started asking deeper questions about the direction of his life. When you have the right question, the teacher appears. The journey becomes more about finding the right questions for you. As you seek, you begin to find your tribe of the people who think like you. For Max, the transformation occurred externally. Ater taking a course at the Art of Living. He stopped drinking and smoking and started cleansing by practicing yoga, breathwork, and meditation..He observed that when he started to remove the layers of illusion, his light started coming through, and he wanted to remove all the layers until there's nothing but light. Unfortunately after a while, he began to stop his practices and the drugs and alcohol came back into his life. His life started taking a turn for the worse with violent and toxic behaviour. A turning point came, when a friend invited him to a club and to take MDMA. With the intensity of emotion that the drug induced, Max began massaging people. He rmemebered how much he loved massaging. His mom had taught him when he was a kid and that he'd been doing it his whole life. The epiphany was that this was his calling. Even his anatomy was built for it as his thumbs can bend backward at a 90 degree angle. Max then took an ayurvedic massage course and started massaging friends to the rhythm of his favorite albums. This lead him to developed a healing massage technique called ElectroSynergy, which is a type of massage therapy paired with energy healing done in sync with electronic music. The combination of energies connect to create something new and healing.The healing aspect of the massage is the energy healing transfer between the therapist and the person receiving the massage paired with the healing sounds of music. This spurred an idea to do the ElectroSynergy massages at parties.The massage thereapy at the parties are about 15 minutes. Max then began massaging at parties and had a private practice. He then decided to go back to cleaning his own energy, learning Reiki and Akasahic record readings. Max followed his path to Brazil to discover more about his own unique methodology and add more structure to his treatments.In one year from the start of his business, he began getting invited to bigger and bigger parties doing opening ceremonies and clearing the space and programming the space energetically for transformataion. He noticed that several people who were on drugs and received the ElectroSynergy massage therapy started reducing their consumption and moving on to a path of seeking what is truly best for them without numbing their brains and bodies with intoxicants.Now the process evolves into first understanding the intention of the recipient, then applying a bit of reiki, and then a healing massage therapy in sync with music and with the other multiple ElectroSynergy masseuses. Like a dance, all hands and energies are in sync with each other and with the music. Sometimes the recipient will receive a message from the energy healing related to their intention, in which case Max will deliver this message that often sends these seekers on a deeper, more fulfilling life path. In private practice, he will often spend hours to provide deeper healing which involves a bit of coaching to get to the root cause of the issues the person is wanting to heal.He feels he found the middle path, first coming to the light, then a return to the dark with a different party scene, and then moving through his own transformation being the light in the party that influences transformation through his technique. He has now come out of a six month break where he went deeper into his own spiritual and personal development so that he can continue to serve more people.It's a reflection of where we are living now. When we begin to consciously look for something deeper, we become the light in the darkness, and it's the same at an electronic party with this healing method as the light in the middle of the chaos of the party.Max offers his tips for transformation:1. Listen to yourself while you are speaking. When you speak, you are manifesting things into your world. So be conscious of how you speak, especially with yourself.2. Tap into your own intuition. Formulate a yes or no question,. Close your eyes and feel if the answer is on the chest (yes) or belly (no).

When we are sick, it's simply hard to do anything at all. Fortunately, there are some simple breathing techniques that we can practice while healthy and while sick. Sometimes getting sick is the body's natural way of cleansing itself. We push ourselves quite a lot with all the pressures of daily life, and sometimes we just need a break. Our bodies will take that break even if they have to force us to take one!While going through a deep cleanse of mind, body, and soul, I got a bit sick and needed more rest. Fortunately, I have these breathing techniques in my toolkit, and they really did wonders in helping me heal faster and more comfortably. These simple breath techniques allow for the flow of prana, life energy or life force, to guide our naturally intuitive immune systems to heal ourselves naturally. This is especially great for when you have a cold or a flu or even feel something coming on and don't necessarily know what it is. They help tell your body that you are in control and that you can handle anything, just stay the course cells! You got this! The first breathing technique is called the Cleansing Breath. And here's the step by step breakdown of how you can do it:Step 1: Breathe in through the nose.Step 2: Hold for one count.Step 3: Puff out the cheeks and make a small circle with your lips, like you're blowing air out of a tiny straw.Step 4: Exhale forcefully in short intervals until you've exhaled out all of the air.Step 5: Hold for one count.Repeat this exercise 3-5 times as needed.This is really great for calming down the nervous system and also releasing any stuck toxins that are in the body from the illness you have. When we exhale, we release a lot of carbon and waste material (even fat cells!) in the form of air, so exhaling like this can be very cleansing for the body and allow for more prana and energy to flow through it.The second breathing technique is called Ujayii Breath, also known as victorious breath. This breath has a loud, audible sound like the ocean and Darth Vader. It's a great technique to calm down anger, to redirect energy in the body, and to regulate the body and the mind.Step 1: Gently constrict the back of the throat as you inhale. Make sure the sound of your breath is loud and even.Step 2: Breathe in for 4 counts.Step 3: Hold for two counts.Step 4: Breathe out for 4 counts. Make sure that you are regulating the breath with that same audible sound, as if you are fogging up a mirror but with your lips sealed.Repeat 3-5 times.Hope you enjoyed these breath techniques, a gentle and natural healing method. This really worked wonders for me over the weekend.Happy self healing! 

There’s a difference between making notes and taking notes. When starting and continuing a creative project, your mindset is critical. Understanding that you are working on a first draft and honoring that will help you move forward on it. The first draft always takes the longest and then you get faster and faster at it. Stay curious and keep asking yourself: what’s going to happen today?Benchmarks and KPI'sChoose a benchmark for yourself and also understand that there are multiple ways to measure success. You might need more than one. I realized that using just word count would eventually cause a stop in progress, and I'd either need to surrender to the moment or choose different metrics for success - or better accept both! I initially choose word count. After some time, I realize that the cells in my tracking spreadsheet green or red, it's still is all great. Even with creative projects and your own creativity, you have good days and bad days. You might not be happy with your progress but there is always progress - keep showing up and remember that you are not your feelings. This is a great reminder to yourself, because your feelings about a situation aren’t necessarily representative of reality or what you yourself actually thinks and understands about the situation. You have to let feelings pass for you to actually have more clarity on what’s on the other side. The brain will always want to speculate. And yet, it cannot find the answer because you are still in the momentary emotion. It will pass, keep fighting the good fight, and show up.Exercising the muscle There will be some days where nothing comes out or days where you are in bliss and flow. The important moment is that it’s about showing up to your project every single day. Success loves commitment. Exercise the muscle of success. There will be times that you will only fully understand when you are on the other side of the feeling or even the project. This holds true for life as my mom is experiencing this with her cancer treatment. What's your recipe?Observe your creative process. Mine seems to be waffling in cafe and choosing where I want to write and who I want to be that day. Whether you are writing characters or developing your own character, you still are fighting the good fight, getting ready for battle. Choose consciously which wolf in your head do you want to feed. Acknowledge yourself and show that any day where you sit and dedicate to your prokect is a good day. It’s a couple of hours, come what may. And something beautiful will always come. It’s a massive exercise in meditation and vulnerability with the self - and experimenting with your own creative process will reveal worlds about yourself to yourself. Sometimes it helps to ask yourself "Who do I want to be today?" or even "Who do I need to be today?" There is always a lesson in everything that you do.EmbodimentEmbodying the thing that you want to be or to create will help you achieve it with more gusto and happiness. This is because your brain can't really tell the difference between what is happening and what is not. We make up stories all the time, so why not write one that serves you and your highest good? Embodiment is the missing piece in the "fake it until you make it" quip. You need to feel it in your cells, visualize how it will be for you when you finish. What's it going to feel like? Quantifying Head SpaceWhen you look at your projects, be sure to account for head space.You could have a great gant chart, etc. and yet accounting for head space, especially when tasks are extraordinarily different, is powerful. This is what I call the Ping Pong Table Effect. Move your body between tasks. Movement makes the difference and the body has a language of its own that can help us problem solve in a different way. Literally “Take off the jacket of work” and put on something else. Or simple things such as standing up or pushing the chair back or literally taking a step back. Just breathe.You make an attempt, and you get ready for what you want to have show up in your life.  Practice and all is coming.

When you go through challenges in life, your community and who you keep close to you really matters. Friends really lighten the moments, because life is better when shared together. There’s also no substitute for great chemistry, especially between friends. How does this happen? Sometimes it's simply a matter of trusting that the person you are with has no judgement on you whatsoever. This is an effect that years of friendship and community can have on us. But what if we shortened that time and just allowed ourselves to deeply conenct with each other and, again, listen to what's happening in someone's life.When you approach people and the world with love, energy is infinite. As humans we have an innate desire to genuinely want to help in the way that we can. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just show up, be present, and, be yourself.Another avenue is to simply let go and let the good things in life come to you. Friends, family, and even strangers will show up in the way that they want to and the way that they can. It might not be in the way you expect, but it will always be in the way you need. It's growth. And it could also be that the biggest growth is asking for help and focusing on those who are full enough to give you from their overflow.Community is what can help you get through the times in your life. And if you're on your own, community is something you have to build. Because sometimes you go to a place with an objective and something else shows up. How will you react to that? How will you show up to the differences in life? It certainly helps to be the observer in life. Treat it like a meditation in and of itself. Then you might start to see that coincidences aren’t actually random.Staying connected doesn't mean being obsessively attached to your devices and to technology and social media. We've all heard before that some of us treat our cell phones like another limb. Well, if they are another limb, then why not treat it as one? You wouldn't hit yourself in the head with your hand, so why would you with your phone? Choose to own your devices otherwise they will own you. Put your phone on airplane mode or silence throughout your day and especially at night before you go to bed. This will help you use your phone when you want it without being bombarded by urgent, but not important messages.

Part One of a private conversation between Alyse and her friend Achille about life, meditation, caring for ill parents, and being in transition.Listening and being present for our fellow humans is the single most important gift that you can offer. Allow people to share their stories with you no matter how weird or cool or uninteresting those stories might be, you will most definitely learn something from the other person and from deep within yourself, if you pay attention.Talk is often cheap, and it’s mostly because the vast majority of people don’t feel heard and need someone to listen to them, particularly during difficult times such as undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Two realisations came to me during my 10 day trip to Los Angeles to support my mother during her treatment.Lessons LearnedNo one can ever see what they have. You need an external factor to show you for perspective. This could also be an experience, such as a tragedy or adventure.Everyone is lonely and wants to be heard.Silence is golden. Not speaking is the greatest gift you can give to another person.Create an environment of safety and space for people to be comfortable being themselves. When they feel comfortable, you learn so much from them.Also having one clear focus per time chunk really helps you align yourself to your to-do list. Knowing your primary aim can help you keep your energy and your focus, knowing to say “no” to the things that tax your energy because they are distractions from your one thing. This creates space for yourself too and affords you the ability to also create space for other people.Steps for success completion of projectsSet an intentionFocus solely on your one thing.Do the work in spite of everything that you feel, because you are not your feelings.Celebrate every win, especially the teeny tiny ones.Don’t get rid of your early drafts.Review your progress.Celebrate again.Your mind is a pattern making machine, put a container on it so that you leverage this tool to your benefit. For example, light is everywhere, but when it’s contained in a light bulb it is useful, powerful, and allows for even more creation at all hours of the day and night.Remember that your creativity stems from asking better questions. The answer is in the question or questions that you ask yourself and continue to ask yourself again and again and again. In essence, what kind of light do you want your mind to make? Does it help you go back to your roots? 

Have you ever wondered what other senses you do have? Does posture and presence affect more than just you? In today's episode, Tim Ash explains the inner workings of Tai Chi as a martial art and as a way of life. Tai Chi actually means grand ultimate and is a way of cultivating situational awareness through touch by focusing on your opponent's center of mass. Through touch sensitivity there are no gaps, you instead connect to the person's physical world and get a read on what their intentions are by keeping continuous contact. It's a method of rebalancing energy by understanding the forces at work and acting as a foil to those forces. In essence, you are borrowing the other person's momentum and conserving your energy for martial effectiveness.Nowadays the martial aspect of Tai Chi is fading, however the health benefits and intuitive understanding remains. There are still several people who hold tradition and are able to teach the martial side of Tai Chi. Still mastery takes years of dedication and devotion.Tai Chi has a lot of the same mindfulness benefits like yoga and qi gong, helping you with posture, to be more relaxed in your body, and increase mental health.As a keynote speaker and entrepreneur, Tim Ash has leveraged the potential of Tai Chi to become a 5 star public speaker. He explains how cultivating a presence on stage is two thirds body language as well as intontation and content. Tai Chi helps to cultivate that structural awarenewss of where your body  is in space, a sense called proprioception,Tia Chi is based on taoist philosoohy using passive and active energies. It's about knowing when to be passive and when to be active, which is the same for daily life. By counterbalancing your opponent's energy, you are acting as a fulcrum to rebalance so that you don't absorb their energy and instead transmute the energy into something else.Tips for better posture:Thing of the body as having stacking and hanging components. Stacking are parts of your body that are connected to the ground, such as your skeleton. Hanging components are the soft tissues, muscles, and tendons that need to relax and just hang. This is ag reat way to maintain your posture without muscular tension.If you're tense you don't feel other people and awareness drops and even can fog your mind. One of the core precepts of Tai Chi is to "fight" in a rest and digest state. You are simply harmonizing with yourself, your opponent, and your environment and have all the advantages of relaxed body and nervous system so that you can flow with it.More about Tim AshYou can find Tim Ash at https://timash.com/

Have you ever wondered how food gets to you? What is ethical sourcing and what is involved in sourcing and packaging food? With all the information and even misinformation and logical loops as it relates to food, who can we trust and what can we actually do about it? How can we move toward better decision making to our everyday food challenges?Feeding populations on a large scale in a safe and sustainable way takes a lot of care, knowledge, and also research. Asma Hasan is a food sourcer and buyer for Amy's Kitchen, an organic food processing company. She also runs a blog called Food Unraveled https://foodunraveled.com where she breaks down exactly what happens with food during sourcing and also outlines in an understandable format governement regulations as it relates to food. She also writes about ethical food, slow food, where food comes from, and sustainable food practices. It's difficult for the average consumer to find reliable information about food and food laws, especially with so many exceptions and confusing rules and laws in place. With a passion for creating an impact, Asma tells us how we can be better consumers and actually get our voices heard and have an impact on the food that gets bought and sold each day.The single, best thing you can do is... call the number on the back of food packages and give as much feedback and information that you are willing to give. Another way is to vote with your dollar. Inform yourself and buy what works for you. Lead by example and be sure to think about your values while shopping for food. 

I get asked a lot about movement and travel. How do I stay healthy and move while traveling. I’ve been to 15 countries this year alone. That’s not including the flights I’ve taken within those countries. As much as I love travel, it’s tough on the body. One of you wrote in and asked what do I do to pair movement with travel? How do I take make sure I’m moving while… I’m, well moving? So here are my top three tips, based on what I do on how to incorporate movement while you travel.The number one thing that saved my life was the moment I decided to not believe in jet lag.Jet lag is as much of a state of mind as it is physiological condition. The body has an incredible adaptability system. It’s actually much smarter than your mind. After all, it’s spending most of it’s time protecting you from y tahwin it. Chips, soda, alcohol, sugar, cheat days and all that time you were eating foods you didn’t actually know where unhealthy. Your body is a pro at protecting you from the damage your mind does too - anxiety, stress, etc.If you look up any articles on “recovering from jet lag” they’ll all tell you basic things like set your watch to the new timezone - this is a psychological trigger by the way not a physiological one. And other tips like sleep and hydrate and get some sun. These are all things that you would need daily anyway and are in no way exclusive to plane travel. Because most people believe jet lag is a thing, it allows you small gap of not paying attention to your body and listening to what it tells you.What plane travel does to the body is use up a lot of its water and energy, so naturally you feel stiff and tired. Getting up and moving your body can play a critical role in helping you get back into a better circadian rhythm. The best part it that it doesn’t have to be strenuous. Simply going for a walk after I land, breathing in the air, getting some sunlight is the best way to move while traveling. Keep it light and easy. I make sure to walk as much as I can anywhere I go. I often prefer free walking tours just for the sake of learning while I’m walking. This has another positive effect as it’s also associating a physical activity with a mental one. The body actual loves these little juggles.The second tip is moving your body in a way it doesn’t normally move. In an earlier episode I talked about how moving your body can often help you get out of your head and make better decisions. Well moving your body in a way it doesn’t normally move helps to strengthen stabiliser muscles, breaks up stagnant energy, loosens connective tissue, and helps you to stay present and aware of different parts of the body, in essence increases your body awareness and proprioception, which is your own sense of where your body is in space.For example, professional athletes will often take up a physical activity that Is largely different than their training just to activate different areas of the body and points of awareness. This is why American football players take ballet classes and another reason why yoga is really the best compliment to any sport and even a compliment to critical problem solving in business. It’s because you are moving your body into these random and sometimes absurd postures namely just to see if you can do it. And there’s often a lot more that you can do than you think you cane, because as I mentioned earlier about jet lag - it’s all a mind game. To add intentional stress to different parts of the body is actually good for it, as long as you pair the movement with breath and move consciously that is with awareness of your movement.Henry Ford said If you believe you can or you can’t you’re right. The same applies to movement, particularly when you move your body in a way it’s not moved before. And this can be as simple as taking a dance class or just wriggling around. I wiggle in my sit on the plane, it looks funny, even feels funny, but my body doesn’t hurt as badly when I land on the other side.The last one is having a practice that you can do under any circumstances. This is why I love yoga, because I can do it literally anywhere. I have some friends who go for runs - that’s also good too. Even 10 min a day will really make the difference to your body while you’re out of your standard routines. Some spaces while traveling I’ve had to do yoga on the bed, which means no crazy poses or handstands. Instead, a few simple stretches a couple of push ups and some wriggles and shakes and lots of walking really help me keep movement a part of my life when I’m away from standard exercise routines.What do you do to keep moving while traveling? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Amrit Sandhu shares his transformational journey from growing up with two different cultures and experiencing travel in a whole new way - from seeing dead bodies in Indian train stations at eight years old to understanding his mindset and core values growing up in Australia. When it comes to life lessons, recovering from depression, and understanding spirituality in a whole new way, Amrit has a depth and breadth of knowledge on how we can as individuals start waking up to our own callings. It comes down to core values and how you show up in the world. This is the root of what drives us as humans whether it's be design or by default.In this episode, you will see how perspective matters and how important it is to show up in the world as you are in the full expression of self. It requires courage and most of all integrity. Amrit shares his journey of reconcilie core values, cultiural differences, and his own battle with his mind. What moves Amrit? Ensuring that people find their greatest passions and break through limiting beliefs so that they can live more fulfilled lives. It starts with meditation and curiosity.What unfolds is a truly deep conversation from conspiracy theories to core values and how to understand energy and vitality at another level. Cherry pick what serves you and let us know what you think of this episode in the comments.More about AmritYou can find Amrit at https://www.amrit-sandhu.com/ for workshops and more.Don't forget to check out his podcast on iTunes Inspired Evoljution. Book recommendationMindset: The New Psychology of Succes by Carol Dweck

Movement is a powerful force that allows us to even solve problems when our minds cannot. There are trillions of living cells that make up you. In essence, there is an entire colony of living things that rely on you for life. When we have 60,000 thoughts a day, it's difficult to pay attention to the quiet voices that exist inside our body. That's where movement comes in. Sometimes, we just need to move our bodies to allow our heads to quiet down and simply be with the discomfort that your body is experiencing.How to use your inner body to solve problemsStep 1: When you notice yourself obsessing over a problem. Stop and get up. Change your environment.Step 2: Move. Shake. Wiggle. Shout. Wrinkle your face. Allow yourself to simple move your body in ways that you don't normally move. Don't judge yourself and move with intention.Step 3: Sit down and take a three deep breaths.Step 4: When you've finished moving. Take out a pen and a piece of paper and allow yourself to write. Let it free flow and commit to the practice. Do not read what you write. This process allows for space in the body and in the mind. You'll find that in a few hours you will have more clarity on the issue that you are facing. Keep moving and breathing with intention. Getting out of your head takes practice. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't work out right away. Sometimes, we are so blocked in our bodies that it takes a few times of doing this for release to come out and for us to really connect more dots and more patterns.

Niraj Naik also known as the Renegade Pharmacist transformed his life with a combination of breathing, meditation, and music. During his career as a pharmacist, he discovered that he could heal people by simply changing their diets instead of stuffing them with drugs. The company's profits slowed down as a result of people buying fewer medications and therefore halted the program. Niraj then was confronted by a severe case of colitis, where he would have rto remove his intestines. After healing himself through these techniques, Niraj began dedicating his life to helping people use the power of their own breathing and visualization to reprogram their DNA, the imprint of the soul.Through breathing, we have control over our autonomic nervous system and heal chronic illness. It's all about the relationship with your body and leveraging your body's natural pharmacy and natural healing to reduce stress and free radicals.Niraj gives three tips.1. Environment: Who do you spend most of your time with? What are the first 5 messages you get on your phone? Lifestyle is a prime indicator of health and habits. Sometimes you need to change your environment to achieve the transformation you are seeking. Take a class, get out of your comfort zone. You don't even have to tell anyone what you are doing at first. In order to change the tribe, you must change yourself first and stay firm in your choices.2. Reprogram: The first seven years of life is where you get your habit programming. Once you have awareness to your environment and lifestyle. Reprogram yourself. Most bad behaviours like drinking and smoking are to fit in. It's a Fear of Feeling Out (FOFO). It's hardwired in us to stay close to the tribe. Otherwise we would face life-threatening consequences. Follow your curiosity and go outside of what everyone else is doing.3. Breathwork: Pranayama means breath control, and it can be used to leverage the body's natural healing mechanisms. Too much oxygen in the body can cause cell damage and free radicals. Controlling the breath and putting yourself in low-oxygen moments and inducing a positive stress response allows the body to release stem cells for healing and also allows for easier stress management. Practice slowing down the breath. The ideal rhythmic breathing is five breaths per minute or challenge yourself to breath as few as one breath per minute. As you breathe in, you stimulate the sympathetic nervous system while breathing out stimulates thje parasympathetic.When you feel the stress coming on, it's helpful to exhale first. We are hardwired to breath in and feel stress, which is the first thing you do when born. Exhalataion overrides the fear response. More About Niraj Naikhttps://therenegadepharmacist.com/21-day course mentioned in the podcast: http://www.somabreath.com/the-awakening-breathwork-protocol/

There are many ways to learn and understanding yourself personally is the fastest way to face business challenges too. Alex T. Steffen shares his experiences running business masterminds that allow people to connect on a deeper level and face personal and business challenges together.Learning and developing masterminds have a framework of an upside down pyramid with the corners as environment, activities that push comfort zones, and vulnerability. In order to approach problems or challenges, it helps to leave your environment to a place where it's more inviting to learn, to be curious, excited, and passionate. In this environment, you can cultivate experiences that shake you. When that happens you can then channel energy to an increased awareness of self and transform in the face of the challenge. Adding peers to the mix and open, safe sharing increases a level of community and connection. Sometimes we just need to own our challenges and share our fears so that we can become stronger and even find our mission. Qualifications and skill only take you so far, having relatable stories moves us forward faster and deeper than anything else.Real transformation personal or business starts with the self. Big business challenges often boil down to a personal growth obstacle that can be managed and transformed into success. Often times, the root cause is a fear of failure. Apply this to a leader (or leadership team) who needs to make multiple strategic decisions daily, some that affect individuals or even teams. How you approach your fear of failure and ability to surpass the discomfort and take the risk will make all the difference personally and professionally. Decision fatigueWhen we make too many decisions daily, it piles up and the quality of your decisions toward the end of the day start to weaken. Your choices create your reality, and often times in the game of business if you don't take a decision, then somebody else will. Steve Jobs was famous for reducing the number of decisions he made daily in order to focus solely on the biggest challenges. He wore the same series of clothes so as to not to exhaust his decision making muscle.The stronger you are in the discipline of aligning decisions to your values, the faster you will be at making them and the more fulfilling they will get. You will begin to make decisions out of free will. Initially, it may take some time make this a habit. But once you push through the resistance, then life gets easy. You will be more in alignment and more yourself.Finding Core ValuesTo find your core values, it's really helpful to disconnect for a day or two and really get to know yourself without distraction. Another exercise is to write out or map out your perfect day, a vision of how you want a day in your life to be three years from now. The key is to tell your story as descriptive as possible build in future elements and look gor value systems in the why and the feeling behind each moment. Do it more than once to upgrade it.That way when you are challenged by a decision, you have a vision as a compass. It’s obvious because this is how I want my life to be.Book Recommendation:How Do You Measure Your Life by Clayton M ChristensenMore About AlexAlex T. Steffen is a business consultant, bestselling author and award-winning presenter. Formerly a Director of Show Quality at Disney, his professional focus is innovation management and the future of work. Alex's mission is to make transformation more joyful for leaders. He works with businesses such as Mercedes, AirBnB, and Huawei on the design of digital ecosystems and innovation communities. Alex is the co-founder of Growth Masters, an invite-only adventure Mastermind, which combines crowdsourced coaching and accountability systems to push entrepreneurs to the next stage in their business.

How do we truly live a happy and healthy life? Are happiness and health what we truly strive for or is it a fulfilled life and abundance? What does it really mean to be alive and fulfilled?There comes a point in our lives where we might find ourselves less than happy or even less than healthy —  a place of disempowerment, where we are not so inspired to move. Emma Juniper, Life Coach and Business Strategist, shares her insights on how she went from workforce burnout into an abusive relationship and onto creating a global women’s empowerment movement called the Global Sisterhood and an extraordinary life for herself.After burning out from trying to save the earth in her work in developing countries, Emma decided to take a one-two year break. She ended up in an abusive relationship for nine months, where she lost her sense of self and self-respect. From this place of disempowerment and the lowest point in her life, she wanted to show others what belief is and what is mindset and true confidence. What does it really mean to be alive? What is trauma? There is a lot the body goes through on a biochemical level, emotional level, and even spiritual level. In a fateful moment, while having lunch with a friend, Emma felt drawn to helping create a women’s circle for International Women’s Day.  It was at a time where a lot of things had come to completion - a relationship, her home, etc. This was her life unfolding, and it didn’t need to be anything different or more than she already was. Life was unfolding. There are triggers that stimulate the body, which in turn gives messages, or signs. For Emma, hearing her friend at lunch talk about creating something for International Women’s Day, her heart lit up. It was like a tingling, a presence of potential — natural and immediate. She followed that feeling to play with the creative ideas and inspirations that were bubbling up for her. In that moment, everything was brighter. It came from a deep knowing, a sense of natural passion. She had energy to contribute and support this project, which eventually turned into a mission and a women’s empowerment movement to celebrate sisterhood on a global scale.Tips for women (or men) to tap into their own empowerment:Yoga - Physical movement can help move around and release the blocked emotions, energy, and limiting beliefs.Emotional Awareness - Feel into your emotions and look at the possible directions your life could take if you hold onto that negative (or conversely, positive) feeling.Openness to Change - Be willing, vulnerable, and open to failing on this journey.Practice Conscious Choices - Instead of practicing blame and overwhelm, choose to add droplets of hope to your situation a little each day. Small, daily changes make a huge impact.Re-building self-trust and self-confidence is a practice, and over time, will affect your ability to show up and breath and create healthier habits, to move consciously through this world, to live a fulfilled life.There’s also a tipping point to becoming healthy. Emma describes her journey of going deep into health craze to the point where it was unhealthy, also known as orthorexia. Instead, she found it better to tap into her body’s natural wisdom and become more in-tune with the body’s messages and signs that it gives. And if that’s not for you, know that negative self-talk and self-criticism is the most unhealthy thing you can do.Everything unfolds as it is meant to, and the lesson is there to teach. We must remain open and willing to let it guide us. True movement starts deep with in.What fuels you? What nourishes you physically, emotionally, and spiritually? How can you show up as yourself truly and fully you.Don’t forget to move. Get up and shake your body, jump up and down, and wiggle… that is, of course, assuming you’re not driving a car.More about Emma JuniperEmma Clare Juniper is an Emotional Mastery Expert, Authentic Confidence Coach and Transformational Retreat Facilitator. She assists visionary leaders in accelerating their inner liberation and fulfilling soul-guided success through workshops, online courses, retreats, and VIP Private Coaching Intensives.

Your pain can be your greatest gift to the world. Sammy Tagget aka DJ Shoebox Moses, explains what it takes to move people on the dance floor and also yourself toward inspired action. Music is a powerful motivator for many of us, and for Shoebox Moses, it started with an interest in music that he fostered into a passion of building the soundtrack to our lives, and later a mission to moving orphans and children all over the world to play music, create art, and break through limits.  We sometimes get confronted with a call to action, a feeling, an emotion that drives us to move - for better or worse. Emotions are bits of information that help us to navigate the world. We can let our emotions rule us or we can let them inform us like a cabinet of advisors. Sometimes, we need to take control over our pain and flip it into a different perspective, making room for more positive movement in our lives.New Meaning on Past PainSammy Tagget came the to the name Shoebox Moses from two emotional and moving stories in his life. Somewhere in Manila, Phillippines, he was found in a shoebox in a dumpster left for an uncertain fate. "Shoebox" holds special significance as a reminder of who he his and where he came from. Moses holds a meaning that stems from his desire to free people from the opression and limits that are holding them back from truly living. Finding this name gave Sammy new meaning to his origin story and lead him to find his mission.Through music, he inspires, motivates, and moves people on the dance floor and in their lives, holding space for people to commune and be together through music. When you take control over who you are and use your emotions as a guide for movement, the universe conspires to make things happen for you. With this new sense of purpose, Sammy radically altered the way he performed. Emotional Awareness He got another insight after seeing a "behind the scenes" show of how the soundtrack for the movie The Incredibles was made, he was moved emotionally. This emotion lead him to a deeper understanding of the power behind putting the soundtrack to people's lives so that they can innovate, create, and change the world. Dancing, moving, expressing are all forms of art that allow us as humans to inspire flow. There's a reason why we dance, why it feels good, and why some of our best ideas come from when we're moving. Emotions move us in a number of ways, and we can also embody our emotions, meaning place them somewhere on our bodies. Doing so gives us a richness and depth to our own human experience and even texture to our language - expressions like "choked up" stem from an emotion that catches your throat. When you discover an emotion that affects you, that moves you, place it on your body and really feel into it. Sammy taps back into the moment he felt moved by soundtracks by physically reliving the sensations that emotion gave him, like a deep breath that serves as a reminder of why he's doing what he's doing. One way you can tap deeper into your feelings and learning from them is by asking yourself questions and taking notes. This increases your emotional awareness and emotional intelligence. Journaling or reflecting on your experience can lead you to the logical next step in your journey. You'll begin to see a pattern that is your unique imprint. After ever show, Sammy asks the following questions:What was I feeling? Do I feel like I did a great job does something need to change? Was I fulfilled or empty?Knowing what you feel, how you feel, and where you feel it can provide you with a compass and offer clarity on your path as long as you don't get attached to the emotion. I find it useful to remind myself that I am not my emotions; I have them. Just like a CEO to her executive team, she has them to support but isn't them or defined by them. Looking at emotions and movement also allows us to understand deeper levels of curiosity and perhaps lead us to collaborate and commune with the right people - the ones that light us up, inspire us, or show us a new way of doing and being. More About Sammy TaggetShoebox Moses has created a name for himself in the DJ world, playing with superstars such as Skrillex, Empire of the Sun, and Avicii. He also is the founder of a non-profit called The Foundlings that teaches kids in the Phillippines, including the ones in the orhpanage from where he was adopted, to live inspired lives through art and music.

What is breathwork? Can it lead to more than relaxation or meditation? Cari Merriam, a yogi and breathworker, tells us how you can tap into your own wisdom and knowledge that's within you. By pulling up energy from the lower chakras from joy and sadness to trauma release and even orgasm! Breath is medicine for the cells and mind that can further cleanse the body the bigger and bolder that you breathe. The brain wants to understand, and through breathwork we can activate certain parts of our brains and bodies and get beyond understanding to all knowing - beyond the logical thinking mind. It starts with the experience of deep breathwork and giving your body the opportunity to relax and release. Different from regular breathing, breathwork for trauma release is a consistent, prolonged breathing technique, inhaling in twice and exhaling out all through the mouth. This technique allows the body to experience the breath on a much deeper level that some would say on a soul level.Box Breathing TechniqueCari takes us through a simple, breathing technique called box breathing. This type of breathing exercise is good for relaxation and when you find yourself in moments of stress. It is an impactful technique.[6:40]Inhale to the count of four.Hold for four. Exhale to the count of six or eight. Then hold for six or eight. This is helpful in reducing cortisol simple by the nature of focusing attention on breathing (a form of meditation) and also counting your inhales and exhales (giving the mind a simple task to maintain focus).Active BreathingBy actively breathing, (Cari's technique it's inhaling in twice and exhaling out once all through the mouth) you give yourself the opportunity to be in the now. This is because you must consciously be aware of the breath as you are actively maintining a breathing style that is different from your everyday breath. By taking in more oxygen, the body has the opportunity to open up and release any physical, stored emotional, or energetic tensions and traumas that live within the body. It actively moves that stuff around, and just by breathing!About Cari MerriamCari is an expert breath, healing, health, lifestyle + fitness guide with a mission to increase global happiness by increasing global consciousness. Yoga and her transformational work have changed Cari's life beyond words. She's gone from lost and directionless and deeply unhappy to experiencing the lasting joy and peace that comes from living a life of freedom, passion, and purpose. In 2016 Cari moved to Bali and set up Strength and Surrender, a transformational experience using yoga and powerful transformation techniques, dedicated to helping people recognize what’s standing in the way of living a life of freedom, passion, and purpose,. Check out Cari's latest content at www.carimerriam.com, any of my social channels under Cari Merriam or listen to my latest podcasts at Embodied Enlightenment.