Podcasts about blocking your fulfillment

Lisa is joined by Donald Altman, a psychotherapist, international mindfulness trainer, former Buddhist monk and award-winning author of over 20 books to talk about his book, Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What's Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation.He is profiled in "The Living Spiritual Teachers Project" and featured in "The Mindfulness Movie." He also writes the Psychology Today Mindful Practices blog, which has been read by over 1 millions viewers. in 2023, Donald's spiritual suspense novel Travelers was named a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Out of thousands of submissions worldwide, Travelers was chosen as a Finalist in two categories--"First Novel" and "General Fiction." In addition, Donald's Award-winning non-fiction spirituality and mindfulness books include "The Mindfulness Toolbox"--winner of two Gold IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards as best book in the "Psychology" and "Body-Mind-Spirit" categories, "Clearing Emotional Clutter"--selected "One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2016" and "The Mindfulness Code"--chosen "One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010." Other popular books include "Simply Mindful," "One Minute Mindfulness," "The Mindfulness Code," "Living Kindness," and "Reflect: Awaken to the Wisdom of the Here and Now."Donald has served as past vice-president of The Center for Mindful Eating, and has taught at both Portland State University and Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling. He travels internationally as a keynote speaker and mindfulness workshop leader. His books have been translated word-wide. Visit: www.MindfulPractices.com and the Reflect Community: www.facebook.com/mndfulpracticesBOOK DESCRIPTION: Is emotional clutter blocking success in your personal and professional life? You've likely heard about the psychological benefits of clearing out the clutter in your surroundings, but how do you handle your emotional clutter the psychological version of the jam-packed closet or impenetrable garage? Shutting away and trying to hide old pains and traumas creates toxic patterns that can keep you from having the life of your dreams. Integrating mindfulness and cutting-edge neuroscience, international mindfulness expert Donald Altman teaches how to modify entrenched habits and patterns with only a few minutes of attention daily.Altman first helps you realize what your baggage consists of and how to transform or jettison it. He then shows how to avoid the daily danger of accumulating new emotional clutter. No matter how fraught your life or relationships may be, you can cleanse, heal, or accept the old wounds, mistakes, and disappointments. With Altman's lifestyle tools, you'll discover how to address your past, better deal with the present, and cultivate the best possible future. Start fresh with Clearing Emotional Clutter.

Vaccinating against emotional Affluenza-- getting rid of the need to have the latest and newest, and taking the time to enjoy the "ordinary moments." So often, the best memories involve knowing that the extraordinary is already there. In this podcast, I talk about this chapter from Donald Altman’s book Clearing Emotional Clutter, Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation. Mr. Altman is a psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk, who intertwines principles of both in his book to help us see what is getting in our way of our goals. What about if what is in the way is us? Connect with me!Bettina@intherising.comPinterest: Facebook

Clutter isn't just the stuff in your garage or the piles of junk mail lying around. It can be emotional too. Are you ready to clear out your inner emotional clutter and live happier and more fulfilled?   Donald Altman is a psychotherapist, author of several books on mindfulness including "One-Minute Mindfulness", and a former Buddhist monk. In his newest book, "Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation", Donald teaches readers to dissolve emotional clutter by using the Six Clutter-Clearing Mindfulness Skills, referred to as PAIR UP: Present Moment Participation, Attuned Acceptance, Intentionality, Reflection, Understanding of Suffering, and Purposeful Partnership.    Join Dr Jo Anne White, host of Power Your Life, as she talks to Donald Altman about how you can manage your emotional clutter, retrain your brain, and live happily and freely.   http://www.drjoannewhite.com/

Donald Altman, MA, LPC, is a psychotherapist, a former Buddhist monk, and the award-winning author of several books, including One-Minute Mindfulness, The Mindfulness Toolbox, and The Mindfulness Code. He conducts mindful living and mindful eating workshops and retreats and trains mental health therapists and business people to use mindfulness as a tool for optimizing health and fulfillment. He lives in Portland, Oregon. In the upcoming new book Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation, author Donald Altman combines modern neuroscience with ancient practices to show how habits and patterns can be modified with only a few minutes of attention daily. Learn more about Donald Altman at http://www.mindfulpractices.com Click here to visit the show notes page!   Like this episode? Please leave an honest rating on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. P.S: Just takes a minute! :)   SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES  Click here to leave us a rating & review on iTunes Follow us on social media:  | Facebook | Twitter | Join our Facebook Tribe

Aired Sunday, 1 May 2016, 9:00 PM ETAre you holding onto emotional clutter? Emotional clutter is your personal baggage which consist of traumas, adversities, and painful experiences from your past.So how can you finally rid your life of your emotional clutter and move beyond your past without the toxic practice of blaming, shaming, and punishing yourself or others?Sylvia’s guest, Donald Altman, draws upon both modern science and ancient practices and offers six clutter-clearing mindfulness skills that will allow you to remove the emotional clutter that is blocking your success in your personal and professional life.Tune in and find out how you can experience greater clarity, peace, contentment and freedom from emotional clutter.About the Guest Donald AltmanDonald Altman is the author of Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices For Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation and several other books about mindfulness. He is a practicing psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk. An award-winning writer and an expert on mindful eating, he teaches in the neurobiology program at Portland State University.For more information about Donald Altman please visit at: www.MindfulPractices.com

At one level or another, we all carry around some form of baggage, trauma, adversity, or pain from the past. Whether it’s a result of what others have done to us, what we have done to others, or even the harm we’ve done to ourselves, this inner emotional clutter directly affects our ability to live a fulfilling life.   n Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation  (March 8, 2016), psychotherapist, author, and former Buddhist monk Donald Altman offers readers easy-to-use daily practices designed to dissolve emotional clutter, whether it is old emotional wreckage from their childhood or new emotional clutter that they take on every day. Clearing Emotional Clutter is built around Six Clutter-Clearing Mindfulness Skills, which can be accessed through the acronym PAIR UP:  Present Moment Participation, Attuned Acceptance, Intentionality, Reflection, Understanding of Suffering, and Purposeful Partnership. Throughout the book, Altman shows readers how to apply these skills to become more centered in the present moment, and promises that when they practice one of the mindfulness skills, they are actually practicing all of them.     

For Life on Purpose Episode #50, my guest is psychotherapist, award-winning writer, former Buddhist monk, and teacher Donald Altman. Donald joined me for a excellent conversation about his new book Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation (New World Library). In the book, he offers readers easy-to-use daily practices designed to dissolve emotional clutter, whether it is old emotional wreckage from their childhood or new emotional clutter that they take on every day.“The purpose of Clearing Emotional Clutter is to help you heal and move on from pains, insults, traumas, toxic stressors, and emotional clutter from the past and the present — without blaming, shaming, or punishing yourself,” says Altman. “I like to think of it as a mindful lifestyle reboot — a way of clearing out the old, habitual methods of living and thinking that keep us stuck in emotional clutter to the point that we can’t imagine a way out.”About: Donald Altman is a prolific writer and expert on mindful eating whose career spans more than twenty-five years. He's authored several pioneering books on mindfulness, beginning with his 1998 Art of the Inner Meal. His book The Mindfulness Toolbox is the winner of two 2015 Ben Franklin National Gold Awards, Another book,  The Mindfulness Code, was named as "One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010." He has also authored Living Kindness, Meal by Meal, The Joy Compass, and a personal guide to developing a mindfulness pratice, A Course in Mindfulness.In addition to his books, he was a staff writer for an EMMY-Award winning children's television show (The Magic Door, CBS Chicago), he won an American Medical Writer's Association Award, he co-created the first interactive comic strip on America Online, and has had articles appear in New Age Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Independent Business Magazine, among others.Donald is also a practicing psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk who teaches in the neurobiology program at Portland State University.To learn more about Donald and his work, visit: http://www.mindfulpractices.com/.

This week on Relationships 2.0 my guest is Donald Altman author of Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation About the book: A Fresh Start to a Healthy Emotional Life Is emotional clutter blocking success in your personal and professional life? You’ve likely heard about the psychological benefits of clearing out the clutter in your surroundings, but how do you handle your emotional clutter — the psychological version of the jam-packed closet or impenetrable garage? Shutting away and trying to hide old pains and traumas creates toxic patterns that can keep you from having the life of your dreams. Integrating mindfulness and cutting-edge neuroscience, international mindfulness expert Donald Altman teaches how to modify entrenched habits and patterns with only a few minutes of attention daily. Altman first helps you realize what your baggage consists of and how to transform or jettison it. He then shows how to avoid the daily danger of accumulating new emotional clutter. No matter how fraught your life or relationships may be, you can cleanse, heal, or accept the old wounds, mistakes, and disappointments. With Altman’s lifestyle tools, you’ll discover how to address your past, better deal with the present, and cultivate the best possible future. Start fresh with Clearing Emotional Clutter. About the author: Donald Altman, MA, LPC, is a psychotherapist, a former Buddhist monk, and the award-winning author of several books, including One-Minute Mindfulness, The Mindfulness Toolbox, and The Mindfulness Code. He conducts mindful living and mindful eating workshops and retreats and trains mental health therapists and businesspeople to use mindfulness as a tool for optimizing health and fulfillment. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Aired Wednesday, 30 March 2016, 8:00 PM ETThis week on Destination Unlimited we will discuss spring cleaning…not of your home but of your mind!Our guest this week, Donald Altman, addresses this in his new book, Clearing Emotional Clutter… Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation.Donald calls mindfulness his passion and has written several books on the practice including One-Minute Mindfulness, The Mindfulness Code, The Joy Compass and several others on mindful eating.Donald’s website is mindfulpractices.com and he joins us Wednesday at 8PM EST on the OmTimes Radio Network.