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If you want to know how to think on your feet, you need to understand something most advice on this topic gets wrong: Thinking on your feet is not a talent. It's a trained response. And the training required goes far deeper than memorizing a few “power phrases” or practicing small talk at networking events. Real mental agility, by which I mean the kind that serves you in a boardroom, on a stage, in a heated conversation, and even in physical danger, is something you earn. And to earn it requires systematic preparation across multiple domains. I know this because I've spent decades training for exactly these moments. As a university professor, I've lectured in multiple languages to rooms of students who didn't always want to be there. And to get my PhD, I had to sit for a dissertation defense in a room where some of the examiners delighted in throwing hardball questions. As a performing musician, I've improvised solos on stages where the set list changed mid-show. While performing card magic, I've recovered from botched tricks in front of audiences who were actively trying to catch me out. And as a martial arts practitioner, I've used my training to escape three real-world physical confrontations without throwing a single punch. Then there was my TEDx Talk where I had to make real time adjustments when the audience failed to even smile at my scripted laugh lines, but chuckled substantially during parts I had not planned to be funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtDy68-gkY How to Think on Your Feet: The Complete Training System for Mental Agility Under Pressure What I've learned across all of these experiences is that every domain of “thinking on your feet” shares one foundational requirement. It's not intelligence. It's not quick wit. It's often not even confidence. Rather, the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that thinking quickly and responding in the best possible way comes down to the systematic reduction of ego. That might sound philosophical, but it's intensely practical. And it will become the thread that connects everything in this guide. From how to recall information instantly in a conversation to how to physically escape a threatening situation without freezing. Here's what we'll cover today: Part 1: Why “Thinking on Your Feet” Is a Trained Skill, Not a Personality Trait Part 2: The Ego Problem (Why Your Self-Image Is Your Biggest Obstacle) Part 3: Mental Recall Under Pressure (How to Access What You Know When It Matters) Part 4: Verbal Agility (How to Sound Smart, Pivot, and Recover in Conversation) Part 5: Performance Under Pressure (Lessons from Music, Magic, and the Stage) Part 6: Physical Composure (How to React When Your Safety Is at Stake) Part 7: Daily Training Exercises for Mental Agility Part 8: Loading Your Mind (Why What You Memorize Determines How Well You Think) Part 9: The Paradox of Mental Silence Let’s dive in with why most people struggle with the skill of spontaneously responding in optimal ways in the first place. Why “Thinking On Your Feet” Is a Trained Skill, Not a Personality Trait As Freud pointed out, civilization is not our natural state. In Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, which is usually translated as Civilization and Its Discontents, he argues that much of our inner tension comes from how our social training represses our instincts. “Discontents” is not really a great translation for the title of this book. “Unbehagen” means something more like “unease” or “discomfort.” And since languages and skills are something we learn, we literally have to undergo a process of discomfort to learn most things. That's not a political statement. It's a neurological one. Your brain's implicit memory system, the part that handles automatic behaviors, gut reactions, and how you repeat social patterns on autopilot, was shaped by millennia of environments that looked nothing like a conference room or a dinner party. It was shaped by physical survival, tribal dynamics, and the need to read danger before it arrives. This means that when you're put on the spot in a modern context, your brain defaults to patterns it learned through observation, not through deliberate training. And those patterns were modelled on the people around you growing up. Especially in contexts like: Being asked a question you weren't expecting Getting challenged during a meeting Having someone force you to improvise a presentation at school or work In such situations, you might find yourself freezing under pressure and not realizing that you’re actually repeating how you saw a parent go cold when you were young. Or you might find yourself getting defensive in arguments the way a sibling did, or going blank during presentations based on someone else’s blip you observed. When you repeat this behavior yourself, it’s not a character flaw. That's implicit memory doing exactly what it was designed to do: replicate observed behavior. And if you’re reading this and don’t have problems thinking on your feet, chances are that you were a lucky observer of someone who could when you were young. Combatting Implicit Memory’s Hold with Reconsolidation The problem is that your default patterns are not optimized for the situations modern life throws at you. They're survival patterns, not performance patterns. Since you’ve learned to react like those you’ve observed instead of how you’d prefer to act as a fully realized being in this world, what can you do? Fortunately, quite a bit. Neuroscientists call the mechanism behind how you can shift the hold of implicit memory on your behavior memory reconsolidation. Here’s how memory reconsolidation works in brief: Every time you recall a memory, it temporarily destabilizes. Researchers call this destabilization a “labile state.” And while the memory is transitioning, the memory can be modified before your brain stores it again. This includes modifying behavioral patterns, not just facts. So when you clam up after being put on the spot and then reflect on what happened, that freezing response is briefly open to revision. This process was first demonstrated in landmark research by Karim Nader and Joseph LeDoux at NYU, which you can read about in Memory Reconsolidation. As part of their investigation, Nader and LeDoux demonstrated that even deeply encoded fear memories could be altered during reconsolidation. Unlocking Transformation Bruce Ecker and colleagues later applied this principle therapeutically. I recommend their discussion in Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change. As you’ll read, they discovered how long-held emotional patterns can be rewritten. Not through willpower, but through a specific process of activating the old pattern, introducing a contradictory experience, and allowing the brain to re-encode. Monica Khosla explores a parallel idea in The First and Last Belief. This fascinating book is written by someone who experiences non-dual states similar to those I shared in The Victorious Mind: How to Master Memory, Meditation and Mental Well-Being. Khosla discusses how our earliest family-formed beliefs become the templates for how we respond under pressure as adults. Her work in family therapy suggests that these templates aren’t permanent fixtures. Rather, they’re “reconsolidatable,” provided you understand how they were formed and deliberately create new experiences that contradict them. This is precisely what the training in the guide you’re reading now is designed to do. Every exercise, every practice, every discipline I’ll share works by activating your default pattern (the freeze, the defensive reaction, the blank stare) and replacing it with a trained alternative in the moment it’s most labile. The Catch But there’s a catch. There’s always a catch, isn’t there? The pattern that most resists reconsolidation is your self-image. It’s also your self-image that most aggressively defends itself against change. People literally argue for hours with therapists that they cannot change. I know because I made this argument myself for years in front of my own therapists. This is precisely why thinking on your feet requires training. You cannot simply decide to be quicker, calmer, or more articulate under pressure. You have to deliberately replace your default patterns with trained responses. And use deliberate practice to ensure those responses become the new default. The training looks different depending on the context: In conversation and debate, it means learning frameworks for organizing thoughts rapidly and practicing with real people. In professional settings, it means memorizing key information so thoroughly that recall becomes effortless, freeing your mind to think rather than search. On stage or in front of an audience, it means thousands of hours of performance practice that builds a reservoir of recoveries and pivots you can draw on automatically. In physical danger, it means martial arts or self-defense training that bypasses conscious thought entirely and produces trained physical reactions. Each of these contexts has its own training methods. But they all share the same underlying principle: the trained response must be so deeply encoded that it fires before your conscious mind has time to interfere. The single biggest source of that interference? Your ego. But never fear. As big of a problem as the ego can be, you’re going to learn how to solve and resolve it. Part 2: The Ego Problem (Why Your Self-Image Is Your Biggest Obstacle) Here's the uncomfortable truth that almost no “how to think on your feet” article will tell you: The reason most people freeze, fumble, or fail under pressure is not that they lack information or intelligence. It's that they're managing their self-image at the same time as they're trying to perform. They experience serious cognitive drain as a result. Why? Well, when you're in a meeting and someone asks you a question you don't know the answer to, your mind doesn't just process the question. If your ego is not well-managed, your mind simultaneously processes: “What will they think of me if I don't know? Will I look incompetent? How do I maintain my status?” That parallel processing consumes the very cognitive resources you need for actual thinking. The Additional Cognitive Drain of Fantasizing Your Own Wit The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan made an observation that I've found profoundly useful in this context. He once pointed out that our fantasies are almost always better than the reality. For example, when we fantasize about being the quick-witted person everyone admires, we're constructing an idealized self-image that the real moment can never live up to. At least not all the time. You’ve probably heard the phrase “the gods have clay feet.” Well, spend enough time with accomplished performers, and you’ll start to see why. No one always has: the perfect response the devastating comeback the elegant pivot But we fantasize that some people do. And then when we don't perform like our fantasy, we experience not just the failure of the moment, but also a painful collapse of our self-image. That's why a stumble in a presentation can feel catastrophic even when the audience barely notices. The ego is experiencing a much larger injury than the situation warrants. How to Reduce Ego Before It Costs You There’s no quick fix for the ego. And ego reduction exercises so you can respond with greater self-satisfaction in the moment require: Practice in advance Consistent application in a variety of situations And in a variety of ways until responding off the top of your head from a clear mind becomes your default orientation. Then you maintain the practices that get you the spontaneous mastery you want over time. Here is a powerful place to start. Practice Stoic Premeditation The Stoics called it premeditatio malorum or negative visualization. Basically, you deliberately imagine everything that could go wrong related to the situations that regularly require your response. If you regularly visualize yourself going blank in a meeting, stumbling through a presentation, or being publicly corrected, the actual event loses its power to destabilize you. You've already experienced the worst in your imagination. The real version is almost always milder. It’s the flipside of the point from Lacan we discussed above. You’ve now made the reality much better than the fantasy. Modify the Classic Stoic Exercise You can modify premeditatio malorum in two key ways. I suggest you experiment with both techniques I’m about to describe. One: Transform Old Memories of a Disastrous Performance First, you can excavate through your memory to find situations you recall where things have already been bad for you. Then, you can “cleanse” those memories by placing them in a “Happy Memory Palace.” The scientific basis for this process comes from research showing promise in therapy for trauma, such as this study of memory reconsolidation specific to declarative memory. And there is the now classic Tim Dalgleish-headed research on using Memory Palaces or the method of loci for successfully reducing depression. For more on this kind of research, the following livestream replay gives you an exact exercise and more about the memory science behind the positive outcomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs9UHz4pVuM In terms of how I’ve used this approach personally, I sometimes wince at one particular memory from when I sang a song during show-and-tell one morning when I was in grade two. I don’t know why I used to feel embarrassed when the memory would arise as an adult, but I could feel the sting in my cheeks. And later when I first started sharing the Sanskrit phrases I’ve memorized, that little flush of shame would arise again. So to forgive that kid whatever my memory was holding against him for his squeaky little voice, I turned the classroom into a Memory Palace and used it to memorize a delightful poem. From the point that I finished learning the poem (you can learn the process from this poetry memorization guide), I can think of that episode without that old embarrassment reviving any of its sting. And I’ve used this approach to transform other lingering memories I don’t like as well, something I’ll share more in-depth in a forthcoming book. Releasing old negative memories that involve shame makes me feel more spontaneous. And I’m confident you’ll enjoy a similar benefit too. Two: Memorize Stoic Quotes Memorizing poetry is one thing, but it takes time. You can commit quotes to memory a lot faster. I share one of my favorite quotes from Seneca in this YouTube short, one that took only a few minutes to memorize, even though it’s in Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISvX0-CfRkk I found this quote in Kevin Vost’s Memorize the Stoics! Although it’s not on my list of best Memory Palace Books, it provides a great look at memory training through a Stoic lens. And Vost is right: The value of having ancient wisdom on tap cannot be exaggerated. Not just for correcting your ego. You’ll also find that you have more things to say when pressed to speak on the spot. Things that have stood the test of time. Meditate Specifically for Ego Reduction Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, often says in his talks that if you are empty of thought, you don’t have to worry about what to say next during a conversation. You’ll spontaneously produce the best possible reply. I often wondered how it was possible to empty my mind of thoughts until I encountered Gary Weber’s Happiness Beyond Thought and Evolving Beyond Thought amongst other works. Although Weber’s full program requires a fair amount of time, it’s worth it for the mental space and spontaneity you’ll enjoy. Two Other Tactics for Detaching From Your Ego for Greater Spontaneity While you’re experimenting with Stoicism, here are two other tactics to explore. They’re both counterintuitive, but powerful. Embrace ignorance as a position of strength Saying “I don't know, but I'll find out” is not a failure. It's a demonstration of intellectual honesty that most people find more impressive than an imaginary answer. If your ego tells you that not knowing something is a form of weakness, push back. Admitting when you don’t know something and then doing some research and following up, builds trust at the same time as it builds your knowledge base. Detach from Needing Any Particular Outcome Your job in any high-pressure moment is not to be brilliant. It's to be present and responsive. Almost as if there is no “you” longing to be perceived in any particular way. Or desiring things to play out for or against you. When you stop trying to produce the perfect response and instead focus on actually hearing the question, understanding the situation, and responding honestly, the quality of your thinking improves dramatically. And it happens largely because you've freed up the cognitive resources consumed by your egotistical needs. You’ll also enjoy your perception of the present moment much more. Part 3: Mental Recall Under Pressure (How to Access What You Know When It Matters) One of the most common experiences of “not thinking on your feet” is this: You know the information, but you can't access it in the moment. You know your mind possesses the answer. But the pressure of the situation has locked the door. There's a neurological explanation for this. Researcher Amy Arnsten has documented how stress signalling pathways in the prefrontal cortex effectively shut down under acute stress. As we know from studies in anxiety-induced memory loss, during stress, the amygdala takes prominence over the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for working memory, reasoning, and flexible thinking. As a result, your brain redirects resources toward fight-or-flight responses that are useful for physical survival but terrible for articulate speech. This is a major reason why you can know something perfectly in a calm environment and go completely blank when asked about it in front of an audience or in a heated discussion. The information hasn't disappeared. Your brain has simply redirected resources away from the systems that retrieve it. The Alphabet Retrieval Technique When I suddenly can't recall something (a name, a fact, a point I wanted to make), I have a technique that works more often than I'd expect: I mentally run through the alphabet from A to Z. It doesn’t always bring back the information. But the technique works often enough to make it a reliable first move, hitting the correct first letter while scanning through the alphabet triggers the retrieval. When it works, it’s because the first letter acts as a cue that unlocks the rest of the word or thought. It’s also the basis of how associative memory operates. As Dr. Gary Small has explained, your brain stores information in networks that somewhat resemble neighborhoods. And the first letter of a word is often enough of a “key” to unlock the door on a full node of information. It's the same principle behind why a song's opening notes can bring back the entire melody. Or how just a word or two of a lyric can bring back an entire verse. The “Let It Go” Retrieval Technique If scanning the alphabet doesn't work, the next best strategy is counterintuitive: Stop trying. In other words, deliberately release any attempt to search your mind for the content. Instead, move on to the next point, the next topic, the next question. Often, within 5–10 minutes, the information you were grasping for will come racing back to mind. This form of recall happens because your subconscious continues processing the retrieval request even after your conscious mind has moved on. Releasing the conscious effort actually accelerates the process, because you've removed the stress that was blocking retrieval in the first place. The Anti-Digital Amnesia Discipline You Need In order to ensure your memory gets stronger over time, you need to break the habit of immediately reaching for your phone or a search engine when you fail to recall something. Every time you outsource mental retrieval to a computer, you weaken the neural pathways that perform recall. You're training your brain that it doesn't need to do the work — and over time, it stops trying. This is the phenomenon I've written about as digital amnesia, and it's one of the most insidious threats to mental agility in the modern world. Preloading: The Real Solution to In-the-Moment Recall Both alphabetical retrieval and simply letting go are recovery strategies. They're useful when recall fails. But the real solution to thinking on your feet is to ensure that recall rarely fails in the first place. This is where a variety of memory training techniques enter the picture. Not as gimmicks, but as the foundational infrastructure for mental agility. The Memory Palace Technique Using Memory Palaces provides a core means of preloading information into your mind. Because this technique allows you to encode very large amounts of information, retrieval under pressure becomes qualitatively different from trying to recall something you passively read or heard. You literally own that information, forwards and backwards. It works because the spatial structure of the Memory Palace gives your brain a retrieval path that works even when the prefrontal cortex is under stress, because spatial memory is processed partly by the hippocampus. This is a different system than the one stress shuts down. In practical terms: If you've memorized the key points of a presentation using a Memory Palace, you don't need to “remember” them under pressure. You just mentally walk to the next room. The information is there, waiting. But it’s not merely attached to a place you know as well as your own home. It has also entered long-term memory. To learn this approach, check out The Memory Palace Technique: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide. Memory Wheels and the Art of Combination Retrieving facts, quotes, even entire passages under pressure is one thing. But what about those moments when you need to synthesize information on the spot? Such as when someone poses a complex question and the right answer isn’t a single piece of information but a combination of ideas you need to assemble in real time? This is where most people’s recall fails them entirely. They might remember one relevant point, but they can’t pull together the three or four ideas needed to construct a substantive response on the spot. I use a technique for this that dates back to the 13th-century philosopher Ramon Llull, later refined by the Renaissance memory master Giordano Bruno. It’s called ars combinatoria or the art of combination. It works by pre-organizing your knowledge onto mental structures called memory wheels so that you can rotate through ideas rapidly and recombine them in novel ways during live situations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opmb-mU-KPI Here’s the simplest version of how it works in practice: Imagine a circle in your mind with the letters A through Z arranged around it. For each letter, you’ve pre-assigned a thinker, a framework, or a principle you know well. A might be Aristotle. B might be a breathing technique. C might be a core value you hold. M might be Marcus Aurelius. S might be the Stoic concept of premeditatio malorum. When a difficult question hits you in conversation, instead of grasping for one perfect answer, you mentally spin the wheel. Instead of searching randomly for something to say, you approach the task of coming up with something to say by scanning an organized inventory of your best thinking. Because you’ve pre-loaded and spatially arranged all of it, your mind can traverse what you’ve already learned quickly. Memory Wheel Example One of my favorite Memory Wheels is populated with philosophers (one for each letter of the alphabet). When I’m confronted with a complex topic, I rotate through and consider what Aristotle would say and then move on through as many philosophers as I like, all the way to Zizek for Z. I know this technique sounds elaborate and it requires having read the best philosophy books, but once you have a Memory Wheel built and practiced, the rotation takes seconds. Here’s a rapid fire discussion with a few more examples from one of my YouTube shorts from the road in Brisbane: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/29nOib2ZS_4 Please don’t overlook this technique. It produces responses that are genuinely multi-perspectival, not just whatever my default opinion happens to be. The deeper history of this technique and detailed instructions for building your own memory wheels are covered in my full guide to Ramon Llull’s memory wheel method. But the principle you can apply immediately upon developing your own memory wheels is this: If you pre-organize your knowledge into a spatial structure rather than leaving it scattered across your memory, you gain the ability to not just recall individual facts under pressure but to combine and recombine ideas on the fly. That is the difference between someone who can answer a question and someone who can think through a problem in real time. It’s not speed without purpose. It’s architecture with a sense of direction based on the shoulders of giants. Part 4: Verbal Agility (How to Sound Smart, Pivot, and Recover in Conversation) Verbal agility isn't about having a quick tongue. It's about having a calm mind with a deep well of material to draw from. The people who seem effortlessly articulate in conversation are rarely making it up on the spot. They're drawing on vast reserves of pre-loaded knowledge, practiced frameworks, and rehearsed transitions. What looks like spontaneous brilliance is actually the visible tip of an enormous iceberg of preparation. Frameworks for Organizing Your Thoughts Rapidly When someone throws a topic at you and you need to respond coherently, having a mental framework prevents the rambling that makes people sound unprepared. Here are several that work, provided you practice using them before they’re required in real-life situations: The PREP Framework PREP stands for: Point Reason Example Point It’s a very powerful formula to practice during debates as well as in conversation. When using PREP, you state your position, give one reason, illustrate with one example, then restate your position. This takes 30–60 seconds and helps keep your replies structured without sounding rehearsed. The WRAP Technique I learned this one from Chip and Dan Heath's Decisive. WRAP stands for: Widen your options Reality-test your assumptions Attain distance before deciding Prepare to fail I placed WRAP on a memory wheel and demonstrate how to run through it mentally in this ars combinatoria video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYDmaBXvJg What to Do When You're Stumped Even with the frameworks we just discussed or tactics like running through the alphabet, you will experience situations where you simply don't have a response. Here are more strategies you can try. Pause Peacefully Although falling silent can feel painful when you first start practicing it, rest assured that it barely registers to the person listening. And in many cases, a two or three-second pause before responding signals thoughtfulness, not ignorance. Most people rush to fill silence because their ego can't tolerate appearing slow. But a measured pause followed by a substantive response is always more impressive than a rushed response followed by backtracking. Seek Clarification There’s nothing wrong with asking people: “Can you say more about what you mean by that?” or “Are you asking about X or Y specifically?” Such questions will not stall the conversation. It's genuine intellectual engagement, and it often reveals avenues for further conversation that would not be revealed any other way. Use the Truth You might not know this, but many people find it refreshing when someone admits that something is outside of their area. Nir Eyal did that on my podcast a few years ago and I’ve never forgotten his willingness to “stay in his lane,” as he put it. The best part? Nobody penalizes honest uncertainty and a request to move on if you really don’t have a settled opinion on some matter or any expertise. Practice Physical Awareness Sometimes when we’re stumped, our body tenses up. Shoulders rise, the jaw clenches and breathing shallows. This physical tension feeds back into your mental state and makes mental freezing worse. But deliberately dropping your shoulders and taking one slow breath can help break the cycle. More on this kind of physical solution is coming up in Part 6. Practice Steelmanning One of the most powerful exercises for verbal agility is practicing steelmanning. Related to the principle of charity in rhetoric, steelmanning is the practice of arguing for positions with which you disagree. But not half-heartedly. No, you make the argument in the strongest possible terms. One simple way to practice steelmanning involves getting a friend to throw topics at you randomly. Your job is not to argue your own position, but to construct the best possible argument for the opposite side. This practice accomplishes three things simultaneously: It forces you to think through ideas from perspectives you wouldn't naturally adopt, which builds cognitive flexibility. It trains you to separate your ego from your position, because you're explicitly not defending your own views. It prepares you for actual debates, because you've already rehearsed the strongest version of your opponent's argument. For more tips that will help you in this department, check out my guide to preparing for debates. The Improv Principle If you take one thing from this section and act on it, let it be this: Take an improvisation class. Why? Improv comedy training provides you with the single most transferable skill for verbal agility in any context. The core principle of improv is quite easy. You simply answer everything with either “yes, and…” or “no, but…” This simple structure teaches you to accept whatever is thrown at you and build on it rather than blocking or deflecting. This is the exact skill you need in meetings, conversations, presentations, and debates. Improv also provides the one thing you can't get from reading articles: Real-time practice under social pressure while receiving immediate feedback. No amount of theory replaces the experience of standing in front of a group with nothing planned and having to produce something. It’s been a long time since I took an improv class, or any class. But you really only need one round to create a permanent transformation. Part 5: Performance Under Pressure (Lessons from Music, Magic, and the Stage) If you've never performed music, theatre, magic, public speaking, or any other form of real-time presentation, you may not realize how much of “thinking on your feet” is simply having enough trained material that you can recover from anything. The principle applies far beyond the stage. But the stage is where the principle is most visible, so let me share what I've learned from three performance disciplines. Music: Improvisation Is Built on Structure & Self-Awareness When I studied music, I learned something that most non-musicians find surprising: improvisational soloing requires more preparation than playing a written piece. A written piece has every note specified. You practice it, you perform it, you're done. An improvised solo, on the other hand, requires you to internalize the underlying structure so thoroughly that you can navigate it in real time without conscious planning. You need to know the modes, the chord changes, the rhythmic patterns, the phrasing conventions. And you need to know them so well that they're available to your fingers before your conscious mind has time to think about which note comes next. I know this from decades of musical experience. But my life in music almost never happened at all. In grade five, I failed a recorder test. It was given as a prerequisite for joining band class in grade six. The reason, though I didn’t have the language for it at the time, was a condition then called image-deficit disorder, now known as aphantasia. I couldn’t visualize what my teachers were asking me to see on the recorder or the sheet music. And the boring mnemonic sentences they gave us for remembering the notes made no sense to me. The school’s verdict in the face of my supposed failure? No band class. My dad changed that. He rolled up to the school on his Harley Davidson and had a conversation with the administration that I wasn’t privy to. Whatever he said, it worked. I was in. So long as I played the trombone instead of my dream bass guitar. They thought trombone would be easiest for me with its one simple slide. The Art of Coping By Copying But getting into band class didn’t mean I could play. In fact, for the entire first year, I sat beside another trombonist who picked up every note like it was nothing. I survived by watching his slide positions and copying them. I wasn’t reading music. I was reading him. The next year, in grade seven, the teacher gave us separate parts, and my copying lifeline was over. I remember sitting alone in a room with that trombone, sweat rolling down my face, sheet music on the stand turning my brain into wet sawdust. It felt like staring at an explosive I didn’t know how to defuse. But something shifted as my juvenile brain worked to solve the problem. Once I was forced to actually engage with the notation instead of mimicking someone else, I started seeing patterns. The theory behind the notes began to click. My teacher noticed the transformation quickly, both in performance and on my written tests. Later that year, she encouraged me to enter a sight-reading competition. Even though I didn’t win, I remember the thrill of performing music I’d never seen before. And because my teacher saw how deeply I’d started engaging with music, she helped me secure a spot at the local summer school of music before high school. That summer changed my trajectory. I studied with a celebrated trombonist from Canadian Brass. My skills went up substantially, and after a solo I played during the final concert, I was asked to audition for the Kamloops Rube Band. I turned that invitation down and finally retired the trombone for a bass and joined a heavy metal band instead. Over the years that followed, I played in multiple bands, learned increasingly complex music, and eventually realized a lifelong dream: going on tour with an established band. Memory expert Anthony Metivier performing at a concert in Germany. The Lesson That Changed How I Perform And it was during that tour, playing with a sophisticated band called The Outside, that I received perhaps the most important lesson about thinking on your feet that music ever gave me. After a show, our drummer Tito told me I’d missed a few notes. I braced for a critical lecture, but he said something I’ve never forgotten. It was an important tip that has everything to do with the practice of thinking on your feet: “The real problem isn’t missing the notes. It’s looking like you made a mistake. If you look like you made a mistake, it is a mistake.” From that moment on, I trained myself to improvise how I looked just as much as how I sounded. A missed note played with confidence reads as a creative choice. A perfect note played with visible anxiety reads as a near-miss. The audience often doesn’t hear your mistakes, but they do see your reaction to them. This principle extends far beyond music. It shows up in meetings, presentations and conversations. Your stumbles themselves are almost never what people remember. They remember whether or not you flinched. And to tie this all back to the beginning, flinching is an ego response. It’s the visible evidence of caring more about how you appear than about what you’re communicating. Tito didn’t know he was teaching me about ego reduction back during that tour in 2013. But that’s exactly what his lesson was. Card Magic: Multiple Outs and Recovery In card magic, which is especially useful in memorized deck magic, there's a concept called “multiple outs.” I think about it constantly in non-magic contexts. A multiple out is a tactic you might never use, but always have something prepared so that no matter what the spectator does, you conclude the trick successfully. In other words, no matter which card they choose, which pile they point to, which decision they make, you have a prepared path to a successful conclusion. The spectator thinks they're making free choices. In reality, every choice leads to the same place, or to one of several equally impressive endings. This is exactly how preparation works for thinking on your feet. If you've prepared thoroughly for a meeting, you don't just have one argument. You have multiple arguments, multiple examples, multiple pivot points. If someone challenges your position, you have an “out.” If someone asks an unexpected question, you have another “out.” The more preparation you've done, the more outs you have. Magician in Trouble There's also a sub-genre in magic called “magician in trouble” where the performer intentionally appears to make a mistake, building tension before a surprising recovery. What the audience doesn't realize is that the “mistake” was planned and the recovery was rehearsed. But it only works because the performer has done thousands of hours of practice behind the scenes. If you’re having trouble acting spontaneously, learning a few magic tricks is one of the best things you can do. The more tricks you know, the more you can make mistakes and recover. If one trick goes wrong, you transition to another. If a spectator does something unexpected, you have a different trick that accommodates their choice. The depth of your repertoire is directly proportional to your ability to handle anything. Translate this to your professional life: The more tools, frameworks, examples, and stories you have memorized, the more “tricks” you can draw from when a conversation or presentation goes sideways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtYjdriSpM Two Levels of TEDx Improvisation Where Preparation Met Reality Minutes before I was due on stage for my TEDx Talk, a long-time fan showed up without a ticket. From what I gathered, he’d traveled to attend the event in Melbourne. And I could tell he was genuinely excited. But he didn’t have a ticket. And when the venue staff told him he couldn’t come in, due to fire capacity rules, we were both frustrated. Anyone with two eyes could see that the room wasn’t actually full. But there was no time to argue the bureaucracy. I was about to deliver the most important presentation of my career, after all. This is exactly the kind of moment that derails people. Not the talk itself, but the things that happen right before you hit the stage. I’m talking about the unexpected disruptions that flood your system with cortisol at the worst possible time. My ego wanted to fight for this person’s entry. It wanted to make a scene about the absurdity of empty seats and fire codes. It wanted to be the hero who fixes things. Instead, thinking on my feet, I suggested we meet for dinner after the talk. He understood. We shook hands. And then I had approximately four minutes to completely reset my mental state before walking on stage. Here’s what I did, standing backstage where nobody could see: I placed my hands behind my back and began Kirtan Kriya. This is a four-syllable meditation (Sa, Ta, Na, Ma) combined with a sequential mudra where your fingers tap. Gary Weber teaches it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvokeZnXMM By using the technique with both hands behind my back so no one would see, I simultaneously slowed my breathing and brought myself back to center. Between breath cycles, I also ran a quick body scan from my feet to my scalp, deliberately releasing tension wherever I found it. Jaw, shoulders, hands, the major muscle groups. By the time they called my name, I was calm. Not confident in the way people usually mean. I wasn’t puffed up or “psyched” to give my speech. Just calm in the way that comes from having emptied the bowl. The fan situation was gone from my mind. The ego’s need to intervene was gone. What remained was a mind with nothing in it except a memorized talk and the willingness to deliver it to whoever was in that room. What To Do When the Room Doesn’t Follow Your Script Shortly after my talk began, the room did something I hadn’t planned for. A scripted joke that had worked perfectly to create laughter during the dress rehearsal the day before landed in silence. Not awkward silence. Just… nothing. The audience looked at me with interest but no laughter. A few minutes later, during a section I hadn’t intended to be funny at all, they laughed. Genuinely. A speaker working from notes would have been buried in their script at that moment, unable to read the room because their eyes were on the page. But my entire talk was encoded in Memory Palaces using the technique I teach in my guide, How to Memorize a Speech. I didn’t need to look at any notes. I could look at everyone and connect with them directly. So I did and leaned into their laughter. I let it breathe. I adjusted my pacing to ride the energy they were giving me rather than forcing the energy I’d planned. Going with the flow, I made an unscripted joke and it landed. And when the moment passed, I stepped to the next station in my Memory Palace and continued on with the talk. What the Audience Saw vs. What Actually Happened The audience experienced this as spontaneity. They saw a speaker who was loose, present, reading the room. What actually happened was decades of training expressing itself through a four-second decision. The musical performance training that taught me to keep playing through mistakes without flinching. The card magic training that taught me to have multiple outs when a planned effect doesn’t land. The teaching experience that taught me to read a room full of people who may not be responding the way I expected. And underneath all of it, my ego-reduction efforts shone through, including the willingness to let go of the talk I’d planned and deliver the talk the audience needed. After the event, several people told me how natural and relaxed I seemed. One person said it felt like I was just talking to them, not giving a speech. That’s the highest compliment a speaker can receive. And it was entirely the product of preparation. But nothing about that talk was spontaneous other than the joke I made up on the fly. Otherwise, every word of that talk was memorized verbatim. The audience saw someone thinking on their feet. What they were actually seeing was someone falling back on their training. That, and they witnessed someone with enough training to fall back on. That is the difference. And it’s available to anyone willing to put in the work before the moment arrives. Part 6: Physical Composure (How to React When Your Safety Is at Stake) There are situations where “thinking on your feet” has nothing to do with being articulate or quick-witted. Quite the opposite. There are many moments in life when thinking itself is the problem, especially during situations where what you need is a trained physical response that fires before your conscious mind has time to interfere. I've been in three of these situations. Each time, it was my years-long Systema training that kept me safe. In case you don’t know it, Systema is a martial art focused on breathing, relaxation, and fluid movement under stress. To be clear, it didn’t help me fight. It helped me because it stopped fights from erupting in the first place. Let me explain. Incident One: The Attempted Mugging While writing my dissertation, I was living in Washington Heights, a district north of Harlem in New York City. I was walking south, down to the 170s from the corner of 187th and Cabrini, where I’d stopped to use a bank machine. On my way out, a man stood in front of me with something resembling a gun in his pocket. Exactly as it happens in the movies, he gestured in quick spurts of energy so that my eyes dropped and looked at his pocket. “Give me your wallet and all your money,” he demanded. My Systema training kicked in. Instead of having my shoulders shoot up with anxious tension — the default I’d seen in almost every new student Emmanuel Manolakakis worked with, including me during my first lessons — my mind automatically followed the training I’d received. Without willing it, my shoulders dropped and my mind and body synced with my breath. In a way that still completely bewilders me, a smile came across my face. I don’t know what I looked like, but my expression unnerved the mugger. It created the stress in him that should have been in my body. After what seemed like an eternity, the mugger said, “Wipe that smile off your face or I’ll shoot you.” At this point, my smile grew wider and I started to laugh. An instant later, it felt right to move. I took one step forward into his space and angled to the left with the second and third steps. I didn’t break his gaze and watched as his eyes and entire head tracked me as I moved past him. Then, still operating completely on autopilot, I started to run and found myself in a cleaning supplies store filled with mops and buckets. No confrontation. No escalation. No ego. Just a trained body responding faster than a thinking mind would have. My Systema training, from breath coordination to deep muscle relaxation and long hours of practice with dropping into calm during situations of simulated threat, delivered exactly what it was designed for: bypassing the conscious mind that would have frozen me and let the body handle the situation. Incident Two: The Dark Path in Toronto Some time later, walking in Toronto, I approached a path at the end of a high school field. It was too late to be taking this popular shortcut, but there I was during a night that was far darker than I would have liked. There was just one street lamp hanging over that path, and its bulb was barely working. Before I stepped onto the path, I put a dime on my thumb. I didn’t think about why. There was no conscious strategy at work. My body simply did what training had taught it to do: prepare for the possibility of contact without committing to a plan. Sure enough, someone stepped into my path. I flicked the dime. The coin caught his gaze and seized his attention, producing a few seconds of involuntary visual tracking. This is the same reflex that makes every human eye follow sudden movement. Thanks to the distraction created by the spinning dime, I moved past him easily and paced off into the distance before his focus returned. The entire encounter lasted maybe three seconds. There was no conversation, no confrontation, no mental calculation. Just a trained response that created a tiny window of distraction and an immediate exit through it. I still think about the fact that I put the dime on my thumb before anything happened. It wasn’t a decision so much as it was a product of procedural memory — the same memory system that helps a musician’s fingers find the right fret before their conscious mind has named the note. Systema trains you to read environments the way musicians read chord changes. Not by analyzing, but by responding to patterns your body has trained to respond to inside the dojo. Incident Three: Outside the Post Office The third incident was the strangest. Outside a post office, someone with a grievance I didn’t fully understand began yelling at me aggressively. His body language was escalating and the situation felt like it could turn physical. My response was immediate: I raised my hands into a prayer gesture. With my palms together and fingers standing straight up, I found myself saying “thank you” over and over. I wasn’t being clever. I wasn’t trying to defuse the situation with wit. The gesture came from training, and it served two purposes simultaneously that I was only partially aware of in the moment. First, it put my hands in a position to quickly block any incoming strike. The prayer position is a natural guard because your hands are high, elbows close and forearms ready to redirect. I mean, it’s not going to make you bulletproof, but it’s just as disarming as the smile I delivered back during the mugging I survived in New York. Second, my response psychologically short-circuited the man’s aggression. Being thanked while you’re on the offensive is so dissonant that the brain doesn’t know how to process it. This person’s rhythm broke. His volume dropped. The escalation stalled because the script he was running had been interrupted by a response that didn’t fit. He didn’t thank me back. But at least he stopped. And I walked away unscathed. The Common Thread: No Ego, No Thinking, Just the Fruits of Training In all three incidents, the pattern is identical: Because the ego was out of the way, I wasn't trying to prove anything or “win” the encounters. There was also no conscious thinking. The responses were physical, automatic, and executed faster than mental deliberation would have allowed. Plus, there was relaxation under threat. The counterintuitive act of relaxing when threatened, which Systema specifically trains, prevented the freeze response that ego and fear typically produce. Finally, the strategy in each case was oriented toward getting away, not engaging. For anyone who wants to develop this dimension of thinking on their feet, I strongly recommend studying a martial art that emphasizes relaxation, awareness, and movement rather than aggression and force. Finding Your Own Physical Practice If personal experiences make you want to sign up for Systema, I’d encourage it. But I’d also encourage any martial art that emphasizes awareness, breathing, and relaxation over aggression and force. The point is not to become a fighter. The point is to develop a body that responds to threat with trained composure rather than untrained panic. Beyond martial arts, I practice Qigong daily and have for years. It’s not a combat discipline, but it trains the same foundational skills experienced in a gentler format: Breath coordination Bodily awareness Relaxation under tension For someone who has no interest in martial training, Qigong offers many of the same benefits for composure and physical presence without ever throwing or receiving a strike. Whatever physical practice you choose, I’d offer one caution: Don’t romanticize these practices or turn them into a glamorous fantasy. Remember the lesson from Lacan and the Stoic lessons that make sure reality is better than fantasy if and when real situations of trouble land. The three incidents I described above weren’t action sequences. They were awkward, brief, and slightly absurd. I didn’t defeat anyone. I smiled, flicked a coin, and said thank you. The training didn’t make me dangerous. It made me calm enough to exit each situation without a scratch. And that brings me to what I consider the most important physical skill of all, one that doesn’t require any formal training: situational awareness. Train for Situational Awareness In each of the three incidents, there was a moment before contact where my body registered something my conscious mind hadn’t articulated yet. In Washington Heights, I noticed the man’s posture before he spoke. In Toronto, something made me put a dime on my thumb before I entered the dark path. Outside the post office, I registered the escalation in body language before any words were exchanged. To train for greater situational awareness, walk with your phone in your pocket instead of your hand. Move around the world with your ears empty instead of listening to music or podcasts. When you enter a room, notice the exits. When you’re in an unfamiliar environment, pay attention to who is around you and how they’re moving. These aren’t paranoid habits. They’re the same environmental reading skills your ancestors used every day. Modern life has simply given us the luxury of ignoring them. There is almost no better way to think on your feet than the thinking that steers you clear of sticky situations in the first place. When it comes to physical confrontation, the best-trained response is the one you never have to use. Part 7: Daily Training Exercises for Mental Agility Everything discussed so far requires ongoing practice. Here are the specific daily exercises I use and recommend, organized from quick (2 minutes) to involved (30+ minutes). Breathing Techniques (2–5 minutes) Before any high-pressure situation, be it a presentation, a meeting or a difficult conversation, controlled breathing is the fastest way to shift your nervous system from sympathetic (fight-or-flight) to parasympathetic (calm and focused). The simplest technique: Breathe in for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts, breathe out for 6 counts. The extended exhale activates the vagus nerve and physically slows your heart rate. Do this for 2 minutes and you'll enter any situation calmer and more mentally available. For more advanced breathing techniques, check out this video tutorial I made for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeO06_uZZcg   Progressive Muscle Relaxation (5–10 minutes) Systematically tensing and releasing muscle groups, from your feet to your face, trains your body to release the physical tension that accumulates under stress. Over time, you develop the ability to detect and release tension in real time — during a conversation, during a presentation, during a confrontation. This is the body scan component that I used before my TEDx Talk, and it's a core element of Systema training as well. The ability to scan your body for tension and deliberately release it is a physical skill that directly supports mental agility. Steelmanning Practice (15–20 minutes) Get a partner. Have them throw random topics at you. Your job: argue the strongest possible case for the position you naturally oppose. Switch roles. Do this twice a week and within a month you'll notice a dramatic improvement in your ability to think through problems from multiple angles under time pressure. Now, you might think about going to Chat-GPT or some other LLM. You can certainly give this a try. However, beware of context-dependent memory and state-dependence issues. If you only train in digital environments with a bot, you will likely find that you perform fine when sparring with a computer, but flounder with a human. As this study found, training in certain environments creates less cognitive fatigue than others. So if you come to develop certain beliefs about the difficulty of discussing things based on experiences with chatbots, you will probably not like the energy-drain you encounter when dealing with humans. Remember: we tend to fight the way we train, so practice all rhetorical argumentation in a variety of environments, never just one. Random Topic Riffing (10–15 minutes) Have someone give you a topic and speak about it for 2 minutes without stopping. What you say doesn't need to be brilliant, but work at speaking continuously. The exercise trains your brain to keep producing output even when it doesn't feel ready, which is exactly the skill you need when put on the spot. Increase difficulty by having the topic-giver interrupt you with new topics mid-stream. This trains your ability to pivot and shift directions without losing composure. Memory Palace Practice (15–30 minutes) Every time you encode information using a Memory Palace, you're doing more than memorizing. You're building the retrieval infrastructure that makes recall under pressure possible. Regular Memory Palace practice is the single most important investment you can make in your ability to access information when you need it. The more you memorize, the more you should seek to incorporate memorized material into your steelmanning and random riffing practice routines. Alphabet Drills and Multiple Mentality (5–15 minutes) One of the most unusual training systems I’ve encountered comes from Harry Kahne, a performer from the 1920s who could write with both hands simultaneously while reciting poetry from memory. He called his approach “Multiple Mentality” because it’s the deliberate practice of running several mental operations at once. His exercises sound deceptively simple. The foundational one: write out the alphabet backwards from memory. Not from Z-A printed on a card. From memory, cold. Most people find reciting the alphabet backwards surprisingly difficult the first time. But once you can do it? That’s when the real training begins. Kahne then asks you to pair the alphabet’s extreme ends mentally: A-Z, B-Y, C-X, working inward. Then start from the center and pair outward in reverse. These are pure concentration drills because they force your brain to hold a structure in working memory while performing various forms of recall. I go deeper into the full Multiple Mentality system and all of Kahne’s exercises in my detailed review of his course, including the parts I think are brilliant and the parts where I respectfully disagree with him. Part 8: Prepping Your Mind (Why What You Memorize Determines How Well You Think) Most of us know that the quality of your thinking is directly proportional to the quality of what you've committed to memory. A mind loaded with poetry, philosophy, scientific principles, historical examples, memorable quotes, and well-understood frameworks will produce richer, more nuanced, more creative responses under pressure than a mind that relies on whatever it happens to recall from last week's reading. This is not about showing off. It's about having raw material that makes you mentally dexterous. And gives you information you can use in an instant. What to Memorize for Maximum Mental Agility As you’ve seen, I strongly recommend memorizing quotes and poems. Because memorized poetry gives you access to compressed wisdom, beautiful language, and emotional resonance that you can draw on in conversation, writing, and thinking. Likewise, you can learn how to remember a story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4TxD6ez1Y When you've memorized a poem or story, you own the content in a way that reading on its own never provides. The lines and structures become part of your mental vocabulary. I've memorized dozens of poems and passages of verse, and they surface constantly in conversation, in my writing, in my thinking about problems that have nothing to do with literature. Memorize Speeches for Mental Dexterity Likewise, you can seek out speeches from people like Churchill, Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Aurelius. The words of leaders who were themselves masters of thinking on their feet make for excellent training material. When you've memorized their words, you internalize their patterns of thought. You don't just quote them. You begin to think in the structures they used. Learn to Tell Jokes Like improv, humor provides you with one of the ultimate forms of thinking on your feet. And telling jokes is far more learnable than people assume. To get started, commit a few jokes to memory and study their structure. You’ll soon notice that a good joke is a tiny argument: The setup establishes expectations The twist violates the expectations The punchline resolves the violation in a surprising or ironic way This simple structure is not so different from the PREP framework we discussed above. Practice Parroting and Accent Imitation Imitating a famous actor might sound like a party trick, but it's actually a profound exercise in sharing another person’s perspective and behavioral patterns. To imitate someone convincingly, you have to at least try and understand how they think, how they move and how they use language. As a result, the understanding you develop translates directly to the ability to read and respond to different people in different contexts. I’m not particularly good with foreign accents or imitating people. But merely by putting time into practicing a few people, I’ve learned a lot and become more spontaneous on my feet. Reflective Thinking Practice Memorization alone isn't enough. The material you memorize needs to be processed through reflective thinking. This is the practice of deliberately considering what you've learned, connecting it to other things you know, and forming your own positions. I do a lot of my reflective thinking through journaling, through conversation with carefully chosen friends, and through a practice I've maintained for years: regularly re-reading books I've already read, looking for things I missed the first time. All of these practices transform static knowledge into dynamic intellectual resources you’ll draw upon with great ease when you find yourself put on the spot. Part 9: The Paradox of Mental Silence We've covered a great deal of ground today: ego reduction, memory techniques, verbal frameworks, performance training, martial arts, daily exercises, and the art of loading your mind with quality material. And now I want to end with something that sounds like a contradiction but is, in fact, the deepest truth about thinking on your feet: The goal is not to think faster. Rather, it’s to create the conditions where you don't need to think at all. I know this sounds paradoxical. How can “thinking on your feet” require not thinking? It’s because the highest level of performance in any domain doesn’t just look like effortlessness. It actually is, if only in the present moment. I’m talking about the musician who plays a transcendent solo. That performer isn't thinking about which notes to play. Nor does the martial artist who evades a strike sit there thinking about which direction to move. And the speaker who delivers a perfect response to an unexpected question isn't thinking about what to say. They’re drawing upon deep preparation. In each case, the performer has trained so deeply that the right response emerges from a place beneath conscious thought. The preparation started long ago. Practice has quieted your fantasies, both positive and negative. And what remains is a mind so well-prepared that it can be still during the demands and in that stillness, the right response simply appears. This outcome is common in the world of mindfulness and meditation, where practitioners describe the experience of being “full by being empty.” In order to receive the moment as it actually is (not as your ego wants it to be, nor as your anxiety fears things might go wrong), you just have to empty your mind of the noise that normally fills it. Your Next Step If this article has shown you anything, I hope it's this: thinking on your feet is not a gift. It's the product of deliberate, ongoing training across multiple domains — mental, verbal, physical, and philosophical. The foundation of all of it is memory. Not “good memory” as a vague trait, but trained memory — the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information on demand, under pressure, in any context. If you want to start building that foundation, I've created a free course that teaches you the core Memory Palace technique in four video lessons. It's the same starting point my Masterclass students use, and it will give you your first experience of what trained recall feels like. For even deeper training that includes the Memory Wheel technique, ars combinatoria, advanced Memory Palace strategies, and the Recall Rehearsal patterns that make long-term retention predictable, my Magnetic Memory Method Masterclass takes you through the complete learning system. And if you want to explore the meditation, breathing, and muscle relaxation routines I've combined with memory training for maximum mental composure, I go into all of that in The Victorious Mind. So what do you say? Are you ready to stop worrying about what you’ll say next and start training so deeply that the right response arrives on its own? Remember: the secret every performer, martial artist, and memory expert discovers is ultimately the same. You don’t rise to the level of the mome

Unlock the surprising connection between memory techniques and healing your joints in this eye-opening episode with Grandpa Bill. Discover how ancient Sanskrit mantras like Sa ta na ma can do more than calm your mind — they might just help reduce inflammation and ease arthritis pain. If you're battling chronic pain, feeling overwhelmed by mental clutter, or curious about holistic approaches that combine spirituality, psychology, and physical therapy, this episode is your gateway to transformative insights. Grandpa Bill shares a powerful blend of sacred practices, modern memory methods, and personal stories that could reshape your understanding of healing. Grandpa Bill reveals how the power of sound, movement, and memory may be your next best medicine. Tune in now to unlock a holistic path to healing, mental sharpness, and spiritual connection. We break down the significance of the Kirtan Kriya practice, how Sanskrit mantras like Sa-ta-na-ma serve dual roles, and Grandpa Bill's innovative approach to treating rheumatoid arthritis using memory exercises. Ideal for health-conscious seekers, spiritual explorers, and anyone open to blending ancient wisdom with modern self-care. Memory Techniques, Holistic Healing, Sanskrit Mantras, Arthritis Relief, Mental Clarity, #HolisticHealing, #MemoryPalaces, #SanskritMantras, #ArthritisRelief ,#MindBodyConnection,How can ancient memory techniques transform your approach to managing chronic pain?

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-Welcome to The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour, your daily dose of natural wellness hosted by Grandpa Bill. For eight years and running, we've been on a mission to bring you simple, practical "workouts for geriatrics, AKA, Silver Streakers" that are truly good for all kids from 1 to 92. From mind-sharpening meditations to natural remedies and healthy habits, join our daily journey to a more vibrant, healthy life.Grandpa Bill Asks:Are you ready to discover the simple secrets to feeling younger and more energetic, no matter your age?What if a healthier, happier you was just 12 minutes away?Alright, my friends! Grandpa Bill's here, and I've got my thinking cap on. This is a grand idea. Let's get everything spick and span for the BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour and our growing family of Silver Streakers and kids of all ages. Here's how we'll get it done.Welcome to The BH Sales Kennel Kelp Holistic Healing Hour, your daily dose of natural wellness hosted by Grandpa Bill. For eight years and running, we've been on a mission to bring you simple, practical "workouts for Geriatrics, AKA, Silver Streakers" that are truly good for all kids from 1 to 92. From mind-sharpening meditations to natural remedies and healthy habits,.Thanks for continuing to join our daily journey to a more vibrant, healthy life.Grandpa Bill Asks:Are you ready to discover the simple secrets to feeling younger and more energetic, no matter your age?What if a healthier, happier you was just 12 minutes away?Grandpa Bill Asks:What's the one health habit you wish you started years ago? Share it with our community!Can a simple 12-minute daily practice really change your brain? Subscribe to see the proven science for yourself.Grandpa Bill Asks:

About the Guest(s): Dr. Kristin Hieshetter is a distinguished figure in the field of functional health. Known for her dedication to improving healthcare outcomes, she hosts "Functional Health Radio," which focuses on contemporary health challenges and innovative solutions. She has an extensive healthcare background, including specialties in cardiology, neurology, biofeedback, and nutritional biochemistry. Her passion for empowering individuals to realize their full potential positions her as a leading voice for transformative health practices. Dr. Laura Standridge is an engaged and knowledgeable mother of a child with BPAN (Beta-Propeller Protein-Associated Neurodegeneration). She collaborates with Dr. Kristin Hieshetter on the Functional Health Radio podcast to share insights on managing neurodegenerative conditions through innovative dietary, therapeutic, and technological interventions. Her training, which includes clinical expertise and use of biofeedback and mitochondrial devices, offers a valuable perspective on caring for children with complex health needs. Episode Summary: In this episode of Functional Health Radio, Dr. Kristin Hieshetter dives deep into the alarming statistics surrounding declining U.S. life expectancy and the uptick in chronic conditions among children, sparking discussions on healthcare spending and health optimization. The episode progresses with an exploration of BPAN (Beta-Propeller Protein-Associated Neurodegeneration) and the intricacies of managing this rare neurodegenerative disorder through strategic dietary choices and advanced therapeutic interventions. A special focus is placed on addressing iron accumulation in the brain and the growing trend of neurodevelopmental conditions influenced by environmental toxins. Dr. Hieshetter, alongside guest Dr. Laura , elaborates on strategies to reduce iron intake, utilize mitochondrial support, and implement innovative therapies such as biofeedback devices and low-level lasers to promote brain health. A moving discussion about Dr. Laura son, Laird unveils practical implementations of technology-aided therapies in clinical settings. Through these discussions, the episode underscores the vital roles of therapeutic collaboration and continued parental involvement in treating neurodegenerative disorders. Essential references to books like "The Iron Curse" by Dr. Christy Sutton and devices aiding neurodevelopment offer an enlightening perspective on progressive healthcare. Key Takeaways: Iron Management in BPAN: Limiting iron intake is crucial for managing BPAN, particularly avoiding high-iron foods and choosing suitable alternatives. Innovative Therapies: Utilizing devices such as TENS units, Resimax, and Erconia lasers can substantially aid in treating neurodegenerative conditions by enhancing cellular energy and brain function. Environmental Toxin Awareness: Reducing exposure to environmental toxins like PFAS is critical in managing and mitigating neurodevelopmental disorders. Integrative Health Interventions: Combining chiropractic, neurology, and nutritional insights leads to more comprehensive treatment approaches for complex health conditions. Power of Movement: Ensuring movement, even passive, in children with developmental challenges plays a vital role in maintaining brain health and function. Notable Quotes: "We are walking around in the most amazing, intelligent, responsive, adapting, and aware system in the world, the human you." — Dr. Kristin Hieshetter "Everything you put in that kid's body is going to immediately help or immediately harm that child." — Dr. Kristin Hieshetter "If you're interested in learning more about that iron and what is happening, 'The Iron Curse' by Dr. Christy Sutton is amazing." — Dr. Kristin Hieshetter "His typical BPAN trajectory is not happening with her son because we're doing so many other things." — Dr. Kristin Hieshetter "The neat thing about the continued quest for knowledge is that you stack in all these other things because you know there's going to be things in there that can help that patient." — Dr. Kristin Hieshetter Resources: Dr. Christy Sutton's Book: [The Iron Curse](Not provided in the transcript) Dr. William Davis' Books: "Undoctored" and "Wheat Belly Diet" David Perlmutter's Book: "Grain Brain" Erconia Lasers: Erconia Medical (unprovided in transcript) Functional Health Mastery Group Device and Therapy: Forebrain headsets, TENS units, Resimax, and Kirtan Kriya audio meditations Listeners are encouraged to tune into Functional Health Radio to delve deeper into essential topics related to health innovation and management and to stay informed about forthcoming episodes packed with insightful discussions and expert perspectives.

Liz and Sarah discuss how a great meeting with an executive made them realize how much their perception shapes their reality. Even though technically nothing has changed in terms of Hollywood “getting back to normal,” it suddenly feels like it has. And that's a good thing! In Take A Hike, Sarah describes the benefits of Kirtan Kriya meditation. Then Liz and Sarah answer a Mailroom question about how ethical writers were (or weren't) during the strike. This week's Hollywood Hack will help you focus: turn off notifications on your devices! Finally, Sarah recommends a docudrama on Netflix — The Social Dilemma.  Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @Sfain & @LizCraft Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,' a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and Side Hustle School . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Kirtan Kriya Meditation: kundalini.yoga The Social Dilemma: A Netflix Original documentarythesocialdilemma.com Photo by Saffu on Unsplash To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sat Nam, Ever pondered the vast capabilities and intricate mysteries of your mind? Perhaps you've felt overwhelmed by the chaos and confusion it can sometimes bring? Join us as we unravel the workings of the human mind and guide you towards a more heart-centered, consciousness-driven life. We'll delve into how our brain functions as a lens, interpreting and distorting the universal and collective consciousness. And we'll explore how we can filter out the noise, discerning thoughts that serve us from those we should let go of. With the application of meditation, mindfulness, and heart-centered living, you can find peace and reduce stress, anxiety, and tension. At the end of the epsidoe, Jen guides you through a pranayam practice atimed at reducing stress and tension. Relevant Links: Click here to sign up for our free meditation program: 10 Days of Kirtan Kriya. Click here to learn more about Spiritual Counseling with Ramtin. With Love, Jen & Ramtin

“Trauma informed” Kundalini Yoga may sound like an oxymoron. Today, we unpack why and what to do about it. I'm joined by Uplifted Lead Teacher Trainer, E-RYT 500+  Katrina Marie, who has a background in biological sciences, somatics, and a deep love of yoga, especially Kundalini. She is the author of a meditative trauma healing journal for women, a virtual and local studio owner, and one of our very own lead teacher trainers on all three of our Uplifted trainings. Get ready to learn:

In this episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, Kelley sits down for part two with her transformational life coach, Jamie Graber. Ultimately, Jamie helps people see themselves in a new light and leave behind stories they've been telling themselves for too long so that they can create the life of their dreams.In today's episode, Jamie discusses the importance of finding your passions and allowing them to shine through in wherever you're at in your career journey. From there, Kelley and Jamie talk all about how to find that balance where your work feels like it's energizing you rather than draining you, creating your own definition of success so that you can live more in alignment and not feel overwhelmed, how to create structure in your life that will ultimately allow for more freedom and flexibility in your schedule and how to let go of mom guilt. To connect with Jamie, click HERETo connect with Kelley, click HERETo get $3500 off of Jamie's core program, SHIFT, click HERE To get 20% off Kelley's Health and Hormones Course + a FREE Lab Review click HERE and use code BALANCINGCHAOS20To get 10% off Kelley's WBK method app with your annual membership, click HERE and use code BALANCINGCHAOS

In today's podcast episode, I'm going to share with you a powerful Kundalini meditation that can help you heal your brain in order to heal ancestral trauma. This Kundalini Meditation is known as the Kirtan Kriya and has been studied by many Universities like UCLA. A groundbreaking study at UCLA showed that regular practice increased telomerase—the enzyme linked to structures at the ends of our chromosomes, which affect how our cells age and become shortened and damaged through stress and trauma. Studies showed that telomerase was increased by 43 percent, the largest increase ever recorded in participants who practiced this meditation for 40 Days for 12 Minutes. Other studies on the practice have shown that it improves blood flow to the brain, reverses memory loss, eases depression and decreases inflammatory genes while increasing healthy ones and has also been researched for it's benefits of reducing and REVERSING alzheimers!! It also rewires your DNA and help syou break free from negative programming. If you're suffering from repeating mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. brain fog, repeating toxic relationship patterns, and repeating patterns of prosperity blockages , or any other symptoms associated with ancestral trauma, then this Kundalini meditation may be the answer you're looking for. By using this meditation, you can restore balance to your brain and free yourself from negative programming. Sign up for my weekly Newsletter #SovereignWoman Disruptor: www.veronicabarraganiam.com/disruptor *Click here to download my free Eguide and Weekly Holistic Health Plan for body, mind, and Spirit to break ancestral karmic patterns www.veronicabarraganiam.com/roadmap *Free Training-Click here to sign up for my free Master Class on my 3 Step SWC Method of Breaking Ancestral Karmic Patterns in Your Lineage www.veronicabarraganiam.com/3stepframework *Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/veronicabarraganiam *Join our Free Private Instagram Community: www.instagram.com/sovereignWomanMovement *Facebook: www.facebook.com/veronicabarraganiam *Facebook Closed Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sovereignwomen *YouTube: https://bit.ly/36DMgDD --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sovereignwoman/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sovereignwoman/support

Sat Nam, Revolutionaries In this episode Ramtin and I share the inspiration and mission for Heart Centered Revolution, we explain what ‘Heart Centered Revolution' means to us. We also share a few non-yoga stories about ourselves, and I guide you through one of the most common pranayams practiced in Kundalini Yoga: Breath of Fire. In the episode I talk about our free programs to help support your Kundalini Yoga practice, and here are the links to those: Kundalini Yoga Essentials - free 5-day Kundalini Yoga course: click here to sign-up. 10 Days of Kirtan Kriya - free 10 day meditation program: click here to sign-up. To learn more about us, visit www.HeartCenteredRevolution.com. We love you! Jen & Ramtin

Sat Nam,  This episode covers the last 3 of the 10 Values of the Aquarian Age.  (This is Part 3 of a 3-part series, to listen to the earlier parts check out episodes 38 and 42). At the end of this episode, I lead you through Sitkari Praynam, known for its cleansing effects and ability to boost glandular function.  Here are all 10 values of the aquarian age for your reference: Episode 38 1) Change and learning is continuous and life-long.  we must maintain mental, emotional, and physical flexibility.  2) Intellect is not enough.  We need a new relationship to intuition, emotion and instinct.  3) information is not enough.  Neither is knowledge.  We need wisdom.  4) Learning is not enough.  We must learn how to learn.  Episode 42 5) Complexity is increasing, as is our need to deal with it.  6) Our sense of personal identity and its foundation is shifting.  7) This is an age of paradox - more global and more individual, with fewer boundaries and more demand for political separations.  Everything is faster and we have less time.  We need far more love and unity, for we have more fear and tremendous insecurity.  Episode 46 8) Stamina and contestant peak performance are the common benchmarks to evaluate all people and their work, and the need is to go inward and regenerate.  9) We require a reconciliation and integration of the spiritual side of life with the technological and material sides - a spiritual fitness to sense values and meaning.  10) There is no isolation.  Each action we take must be considered ecologically, and globally because each person does affect, directly or indirectly, vast networks of people, and other living beings and places.  One of the best ways to manage the tensions and stressors of this time is a daily meditation or spiritual practice. If you'd like support with yours, click here to join our free 10 Days of Kirtan Kriya meditation program.    Love, Jen & Ramtin

Sat Nam,  In this episode, we break down the meaning and impact of chanting the mantra Ek Ong Kar, three little words that encapsulate what all yoga practices are trying to accomplish. At the end we have a special pranayam, you'll have to listen to see what it is! If you want to learn more about Kundalini Yoga, or deepen your practice, we invite you to join on of our free programs: Kundalini Yoga Essentials - a free 5-day Kundalini Yoga course where you learn the basics of Kundalini in short 20 minute practices. Sign up here: www.KundaliniEssentials.com 10 Days of Kirtan Kriya - a free meditation program where you get an instructional video breaking down one of the most popular and well-studied meditations in all of Kundalini Yoga, and then each day for 10 days you get a video to practice along with and an email to help keep you accountable. Sign up here: Click here to sign up. And lastly, here is the diagram discussed in the episode:  Love, Jen & Ramtin

With hands open in your lap, chant Sa Ta Na Ma while you touch thumb to index, middle, ring and little fingers in corresponding rhythm. Chant out loud two minutes, in a whisper two minutes and silently 3 minutes. Then 2 minutes whisper, two minutes out loud. The bowl will guide you.

In this episode, Michael takes us on his journey from his first sound memory as a young child to how he ended up creating sound meditation products.Michael Joly is the founder and CEO of Hear Now Systems Inc, where he designs sound meditation aids. These include the Amazon best-selling n.o.w. Tone Therapy System and Solu: ToneStream Meditation––a new mobile app that uses pure tones instead of voice guidance. He is on a mission to bring peace and healing to the world, through sound––as a heart-based company. Visit Michaels Website HereFollow Candace on Instagram

In this episode we discuss the Gemini new moon, Pride month, communication and shame. We discuss how shame begins and how it affects us. Book Recommendation: Conquering Shame and Codependency 8 Steps to Freeing the True You by Darlene Lancer Meditation recommendation: Kirtan Kriya. I google it then listen on YouTube.

The biggest reason that the healing journey is not love and light is because our mind is not all love and light. Within our mind lies patterns of darkness and shadows along with the light. Basically patterns of low frequency thoughts like fear and high frequency thoughts and emotions of love, which not only create our physical, mental, and spiritual well being but our REALITY . On the last episode of the Sovereign Woman Movement Podcast we talked about healing of the subconscious mind and why the healing journey is not all love and light, and on this episode I share with you the Medicina to rewire the subconscious programming. In this episode, we are learning how to do the inner work together by learning how to kundalini yoga meditate with the Sa Ta Na Ma Mantra and Kundalini Yoga Meditation known as the Kirtan Kriya to not only unload the subconscious mind and rewire it, but as proven by Universities like UCLA, and University of Pennsylvania and Virginia to repair and heal the brain and even reverse the effects of Alzheimers. We also look at how our children can benefit from this sound frequency during these high technology and information consumption times. Enjoy and let me know when you start your 40 day practice. Sat Nam Links Mentioned in the Episode: Download this week's A Course in Miracles Lesson and Kundalini Yoga Meditation here: www.veronicabarragaiam.com/podcast Sa Ta Na Ma Kirtan Kriay Meditation Music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3buZNBqLqmrcCZuJZbtRUD?si=65973adcb04d435e Children's Version of Sa Ta Na Ma: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OJdtN0cTpC35jLeTpIm1k?si=1304c0c0ce9e4fcb Click here to download my free Eguide and Weekly Mental Health Plan for healing holistically and breaking intergenerational trauma: www.veronicabarraganiam.com/roadmap Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/veronicabarraganiam Join our Free Private Instagram Community: www.instagram.com/sovereignWomanMovement Facebook: www.facebook.com/veronicabarraganiam Facebook Closed Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sovereignwomen YouTube: https://bit.ly/36DMgDD --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sovereignwoman/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sovereignwoman/support

Life works until it doesn't, doesn't it? When you find yourself at the rock bottom or in the midst of the season of darkness, that's exactly when your personal development gets a kick start. A global transformational coach and soul activator, Vikki Luke, was there 9 years ago, and today she is on a mission to help 1 billion people reconnect with their dreams and live a purposeful life. Find Vikki's information including her coaching sessions and upcoming retreat at vikkiluke.com. Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/vikki.luke/.  Resources:Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/Dr. Stanzie Langtree: https://www.facebook.com/Stanzie/What is Kundalini yoga?: https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/a-beginners-guide-to-kundalini-yoga/What is Kirtan Kriya meditation?: https://www.brettlarkin.com/kirtan-kriya-kundalini-meditation/Kirtan Kriya guided meditation: https://music.apple.com/au/album/meditations-for-transformation-kirtan-kriya/935393567Download "5 steps to start your meditation practice" for free today! https://www.subscribepage.com/5_steps_to_start_your_meditation_practiceLet's connect!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/masakozawa_photographyFacebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/151528407196525Website: https://masakozawa.com/Support the show

In this episode, Lianne shares the unique lens that her policing career gave her. She describes how investigating fatal car accidents frequently reminded her how life can truly change in an instant, which led her to be more present and intentional in her day to day life. Lianne talks about how she was so busy doing all the things that she never slowed down, until one day, she sat down for only15 minutes and it felt so good! The next day, she did the same, and then again the next. She talks about how she ended up coming back to a meditation practice that she once had many years ago. She also shares the benefits that have come from this practice and some tips about how to ease into meditation if you have never tried it before or if you want to get back into it. Lianne is a Productivity and Meditation Coach for Moms and Female Entrepreneurs.  For the last 20 years, Lianne has served her community as a Police Officer in the city of Ottawa and in the province of Ontario. She has recently become a certified meditation teacher. Lianne's mission is to encourage people to stop living on autopilot and to be intentional with the time that they have as she knows that life can change in an instant. Through meditation, Lianne helps her clients release overwhelm and return to live in the present moment so that they can create more time to be who they are meant to be. Lianne serves her clients through her “Intentionally Aligned" coaching program where she leads her clients through 6 weeks of time management, stress reduction and mindfulness.Follow Lianne on FacebookFollow Lianne on InstagramFollow Candace on Instagram

Did you know that some meditations are proven to reduce stress? Today Christian Yoga Instructor, Katy Willis, teaches us the Kirtan Kriya. If you would prefer to watch today's episode as see the techniques Katy teaches, watch the YouTube version here: Episode Discussion PointsKaty tells us how she got into Yoga and Meditation and how it helps her Katy teaches us the interactive and proven method of the Kirtan Kriya meditation How the chants in this particular meditation relate to Jesus Christ and Christianity How our mind is uniquely wired and our Savior can help us as we learn to process things in our unique way. Why it is important to find stress relieving techniques that work for us so we can build our mental reserves for the challenges we face. If you would like to hear Katy's story, you can listen to it here: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/katy-willis-how-to-be-still-amidst-trauma (https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/katy-willis-how-to-be-still-amidst-trauma) If you would like to hear Katy's intro to breathing techniques, you can listen to it here: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/stressed-try-these-3-breathing-exercises (https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/stressed-try-these-3-breathing-exercises) ResourcesMeditation write up: https://mindworks.org/blog/different-types-meditation-technique/ (https://mindworks.org/blog/different-types-meditation-technique/) Katy's free 11 minute Kirtan Kriya recording: https://soundcloud.com/user-820416336/11-minute-kirtan-kriya (https://soundcloud.com/user-820416336/11-minute-kirtan-kriya) Be sure to click on the picture to find the links to the studies that have been done on this meditation as well as Amazing proven benefits of the Kirtan Kriya: https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling (https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling) The written instructions for the Kirtan Kriya: https://www.3ho.org/kirtan-kriya (https://www.3ho.org/kirtan-kriya) Katy's "Rooted" yoga therapy course I mentioned during the interview where we address the mind from both the "top down" and the "bottom up:" https://be-still.teachable.com/p/http-be-still-teachable-com-p-roots (https://be-still.teachable.com/p/http-be-still-teachable-com-p-roots) Instructions to other Kundalini yoga meditations: https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/meditation/featured-meditations (https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/meditation/featured-meditations) Katy's favorite mantra translation site: http://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra (http://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra) Katy's other top three recommendations for beginners (Kirtan Kriya is #1) #2 is Sat Kriya: https://www.3ho.org/articles/everything-kriya-sat-kriya (https://www.3ho.org/articles/everything-kriya-sat-kriya) and #3 is Long Ek Ong Kars: https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/sadhana/aquarian-sadhana/long-ek-ong-kars (https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/sadhana/aquarian-sadhana/long-ek-ong-kars); Other great meditations #1 The Meditation for Healing Addictions: https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/health-and-healing/meditation-healing-addictions-0 (https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/health-and-healing/meditation-healing-addictions-0) #2 Meditation for Release of Cold Depression: https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/healthy-happy-holy-lifestyle/happy/meditation-release-cold-depression (https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/healthy-happy-holy-lifestyle/happy/meditation-release-cold-depression) #tamarakanderson #storiesofhopeinhardtimes #podcast #hope #God #hardtimes #meditation #kirtankriya #stressrelief TranscriptionYou can find the transcription of today's episode here: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/need-a-proven-stress-reliever-try-kirtan-kriya (https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/need-a-proven-stress-reliever-try-kirtan-kriya)

Would you believe us if we told you that you could do a complete yoga practice, including mantra, meditation, movement, and breathwork, in three minutes? That's one of the benefits of Kundalini Yoga that we learn about (and so much more) in our discussion with Kundalini yoga teacher, Shakti Sita. Shakti Sita helps lay a solid foundation for understanding Kundalini Yoga - where the tradition comes from, what to expect in a class, how you can practice it on your own, what the benefits are, and why you might want to try it. She shares how she found Kundalini Yoga (or how it found her) after suffering from chronic Epstein Barr and debilitating fatigue and anxiety. We also talk about living an authentic life. In the “You Want Me To Do What??” section, Shanna shares about taking a Kundalini Yoga class with Shakti Sita and why she recommends everyone give it a try.  Episode Recap: Interview with Shakti Sita - 2:17, “You Want Me To Do What??” section - 1:00:29 Highlights: Everyone has Kundalini energy -- it is your innate power that is stored at the base of your spine that naturally rises throughout your lifetime It's challenging to become a new person, but there is a high cost to not becoming a new person...so just become a new person Kundalini Yoga is the head of all the yogas and a complete system of yoga Almost every kriya (practice) includes four things: Mantra Meditation Yoga Breathwork Kundalini Yoga works all 10 bodies: Soul Negative mind Positive mind Neutral mind Physical Arc line Aura Pranic Subtle Radiant A complete Kundalini kriya can be completed in 3 minutes Kundalini yoga classes can be 60-90 minutes long, consisting of: Lecture Mantra: a mantra to tune in and protection mantra(s) Kriya Gong relaxation Meditation Kundalini Yoga helps to strengthen the nervous system Research on Kirtan Kriya shows that it helps improve individuals experiencing cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients Shakti Sita's Top 3 Tips for Living an Authentic Life: Set the intention that you are willing and wanting to change Pray and look for mentors and teachers for the path you are on Recommit daily to your own bravery and choice Resources: Where to find Shakti Sita Kaur: Website: https://thepallas.com/  Instagram: @shakti_sita_ YouTube: The Pallas x Shakti Sita Fist of Anger kriya: https://youtu.be/wKoF2ktHsBE White Sun mantra music: https://www.whitesun.com/ Kundalini yoga tune in mantra: https://youtu.be/7b3uFK01-u4 Sarbang Dande kriya: https://youtu.be/SkqrjU0ku2Y Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings: https://www.libraryofteachings.com/ Research on Kirtan Kriya: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5540331/

Effects of saffron extract on sleep quality: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial   Catholic University Louvain (Belgium). May 10. 2021 According to news reporting from Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, research stated, “A saffron extract has been found to be effective in the context of depression and anxiety, but its effect on sleep quality has not been investigating yet using objective approaches.” The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Catholic University Louvain (UCLouvain): “For this purpose, a randomized double-blind controlled study was conducted in subjects presenting mild to moderate sleep disorder associated with anxiety. Sixty-six subjects were randomized and supplemented with a placebo (maltodextrin) or a saffron extract (15.5 mg per day) for 6 weeks. Actigraphy was used to collect objective data related to sleep quality at baseline, at the middle and at the end of the intervention. Sleep quality was also assessed by completion of the LSEQ and PSQI questionnaires and quality of life by completion of the SF-36 questionnaire. Six weeks of saffron supplementation led to an increased time in bed assessed by actigraphy, to an improved ease of getting to sleep evaluated by the LSEQ questionnaire and to an improved sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, and global scores evaluated by the PSQI questionnaire, whereas those parameters were not modified by the placebo.” According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In conclusion, those results suggest that a saffron extract could be a natural and safe nutritional strategy to improve sleep duration and quality.”         New evidence links gut bacteria and neurodegenerative conditions University of Florida, May 6, 2021 Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS affect millions of adults, but scientists still do not know what causes these diseases, which poses a significant roadblock to developing treatments or preventative measures. Recent research suggests that people with these conditions exhibit changes in the bacterial composition of their digestive tract. However, given the vast diversity of microbes found in the human body, identifying which bacteria may be associated with neurodegeneration is like finding a needle in a haystack. Seeking that proverbial needle, scientists at the University of Florida are looking in an unexpected place: the digestive tract of a tiny, translucent worm called Caenorhabditis elegans. New research published in PLOS Pathogens establishes, for the first time, a link between specific bacteria species and physical manifestations of neurodegenerative diseases. The study's lead author is Alyssa Walker, a microbiology and cell science doctoral candidate in the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. "Looking at the microbiome is a relatively new approach to investigating what causes neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we were able to show that specific species of bacteria play a role in the development of these conditions," said Daniel Czyz, Walker's dissertation advisor. Czyz is the senior author of the study and an assistant professor in the UF/IFAS department of microbiology and cell science. "We also showed that some other bacteria produce compounds that counteract these 'bad' bacteria. Recent studies have shown that patients with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease are deficient in these 'good' bacteria, so our findings may help explain that connection and open up an area of future study," he added. All neurodegenerative diseases can be traced to problems with the way proteins are handled in the body. If proteins are misfolded, they build up and accumulate in tissues. These protein aggregates, as scientists call them, interfere with cell functioning and lead to neurodegenerative disorders. Czyz and his co-authors wanted to know if introducing certain bacteria into the C. elegans worms would be followed by protein aggregation in the worms' tissues. "That is, in fact, what we observed. We have a way of marking the aggregates so they glow green under the microscope. We saw that worms colonized by certain bacteria species were lit up with aggregates that were toxic to tissues, while those colonized by the control bacteria were not," Czyz said. "This occurred not just in the intestinal tissues, where the bacteria are, but all over the worms' bodies, in their muscles, nerves and even reproductive organs." Surprisingly, the offspring of affected worms also showed increased protein aggregation—even though these offspring never encountered the bacteria originally associated with the condition. "This is very interesting because it suggests that these bacteria generate some sort of a signal that can be passed along to the next generation," Czyz said. Worms colonized by the "bad" bacteria also lost mobility, a common symptom of neurodegenerative diseases. "A healthy worm moves around by rolling and thrashing. When you pick up a healthy worm, it will roll off the pick, a simple device that we use to handle these tiny animals. But worms with the bad bacteria couldn't do that because of the appearance of toxic protein aggregates," explained Walker, who developed this assessment method. "You could compare the pick to an obstacle course: just as a person with a neurodegenerative disease will have trouble getting across, the same is true with these worms, just at a much smaller scale," Czyz added. Fun fact: Human eyebrow hairs or eyelashes make for very good picks. "The worms are very delicate, so you need a tool that won't damage them. They are also transparent and have a simple body plan. Studies like ours are possible because these worms normally feed on bacteria," Czyz said. "The worms are only one millimeter long, and they each have exactly 959 cells," Czyz said. "But in many ways, they are a lot like us humans—they have intestines and muscles and nerves, but instead of being composed of billions of cells, each organ is just a handful of cells. They are like living test tubes. Their small size allows us to do experiments in a much more controlled way and answer important questions we can apply in future experiments with higher organisms and, eventually, people." Currently the Czyz lab is testing hundreds of strains of bacteria found in the human gut to see how they affect protein aggregation in C. elegans. The group is also investigating how bacteria associated with neurodegeneration cause protein misfolding at the molecular level. Czyz is also interested in possible connections between antibiotic-resistant bacteriaand protein misfolding. "Almost all of the bacteria we found associated with protein misfolding are also associated with antibiotic-resistant infections in people. However, it will take many more years of research before we can understand what, if any, connection there is between antibiotic resistance and neurodegenerative diseases," Czyz said.   Meditative practice and spiritual wellbeing may preserve cognitive function in aging Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation &Thomas Jefferson University, May 11, 2021 It is projected that up to 152 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 2050. To date there are no drugs that have a substantial positive impact on either the prevention or reversal of cognitive decline. A growing body of evidence finds that targeting lifestyle and vascular risk factors have a beneficial effect on overall cognitive performance. A new review in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, published by IOS Press, examines research that finds spiritual fitness, a new concept in medicine that centers on psychological and spiritual wellbeing, and Kirtan Kriya, a simple 12-minute meditative practice, may reduce multiple risk factors for AD. "The key point of this review is that making a commitment to a brain longevity lifestyle, including spiritual fitness, is a critically important way for aging Alzheimer's disease free," explain authors Dharma Singh Khalsa, MD, Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation, Tucson, AZ, USA, and Andrew B. Newberg, MD, Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Radiology, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. "We hope this article will inspire scientists, clinicians, and patients to embrace this new concept of spiritual fitness and make it a part of every multidomain program for the prevention of cognitive disability." Research reveals that religious and spiritual involvement can preserve cognitive function as we age. The authors observe that today, spirituality is often experienced outside the context of an organized religion and may be part of every religion or separate to it. Spiritual fitness is a new dimension in AD prevention, interweaving basic, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. The authors discuss the research on how these factors affect brain function and cognition. For example, psychological wellbeing may reduce inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and disability. Significantly, individuals who have a high score on a "purpose in life" (PIL) measure, a component of psychological wellbeing, were 2.4 times more likely to remain free of AD than individuals with low PIL. In another study, participants who reported higher levels of PIL exhibited better cognitive function, and further, PIL protected those with already existing pathological conditions, thus slowing their decline. Stress and stress management are under-discussed topics in AD prevention, yet the authors point out that there is ample evidence that physical, psychological, and emotional effects of stress may elevate AD risk. Kirtan Kriya (KK) is a 12-minute singing meditation that involves four sounds, breathing, and repetitive finger movements. It has multiple documented effects on stress, such as improving sleep, decreasing depression, and increasing wellbeing. It has also been found to increase blood flow to areas of the brain involved in cognition and emotional regulation and increases gray matter volume and decreases ventricular size in long-term practitioners, which may slow brain aging. Research in healthy individuals, caregivers, and those with cognitive decline found that the practice improves cognition, slows memory loss, and improves mood. The overall relationship between spiritual fitness and a person's complete physical and mental health is a topic of investigation in the emerging field of study called neurotheology. Early work has focused on the development of models regarding which brain areas are affected through spiritual practices such as meditation or prayer. Over the last 20 years, there has been an extensive growth in neuroimaging and other physiological studies evaluating the effect of meditation, spiritual practices, and mystical experiences. A neuroimaging study of KK found long term brain effects, during meditation and afterwards. Neurotheological studies can help understanding of how a practice such as KK can lead to more permanent effects in brain function that support spiritual fitness, according to Dr. Khalsa and Dr. Newberg. "Mitigating the extensive negative biochemical effects of stress with meditation practices, in tandem with the creation of heightened levels of spiritual fitness, may help lower the risk of AD. Small shifts in one's daily routine can make all the difference in AD prevention," Dr. Khalsa and Dr. Newberg conclude. "We are optimistic this article will inspire future research on the topic of spiritual fitness and AD."   Type 2 Diabetes: Sitting can Cause Problems with Blood Sugar Levels, So Get Up and Move Glasgow Caledonian University, May 11, 2021   Many people spend large portions of their day sitting, which can cause a range of health problems. But many may not realise that sitting too much can also worsen certain health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes. Research shows that spending too much time sitting can cause problems with blood sugar levels – making it even more important for those with type 2 diabetes to get plenty of physical activity into their day. Type 2 diabetes causes the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood to become too high. For someone with diabetes, high sugar levels in the blood can cause serious damage to your body, including the heart, kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves. Controlling blood sugar levels is important for avoiding the risk of serious health problems. Lifestyle changes, such as adjusting diet and physical activity, and diabetes medications, such as metformin or gliptin, are used to lower blood sugar levels. Yet following recommended diets and taking diabetes medications aren’t always effective at controlling blood sugar levels, as our research found. This shows us there’s a need to re-think diabetes care and management. As type 2 diabetes can be different for everyone, how well a person controls their blood sugar levels can be influenced by different factors, such as age, gender, activity levels, diet and weight. This makes it important to target new, modifiable lifestyle factors – such as how much time is spent sitting. Research we’ve done, which looked at 37 adults with type 2 diabetes, found that over two weeks, prolonged sitting was associated with high blood sugar levels. But we also found that when people stood up or walked around between periods of sitting, they had lower blood sugar levels. Other studies have also had similar results. Our research has also shown that sitting less or breaking up periods of sitting with bouts of activity could be a simple way to manage blood sugar levels – including high sugar levels before and after breakfast, which is a common problem for people with type 2 diabetes. We found that simply walking more often could be beneficial to blood sugar control throughout the day. In fact, walking every 15 minutes for as little as three minutes each time at a person’s usual pace could be enough to help them control their blood sugar – and could even be as effective as standard diabetes medications. Other research has shown that keeping bouts of sitting shorter than 15 minutes is better for blood sugar levels.   The reason walking – and other types of exercise – are so good for regulating blood sugar is because they make the body’s muscles work. Movement causes muscles to contract, which subsequently starts the mechanisms that allow the sugar in the blood to enter cells and fuel the body. This reduces blood sugar levels as a result. With many people continuing to spend large portions of their days sitting while working from home, it’s important for people with type 2 diabetes to stand and walk often. Of course, that is sometimes easier said than done. But even small changes in sitting patterns throughout the day may be beneficial to a person’s blood sugar control. For example, going to the kitchen to get water or make tea can be a great opportunity to walk around for a few minutes. Even standing or walking while taking calls or during meetings can be a good idea. It’s still important for people with type 2 diabetes to follow the advice of their doctor and stick to any special diets or take any medications they’ve been prescribed. But adding extra movement into their day will not only improve blood sugar control, it may also improve other aspects of health – including heart health and bone density.     Grapeseed compound has senolytic activity   Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 10, 2021 According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained the following quote sourced from biorxiv.org: “Aging causes functional decline of multiple organs and increases the risk of age-related pathologies. “In advanced lives, accumulation of senescent cells, which develop the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), promotes chronic inflammation and causes diverse conditions. “Here we report the frontline outcome of screening a natural product library with human primary stromal cells as an experimental model. Multiple candidate compounds were assayed, and grape seed extract (GSE) was selected for further investigation due to its leading capacity in targeting senescent cells. “We found procyanidin C1 (PCC1), a polyphenolic component, plays a critical role in mediating the antiaging effects of GSE. PCC1 blocks the SASP expression when used at low concentrations. Importantly, it selectively kills senescent cells upon application at higher concentrations, mainly by enhancing production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and disturbing mitochondrial membrane potential, processes accompanied by upregulation of Bcl-2 family pro-apoptotic factors Puma and Noxa in senescent cells. PCC1 depletes senescent cells in treatment-damaged tumor microenvironment (TME) and enhances therapeutic efficacy when combined with chemotherapy in preclinical assays. Intermittent administration of PCC1 to both senescent cell-implanted mice and naturally aged animals alleviated physical dysfunction and prolonged post-treatment survival, thus providing substantial benefits in late life stage. Together, our study identifies PCC1 as a distinct natural senolytic agent, which may be exploited to delay aging and control age-related pathologies in future medicine.” This preprint has not been peer-reviewed.         Team Links Leaky Epithelial Barriers to 2 Billion Chronic Diseases University of Zurich, May 7, 2021 Epithelial cells form the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the human body. This protective layer acts as a defense against invaders—including bacteria, viruses, environmental toxins, pollutants and allergens. If the skin and mucosal barriers are damaged or leaky, foreign agents such as bacteria can enter into the tissue and cause local, often chronic inflammation with both direct and indirect consequences. “The epithelial barrier hypothesis proposes that damages to the epithelial barrier are responsible for up to two billion chronic, non-infectious diseases,” says Cezmi Akdis, director of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), which is associated with the University of Zurich. In the past 20 years, researchers at the SIAF alone have published more than 60 articles on how various substances damage the epithelial cells of a number of organs. The epithelial barrier hypothesis provides an explanation as to why allergies and autoimmune diseases have been increasing for decades—they are linked to industrialization, urbanization, and westernized lifestyle. Today many people are exposed to a wide range of toxins, such as ozone, nanoparticles, microplastics, household cleaning agents, pesticides, enzymes, emulsifiers, fine dust, exhaust fumes, cigarette smoke, and countless chemicals in the air, food, and water. “Next to global warming and viral pandemics such as COVID-19, these harmful substances represent one of the greatest threats to humankind,” Akdis says. Local epithelial damage to the skin and mucosal barriers lead to allergic conditions, inflammatory bowel disorders, and celiac disease. But disruptions to the epithelial barrier can also be linked to many other diseases that are characterized by changes in the microbiome. Either the immune system erroneously attacks “good” bacteria in healthy bodies or it targets pathogenic—i.e., “bad”—invaders. In the gut, leaky epithelial barriers and microbial imbalance contribute to the onset or development of chronic autoimmune and metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, or ankylosing spondylitis. Moreover, defective epithelial barriers have also been linked to neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorders, and chronic depression, which may be triggered or aggravated by distant inflammatory responses and changes in the gut’s microbiome. “There is a great need to continue research into the epithelial barrier to advance our understanding of molecular mechanisms and develop new approaches for prevention, early intervention and therapy,” says Akdis. Novel therapeutic approaches could focus on strengthening tissue-specific barriers, blocking bacteria or avoiding colonization by pathogens. Other strategies to reduce diseases may involve the microbiome, for example through targeted dietary measures. Last but not least, the focus must also be on avoiding and reducing exposure to harmful substances and developing fewer toxic products. The paper appears in Nature Reviews Immunology   Study supports heart health benefits of mushroom powders Tufts University, May 11, 2021 Adding Portobello or shiitake powder to a high-fat diet may protect arteries from the detrimental effects of a high fat diet, according to findings presented at the recent Experimental Biology event. Scientists from Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research on Aging at Tufts University report that supplementing the diets of lab mice with the mushroom powders had lower body weight gains, compared to animals fed an unsupplemented high-fat diet. “Despite the low body weight gains, EchoMRI analysis of body composition revealed that the overall lean mass was not affected as significantly as fat mass, indicating a plausible positive effect of mushrooms on fat metabolism and lipid profiles,” wrote the researchers in their abstract, published in the FASEB Journal . Mushrooms Consumer interest in mushrooms and their potential health benefits has been growing in recent years, with demand for Reishi, Chaga, Shiitake, Maitake, and the rest has never been higher and the global market was pegged at $18 billion in 2014 (up from $6 billion in 1999). SPINS data shows surging sales of products with various types of mushrooms as primary ingredients across the natural, specialty and conventional multi-outlet retail channels. Reishi was up 91% for the 52 weeks ending September 4, 2016 versus the previous 52 weeks. Impressive growth is also being posted for Chaga (up 46%), Cordycep (up 19%) and Shiitake (up 26%), “While several types of mushrooms have been studied for their effects on serum lipid profiles, few studies have demonstrated edible mushrooms’ effects on atherogenesis,” explained the Tufts researchers in their abstract. Study details L-ergothioneine facts L-ergothioneine was first isolated as a natural compound from rye ergot (Claviceps purpurea) in 1909. It is naturally present in small amounts in food sources like mushrooms, some varieties of black and red beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and cereals. The human body has a dedicated transporter for the molecule, which is a potent antioxidant.  Lab mice were divided into one of five groups: A low-fat control group (4% fat); a high fat control group (8% fat); a high-fat diet supplemented with Portobello mushroom powder; a high fat diet supplemented with shiitake mushroom powder; or a “control mixture”, which matched to the average nutrient levels of the mushroom powders. After 16 weeks of feeding, the results showed that animals from both mushroom groups had reduced body weight gains, compared to the other dietary groups, with the weight gain lower in the shiitake group compared to the Portobello group. Additional analyses showed that only mice fed the shiitake powder had significantly fewer aortic lesions compared to the high fat control mice and the control mixture. “These results further support the potential role of high levels of bioactive compounds such as ergothioneine, a strong antioxidant in [shiitake mushroom], on suppression of dietary fat induced atherosclerosis, an inflammatory disease of arteries,” wrote the researchers. The study was funded by the USDA and the Mushroom Council.   MIT Study Suggests Six Foot Social Distancing, Limited Occupancy Rules Are Completely Pointless After over a year, scientists have determined that social distancing and limited occupancy rules may be totally useless National File, April 26, 2021   A new study conducted by MIT scientists and released this week reveals that the six foot social distancing and limited occupancy guidelines made law in most of the civilized world have done little to slow the spread of COVID-19, and suggests the only way to reduce the spread of COVID-19 is to limit exposure to highly populated areas and areas where people are physically exerting themselves, such as gyms, or areas where people are singing or speaking, such as churches. The study reveals that the social distancing guidelines employed throughout much of the world for over a year have done nothing to limit the spread of COVID-19, suggesting that the adaption of the guidelines did not stop the spread of the of the China-originated virus, and it can only be slowed with the employment of severe lockdowns. Paradoxically, states and cities that have engaged in severe lockdowns have seen the largest spikes of COVID-19. “We argue there really isn’t much of a benefit to the 6-foot rule, especially when people are wearing masks,” MIT professor Martin Z. Bazant said, as reported by NBC. “It really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.” In other words, widespread mask wearing may simply change the physical vectors of transmission within a given room rather than stop it, effectively making six foot distancing rules pointless. In their study, Bazant and the other researchers declare, “Adherence to the Six-Foot Rule would limit large-drop transmission, and adherence to our guideline, [of limiting time spent in densely populated areas], would limit long-range airborne transmission.” In the guideline, the researchers write, “To minimize risk of infection, one should avoid spending extended periods in highly populated areas. One is safer in rooms with large volume and high ventilation rates. One is at greater risk in rooms where people are exerting themselves in such a way as to increase their respiration rate and pathogen output, for example, by exercising, singing, or shouting.” Bazant also told the media, “What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don’t need to be. Often times the space is large enough, the ventilation is good enough, the amount of time people spend together is such that those spaces can be safely operated even at full capacity and the scientific support for reduced capacity in those spaces is really not very good.” He added, “I think if you run the numbers, even right now for many types of spaces you’d find that there is not a need for occupancy restrictions.” This comes on the heels of a study that suggests the Pfizer vaccine could cause severe neurodegenerative diseasescaused by brain prions created by the mRNA-style vaccine. National File reported, “‘The current RNA based SARSCoV-2 vaccines were approved in the US using an emergency order without extensive long term safety testing,’ the report declares. ‘In this paper the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was evaluated for the potential to induce prion-based disease in vaccine recipients.’ Prion-based diseases are, according to the CDC, a form of neurodegenerative diseases, meaning that the Pfizer vaccine is potentially likely to cause long term damage and negative health effects with regards to the brain.”

Join Julie Haesche as she guides you through a meditation that will enhance blood flow to the brain that will enhance focus, memory, and mood. Kirtan Kriya is a mediation technique used in Kundalini yoga, which is intended to stimulate the senses and parts of the brain. It involves a combination of chanting, finger movements and primal sounds. These sounds are: Saa. Taa. Naa. Maa. Translated as infinity, life, death, rebirth, this mantra is chanted repeatedly. Practicing this meditation is both a science and an art. It is an art in the way it molds consciousness and in the refinement of sensation and insight it produces. Resources to learn more: https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling https://www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/health-and-healing/kirtan-kriya-sa-ta-na-ma-meditation Follow Your Weekly Woo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourweeklywoo/ Work with Julie: https://www.juliehaesche.com Work with Lyndsay: https://www.lyndsaypaige.com

The world is in a collective transition. A transition of seasons, integration from quarantine, and new beginnings. Julie and Lyndsay share how to keep your focus through trying times of transition, how to use your energy for good, the power of attraction, and the importance of remembering we are all a work in progress. How do we move forward and honor transformation? This episode is loaded with practical wisdom, including a meditation practice called Kirtan Kriya to honor the cycles of our lives. Join us for the conversation and let us know what you think by leaving a comment, subscribing, and rating the show in your favorite podcast app! Follow Your Weekly Woo on Instagram and join our community: https://www.instagram.com/yourweeklywoo/ If you want to work with Julie or Lyndsay, you can find us here: https://www.juliehaesche.com or https://www.lyndsaypaige.com

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En este episodio de mi Podcast 'Salud Radiante con Cecilia' el maestro de Kundalini Yoga Siri Marka nos habla de una meditación llamada 'Kirtan Kriya' que se ha estudiado científicamente por los beneficios que aportar a la salud del cerebro. Entre ellos mejora la memoria y disminuye el deterioro cognitivo, posibles indicadores de demencia y Alzheimer's. Musica por Dyal Bhajan maestro de Kundalini Yoga. Lo puedes conseguir en Instagram en @DyalBhajan y en SoundCloud aqui: https://SoundCloud.com/Jason-Olsen-711593745 Pueden conseguir mas información sobre Siri Marka en su sitio web: https://www.sirimarka.com y seguirlo en las redes sociales @SiriMarka Si quieres tener la oportunidad de participar en grabaciones de este Podcast en vivo conmigo y hacer tus preguntas directamente a nuestros invitados, ademas de tenerme como tu coach de vida, te invito a formar parte de mi Círculo en el que encontrarás muchas herramientas para salir adelante desde todo punto de vista. Visita http://www.elcirculodececilia.com para más información y para unirte a este grupo VIP. ¡Te espero! No olvides suscribirte a mi página web: ceciliaramirezharris.com y en este mi canal de YouTube, activar la campanita para recibir notificaciones y seguirme por mis redes sociales: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CeciliaRamirezHarris/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/cramirezharris Instagram: http://instagram.com/ceciliaramirezharris/ Grupo Reto Detox: https://www.facebook.com/groups/457604847974121/ Grupo Ayuno Intermitente: https://www.facebook.com/groups/644517512552432/ Si te interesa algunos de los productos que uso mis videos con recetas, en el Pre Detox, Detox y Ayuno Intermitente, visita mi tienda de Amazon donde los puedes encontrar: http://amazon.com/shop/ceciliaramirezharris

The breakdown ...the why behind this subject I get vulnerable with my story in being myself and how I'm still working on discovering methe importance of knowing the difference between being inspired by someone vs trying to be like themhow being yourself is an ongoing processasking yourself "what do I value?"how the book "The Universe Had Your Back" by Gabrielle Bernstein had helped me shiftI share a list of things I feel holds us back from being ourselves, share my story with them, and unpack each onejournal prompts that could help work through finding or being yourselfI share a meditation practice "Kirtan Kriya" that I learned from the Bernstein bookI'm shifting the narrative of this podcast from trying to bring on "professionals" to talk about hard conversation topics to wanting to bring on anyone willing to talk about hard conversation topics that are hard for them and/or that they feel are important for other people to hear about. Email me at shelbyannborer@gmail.com if you are interested in being a guest! Be sure to subscribe, leave a rating, and a review! If you write a review please email shelbyannborer@gmail.com and let me know you wrote one so that I can send you a thank you gift! And don't forget to follow @hardconversationswithshelby on Instagram & Facebook!

This month (this year, really) we've had so many energy portals opening, bringing in energy that we can use to uplift our lives, ourselves, and the collective. On Monday, Dec 21, 2020, we will have the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius on the winter solstice. This is literally the energy portal of our lifetime—perhaps many lifetimes! This is an invitation to listen deeply to your Soul, release what's ready to go, acknowledge and feel all of your feelings, and make space to integrate all of the energies available to us right now. By doing this deep, intentional work, we will then be able to activate our true purpose. Each one of us has a unique energetic signature, perspective and purpose that we need on this planet. The time is now to activate your gift to the world. That is why you are here. We need you. Sending you all so much love and light during this epic time on Earth! Join me for a Winter Solstice Activation energy healing on December 20 and 7 pm. This will help you integrate and activate as we enter the new era and create a New Earth. Mentioned in the episode:The teachers I mentioned that I've been working with: Sat Devbir, Paramatma Siri Sadhana, Julie Piatt (aka SriMati), Christine Caruso. The kriyas I mentioned: Long ek ong kar, Hast kriya, Gyan chakra kriyaLearn more about Kirtan Kriya and do the practice with me on my episode #3 BONUS Kirtan kriya — the meditation for everyone.Check out the sustainable yoga products at shaktiwarriorshop.com and use the promo code WARRIORSUSAN at check out for 10% off. Get updates about my offerings directly to your inbox by signing up for my newsletter. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your email address. If you would like to work one-on-one with me, learn more here. I am an intuitive guide and will bring in whatever type of healing we are guided to uplevel your experience. Follow the journey on Instagram @thirdeyescience and like the Facebook page where you'll find resources on yoga, meditation, the science of spirituality, and self-care. Join the Third Eye Science Meditation Circle on Insight Timer. To help support the show, please tell a friend, share on social media, subscribe, rate, and review on your favorite podcast platform.

In this week’s set, the New World Kirtan Podcast features another branch of the kirtan music scene with a focus on Kundalini artists. The best-known chant from this tradition is the Kirtan Kriya, Sa Ta Na Ma, so powerful for Alzheimer’s patients & their caregivers. This week you’ll hear a lovely version of that chant […]

This episode explains how our daily habits create our sense of identify, and how Kundalini Yoga helps us clear the thoughts, actions, and patterns that no longer serve us so we can consciously create our own sense of self and sense of the world,  At the end of the podcast, Jen leads you through a pranayam called Canon Breath, that helps strengthen the part of your nervous system that creates relaxation and calm.  Listen to the episode above, or read on to learn more.  At the end of the episode, Jen invites you to join our free 10-Days of Kirtan Kriya meditation program, which you can sign-up for at www.HeartCenteredRevolution.com/Episode35. Love,  Jen & Ramtin

YogaUni Podcast, Şubat ayında sizlerin sayesinde Türkiye’de Spotify üzerinde Yaşam ve Sağlık kategorisinde 1. Sıraya, Apple Podcast’te de Kişisel Gelişim kategorisinde 3. Sıraya kadar yükseldi J İlk bölümün yayınını sadece 3 ay önce yaptık. Bu hızlı ilerleme, gösterdiğiniz muazzam ilgi için çok çok teşekkür ederim. Minnettarım. YogaUni Podcast yayına 2019 Kasım ayında başladı, ama fikir ve bu konudaki çalışmalarım aslında o kadar da yeni değil. YogaUni üzerinden yoga yapan üyelerimiz, sosyal medya üzerinden bizi takip edenlerimiz ile yüz yüze buluşmak ve aynı alanı paylaşmak niyeti ile 2018 yılının Ocak ayında, YogaUni Sangha Buluşmaları adı altında buluşmalar düzenlemeye ve konukları ağırlamaya başladım. Gelen konuklarımız ile sohbet etmek, sorularımızı sormak, birlikte cevaplar aramak amacı ile biraraya geldiğimiz 6 buluşma gerçekleştirdik. Bu süreçte, sizlerin de burada dinlediğiniz gibi, yazarları, klinik psikologları, bilim kadınları ile doktorları, yogi ve yoginileri ağırladım. Meditasyon’dan Veganlığa, ilişkiler ve kendi değerini yaşamak’tan, Ayurveda’ya farklı konularda sohbet ettik. Konular çeşitliydi, ama temel konu hep insanlık hali oldu. Bugün sizinle, bizi buraya getiren tohumların ilk atıldığı Sangha Buluşmalarımızın ilkini paylaşmak istiyorum. Konuğum Semin Yılmaz bir Kundalini Yoga uzmanı. Bu kaydın yapıldığı tarihte yayınlanan Yoga Journal Dergisi Ocak 2018 sayısında Yargılarımız üzerine bir yazı ve bir Kundalini yoga uygulaması paylaşmıştı. Buluşmamızda da bu konu üzerine sohbet ettik, ve Kirtan Kriya uygulamasını gerçekleştirdik. Bugün maalesef Yoga Journal Dergisi aramızda değil, yayın hayatı sona erdi. Fakat, yayıncılar sağolsunlar Semin’in yazısını da sizlerle paylaşabilmem için gönderdiler. Arzu ederseniz yazıyı okuyabilir ve uygulamanın görselleri üzerinden Kirtan Kriya’yı kendiniz de uygulamak üzere saklayabilirsiniz. Yazı linki : Yoga Journal Dergi - Semin Yılmaz ile Yargılarımız ve Kirtan Kriya Şimdi sizleri Sangha Buluşmamızın ses kaydı ile başbaşa bırakıyor, keyifli dinlemeler diliyorum. Nesteren

To strengthen the mind, you can practice a 12-minute Kirtan Kriya meditation. It is a meditation to help with memory and practiced by many.1. Find a comfortable seat and bring your internal gaze to your third eye.2. Place your hands in the Gyan Mudra, arms straight with backs of your hands resting on your knees.3. Touch the tips of your thumbs to the tips of your index fingers gently and say saa (representing infinity, the cosmos, and beginning of time).3. Touch the tips of your thumbs to the tips of your middle fingers and say taa (life and existence).4. Touch the tips of your thumbs to the tips of your ring fingers and say naa (death, change and transformation);5. Finally touch the tips of our thumbs to the tips of your pinky fingers and say maa (rebirth). The 12-minute practice(Combine finger connection with sound)2-minute normal voice chant: sa, ta, na, ma2-minute whisper voice chant: sa, ta, na, ma2-minute silent chant: sa, ta, na, ma2-minute whisper voice chant: sa, ta, na, ma2-minute normal voice chant: sa, ta, na, ma2-minute sit in silence You can listen and practice along on my "Mary McCarthy Reslience & Grace" Podcast Episode #11 or on Nirinjan Kaur's YouTube Channel.

In this second episode of the conscious communication series, we focus on the power of listening. We often are too hung up on our own agendas instead of really listening to others. When we harness the power of listening to others, to our own words and thoughts, and our intuition, we inform and connect to our world. When we listen deeply, sunni-ali in gurmukhi, we can be one step ahead of the moment.As Yogi Bhajan says, listening is your greatest power, "When some of you stop listening, you don’t want to listen. That is the time when you make the greatest mistake of your life because your constitution, your construction, your building, your faculty, your power is in listening."Mentioned in this episode:Some meditations that increase your connection to your intuition that I have found to be very powerful are Kirtan Kriya (which I talked about extensively in episode 3), Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, Long Ek Ong Kars, and so many more! You'll find so many kriyas and meditations that increase your intuitive power in the featured kundalini kriyas from 3HO, especially those under the section "The Spirit".Check out this beautiful live version of Sun-iai by Snatam with Ajeet.Learn more about Sun-iai, the 8th Pauri of Japji.Yogi Bhajan on listening. My Spotify night time listening playlist. MBARI's Ocean Soundscape Listening Room. If you feel called to have a session with Susan (aka Tara Rajdevi) you can send a message on Instagram, Facebook, or email. Learn more about Susan's journey on Instagram @thirdeyescience —be sure to check out the stories, which are updated almost daily! You can also like our Facebook page where you'll find resources on yoga, meditation, the science of spirituality, and self care. To help support the show, please tell a friend, share on social media, subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast platform. More information on www.thirdeyescience.comMusic by www.bensound.com

I wrap-up my conversation with Lumina Gershfield Cordova (aka Lumina Infinite). Highlights: - the freedom of tech-free family connection - the value of being present in discomfort - failing and having consequences are critical for child development Links for Lumina Website: https://www.luminainfinite.com "Be with Me" family mindfulness course: https://www.luminainfinite.com/bewithme 6-minute Kirtan Kriya meditation: https://www.luminainfinite.com/meditation Instagram: https://instagram.com/luminainfinite --- Hi, my name is Ryan, and I'm a life coach. Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, an online course, and my podcast, I help parents, teachers, and other professional helpers like you break your painful patterns so you can celebrate more wins. What do you want for your life? ** Join the conversation! ** New Website!: https://www.educate4.life Instagram: https://instagram.com/educate4_life Leave me a voice note: https://anchor.fm/educate4life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educate4life/message

I continue my conversation with Lumina Gershfield Cordova (aka Lumina Infinite), highlighting how powerful "good enough" can be and how ineffective perfectionism is. Highlights: - conscious decisions are required to overcome self-judgment - long-term practice can lead to self-forgiveness - plan ahead for your emotions Links for Lumina Website: https://www.luminainfinite.com "Be with Me" family mindfulness course: https://www.luminainfinite.com/bewithme 6-minute Kirtan Kriya meditation: https://www.luminainfinite.com/meditation Instagram: https://instagram.com/luminainfinite --- Hi, my name is Ryan, and I'm a life coach. Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, an online course, and my podcast, I help parents, teachers, and other professional helpers like you break your painful patterns so you can celebrate more wins. What do you want for your life? ** Join the conversation! ** New Website!: https://www.educate4.life Instagram: https://instagram.com/educate4_life Leave me a voice note: https://anchor.fm/educate4life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educate4life/message

I det här avsnittet får du träffa inspirerande, kloka, vackra och drivande människan Madeleine Wilhelmsson. Madeleine är yogaterapeut och driver en egen yogastudio, YogaMana sedan ca 10 år, och för bara ett par veckor sedan kom hennes egna App ut; ManaYoga (du hittar den i appstore) som är full med yogaövningar för självläkning. I det här avsnittet pratar vi om yogans effekter, hur Madeleine själv kom in på det spåret, entreprenörskap och vilka fördelar och utmaningar som finns i att driva en egen yogastudion. Du får ta del av både tips och övningar (bland annat pratar vi om en meditation som föryngrar och som Elizabeth Blackburn forskat om och som var del i hennes forskning som ledde till Nobel's nobelpris. Se länk nedan) och i samband med detta avsnitt hittar du också Madeleines 6 bäst tips till dig som är entrepreneur eller som är på gång att starta eget på min blogg på www.jennyhagman.com! Och du hittar mer info om Madde på följande länkar och receptet till den rawball vi pratar om på slutet hittar du på följande länk:-): https://manayoga.se/recept-en/chokladbollar/ Yogastudion på Östermalm: www.yogamana.se Självläkningskonceptet: www.manayoga.se Instagram: @yogamanastockholm @manayogasweden @yogamadde Facebook: YogaMana ManaYoga - Funktionell Medicinsk Yoga Varmt välkommen till ett härligt avsnitt och jag hoppas den ger dig en mängd inspiration och kunskap. Trevlig lyssning! Ps. Och här är en länk till en artikel om Elizabeth Blackburn och meditationen Kirtan Kriya: https://www.svd.se/elizabeth-blackburn-studerar-hur-stress-och-trauman-paverkar-cellernas-aldrande. Ds.

For this series of episodes, I have Lumina Gershfield Cordova (aka Lumina Infinite) - kundalini yogini, teacher, parent, entrepreneur. We have a far reaching conversation about family mindfulness, starting with a conversation about how yoga and Montessori permeate Lumina's life. Highlights: - Kundalini yoga opening - Montessori is awesome ;-P - being available, and NOT available, can both be beneficial Links for Lumina Website: https://www.luminainfinite.com "Be with Me" family mindfulness course: https://www.luminainfinite.com/bewithme 6-minute Kirtan Kriya meditation: https://www.luminainfinite.com/meditation Instagram: https://instagram.com/luminainfinite --- Hi, my name is Ryan, and I'm a life coach. Through 1-on-1 and group coaching, an online course, and my podcast, I help parents, teachers, and other professional helpers like you break your painful patterns so you can celebrate more wins. What do you want for your life? ** Join the conversation! ** New Website!: https://www.educate4.life Instagram: https://instagram.com/educate4_life Leave me a voice note: https://anchor.fm/educate4life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educate4life/message

This meditation heals depression by increasing grey matter and breaking negative patterns in the mind. The benefits of this meditation also support a healthy function of the mind for memory, especially for Alzheimer's.

It may be cliche to talk about self love. Everyone talks about it, but how do you really cultivate it? I've been on a journey towards self love for my whole life, really. But for the last 5 years, I've been cultivating it in an intentional way. I thought it might be helpful to share some of the practices and philosophies I've used to cultivate it in my life—and I came up with 8 for you to try or at least consider. Listen and let me know what you think!Mentioned in this episode:Julie Piatt @srimati on instagram and her podcast For the life of me and her meditation Jai Release meditation.The recent workshop I attended with Guru Singh at 1440 Multiversity.Gretchen Rubin's book The Four Tendencies.The article I mentioned about the effect your social network has on your behaviors. Meditation apps: Insight timer and Headspace. The practice I've been doing every morning lately: saahibee kriya, sodarshan chakra kriya, kirtan kriya (check out the bonus episode that discusses the benefits and walks you through the kriya).I didn't mention this but I also chant this mantra for 11 min every day. I cultivates prosperity and Yogi Bhajan said to this every day for one year and see what happens, so I'm doing that! Learn more about Susan's journey on Instagram @thirdeyescience (be sure to check out the stories, which are updated almost daily!)To help support the show, please tell a friend, share on social media, and rate/review on your favorite podcast platform. More information on www.thirdeyescience.comMusic by www.bensound.com

Bhai Satpal Singh explains Guru Nank Dev Ji's Mool Mantar in detail, looking at the origin, language and spiritual meaning of each word of this Mantar. In this third podcast the translation and definition of the word "Satnam" is given. It covers concepts and gives examples from the following areas: - Moses enlightenment with the burning bush - Hidden meaning of Jaap Sahib - Spiritual definition of Gurmat and Manmat - Naam Simran and Mantar Jaap - Secret of the "Kirtan Kriya" practice in 3HO Kundalini Yoga

Managing stress is very important for quality of life and optimal health. This week we discuss 3 strategies of meditation with most of the focus on the Kirtan Kriya Meditation or KKM. This technique is so simple to learn and more can be found at alzheimersprevention.org. Try it, practice it, teach and share it with others. In a sauna or not.

Det här avsnittet är ett riktigt hälsosnack! Vi fick besök av Sara Johansson som vi lärt känna i avsnitt 64, 65 och 114, men denna gång pratar vi helt utan manus och förberedda frågor. Istället låter vi inspelningen gå när vi pratar om våra egna hälsoutmaningar, hur vi hittar träningsmotivation efter ett uppehåll och vilka hälsorutiner som vi inte kan vara utan. Vi pratar också om meditation och hur vi ibland får med våra barn, vi pratar om hur viktigt det är med självmedkänsla och kärlek när det gäller hälsosatsningar. Och tro't eller ej, men inte ens en hälsocoach är perfekt när det gäller hälsan! Vi avslöjar till exempel vad som får oss att hamna i sockerfällan emellanåt. Saras blogg hittar du här: saraseviga.se Missa inte det fina erbjudandet från vår sponsor Cellexir. Med koden Hälsosnack får du antingen 1 förpackning Cellexir till prova-på priset 295 kr, eller om du väljer ett abonnemang så får du 15% rabatt med samma rabattkod. Läs mer och beställ på cellexir.se Vår Kirtan Kriya-kurs och Vår-Cleanse hittar du här: vitalista.se/webbshop  För att få nyheter, inspiration, tävlingar mm, anmäl dig till vårt nyhetsbrev på vitalista.se  

If broken trust is an issue in your relationship, download the FREE video series “The First Steps to Rebuilding Trust” to help you get on the right track. https://www.geoffsteurer.com/freebie For details on our Connection Plus Membership Community, please visit https://www.connectionpluscommunity.com Sign up for my FREE weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date on exciting new announcements! Download my FREE guide to help you quickly end arguments with your spouse Connect with me on social media:INSTAGRAMFACEBOOK Visit http://www.geoffsteurer.com for online courses and other supportive resources. About Geoff Steurer: I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, relationship educator, and coach with over 24 years of experience. I am the co-author of, "Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a Relationship Damaged by Virtual Infidelity", the host of the weekly podcast, "From Crisis to Connection", and have produced workbooks, audio programs, and online courses helping couples and individuals heal from the impact of sexual betrayal, unwanted pornography use, partner betrayal trauma, and rebuilding broken trust. As a leader in the field, I am a frequent contributor on these subjects at national conferences, documentaries, blogs, magazines, and podcasts. I also write a weekly relationship advice column available on my blog. I founded and ran an outpatient sexual addiction and betrayal trauma recovery group program for over 14 years, co-founded and chaired a local conference to educate community members about harmful media, and founded and administered a specialized group therapy practice for over 12 years. I currently maintain a private counseling and coaching practice in beautiful Southern Utah where I live with my wife and children. We are excited to introduce Connection Plus Our exclusive community for couples and individuals who want to maintain their recovery momentum and strengthen their relationships. We've built a one-of-a-kind COMMUNITY with direct support from us - You'll learn how to stop destructive patterns, build skills for connection, and build a path to long-term healing. - Engage with a community of people committed to strengthening themselves and their relationships. We are a community of couples and individuals committed to getting out of crisis and living in connection…for life. Click here for more info. Podcast Description In this episode I continue my interview with Katy Willis and we give you the chance to experience components of yoga for yourself. You just have to double cross your heart that you will save it for a time when you are not driving, operating heavy machinery, or other activities that require your undivided attention :-) If you haven't listened to Episode 35, please go back and listen so you can have foundational information on the practices she is going to share. More on Katy's Background: Katy Willis spends most of her time as a homeschooling mamma to her 4 energetic children. Katy and her husband, Mark, hope to add to their family through adoption. She graduated from BYU-Idaho with an Associate's degree in Nursing in 2005, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Music in 2006. Katy currently runs her own small business called Be Still Services. Her mission is to help support individuals physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually in the aftermath of trauma so they can be still and find Jesus Christ. Katy has retired from working on the cardiac floor; however, is using her nursing skills again, but this time in brain wellness as a Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy (QNRT) Practitioner. QNRT is part of an emerging branch of the medical field called Quantum Neurobiology. She trained with Sariah at BackPocket Yoga for her 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training and Prana I course. Katy is a certified Karma Kids Yoga instructor. Additionally, she has studied with Felice at Tree of Life for Kundalini Yoga. She dreams of opening a brain wellness center in Northern Utah some day. Jesus Christ has been her rock through healing from betrayal trauma after her husband's relapse with pornography addiction, as well as during high-risk pregnancies, miscarriages, and navigating through the world of adoption. Additional Resources from Katy: Books to consider for further personal reading: The Body Keep the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk MD Meditation as Medicine, by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth Hatha Yoga Illustrated, by Martin L. Kirk, Brooke Boon, et al. Kirtan Kriya instructions: https://www.3ho.org/files/pdfs/KirtanKriya.pdf http://alzheimersprevention.org/research/kirtan-kriya-yoga-exercise/ https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927889/ The breath/brain article: https://qz.com/quartzy/1132986/neuroscientists-have-identified-how-exactly-a-deep-breath-changes-your-mind/?fbclid=IwAR1V8xEn2C4Dbv15nW5P6g8ZolSMyLT_7u9FaQt9mVqrPJ48AZVt7-NGL9Y Eye focus/brain activation: https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/eye-focus Katy's favorite Kundalini yoga website: https://www.3ho.org Instructions for basic Hatha yoga poses: https://backpocketyoga.com/how-to-pose/ Mantra translation website: http://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra The advice offered through Geoff Steurer's podcasts is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. 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In this episode I continue my interview with Katy Willis and we give you the chance to experience components of yoga for yourself. You just have to double cross your heart that you will save it for a time when you are not driving, operating heavy machinery, or other activities that require your undivided attention :-) If you haven't listened to Episode 35, please go back and listen so you can have foundational information on the practices she is going to share. Resources: 1. Kirtan Kriya instructions: https://www.3ho.org/files/pdfs/KirtanKriya.pdf http://alzheimersprevention.org/research/kirtan-kriya-yoga-exercise/ https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927889/ Katy will be offering two free trial yoga classes on http://btr.org (Betrayal Trauma Recovery) for any women. The two trial classes are free to all women, not just women who have a btr subscription. The classes will be Saturday, April 27 and Saturday, May 4 @ 8 am MST. She will start offering the Prana I Yoga Therapy course this fall in Logan, Utah at Addo Recovery. You can follow Katy here to learn more about her yoga classes online and in Utah: http://bestillservices.blogspot.com/p/christ-centered-yoga.html And, Katy's mentor, Sariah, offers online pre-recorded trauma yoga classes for $12/month here: https://backpocketyoga.com/register/ Books to consider for further personal reading: The Body Keep the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk MD Meditation as Medicine, by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth Hatha Yoga Illustrated, by Martin L. Kirk, Brooke Boon, et al. The breath/brain article (qz.com/quartzy/1132986/neuro…t9mVqrPJ48AZVt7-NGL9Y) Eye focus/brain activation (www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/eye-focus) Katy's favorite Kundalini yoga website (www.3ho.org) 5. Instructions for basic Hatha yoga poses (backpocketyoga.com/how-to-pose/) 6. Mantra translation website (www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra) Katy's Bio: Katy Willis spends most of her time as a homeschooling mamma to her 4 energetic children. Katy and her husband, Mark, hope to add to their family through adoption. She graduated from BYU-Idaho with an Associate's degree in Nursing in 2005, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Music in 2006. Katy currently runs her own small business called Be Still Services. Her mission is to help support individuals physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually in the aftermath of trauma so they can be still and find Jesus Christ. Katy has retired from working on the cardiac floor; however, is using her nursing skills again, but this time in brain wellness as a Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy (QNRT) Practitioner. QNRT is part of an emerging branch of the medical field called Quantum Neurobiology. She trained with Sariah at BackPocket Yoga for her 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training and Prana I course. Katy is a certified Karma Kids Yoga instructor. Additionally, she has studied with Felice at Tree of Life for Kundalini Yoga. She dreams of opening a brain wellness center in Northern Utah some day. Jesus Christ has been her rock through healing from betrayal trauma after her husband's relapse with pornography addiction, as well as during high-risk pregnancies, miscarriages, and navigating through the world of adoption. The Illuminate Podcast is hosted by Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT and founder of LifeStar of St. George, Utah, a treatment program for couples healing from the impact of pornography and sexual addiction. Learn more at www.lifestarstgeorge.com You can also purchase a six-hour audio course on healing your marriage from pornography ($29) here: geoff-steurer.mykajabi.com/p/marriage-recovery

In this episode, I describe one of my favorite meditations — kirtan kriya. This meditation is not only one of the foundational practices in kundalini yoga, it is also the recommended technique by the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation. It has been scientifically proven to change the structure of the brain, leading to better brain health. Join me as I describe the benefits and walk you through this beautiful meditation practice. Learn more about Kirtan Kriya on the 3HO website and at the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation. To support the show, please tell a friend, share on social media, and rate/review on your favorite podcast platform. Find more information on www.thirdeyescience.comMusic by www.bensound.com

Meditation has changed my life in so many positive ways. I believe that EVERYONE can (and should) meditate. In this episode, I discuss some of the compelling, scientific evidence on the benefits of meditation and share my own experience with a daily practice. If you have never meditated, but have heard about the benefits and don't know where to start, this episode is for you! If you are already an avid meditator like me, you may learn some of the really cool science about its benefits. And if you're just one of those people that is sort of interested in it, listening to the episode just might give you the motivation to commit to a daily practice. Meditation is the #1 place where science and spirituality do mix. You can see a presentation I gave to my colleagues at MBARI on this subject here: Meditation for EveryoneTo help support the show, please tell a friend, share on social media, and rate/review on your favorite podcast platform. More information on www.thirdeyescience.comMusic by www.bensound.com

Kirtan Kriya är en mantrameditation och en av de mest kraftfulla meditationerna som finns i Kundaliniyoga. Den rensar det undermedvetna sinnet, ger psykisk balans och förbättrar vår intuition. Kirtan Kriya är bra att göra vid olika förändringar då den rensar ut gamla tankemönster och läker känslomässiga sår. Precis som vid all meditation verkar den också stressreducerande.Jessica guidar dig genom meditationen som är ca 11 minuter lång.INFORMATION OCH ANMÄLAN TILL ÅRETS SISTA RETREAT “SKAPA DET LIV DU VILL HA” I BORÅS 1/12https://www.facebook.com/events/154764718799023/https://www.jessicaisegran.com/retreats/INFORMATION OCH ANMÄLAN TILL VÅRT RETREAT I SPANIEN 11-14 APRIL 2019Eventet på FacebookFör dig som saknar FacebookVill du säga hej till oss, boka retreats eller liknande så hittar du oss här:Maila hos om du har idéer, frågor eller bara vill säga något trevligt :)Thegamechangerspodcast@gmail.comHitta podcasten på Insta:@TheGameChangersPodcastVåra företag:jessicaisegran.com Om du vill boka privatlektion i yoga, meditation, coachande samtal eller coaching i att äta växtbaserat.Räfseryd Balans och Hälsa Om du vill boka Reconnective Healing eller “Nå dina mål” med mental träning.Instagram@jessicaisegran@rafserydbalancehealthFacebookThe Game Changers PodcastRäfseryd Balans och Hälsa - Jennys sida40 and Fit On Fruit - Jessicas sidaAndromeda Health - vårt samarbete med Sara Fredman och Maja Weber där vi bland annat anordnar retreats tillsammansMusik:Werq Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Today we look at yoga exercises including breathwork as a way to achieve and maintain balance for the caregiver of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Guru Simran discussed her early introduction and involvement with yoga practice. Next, the host reviewed his experience in the early years of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Yoga was studied by NIH as a method of caring for caregivers of those with chronic illnesses. This leads to an explanation by Guru Simran about the history and meanings of yoga in Indian Hindu culture and religion. Her perspective is to keep yoga primarily as a spiritual practice. Traditionally, yoga has had reproducible effects on the practitioner, that is to say a scientific basis, and we discussed the set of exercises known as a kryia. In the past, the interview guest and the host have experienced centering exercises during the beginning of business seminars, and these chants, breath work and postures always result in noticeable benefits. Guru Simran tells how even a brief practice can be of benefit to listeners when faced with anxiety, fear or sadness when they are caring for a loved one living with schizophrenia. She leads the audience in a detailed particular “audience participation” breathing practice, one of the pranayama practices. This is for cleansing, for relaxing, energizing and mental clarity. It involves slow belly-breath in, then expanding the lungs, with a pause, followed by an exhalation starting with the top of the lungs and ending with the belly pushed inward toward the spine. The name in English for this 3-minute exercise is “Long Deep Breathing.” The mental component is to think of the following: 1) on the inhalation, breathe in strength, faith, peace; and 2) on the exhalation, breathe out weakness, fatigue, fear, tension, anger. The NIH / Center for Complementary and Integrative Health did a pilot study done in 2010 to benefit the caregivers of a family member living with dementia. Schizophrenia is, of course, different from dementia, but they are both chronic conditions affecting the thinking and behavior of the person. The caregivers practiced a particular Kirtan Kriya daily for 8 weeks and were compared to caregivers who did not. That small study showed a significant decrease in the mild depression and cognitive functioning problems in the caregivers who practiced this. Guru Simran discussed these types of exercises herself. There are hand movements in that system. The kirtan system gives meanings to the fingers of the hand as follows: Index finger corresponds to the planet Jupiter, representing wisdom; the middle finger corresponds to Saturn, representing patience; the ring finger corresponds to the Sun, representing vitality, the pinky finger is associated with planet Mercury, representing communication; and the thumb represents the personality, the ego. She recommends searching for and watching YouTube videos posted on Kirtan kryia. Another NIMH researcher in Bangalore, India, showed benefits of pranayama practices in stress, anxiety, depression and the symptoms associated insomnia. The onset of schizophrenia can and often does include the loss of former life directions, former dreams, and goals which can lead to a kind of grief and sadness. This is true for both the family member caregivers and for the person living with schizophrenia. His review showed sustained improvement in depressive symptoms at one and three months after an initial 3 month period of practicing the breath techniques daily. Guru Simran suggests finding for yourself a yoga teachers both locally and also to use her services and classes over the video internet software, such as Zoom. Finally, she recommends to start your day with a routine centering practice that resonates and makes sense to you and actually helps you as the caregiver. Self-nurturing is key to avoid burn-out, and to keep yourself nourished on a daily basis as a graceful, sensitive, compassionate caregiver.

Cancer sucks, no way around it. If you have it, had it or are supporting someone who does, this episode will be nourishment for you by bringing your mind and body into the healing and recovery process for cancer and trauma is so important. Fighting cancer is often traumatic physically, emotionally and relationally. Podcast host Dr. Ann Kelley joins therapist and Yoga Instructor Kelly Inselmann (LCSW, C-IAYT,CGP) as she shares her personal journey through cancer recovery and describes her passion and process in supporting others to find hope and healing while in this compromised state. They discuss how modifying the six principles of emotional recovery into the basic principles of yoga can have an immense impact on well-being and recovery. This episode provides insight both for those directly experiencing the trauma of cancer and for those who love and support them. As a Bonus, Kelly leads our listeners through a 12 minute Kundalini meditation called Kirtan Kriya. This is published as a stand-alone bonus episode so that you can use it as a resource in your own daily practice. TU 63: Show Notes 0:00-10:00 Introduction and recap on previous yoga podcast Activating the body to heal the mind through yoga How trauma not only affects the mind but the body as well. Importance of making people feel safe in their bodies in the moment and tolerate their sensations Association with previous sensations with your body, both positive/pleasure and negative/pain Equipping yourself with the tools to negotiate all your bodily sensations outside of yoga class Power of mental mantras, knowing your true self, “sat nam” 10:00-20:00 Inselmann’s own journey with Stage 3 breast cancer and recovery, how she translated that to her own teachings Finding the balance between seizing the day and really appreciating every moment through taking it slow 20:00-30:00 Modifying the basic elements of yoga to fit you, be it for cancer, trauma, etc. JoyBootsForCancerSurvivors.com & KellyInselmann.com Yoga as a tool for emotional recovery Phenomena of depression once physical recovery is completed Six principles of emotional recovery 1) Just being with what is right now, physically, emotionally and mentally. You have to feel it to heal it. Finding a therapist specifically for your caregiver to walk through process in their own way 2) Finding the medicine and healing even when there is discomfort, learning to ask for help. 30:00-40:00 3) Grab a fistful of prana and accept what the universe has to offer you and bring it in. 4) There are gifts even in our physical limitations. 5) Cultivating your own prana/energy. Finding the right movement, meditation, food, habits to harvest energy 6) “Joy boots”. Hold on to memory of movement practice and using it as a somatic marker. If yourself from that memory wouldn’t feel good doing something you’re doing now, avoid it. Check out our bonus episode, a 12-minute track of a high-quality mediation specifically for you, our listeners. Thank you Kelly for this offering! (https://www.therapistuncensored.com/tu52-bonus/) .  Who is Kelly Inselmann:  Kelly is a psychotherapist and Kundalini yoga instructor in Austin, TX and Sue is super-thrilled that she is also a Certified Group Psychotherapist. She is the founder of cutting edge Yoga and Talk Therapy groups, classes, workshops, and retreats to help cancer survivors recover emotionally and reclaim their vitality. More information at (http://www.kellyinselmann.com/) Want more like this? Check out our free YouTube video Modern Adult Attachment 101 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7g4K8fDvo) to learn more –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7g4K8fDvo Like this and want to hear more? Find our free YouTube video  join our Facebook page here Support this podcast

Cancer sucks, no way around it. If you have it, had it or are supporting someone who does, this episode will be nourishment for you by bringing your mind and body into the healing and recovery process for cancer and trauma is so important. Fighting cancer is often traumatic physically, emotionally and relationally. Podcast host Dr. Ann Kelley joins therapist and Yoga Instructor Kelly Inselmann (LCSW, C-IAYT,CGP) as she shares her personal journey through cancer recovery and describes her passion and process in supporting others to find hope and healing while in this compromised state. They discuss how modifying the six principles of emotional recovery into the basic principles of yoga can have an immense impact on well-being and recovery. This episode provides insight both for those directly experiencing the trauma of cancer and for those who love and support them. As a Bonus, Kelly leads our listeners through a 12 minute Kundalini meditation called Kirtan Kriya. This is published as a stand-alone bonus episode so that you can use it as a resource in your own daily practice. TU 63: Show Notes 0:00-10:00 Introduction and recap on previous yoga podcast Activating the body to heal the mind through yoga How trauma not only affects the mind but the body as well. Importance of making people feel safe in their bodies in the moment and tolerate their sensations Association with previous sensations with your body, both positive/pleasure and negative/pain Equipping yourself with the tools to negotiate all your bodily sensations outside of yoga class Power of mental mantras, knowing your true self, “sat nam” 10:00-20:00 Inselmann’s own journey with Stage 3 breast cancer and recovery, how she translated that to her own teachings Finding the balance between seizing the day and really appreciating every moment through taking it slow 20:00-30:00 Modifying the basic elements of yoga to fit you, be it for cancer, trauma, etc. JoyBootsForCancerSurvivors.com & KellyInselmann.com Yoga as a tool for emotional recovery Phenomena of depression once physical recovery is completed Six principles of emotional recovery 1) Just being with what is right now, physically, emotionally and mentally. You have to feel it to heal it. Finding a therapist specifically for your caregiver to walk through process in their own way 2) Finding the medicine and healing even when there is discomfort, learning to ask for help. 30:00-40:00 3) Grab a fistful of prana and accept what the universe has to offer you and bring it in. 4) There are gifts even in our physical limitations. 5) Cultivating your own prana/energy. Finding the right movement, meditation, food, habits to harvest energy 6) “Joy boots”. Hold on to memory of movement practice and using it as a somatic marker. If yourself from that memory wouldn’t feel good doing something you’re doing now, avoid it. Check out our bonus episode, a 12-minute track of a high-quality mediation specifically for you, our listeners. Thank you Kelly for this offering! Click here to hear that Bonus Meditation.  Who is Kelly Inselmann:  Kelly is a psychotherapist and Kundalini yoga instructor in Austin, TX and Sue is super-thrilled that she is also a Certified Group Psychotherapist. She is the founder of cutting edge Yoga and Talk Therapy groups, classes, workshops, and retreats to help cancer survivors recover emotionally and reclaim their vitality. More information at www.kellyinselmann.com Want more like this? Check out our free YouTube video Modern Adult Attachment 101 to learn more –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7g4K8fDvo Like this and want to hear more? Find our free YouTube video Modern Adult Attachment 101 it’s very sharable and easy to understand, but tons of info and lot’s of fun!  Send to your avoidant or preoccupied partner or therapist or sister-in-law

Towards the end of this episode Jen leads you through a pranayam you can use all day every day to feel more present and relaxed- 3 Part Yogic Breath. We also share how you can get access to our Free 10 Days of Kirtan Kriya meditation program so you can start your home practice and learn one of the most powerful Kundalini Yoga meditations.

Join our Yoga Teachers in Training as they prepare mentally, spiritually and emotionally for their journey. This combo of Kriyas is sure to clear the subconscious mind and create new perspective. Enjoy the process.

Two foundational practices in Kundalini Yoga. Sat Kriya - to revitalize the body and Kirtan Kriya to clear the subconscious mind. Check out www.yogavision.com to attend a live class.

No other way to describe this one. Use the transformative properties of sound vibration - Sa Ta Na Ma to set up your day for success. Meditation is in Hero Pose - unique!

Leverage the transformative power of Kirtan Kriya to turn your dreams into reality. The technology works this way - if a woman does Kirtan Kriya for 31 minutes daily for 120 days she can have whatever she wants. So here it is for you! Enjoy the practice and keep up posted. Take live classes with Salimah at www.yogavision.com, studio is located close to Toronto, Canada.

Kirtan kriya, also known as the Divine Song, is a foundational practice in Kundalini Yoga. The mental focus, mudras and mantra bring about a clearing of the subconscious mind. This episode includes tuning in, the meditation and closing. Enjoy!

Keep up and you will be kept up. More resources at www.yogavision.com

This meditation clears the subconscious mind - making way for new habits and new experiences like joy, success, love, and wellbeing

The technology of Kundalini Yoga is very precise - to achieve maximum benefit you commit to a particular meditation for a set amount of time and for a set amount of days. Watch what happens as the meditation matures and uncoils within you.

Practicing a meditation gives you an effect for 40 days. When you practice daily the momentum begins to build leading to lasting transformation and upliftment.

Keep up and you will be kept up. More resources at www.yogavision.com

Keep up with your practice. Full warm ups, relaxation and meditation offered here.

Join in for this eleven day practice. Kirtan Kriya - or Divine Song is a foundational meditation in Kundalini Yoga. The healing qualities are well known and documented - clearing the subconscious mind and repatterning the brain.

This class combines the strengthening aspects of work on the spine with the healing effects of kirtan kriya.

This short kriya provides relief from the stress of daily life. Followed by Kirtan Kriya we have a powerful formula for clearing the muck and growing the lotus.

Keep your digestion strong and your mind focussed with this powerful Kundalini Yoga and meditation combination. Just in time for holiday feasting and family gatherings.

Let's wipe the slate clean - a little meditation goes a long way, especially if it is Kirtan Kriya. This powerful meditation is a foundation of Kundalini Yoga - simply and effectively clearing the sub conscious mind so that you can make the most of your dreams and aspirations.