Meditation & Mindfulness for entrepreneurs

“You know, we move, journal, breathe, meditate to tone mental muscles, which are presence, courage, gratitude, confidence, and resilience. And within each mental muscle, there are different skills that you can cultivate and exercise in order to build that strength.”

Building Mental Muscles™ with Olivia Bowser · 11:05 · listen →

“I think it's really our superpower. And not only that, we all have kind of our individual superpowers, but it's our access to our own superpower. It's the portal into the best we have and the best we can do through presence. It's just simply being present.”

Somatic Mindfulness 101 with Dr. Fleet Maull · 15:39 · listen →

“So ultimately, the goal is not to control the mind, but rather to control where awareness goes within the mind. And the critical thing to understand is that any given point in time, either your environment, which are the things and people around you, that's what I define environment as, can dictate where your ball of light goes. Or if you had enough control over your own awareness, you can choose where it goes.”

Dandapani: Training Focus and Awareness as an Entrepreneur · 0:40 · listen →

“One thing broadly, our body knows, our body knows what we need. Our body has tremendous wisdom. The body knows how to heal itself. The body has all kinds of extraordinary abilities, which science is just beginning to understand, right? So the body is a tremendous source of wisdom and knowledge.”

Somatic Mindfulness 101 with Dr. Fleet Maull · 22:38 · listen →

“Everyone's living above the neck, but trust is below the neck. So we all live here and we think that our body's useful purpose is just to carry our head around. But all the magic and all the knowing and the intuition and the gut feeling, it's below the neck. So can we trust that a little bit more?”

Leading with Courage, Intuition, and Fulfillment with Sar... · 5:42 · listen →

“Resonance for me is what vibrates truthfully in my body. So for me, if I resonate with something, I'm connecting with it holistically... and it is an intuitive feeling because it isn't based on one thing or the other.”

Embracing Intuition and Creative Resonance with Jordan Ha... · 14:58 · listen →

“So intermittent hypoxia is the magic of breathwork. When you hold your breath for 60 to 90 seconds, you invoke a positive state, a positive stress on the body, and it creates an adaptive change to having less oxygen in the body.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 9:45 · listen →

“What I found is, number one, there is no quote unquote right way to meditate. I used to think that you did have to sit quietly and fold your legs and, you know, do this and, oh, you know, all that kind of stuff, right? Meditation could be just sitting quietly at your chair. It could be on a walk in the woods. The trick is to just let go.”

The SMART Entrepreneur with Anthony DeNino · 35:00 · listen →

“I recently started working with the HeartMath Institute on heart coherence. And so that has been really helpful for me. I can meditate for 10 minutes now. I usually do it first thing in the morning so I can set an attention. And that's been amazing for me. I've actually seen my heart rate variability improve. I'm sleeping better.”

Why Entrepreneurs Need a Holistic Approach - An Introduction · 7:01 · listen →

“I think we feel like I'm failing if I'm not doing it every day. I set a goal and I want to be a meditator, but I do it for a month and then I drop off. So I must not be a meditator. And it's like, well, that was for me years of that before it just slowly became that thing. And that's okay.”

From Newsroom to PR Powerhouse: Building a Business with ... · 22:28 · listen →

“Early in the morning is the time when your desires and emotions for the world are little bit under control, so you have more capacity to think clearly. So you must use that time. And by the evening, you will see that you don't have that capacity to think.”

Finding Success without Stress Through Vedanta with Gauta... · 20:55 · listen →

“A desire per se doesn't cause stress. The desire for success could be the desire for anything, but when that desire goes out of control, that is when it becomes stressful. Simple example, you have a desire, desire to earn money. What's wrong with that? Everybody needs to earn money. But if that desire goes out of control, what happens? It becomes greed.”

Finding Success without Stress Through Vedanta with Gauta... · 4:31 · listen →

“So why do you stress out about things which you have no control over? Assess again. Use your intellect and assess. So a person says, 'I have a nagging wife.' Just a simple example. Or a wife says, 'I have a husband with a temper.' So I asked them, do you want a divorce? They say no. I said, then you must assess. My husband has an uncontrolled temper. That's it.”

Finding Success without Stress Through Vedanta with Gauta... · 27:08 · listen →

“So if someone comes up to you and says, I want an hour of your time or 2 hours of your time, the question should be, show me a deck. What are you going to do with my energy? What's my ROE, my return on energy?”

Dandapani: Training Focus and Awareness as an Entrepreneur · 35:54 · listen →

“So I quit my job that day. I felt it so strongly, John. I knew what was happening and I just didn't want to be there. I'd come off the street with complete strangers feeling a deep connection and I got into this workspace and I was like, this isn't my environment.”

From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide: David Kahl on Leaders... · 10:22 · listen →

“The responses were as profound or more profound than the kind of psychedelic insights you get, um, like oneness, connection, feeling like you've been channeled by God and all that stuff, as you would from a big dose of psychedelics.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 15:31 · listen →

“Yes. And that is why the Buddha said, become aware, you know, just, that's all you need to do is become aware, awake, to your awareness. And then you can manage those thoughts. And you know, there are studies that say we spend, oh my goodness, an unbelievable amount of time thinking about the past, and an unbelievable amount of time thinking about the future. But to just be in the present is really where we want to be.”

Sound Therapy and Healing Frequencies for Entrepreneurs w... · 36:01 · listen →

“The first practice is the morning routine. What do you do when you start the day? Okay? And if we start by starting the day, it starts with making sure that you have a moment of silence, 5 minutes of silence. You can pray, you can meditate, you can contemplate, whatever you want. But start the journey by doing something in silence.”

Leading with Consciousness: Decision-Making in Times of C... · 31:15 · listen →

“I recently started working with the HeartMath Institute on heart coherence. And so that has been really helpful for me. I can meditate for 10 minutes now. I usually do it first thing in the morning so I can set an attention. And that's been amazing for me. I've actually seen my heart rate variability improve. I'm sleeping better.”

Why Entrepreneurs Need a Holistic Approach - An Introduction · 7:01 · listen →

“A lot of it is just stepping back so that you can bounce forward. So it's kind of the first thing is to just recognize that you're feeling stressed or that you're feeling burnt out, because sometimes you don't even realize it.”

The Joyful Leader with Nicole Van Valen · 12:30 · listen →

“How is this happening for me? Not to me. What is this teaching me right now? Okay, a little patience, a little calmness. So when your brain is working from a higher vibration and it's more positive and optimistic, ideas flow to you easier.”

Cultivating Positive Activity for Entrepreurship with Lor... · 12:23 · listen →

“It was in 2010 I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ulcerative colitis, and that's what left me housebound for almost a year, shitting blood like 40 times a day. It was hell.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 2:20

“Now, what they've shown is that when you get a constant supply of oxygen going to your mitochondria, right, the mitochondria get fat and lazy. So for most people, they're just constantly feeding food and oxygen to their mitochondria without any breaks, and they get fat and lazy and then die.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 13:00

“When you hold your breath, right, for a long enough time, we create intermittent hypoxia and you reduce the oxygen supply to that mitochondria. You will make that mitochondria wake up and go, oh my God, I'm running out of oxygen. I need to do a spring clean.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 13:00

“When you hold it to as long as I was saying, intermittent hypoxia, you produce ADOSE. ADOSE standing for anandamide, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. So this makes you feel naturally high.”

Alleviate Stress & Boost Energy with Breathwork with Nira... · 30:37

“I believe every single human being has the beautiful power within them to transform, to come home to themselves, as I like to say. And so my role is really to provide the safety, the love, the education, and the tools that people need in order to kind of cross that bridge into self-transformation.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 2:25

“Everything is a choice. Truly, everything is a choice to wake up, to say yes, to say no.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 6:12

“I said, okay, well, I see the divorce and I raise you. I'm quitting the job, selling the house. I'm gonna go on this travel sabbatical and just, you know, kind of my own little Eat, Pray, Love adventure because I knew that I could handle whatever came my way.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 14:50

“It's really hard for judgment and curiosity to coexist, 'cause if we can truly embody curiosity and say, huh, where does that pattern come from? Why do I think that? What am I afraid is going to happen? Then that's where we're really opening a door rather than judging something and closing a door.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 16:19

“I'm not going to go into the gym on day 1 and try to lift 100 pounds off the rack. You know, I'm going to go with a 5 or 10-pound weight. And then over time, I'm going to slowly increase the amount of weight that I can lift until I get to that 100-pound weight.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 22:30

“I also really love the one, worrying is like a rocking chair. It'll pass the time, but it won't get you anywhere.”

Building Bridges Between Cognitive and Embodied Awareness... · 34:58

“I had shown up and fixed this exact problem I was having for so long here in Central New York, but I fixed it for everybody else. And I was very much building, the founder of a startup company, and I was not prioritizing building a support system for myself and making sure that my own social-emotional needs were being met by the people around me.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 5:46

“The beauty of events is that if your guests didn't plan the event, they don't know what's wrong. So, if something goes wrong, just cover it up with a smile and ask for forgiveness if you have to. At that point, there's nothing you can do.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 10:19

“If I don't move every day in one way or another, things get bad, so I always make that a huge priority.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 14:12

“I eat the same thing every day. For the most part, like down to a T. And that might sound like a little much, but honestly, it's made my life significantly easier and less stressful.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 19:55

“As a leader, as an entrepreneur, you're constantly having to make quick decisions all day long. You're having to solve everyone's problems. And it's just nice to have one less problem to solve.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 23:28

“There's just something so therapeutic about getting your thoughts out on paper and just leaving them there, you know, and not letting yourself ruminate on anything. It's been huge for me.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 30:07

“None of it matters if the relationships in our lives don't feel good. So that's something that I'm very proud of, that I can say that I've made that a priority.”

Building Community Without Burning Out: Leadership, Disci... · 35:19

“And it was interesting when we started doing classes at Liberate, the curriculum would ask people to write down like 10 things they liked about themselves, and a lot of people couldn't write down a single thing.”

Building Mental Muscles™ with Olivia Bowser · 13:53

“I think it's even harder too for younger generations with social media. Like, even if you're not being told you're not enough, you're looking at somebody else accomplish something and you're saying, oh, I couldn't have done that. There's like, it's just constant comparison, which really can create negative self-worth and negative self-talk and all of that. So stay off social media.”

Building Mental Muscles™ with Olivia Bowser · 16:27

“Imagine you want that person to have it be 80% positive or 70% positive. You have to start changing the way you talk to yourself, cuz of course you're gonna have imposter syndrome if everything you say to yourself is like, oh, you're not good enough. Oh, she's smarter than you. Oh, that outfit's better. Oh, you shouldn't be here. Oh, what are you doing? Like, of course you're not gonna feel good.”

Building Mental Muscles™ with Olivia Bowser · 20:00