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Grief Release: Understanding Your Body’s Energy, Tools for Dealing with Emotions such as Grief, Guilt & Despair
This powerful talk explores how much of our time and energy is spent on things like guilt and remorse from our past and how guilt can destroy one’s self esteem. Learn about a Grief Ceremony of Native American Tribes. How do you make peace with yourself and how can meditation fit in with helping us with this process? Discover how training and using the body can promote emotional healing and may you physically feel good again. How turning to distractions like drinking and drugs won’t help…
Continue readingBlue Skies: Life’s Little Lessons: Clearing Away the Clouds
A slice of real life serves up the topic for this week’s talk as Shifu Ahles observes how his own mind caused what turned out to be unnecessary worry and stress. He explains how meditation can help us become conscious of the distracted, crazy mind and how with training we can learn to control our thoughts, ultimately giving us much needed clarity. How to get on the path to self mastery, recognizing that change is constant in our lives and dealing with the judgment of others are also key points to this enlightening talk that emphasizes personal growth and development.
Continue readingMindfulness
This is talk is one of those talks you’ll want to listen to over and over. In this BMA favorite, you’ll discover what mindfulness really is and get walked through a mindfulness exercise so powerful it may put you right into a meditative state! Shifu Ahles explains about present minded thinking and effectively points out how much of our lives are being wasted in the past or thinking what ifs about the future. Learn how to slow your thoughts and watch the breath during meditation. Get past the “I can’t meditate” mentality.
Continue readingAwareness of Thought
[amprotect=1,4,5,6] [/amprotect] 0-6 Minutes What is Going on Inside us is Rooted in our Thoughts Watching our Thoughts – Becoming Aware of What We Are Thinking What Percent of Our Time is Rooted in Thinking About the Past & Future? We Need to Increase the Percentage of Time Spent in this Moment Accepting “What Is” […]
Continue readingAwareness of Feeling
[amprotect=1,4,5,6] [/amprotect] 0-5 Minutes Feelings within the Body – Kinesthetic Feeling How Athletes get Good Acquiring Skill Requires Repetition and Adjustments Better Body Awareness – People who Use Body All the Time 5 -10 Minutes More Complex Movement Bigger the Benefits Sports Compared with a Discipline Discipline about Growth, Development & Refined Challenge in the […]
Continue readingAwareness of Influences
[amprotect=1,4,5,6] [/amprotect] 0-6 Minutes Our Influences and Who We Influence Story of Man Getting Ticket and Ensuing Chain Reaction Behaviors of Others are Contagious Subconscious Influences that Affect Us 6-12 Minutes Negative Behaviors and Environment that have Impact Us Studious College Roommate vs. Party Roommate Scenario Studies Show Person in Distress Gets Help or Not […]
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