Mindfulness with Art

In this episode I discuss how a simple exercise of gratitude can change your brain and your life without adding any time or pressure to your already busy life.

In this episode I talk about yet another amazing benefit of western, science based mindfulness practices: as a primer for entry into a spiritual practice such as Buddhism. So if you’ve always wanted to practice Buddhism but feel intimidated for lack of time or any other reason, listen to this episode.

In this episode I discuss the hugely important subject of emotional intelligence, how it affects our lives and relationships, and how mindfulness practices work to enhance this quality within us to make us smarter and capable of becoming whatever we want to become.

In this episode I talk about mental models that are formed through our thoughts and memories. And I talk about how these thoughts, memories, and mental models are often one sided as a result of our judging and critical mind. Finally, I offer the solution: that simply practicing an attitude of non judging can change it all to our benefit.

In this episode I talk about how judging can affect our bodies in extreme ways beyond our mindfulness practices.

In this episode I talk about the exercise of your Brain in mindfulness practice and how realizing your mind has wandered is the exercise that builds strength in the part of your brain responsible for Empathy and Emotional Intelligence.

In this episode I discuss how you can be present with all your activities. I even walk you through a helpful list of common activities you can try.

In this episode I talk to you from my car outside my house because it’s late and my kids are asleep. And I just tell a bit more of my story about how I came to be called Angry Art.

In this episode I discuss the difference between listening to respond and listening to understand. I discuss the benefits of the latter and the drawbacks of the former and I give two exercises to help train yourself in the mental habit of actively listening in every conversation you have.

This episode is all about the Vagus Nerve. Not that Vegas. :) This Nerve is associated with a vast amount of health benefits and I review some of them here. I also give you a few ways to improve your health through increasing the Vagal Tone of this very important Nerve in your body.

In this episode I talk about a little known and seldom mentioned benefit of mindfulness practices: when you are truly present in the moment, you can be the very best version of yourself. Enjoy!

In this episode I discuss the fact that there is little in the way of physical indications that mindfulness is ‘working’ for you. The only way you can see the effects is in how you respond differently to situations in which you would have been triggered before you took up the practice. Enjoy.

In this episode, I talk about the three negative mental states from which all negative emotions arise and about how mindfulness practices help us develop mental habits to avoid the negative mental states.

In today’s episode I discuss another wonderful and helpful acronym for a practice you can use in any interaction in which you may be triggered or overcome with emotions. This tool helps you to avoid an action you will regret in such a circumstance. Enjoy. :)

In this episode I talk about a popular acronym in mindfulness called RAIN and how you can use it in any difficult or challenging situation to avoid lasting harm caused by an emotional hijacking.

In this episode, I take a step back and review the definitions of mindfulness and what they practically mean in our lives. I also talk a good deal about Emotional Intelligence which is a happy byproduct of the presence we cultivate when we practice mindfulness.

In this episode I discuss why practice is so important to combine with the ‘learning’ of mindfulness. I also describe my 6 month program that transforms peoples’ lives. Enjoy!

In this episode I discuss how I first learned about mindfulness and how it changed my life. But also how I deteriorated back to the old ways because the knowledge wasn’t enough. I needed to practice this knowledge for it to really work.

In this episode I talk about all the false beliefs I held about meditation and mindfulness. I talk about how these beliefs held me back and how I destroyed each one of them with the realization of how these practices work.

In this episode, I talk about the benefits of focusing on the positive things in your own life and on the well beings of others. I share two very simple practices that require no special training or anything and that you can start doing right away. Enjoy!

In this episode, I explore implicit memories and beliefs that prevented me from ever examining the things that caused me stress and anxiety, even though I always felt like something was wrong.

In this episode, I go a bit deeper on the subject from yesterday concerning the sympathetic nervous system and how even thinking of an experience that triggered us can act as a further trigger thanks to this over achieving security guard in our brains called the Amygdala.

In this episode I talk about the sympathetic nervous system and the dangers it holds for our physical and mental health and how just 10 minutes of meditation every day can save your life.

In this episode I talk about the emotional roller coaster I was stuck on before I discovered mindfulness practices.