Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

If you've wanted to move ahead, but don't know how, then do we have the Thriving Through Uncertainty show for you! Today I'll be speaking with Tama Kieves, freedom ninja, visionary heroine, best-selling author, and the author of yet another fun and favorite book of mine, Thriving Through Uncertainty! And that's just what I want to talk with her about, about flying past fear, and leaping into the unknown! Topics Include: What's the illusion of a safe life? Why do we need to be our authentic true selves, even if it's "unsafe"? What's the superpower of uncertainty? What's it mean to be good to ourselves? What's the importance of a vow such as "I'm Never Giving Up"? How do we get in touch with our inner voice? How do we learn to trust ourselves? What's it mean to walk in the direction of self-love? What's the importance of action…AND non-action? What's it mean there are no false starts or "wasted" time? Why is it so important to find peace first, then answers? What is sacred neutrality, and how does it help us be kind to ourselves? Why is it so important to allow yourself to become great??? Why do we owe it to ourselves to make braver choices??? What's the importance of small, incremental steps? What's the importance of remembering when you got it right? Why does success take so long? What does it mean – and why's it so important that success isn't linear? What's the importance of what Carlos Castaneda calls a "worthy opponent"? How do we know we're not moving backwards? What's it mean to choose love? How do we deepen a relationship with our inspired self – and what is our inspired self? To find out more visit: TamaKieves.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to know what enlightenment really is, and if there's a way to get there, then do we have the How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain show for you! Today I'll be talking with best-selling author, Dr. Andrew Newberg from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, a pioneer in the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences known as neurotheology, and co-author of a phenomenal new book, along with Mark Robert Waldman, How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about the new science of transformation, and what it means for all of us. That plus we'll talk about automatic writing, sufis and brain scans, mediums and parietal lobes, why you might not want to study demons, what to do when being chased by dinosaurs, what in the world a sea of infinite doubt has to do with anything, and the spiritual significance of unpopped popcorn on the stove! Topics Include: What was the fundamental question about humanity that bothered Dr. Newberg? What is enlightenment? What is a little e experience and a big E experience How can we learn about spirituality and enlightenment through the fmri What's the importance of "stop trying" What does the big E have to do with a person's purpose or sense of meaning? What's the importance of an empty cup? What can we learn from an online survey on enlightenment and the brain What does the frontal and parietal lobes have to do with anything? What happens in the brain of meditators during meditation? What can we learn from people who speak in tongues? What can we learn from Brazilian mediums? What happens to the brain during channeling or mediumship? What happens to the brain during automatic writing? What are different levels of human awareness? What can we learn about automatic writing? What are the benefits of a daily practice? What can we learn from the LovingKindness Meditation? What's the power of forgiveness and what does it do to the brain? What are the key steps to prepare the brain for enlightenment What's the power of OM? What's the power of drumming? What's the importance of mantras or repeating words? Go to http://www.andrewnewberg.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

How To Build A Couple Bubble For Love and Happiness!!! If you've ever struggled with love, particularly in your relationship or marriage, then do we have the couple-building show for you! Today I'll be talking with Stan Tatkin, clinican, researcher, teacher, and developer of the psychobiological approach to couple therapy. He's also the author of four books including his latest, my new favorite couples book, Wired For Love. Today we'll be talking about building, protecting, and not-popping the couple bubble so you can defuse conflict and build a secure relationship. That plus we'll talk about the emote me game, the power of the insula, the orbitofrontal cortex, early birds and night owls, and why it's okay to be annoying, just not threatening! Topics Include: How'd Stan get into teaching vipassana? How he worked with John Bradshaw How'd he get into meditation What a sensory deprivation tank had to do with anything How he got interested in child and brain development while working with John Bradshaw How he got interested in preventing personality disorders How Jessica got interested in mindful pregnancy What is one of the most important premises in healthy child development? How do you support a mother raising her child What Thich Nhat Hanh says about caregivers and raising a child. What is a couple bubble? What chemistry takes place when we start dating. Why we make mistakes in relationships because our brains are relying on shortcuts What is normal in relationships Why a couple bubble has to do with secure functioning What's the dumb vagus? What's the insula What are the primitives? How do we bring in the ambassadors to prevent war? What does presence and attention have to do with preventing fights? What do islands, waves, and anchors have to do with anything? What are pleasing and soothing 101? What's the importance of knowing your partner? How to prevent things from being long-term problems? What are morning and nighttime rituals, and early birds and night owls? Why most problems in relationships have to do with separations and reunions Why you want to wish your partner well dead or alive before going to bed How do we fight? How do we come up with a win/win situation? What's it mean to wave the flag of friendliness? Why our brains are constantly filling in the blanks and why you shouldn't leave things blank What are the perils of digital fighting? Why hugging with your bellies together is so important Do we all need touch? Words of wisdom for parents Shambhala Mountain Center Sept. 15th to 18th Wired for Love Couple's event Go to stantatkin.com and for counselor training www.Thepactinstitute.com Also see Wired for Love and Wired for Dating And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to take your life to a new level, then do we have the show for you! Today I'll be talking with best-selling author Robin Sharma, one of the most influential authors in my life, and the author of my new ALL-TIME favorite book for transforming your life, The 5 AM Club. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about owning your morning and elevating your life. Topics Include: What's a cyber-zombie? What's the challenge with getting ahead today? What does it mean world class begins where your comfort zone ends? Why is hard good – and what does this mean??? What's it mean to "Take excellent care of the front end of your day"? What's the value of a "risky life"? What's it mean that all change is hard at first and messy in the middle? What is the 5 AM club? What's our "Victory Hour"? What's the importance of learning and growing? What's the 20/20/20 formula for success? What's it mean to move, reflect, and grow? How do we strengthen our motivation muscle? What's the one most important thing we can do to succeed? Why we have to do something for 66 days to install a new habit? What do we do if we're an "evening" person? What's the importance of sleep? What's the danger of technology, and how do we control it – rather than have it control us??? What's the importance of trusting our joy over our intellect? What can we do to boost our willpower? What's the importance of increasing self-control in one area of our lives? To Find Out More Visit: www.The5AMClub.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to shift your energy, and get your mind in the positive, then do we have the show for you! Today we're airing our recent Ask Michael Anything event from YouTube. In this event Michael covers 20 plus easy-to-implement tools to help you shift your life, your mind, and energy to the positive! Shift Your Mind To the Positive Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: What's the importance of asking "what's the importance of the situation"? What's it mean to bring as much energy to a situation as possible? How you can reframe virtually anything? Why what we think is the "worst thing in the world" may turn out to be the best??? Why we're so quick to shoot ourselves down when we think we made a "bad" decision? Why Michael and Jessica never met Dr. Wayne Dyer? What does it mean that everything is here to support you? What does it mean that the Universe is happening for you and through you, not to you? What does it mean to ask "how is that here to serve me"? What does it mean to look for the positive possibilities? How do we mind-map the positives? What's it mean to change our labels? What's it mean to change our internal languaging? Why do we want to surround ourselves with obscenely positive people? What's it mean to change our environment – and why is this so important? What does it mean to declutter the scripts of our mind? What's the harm with social media and comparison? What's the importance with stretching ourselves, getting uncomfortable, and risking "failure"? What's it mean to fail forward? What's it mean to "watch what we ingest" and how does it affect our subconscious? To Find Out More Visit: InspireNationShow.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS AND TO TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE, then do we have the One Thing show for you! Today we'll be talking with Jay Papazan, vice-president and executive editor at Keller Realty, co-owner Papazan Properties Group, and co-author of best-seller The One Thing, that to me, now over 1000 shows in, is still one of the all-time greatest business books, and books on life.. And that's what I want to talk with him about today, about how to turn your life from ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY, and to not waste a minute. The One Thing Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: What's the challenge with how people view time today? What's a better approach to time? What's it mean to fail forward? What are the conscious choices we can make with our "limited" resources? What's the importance of a vacation over a "staycation"? What's the difference between passion and excitement? What's it mean to count backwards with a limited amount of time in mind? What's the importance of starting with the end in mind? What's it mean to bring your "someday to today"? What can we learn from Ben Kinney about success? The importance of a 5 year plan – and how do we begin one? What's the true importance of saying yes to something? What does it mean to do goal-setting in the now? What's the FOCUSING question??? How do we plan and create goals? What is time-blocking? What can we learn from Jay Papasan's day-timer? What one-sheet do we want to keep with us for goal-setting? What do we do about email gone awry? How can we boost our limited willpower? Why is chaos necessary for our greatness? Why is big is bad a lie? To find out more visit: The1Thing.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted the power of ancient wisdom and modern mystical to help change your life, then do we have the Shaman's Cave show for you! Today I'll be talking with the creators of the new podcast The Shaman's Cave, repeat guest Sandra Ingerman author of an all-time favorite book of mine (that I literally keep on my shrine) The Book of Ceremony and Renee Baribeau author of another all-time favorite that helped guide us to Colorado, Winds of Spirit, on the power of shamanism in the modern world, and how to take a shamanic journey! That plus we'll talk about hummingbirds and hawks, datsun convertibles, White Buffalo Calf Woman, the gift of the prayer pipe, 4 cycles buffalos and bulls, the wind spirit Thate, Blessings, helpful spirits, and carl Jung and what in the world talking with crows has to do with anything! Topics Include: How did Sandra Ingerman get into shamanism? How did Renee Baribeau get into shamanism? What is the language of nature? What can we learn from the birds??? What are the animals here to teach us? What does it mean to reconnect? How can we use shamanism to help shake loose the clay that's kept us from our authentic selves? How do we start using shamanism? What is a dismemberment, and why is it a good thing? What are the tools in a modern shaman's toolbox? What's the importance of gratitude, and how can we use it as a shamanic tool? What is a wind whistle and how can it help guide us? What's the importance of calling in the wind? What's the power of the rattle and the drum??? What does it mean to see through our heart? What is the shamanic tool of seeing? What is the shamanic tool of blessing? How do we begin a shamanic journey? What are sacred ceremonies, and how do we perform one? To find out more visit: Sandraingerman.com shamanicteachers.com To check out The Shaman's Cave Podcast visit: TheShamansCave.com ShamansTV.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Today I'll be talking with Charles Eisenstein, the best-selling author of numerous books including The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, economist, humanitarian, and activist, and the author of a brilliant new must-read, on healing mother earth, Climate, a New Story. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about what's really going on with the world today, and what we can do about it. That plus we'll talk about the importance of passenger pigeons, seppi garret and the Conodoquinet creek, prairie dogs and the rain, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, the danger of mcMansions, and what in the world temporary employees type #2 have to do with anything! Topics Include: What's really killing us? What's going on in our hearts? What's the new story Thich Nhat Hanh calls "interbeing" What does it mean to restore the inner ecosystem? Why isn't carbon reductionism the whole answer? What is meant by the earth being a complex living system? What's the real story of our climate crisis? What does it mean that we're killing the organs of Mother Earth? Why is it so important to protect the water and the soil? What's the importance of promoting land regeneration? What's the importance of protecting the Earth's rain forests? How do the trees affect rainfall? What are teacher trees (Peter Wohlebben "The Secret Life of Trees" What does artificial scarcity have to do with anything? What has to be changed about the world economic system (Sacred Economics) What's it mean to build a deeper relationship with the earth? What does it mean to change our awareness with the earth? What does it mean to "tend the wild"? How do we regenerate and heal what's been damaged? What does it mean to become an "earth healer"? What can we do to help our kids help the earth? What do we need to teach our kids today? To Find Out More Visit: www.CharlesEisenstein.org And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to create the life of your dreams then do we have the plant the seeds for the new year show and I manifested a Tesla show for you! Today we'll talk about intention work for the new year. What it looks like, how to do it, how to make a game of it, and why NOW is so important. Manifesting Teslas Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: What's a year of leverage and love? What can we learn from repatriating mice? What does Yellow and a Tesla have to do with anything? What does allowance, surrender, and forgiveness have to do with manifestation? What are big energy shifts in our lives? What it means to play the game for the long-term? What's the power of a vision-board? How to manifest a childhood dream? What it means to go from a Ferrari to a Tesla? What it means to study the ego as it's throwing a temper-tantrum? How to sort the ego from what's right? What it means to follow the clues and see where it leads you? What it means to wait for what you want? What do yellow car seats for babies have to do with anything??? What does it mean to put out a vision? How to hold onto a vision in its heart? What does it mean to allow something to manifest "in it's time"? What it means to give yourself time to get the pieces of your life in order? What are mind-movies (Dr. Joe Dispenza)? What's a linking exercise? What in the world Spiritual Gurus In Teslas Getting High has to do with anything! To Find Out More Visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com. And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to feel calmer, more relaxed, and at peace with your life and those around you, then do we have the Heart Math show for you! Today I'll be talking with Howard Martin, one of the leaders and founders of Heartmath, co-author of The Heart-Math Solution and a contributing author to a brilliant book on coherence, Heart Intelligence. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about connecting with the intelligence of the heart for greater health, peace, and happiness!!! Topics Include: What is the intelligence of the heart? Is the heart's intelligence greater than the brain? Does the heart emit a larger field than the brain? What is heart rate variability? Is the heart's magnetic frequency measurable by science? Does the heart send more information to the brain, or the brain to the heart? What is resilience, and how can we build it through the heart? Does heart rate variability affect cognitive performance? What is heart coherence? How can we measure it? How can we boost it? Is there a way to benchmark our performance? Can we affect those around us through our heart coherence? What are tools to measure heart-coherence? How can we use these tools – and exercises, on a daily basis? Is there a way to stay in heart-coherence through the day? How does heart coherence affect our health and why is it so importance? What is global coherence? How can the coherence of those around us affect us, and how can we affect others? How can we work on the heart-coherence of our children, and why is this so important? What's it meant o raise our vibration? How can we raise our vibrations through compassion and love? To find out more visit HeartMath.com and www.HeartMath.org Can we remotely affect the hearts of others? Does heart coherence affect our pets and vice-versa? And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com