Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

Tis the season now, for shopping, parties, family, loved-ones and sometimes long-lines, unhappy campers, sometimes, overwhelming stress. If this sounds like your life right now, don’t worry, you’re not alone, but do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be talking with Mindfulness Expert and Podcaster Bruce Langford, who has the Mindfulness Mode Podcast and co-authored a chapter of the Success Code with Brian Tracy. We’ll talk about breathing into your days, staying in the now, and how you can use mindfulness to move past the chaos and stress this time of the year often brings. Plus we’ll talk a bit about bullying, what really happened to Rudolph, and how Santa stood up for his elves! Topics and Questions Include: How do you stay sane during the holiday season? How did you get into Mindfulness? How did you start the Mindfulness Mode podcast? How can one use mindfulness for stressful situations –or as a child to prevent bullying? How do you bring gratitude into your day? Why gratitude and fear can not co-exist in the same place at the same time. How to build up the confidence muscle or build your success gene. Why is the breath so important? Why are mantras so important? The power of brainwashing yourself! How do you stay centered ---the eye of the storm--- even when there’s craziness around? What’s the power of a staircase? How Pat Flynn, smartpassiveincome makes every moment count Why Wayne Dyer’s words mean so much. The importance of embracing our humanity Mindfulness tips for parents and their kids Why experiences with our kids matter more than gifts What it means to go Gazunga! The power of a kind word The power of a lead in. The power of laughter For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com Discover How to Stay Happy, Joyful & Sane, Over the Hectic & Crazy Holiday Season Through Simple Mindfulness Tips! Bruce Langford, Host Mindfulness Mode Podcast | Inspiration | Motivation | Career | Meditation | Spirituality | Thanksgiving | Self-Help

Today we have a very special relaxation and gratitude meditation, which is so important during this holiday time of year. This meditation is led by Bruce Langford, Host of the Mindfulness Mode Podcast, and today’s guest on our shoe. To hear Bruce’s interview, or more meditations from me, or our guests, Visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com. And if you like this meditation please do us a HUGE holiday favor, and rate and review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way to send your love our way, and to help others to find the show! Thank you so much!!! I send love. I send light. I send patience. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Peaceful Guided Gratitude Meditation To Help You Stay in a Place of Gratitude & Happiness Even Over the Holidays | Bruce Langford - Mindfulness Mode Podcast | Inspiration | Spirituality | Spiritual | Self-Help

Have you ever wanted to build, carve and sculpt, your greatest life? To recognize your inner potential, then pull out that hammer and get busy creating the artwork you know is inside. And have you ever wanted to sculpt something that would help others realize there greatest potential as well. Well if so, then do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be talking with Jon Gordon, best-selling author, inspirational speaker, a craftsman and a builder of dreams. Today we’ll discuss The Carpenter an inspiration story that has me on fire! For it’s a story about achieving our greatest success, and that success comes from helping others achieve theirs! So today we’ll talk about become craftsman of our lives, about learning the true meaning behind the words love, serve, and care, and how we can work toward mastery that includes helping others. That plus what it means to be be a servant leader and how we can each be a CCO or a Chief Caring Officer of our own company! Topics and Questions Include: Jon Gordon How do you lead a life by design, while still letting go for a higher power to guide you? Why sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny. What guides you toward your passion? How do you step back to be open for miracles? What’s the importance of walks of gratitude and prayer? How to find calm and peace amidst the chaos. Why pioneers seem crazy. How to live from the soul and live from a place of power. Why you should never live from outside in, but live inside out. What is “The Way” What does it mean to love, serve, and care. Why building a business by focusing on loving, serving, and caring one person at a time builds a more successful business—and can help change the world! Why success is about collaboration. “If you could live your life over again, what would you do differently?” Why touching others is truly living a legacy? Can fear be pushed out by being focused on others? Why you can love fear for helping you get back on track. Circumstances do not determine how you feel, your feelings come from your thoughts. Why failure is not meant to define you, but to refine you – and how failure can be a gift. Why love, serve, and care is really the key to grit. Why you aren’t a true success unless you’re helping others be successful. What is the power of generosity? Why life is not about what you get but about what you give. Why you can never out give God or the Universe? Law of Abundance in Giving to Others – The Secret is becoming a conduit to give away. How to help kids discover their unique gifts and talents for what they were meant to be, not what we want them to be. Don’t chase success, decide to make a difference and success will chase after you. Focus on your why. Discover your ultimate core and live from there, which is living from true power. For more info visit www.InspireNationShow.com Timeless Principles to Help You Standout, Excel & Make an Impact on People & In the World. And Why Helping Others Drives Your Success! Jon Gordon | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Business | Career | Law of Attraction | The Secret | Self-Help

Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving in the US and many countries around the globe. Which means today is one of the craziest travel days of the year! So to help people get through this crazy day, we have a super-simple and relaxing GROUNDING meditation. This meditation can be done anytime of the day, anywhere you’re at, though I wouldn’t recommend it while driving or operating heavy machinery. But it’ll help you get grounded, stop the world from spinning, and bring the craziness down, to a much saner level. That, and it’ll give you a giant AHHHHHH of relief. If you like this meditation please do us a HUGE favor and rate it and review it on iTunes. It’s the number one way to send your love and help others to find the show! Of course, we also love your feedback, so please send us emails at Michael@inspirenationshow.com. It helps keep us going in the middle of the night! To hear more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationSHow.com We send love. We send light. And many many blessings your way. Namaste! Okay, you can do this meditation, sitting, standing, or laying down, though I prefer sitting for this one. I want to take you to a very special place, either you own special place, or one of mine. We’re going to keep it really simple. Is there a tree in your home town, or where you’re at, perhaps at a local park, or in your yard, where you like to sit down, relax, and catch your breath for a minute or two? Maybe it’s a tree from your schoolyard in childhood, or in college, or one you see people hanging at while walking on your way to work. For me, there’s a local tree in a park nearby. I call it the tree spirit, because maybe thirty years ago, someone tacked two eyes and a nose on the tree with some nails. So it looks like a wise old elf, has grown right out of the tree. I visit it every chance I can, sit under the tree spirit, and just breathe. There’s so much wisdom in the tree. So much patience. So much strength. And so much grounding force. Okay, do you have a favorite tree in mind. So what I’d like you to do is go to that tree now in your minds eye. Sit under it, or lay under it. Feel the ground beneath you, maybe the bark against your back. Put your hands in your lap, or better still, put your hands directly on the earth, and breathe in, nice, and slow and deep, through the nose... Beautiful Simple Relaxing and Grounding Guided Meditation to Help Keep You Calm & Centered During this Stressful & Travel Time of the Year. Feel the Bliss & the Ahhhhhh. Michael Sandler | Inspiration | Inner-Peace | Mindfulness | Health | Self-Help

Today we have a very short, sweet, and incredibly relaxing meditation. This is one I use frequently in my life, for I’m often stuck up late at night in edits, making meditations, and getting things uploaded. This means I need to get into the most relaxed, rested place I can to get the most quality rest out of my sleep, and any down time I have. And that’s Why I Came up with the Rest and Relax Meditation. It’s super simple, you can do it anytime of the day, and I like it best, while in bed before dozing off, and first thing in the morning to set the tone for the day. If you like this meditation please do us a favor, and Rate and Review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 to show your love, and support the show. And most importantly, it helps others to find the show…which earns you HUGE great karma points! To hear more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com. Okay, this is one of those very simple, yet super powerful meditations. I’ve been using it quite frequently lately, and after recording, editing, and uploading it here tonight, I’ll be using it myself as I’m going to sleep. This one’s great for programming body, mind and soul for a great night’s rest, or for a soothing morning, even if you’re a bit short on sleep. And it’s fantastic for calming the nervous system, any time of the day. I think this is the simplest meditation I’ve shared so far on Inspire Nation. You’ll simply breathe nice, slow, and deep, down to the belly, in and out through the nose, while repeating the simplest of mantra’s, out loud, or in your head. For myself, last night for example. I practiced this in my head until I feel asleep, and then I awoke way too early for a long day ahead, I was still repeating the mantra, and I felt great, and refreshed. That’s the power of the word, the power of meditation, and the power of a fantastic mantra….oh yeah, it’s also, quite literally the power of love. And so, as you’re breathing deep, silently or out loud, I want you to repeat, relax….love. Relax…love.Relax Love. So I’ll do this with you for a few short minutes, but of course, feel free to continue as long as you’d like. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Beautiful Relaxation Meditation to Help You Relax, Recharge, or Even Fall Asleep - Perfect After A Long Day, A Short Night, or Anywhere In-Between. Soothing & Recharging. Michael Sandler | Mindfulness | Spritiuality | Inspiration | Love | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Jessica Lee here, your co-host on Inspire Nation! If you’ve ever needed more courage or determination to get through the tough stuff, start a new venture, or simply to let your inner spirit shine, then do we have the show for you. Today I’ll be interviewing my co-host, loving husband and courageous Inspire Nation Leader for ou our show. If you caught last weeks show you heard us talk a bit about us starting Inspire Nation. Well today we’re going to dive more into the nitty-gritty side of things. How you keep going when the going’s tough. How to know when to say when, and how in the world you can summon the courage to climb your own Everest, literally or figuratively. That, plus the importance of signs, and synchronicities, and knowing when to get out of your own way! Show Notes and Questions: Michael have you always been courageous? What’s the importance of going after things and sticking with them? Learning to trust your own inner voice or inner belief rather than what others teach you. Learning that other people’s opinions are not the opinions that mattered How to move past your internal wiring or a lack of self-confidence Childhood Theme: Unwilling to Believe that I couldn’t. What is the definition of Courage? Why Yoda does NOT have all the answers. Why trying is much harder than doing. Why it’s so important to let others know what you’re going to do. Having the faith to step into the ambiguity Anita Moorjani – Dying to Be Me – Allowance Over Law of Attraction The Secret and taking steps into the unknown Why it’s so important to opening up to possibilities Why you should never say “let’s blow things out.” Derek Rydall – be open to possibilities that are greater than you could ever have imagined. Why pushing ahead at all costs (being the locomotive) is NOT being courageous, but may just be insanity. Why other people’s opinions are none of your business Why telling your parents may not be the best idea! Why the answers come from sudden insights, rather than intellect. How to follow your heart, but listen to your mind!!! Particularly when it comes to crossing the road. Would you say courage is something you’re born with, like a talent, or can we develop it? It’s like a muscle the more you use it, the stronger it gets! It’s the small steps toward confidence, trying things out, doing, and achieving in little ways that help you develop courage. So in many ways it’s the small steps that are most important! What do you mean by have both feet in or being fully committed? Courage only comes when we’re firmly committed to outcome Example? one foot in – Barefoot Walking Book Tour – never had full belief in it if I was honest with myself. Wanted it to work. Head was in on the game, but gut was doing flip-flops. So never fully set myself up for success. How is Inspire Nation Different? Full in 100% Where does passion come into play with this? Can you give an example where you need passion to keep you going? Why is passion so important? Example of passion helping you through? What’s the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic goals. Wanting a car, accolades, or even money in the bank isn’t true passion, that’s an extrinsic goal, or something outside of yourself. When you’re exhausted in the middle of the night, it’s never about the toys. But how it makes you feel, or how it’d make you feel to take care of your family, or make your heart sing…the emotions it brings out, that’s more of an intrinsic reason and that can get you through your darkest hours. Where does passion come from? Heart in alignment with highest power Alignment – alignment with your highest potential, using your talents and gifts, alignment with God, with positivity, with positive emotions, with your higher self, with what you hear in your quietest moments. Being in the flow and using your gifts For more info visit www.InspireNationShow.com For More HOW TO'S on Courage, be sure to check out Part Two!!! Inspiration | Motivation | Courage | Spirituality | Spiritual | Inspire Nation | Health | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Welcome back, I’m your co-host Jessica Lee. Today we’re talking about courage, what it is, how to get it, and when to use it. In part one my co-host and loving husband Michael Sandler and I talked about what is Courage. Now we’ll talk about how get some, and how to go for it!!! Get ready to get courageous! Well welcome to the show Michael, are you ready to shine??? Questions / Topics Include: Would you say courage is something you’re born with, like a talent, or can we develop it? It’s like a muscle the more you use it, the stronger it gets! It’s the small steps toward confidence, trying things out, doing, and achieving in little ways that help you develop courage. So in many ways it’s the small steps that are most important! What do you mean by have both feet in or being fully committed? Courage only comes when we’re firmly committed to outcome Example? one foot in – Barefoot Walking Book Tour – never had full belief in it if I was honest with myself. Wanted it to work. Head was in on the game, but gut was doing flip-flops. So never fully set myself up for success. How is Inspire Nation Different? Full in 100% Where does passion come into play with this? Can you give an example where you need passion to keep you going? Why is passion so important? Example of passion helping you through? What’s the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic goals. Wanting a car, accolades, or even money in the bank isn’t true passion, that’s an extrinsic goal, or something outside of yourself. When you’re exhausted in the middle of the night, it’s never about the toys. But how it makes you feel, or how it’d make you feel to take care of your family, or make your heart sing…the emotions it brings out, that’s more of an intrinsic reason and that can get you through your darkest hours. Where does passion come from? Heart in alignment with highest power Alignment – alignment with your highest potential, using your talents and gifts, alignment with God, with positivity, with positive emotions, with your higher self, with what you hear in your quietest moments. Being in the flow and using your gifts How important is believing in the project or what you’re doing? It’s almost a non-question, if you don’t believe in it, then no matter how much money it may bring you (like Mike Stemple and his Wet T-Shirt in a bottle) there’s NO point in starting. Do you need skills to follow your passion? Skills can be learned, if willing to put in the time…again comes back to passion. Do you focus on your weaknesses or your strengths? Did you always have great speaking abilities or abilities on the mic? How does focus help you be courageous? How important to you is faith? Would you consider courage a spiritual act? Can you use the example of Inspire Nation? What’s the current challenge with Inspire Nation? How do you move past the fear? Keep doing the real “work” What’s the real work? Meditation and mindfulness Prayer Gratitude Affirmations How do you know when to say when? When you’re pushing through not out of courage, but out of fear…courage and fear are very distinct…one’s head, one’s heart. Heart knows if what you’re doing is right nor not, but the head, that’ll keep us pushing through, even into a brick wall. What do you mean by do something that’s greater than yourself What does it mean to let go, and why is it so important for courage? How does love play a role in courage Relationships Family Self-Love What do you do when you’re stuck, panicked or running short of courage? Where does humor come into the equation? You talk about diet affecting courage, what do you mean by this? How important are affirmations or mantras? Can you give an example? In the intro you mentioned signs and synchronicities, how does that fit into the equation (or how do signs and synchronicities give you courage???) Any last Thoughts? Don’t listen to others, Be true to yourself, no matter what, that’s where the real courage comes from. Don’t take things too seriously, BREATHE – WHEN IN DOUBT JUST BREATHE Be Inspired & Learn How to Cultivate Courage Beginning Today to Make BIG Changes & Lead the Life of Your Dreams! We All Have Greatness Inside - Now You’ll Bring it Out! Michael Sandler & Jessica Lee | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help

This is a great meditation to do before you walk, run, or as a reset-button in the middle of the day. It’s a great way to get back into your body, to feel how you’re doing, and to shut off a racing monkey-mind. It helps you become more present, more aware of your thoughts, and to start to strengthen your mental muscles to control the incessant chatter. You’ll become more aware of thoughts, and better able to let them go. And focusing on the breath, you’ll feel more energy and more at peace. Relax as you learn to connect with your breath as you quiet your mind. You’ll feel greater energy, more at peace, and more centered in your body. Namaste, For more guided meditations check out our Inspire Nation Show and www.InspireNationShow.com Beautiful Relaxing Mindfulness Meditation Following the Breathe, Cultivating Awareness & Helping the Mind Go Silent - Perfect anytime of the day | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Healing | Health | Self-Help

Today we’ll be talking with Dr. Sue Johnson, ground-breaking researcher, author, clinical psychologist, and leading innovator in the field of couple therapy. She is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and the best-selling author of Hold Me Tight, and her latest book Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships. Today we’re going to get down and dirty, talk about the tough stuff, what love is, what it isn’t, how to cultivate love, and what to do when love’s gone wrong. That plus survival of the nurtured over survival of the fittest, why attachments a GOOD thing, oxytocin, the cuddle hormone, why happy rats do the backstroke, and why we have things backwards when it comes to sex. Well welcome to the show Sue, are you ready to shine? Okay, before we dive right in, I’ve got to ask, is it great sex that builds strong relationships, or strong relationships that build great sex? Topics and Questions Include: Is it sex that makes great love, or love that makes great sex? Why Love Sense is a warning, a revelation, and a promise How the “Code of Love” has been cracked Why Facebook’s killing romance! Why Love is not a mixture of sex and sentimentality, but an ancient wired-in survival code. Why society has it wrong when it comes to standing on your own two feet. Why Gorillas don’t hang out alone And why intelligent Gorillas check out things TOGETHER. And why only the idiot Gorilla’s go it on their own! The science behind love and humans as social beings Why Darwin never said it’s “survival of the species” Why it’s instead Survival of the Most Nurtured Why women getting shocked is a good thing! What in the world is the Cuddle Hormone? Why you have a direct connection between sex and your nervous system Why adult love and attachment is really just an adult version of the bond between mother and child How a mountain becomes a molehill through love and attachment How Winston Churchill found true love and how that helped the world! Why we need others to give us safe haven and a secure base to go out from into the world – and how this makes us stronger! How this affects women with careers Why long-term relationships are the exception rather than the world – and what in the world we can do about it? Why big fights are never about what you think they “ARE”. What is a Hold Me Tight conversation? Why James Bond does NOT have it going on! Why we’ve got things backwards when it comes to sex! Why Wailing Monkey Clasping Tree isn’t quite the way for optimal sex! Why sex novelties aren’t always the answer. What dramatically helps you for the bedroom! How tuning in and safety and tuning in leads to erotic play Why good sex is an enormous act of coordination! What assembling Ikea furniture and great sex have in common! How to find passion again and again – rather than keep it on ice! Online Pornography, the “porn trap” and sex addiction. To save the World read Hold Me Tight and Love Sense!

Today we have an exceptionally simple yet all-powerful meditation designed to help you relax and bring more love into your life. This meditation goes great with today’s guest, Dr. Sue Johnson, one of the world’s leading authorities on love, romance, and happy couples. You can do this meditation anytime of the day, and I recommend doing it as much as you possibly can. This has been a very powerful healing meditation and mantra in my life, particularly whenever the going has been tough. For I haven’t always been the positive guy you see here, and I needed a lot of rewiring work myself. And this meditation, is all about positive rewiring! If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and share your love, by rating and reviewing our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way to help us, and to help more people to find the show. Thank YOU so much. And to listen to Dr. Sue Johnson’s interview, or more meditations by me or our guests, visit our inspire nation show or InspireNationShow.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Okay, this is perhaps the simplest meditation I’ll be leading so far, but it’s also quite likely the most powerful. For this is the one where it all begins. To bring more love into our lives, we need to love ourselves more first. This requires burning new messages into our minds, or pressing new grooves into the record that plays over and over again in our heads. Unless you’ve ascended, chances are there are still some negative messages rolling around like marbles. I know for myself, I had a TON of them, and like you still have some to work on myself. But where it all begins is self love. When we truly love ourselves, we can love another, we attract more love into our lives, and attract incredible positive experiences and outcomes. It all comes from the love. So today we’ll be burning a new self-love record. We’ll be repeating a very simple self-love mantra over and over again. Now you don’t need to believe what you’re saying, in order for positive benefits to take place. Let me repeat that. You don’t have to believe it. Just keep repeating the mantra. It’ll raise your energy levels, raise your vibrations, and over time, you can’t help but begin to believe it! I recommend doing this every day for at least a month. Commit to it for yourself. Wake up, roll over, and practice 3 to 5 minutes of this I Love Myself Meditation. So how do you do it? Well, I’ll have you repeat along with me, the simple words I Love Myself. At the same time, you’ll breath nice and slow as your right hand massages your chest in a circular motion clockwise (up inside, down outside) on your chest, or tapping your chest right above the heart with your first and second finger. It’ super-simple, looks pretty silly, and amazingly effective. I swear by it, and it’s dramatically helped me rewrite some toxic wiring in my mind... Incredibly Powerful Relaxation & Self-Love Guided Meditation Designed to Help Rewire the Mind for Positivity, Love, Happiness & Courage! This One is a Life-Changer!!! Michael Sandler | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Spiritual | Self-Help