Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

Did you ever wish you could be happier right now, much happier? That life could be, well, happier in each moment, more puppies and roses, or that at least the sun could be shining more than half the time? Well then do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be talking with Tal Ben Shahar, a former Harvard pyschology professor and a leader in the field of positivity and happiness. He’s also the author of the best-selling book: Choose the Life You Want: The mindful Way to Happiness. Today we’ll be talking about at least 10 key ways to CHOOSE Happiness in Each moment, plus the power of smiling and why we both do it before starting the show, plus why we might want to forgo that new Porsche, and instead head for Cabo pronto. Arriba! Interview Topics Include: Got into studying happiness because wasn’t happy studying computers Generosity Brings Happiness There was a study that gave you money to go shopping Shoppers high had 1 day stick – then gone Those who were give money to instead give away, had more stick, even a week later Hebrew word natan, palindrome, same word backwards, because of the relationship of giving and receiving Being Present Brings You Happiness Eric, Blind Home Designer Hellen Keller Brings happiness and boosts immune system Being in a state of Gratitude brings you happiness Hellen Keller was a consummate appreciator Being Present and Grateful is a super-powerful happiness duo What Barbara Frederickson calls heartfelt positivity – feeling good in the moment Einstein , either nothing is a miracle or everything is What are key ways to be mindful for happiness Like working out Can go to gym Or bring activity to everything Mindfulness Can meditate Or can make every moment a mindfulness practice Listening to someone contributes to their physical health Kids self-esteem is higher Also affects employees in workplace – sick less when listened to more by boss or colleagues One of best predictors of job productivity is the answer to “do you have a best friend at work” – having someone hear us out. Having Pets contributes to wellbeing and happiness In every moment can cultivate mindfulness Amy Cutty – Physical Posture Doing dishes can be mindful When eating – 5-10 minutes a day of mindful eating a day can improve our wellbeing Posture can improve wellbeing, happiness, and body chemistry High power pose – Rooster pose or big-shot pose Increases testosterone and reduces cortisol Demostrates confidence Weaker pose Increases stress hormones, decreases testerone Hunching forward at computer isn’t good for our psychology The permission to be human Allowing ourselves to experience any and all emotions Difficult of self-help gurus Can’t be happy all the time Cannot suppress or block emotions Allowing yourself to experience emotions The idea of the lucky person – phenomenon of luck and Dr. Wiseman More open Interpret events differently Be a benefit finder, not a fault-finder How to become more of a benefit finder Teach it Write about it Have reminders around you Bringing humor and lightness to your life The healing power of humor – Norman Cousins Prescribing humorous activities – the power of humor is remarkable Ellen Degeneres Combining Dance and Humor The Wonder Drug video on Happiness.tv Ellen and TBD (Too Busy Disorder) So important to do less rather than more Changing our beliefs and the mind-body connection How do we shift those beliefs Carol Dweck – Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset – self fulfilling prophecy Having a fixed vs. a growth mindset Shoot for more positive experiences – even small experiences The value of experiences over goods Supporting a child’s dreams Spirituality – having a meaningful, purposeful experience See your work as significant or purposeful Doesn’t have to be in a great or big experience or ah ha moment, it can be in just about every moment of our lives. Happiness is in the details – in the minute-to-minute decisions we make Jon Kabat Zinn – wherever you go, there you are – being present to the experience Inspiration | Motivation | Mindfulness | Happiness | Health | Peace | Joy | Well-being | Children | Parenting | Spiritual | Spirituality | Business | Career | Self Love | Self-Help

Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have a very short happiness meditation to help you find a ray of sunshine in any moment, in any situation. This meditation goes well with today’s guest, Tal Ben Shahar, a former Harvard Positivity Professor and author of Choose the Life You Want: The mindful Way to Happiness. You can of course do this meditation anytime you want, and use it as a mantra or reminder to bring you back to a state of happiness in any moment. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. Ratings and Reviews are the #1 way to send happiness our way, and to help others to find the show. Thank you so much! To listen to Tal’s interview or hear 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 a very simple meditation. To begin, I’d like you either sitting up good and tall, which is a position of confidence, or laying on your back on the floor. First I’ll have you begin with a few nice, deep slow breaths. In and out gently through the nose. Next I’d like you to imagine one of the most positive experiences of your life. It could be something recent. It could be from your childhood. It could the birth of a child. Your wedding day, or anything else that made you feel on top of the world. As you continue to breathe in and out, take a minute and put yourself back there… For more meditations visit www.InspireNationShow.com Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Happy | Happiness | Joy | Love | Inner Peace | Health | Self-Help

We’ve been talking a lot lately about bringing out the gifts within each us and living your greatest life. But what do we do if we don’t know our gifts inside of us, or have no idea where to turn with them? Well, as the expression goes, who you gonna call…ghost busters? No in this case you’[d call Sue Frederick, a Career Intuitive, who helps people discover their greatest path and wrote a beautiful book I see your dream job. Today we’ll cut through a bit of the confusion, and talk about uncovering our gifts and discovering our own paths, whether that’s in our current field, a new field, or somewhere out in Far Left Field. In short, today we’ll learn how to unwrap the gifts we came here with to discover what on earth you were meant to do. That, plus we’ll learn ENERGETIC PERSONAL RESUCITATION, OR EPR, or how in the world to tun up our vibes and shine extra bright! Topics Include: Following our soul path Using different tools to intuit our soul path The importance of meditation and listening to our inner voice/intuition Determining what your gifts are Do what you run from How do you connect the dots once you know what you’re passionate about? Getting moving Taking Baby Steps Meditation practice to access intuition Effectiveness of a Sanskrit mantra Om Namashiviya Shifts energy to a higher frequency In higher frequency and energy realms fear is replaced by love Shifting Energy Tools Gratitude Understanding the innate sweetness inside of each one of us Get back to our nature, bring that to work, to relationships Helps us connect soul to soul Get past ego, get past personality, get past fear Helping people bring out their “sweetness” From Debbie Downer to Thank You Dad Using laughter to slay the downer dragon Why do we need to take action right away once we’ve discovered our path Counseling kids on their greatness Have to go after your passions Have to bring your energy to the table Inspiration | Motivation | Intuition | Business | Career | Spiritual | Spirituality | Soul | Religion | Health | Wealth | Abundance | Self-Help

Today we have a very special meditation to help us release burdens and fears and vibrate at a higher level. This meditation is from our recent guest, career and life intuitive Sue Frederick. It’s called the Break Your Heart Wide Open Meditation, and it’s perfect if you’re having a rough day, tough time, grieving or need to let go of pain to help you raise your energy and move forward. I think it’s something we could all benefit from! A brief note on this meditation, she’ll ask at one point you put your hand in front of your heart, with your thumb and forefinger together. I want to describe this too you. Please take your right hand and flip it palm up. Now place it palm up, right in front of your heart, up against your chest. Keep it palm up, touching your chest, but touch your thumb and forefinger (first finger together so they make a circle). This in essence will be your scooper or shovel you’ll use in the meditation to help you remove and release pain, worries, and concerns. She’ll coach you through it, I just wanted to make sure you can visualize what you’ll do with your hand. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and rate and review our show on iTunes, it’s by far the #1 way you can help cheer us on, and HELP others find the show. And yes, you get boatloads of karma points for doing so. Thank you so much!!! To listen to Sue’s beautiful interview on following your soul path and finding your dream job, or to hear other meditations from me or our guests visit our inspire nation show or inspire nation show.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Leaves your fears, worries, and burdens behind with this meditation designed to help you raise your energy, overcome challenges & move ahead! Sue Frederick | Inspiration | Intuition | Motivation | Spiritual | Mindfulness | Healing | Spirituality | Love | Religion | Self-Help

If you’ve ever felt a twisting in your gut, nervous, anxious, or a dreaded fear that just won’t go away, like there’s a piano just above you getting ready to fall, then you are NOT alone, and do we have the show for you! Today I’m interviewing Kevin Davis, Anxiety Coach and Co-Host of the top-rated Anxiety Coaches Podcast! We’ll talk about why we all face anxiety, what it means, and most importantly what we can do to leave it behind. Anxiety shouldn’t stop us from loving the lives we lead, or leading the lives we’d love. Plus we’ll also look at what to do when panic does come up, so we’re not immobilized or feeling sick to our stomach. Today we’ll cut those strings to the dangling piano, and work to free ourselves from the fear so we can truly Live Fearlessly. Topics Include: Kevin’s Near Fatal Car Accident What is PTSD? What is CPTSD – complex PTSD Multiple Events Childhood How Anxiety and PTSD Involves daily triggers and replaying of the events Leads to not trusting one’s body How Kevin pulled himself out of the hole Started using guided visualizations – that relaxation time, doing that every day, trains the brain (exercises the brain) to help you to calm down. As long as you’re human and have a pulse, you’ll experience some anxiety at some point. Definition Anxiety Worrying about things that may or may not happen in the future Lao tzu on Anxiety and Depression The How To’s – There is no simple rescue, it is a practice Focus on past, have depression Focus on future, have anxiety The most important thing: Finding the trick that works for you to force yourself back into the moment Focusing on something For example Public Setting… Mindfulness – focusing on a distant person in great detail Rubber-band snapping on wrist to force you back into the present moment What is Anticipatory Anxiety and How to Control It Anxious now and more likely to be anxious in the situation How to Use Visualization for Success to Control and Eliminate Anxiety Racing in Europe and burning success or an automatic response into your body and mind Key Point: Don’t let your thoughts have so much power! com Check Out Kevin’s Inspire Nation Show Meditation As Well! And for more info visit: www.InspireNationShow.com Inspiration| Motivation | Meditation | Relaxation | Spirituality | Self-Help

Take a relaxing stroll on the beach and watch your worries wash away in this beautiful guided meditation by Kevin Davis, co-host of The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Mindfulness | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have a relaxing, stress-reducing, guided beach meditation from our recent guest Kevin Davis, co-host of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, or theanxietycoachespodcast.com. You can listen to this meditation any time of the day, my favorite for this is mid-afternoon on a day off, or in the evening, just before going to bed. To hear Kevin’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 favor and rate and review our show. It’s the #1 way to help us, and help others to find the show, and of course, it gives you beach loads…haha of karma points. Note: it’s much easier to rate and review on your mac, if you’re on your iphone, you need to back out of inspire nation, type inspire nation show in the search bar, then click the ratings and review tab. Thanks so much for your help on this one! Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Mindfulness | Kevin Davis | Anxiety Coaches Podcast | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

We’re always talking about how YOU can improve yourself and YOU can change your life, but it’s often exhausting and filled with worry, and how do we know what’s best for us anyway? Well if you’ve ever wondered if you’re trying too hard, striving in the wrong direction, or have no idea where to go-or how to right the ship, then do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be talking with Toesha Silver, and she’s here not a minute too soon! She’s the best-selling author of Outrageous Openness and the recently released Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Surrender. Today we’re going to talk about a very powerful way to live. It’s called Outrageous Openness, or how to be open to the world around us and the divine within or how to seek a divine plan so life happens through us, and for us, rather than by us. That plus why giving away your Seinfeld collection, may just set you free. Topics Include: Life happening through you and for you, rather than by you Scammed by scammer, but the money returned It’s about creating space to allow Not about chasing, pushing, grasping Tosha’s Story Was very sick for 3 years Idea of offering to a force of love Not about asking for help with “my” problem What would happen if it stopped being my problem, my life, the “small self” ownership If I get out this life is now owned by you, show me the actions you want me to take Felt hopeless because illness had gone on so long How do you stay out of the trap of striving, wanting, and worrying Right action begins to happen through you So important to create space rather than pushing to make it happen Offer it to the divine and say “show me the first step” What’s the Trouble with the Law of Attraction The energetic part is great, we attract according to our vibration Keep vibration high will attract to that If it’s low (anger, darkness, etc.) will attract to that Trouble is, it’s often used to give a shopping list…like shopping list to Costco Problem is, there’s often a divine plan that’s far greater for us How do we let go without losing our grandest vision Think of what you’re doing on behalf of love, and love knows all the steps that need to happen Instead of saying I need say I offer Need hands open to receive. Become able to bless the obstacles Vision boards are beautiful, but very limiting, very small I am here to serve love, Think of inviting Love in as an ally Use very simple prayers (and meditation) of invitation Help me to center, help me to trust love Having a God Box – putting all of your worries in your God Box How to let go (of Seinfeld) and de-clutter Having a sacred fire with our vision boards The breadcrumb trail – when what you desire is offered to the divine you start to get shown a trail Offering does not mean passivity How to listen and hear – an inner knowing How do we cultivate the inner knowing Part is through the prayers – offering it over It’s not do more, strive more, give more, but instead get centered and OFFER back Completely different recalibration of your energy What Surrendering Really Means For more information visit www.InspireNationShow.com Discover Why the Law of Attraction & the Secret Can Leave You Exhausted, While Outrageous Openness Leaves You Recharged, Rejuvenated & At One with Your Highest Good! Tosha Silver | Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Spirituality | Career | Love | Self-Help

Hi everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on inspire nation. Today we have a very short, relaxing and liberating meditation from our recent guest, Tosha Silver, the Best-Selling Author of Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead. This meditation can be done any time of the day, and I highly recommend it if you have big decisions or heavy burdens that are weighing on you. If you like this meditation, please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show. It’s the # way you can support the show, and help others to find these special meditations. That plus it’s great karma points! To check out Tosha’s beautiful interview, or hear more meditations from me, or our guests, check out our inspire nation show, or inspirenationshow.com. I send love, I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. For more information and meditations visit www.InspireNationShow.com Relax and Release Your Burdens to the Universe or the Divine. You’ll Feel Lighter, More At Ease, and More Connected & Centered, Body, Mind & Soul! Tosha Silver – Author Outrageous Openness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

Do you ever feel there’s greatness inside of you, a higher purpose or calling, something grander more meant for your life, if you could only figure out what it is or how in the world to tap into it. If so then do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be talking with Derek Rydell prominent life, business, & career coach to Emmy and Academy Award Winner,s Fortune 500 execs, and evolutionary leaders in business, spirituality nad the healing arts. And he’s the best-selling author of several books, including Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change. I must say, Emergence it one of the most radical books on life change I’ve read, but I mean that in a GREAT way. For Derek Rydall empowers you to be your most amazing self, one much grander than you ever could have imagined! So today we’ll talk about Emergence 101, about understanding who we truly are, how to discover our gifts, and to grow from the tiny humble acorn, to the magnificent oak, we were each meant to be! Topics Include: Why “Self-Improvement” is an oxymoron What “the end of self improvement” really means Derek’s story for self improvement, which didn’t work. Why he was: Suicidal Addicted to Drugs and Alcohol Struggled to drive across bridge without pulling it off the edge Coral Reef Near-death experience – Had to surrender Discovered the “self” trying to improve was a fiction Went to monastery to become a monk Learned we’re not broken – Instead we must learn how to dust off the perfection which is already there We are already perfect, whole and complete! The challenge with the Law of Attraction is that it’s trying to attract, improve or achieve from a limited perspective Attracting from a limited perspective creates a barrier or resistance to what is already trying to emerge. It’s like trying to serve two masters or ride two horses at the same time Law of attraction – manifestation cycle – why it often doesn’t work The true meaning of whole-work, not homework. How to tune in to our true self How to know “you are already whole and complete” Are you congruent with this truth? Why Ego and The Tribe get in our way Ego is designed to keep us the same – is an artifact of our evolutionary growth So tribe tries to keep us down, and ego tries and prevents change – isn’t letting us evolve Happens in our “tribe” called our family as well, is a vestigial protective device Need to separate yourself from that until you can hold your space in that expanded place. THE EMERGENCE MODEL – Whatever’s “missing” is what you’re not giving Because the truth is, everything really truly is within you. How to be the light Emergence is the “ultimate weight loss program” How to turn on the divine power within. For More Information Visit www.InspireNationShow.com Inspiration | Motivation | Mindfulness | Spirituality | Spiritual | Law of Attraction | The Secret | Health | Business | Career | Self-Help

Feel Incredibly Inspired, Empowered, Motivated, Energized & Blissfully Relaxed with this amazing meditation! Led by Derek Rydall Best-Selling Author of Emergence & Coach to Top Hollywood Stars & CEOs! Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on Inspire Nation. Today we have an amazing treat for you. This is one of the most empowering guided meditations I’ve ever experienced. It’s led by Derek Rydall, Best-Selling Author and Coach to Academy Award Winning Hollywood Stars and Top CEO’s. It’ll inspire you to bring out your best as well. You can do this meditation any time of the day, and expect to feel like a rock star and completely on top of the world when you finish. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. It’s the #1 way to show your love, and help others to find the show. And of course, it’s mega-great karma points. Thanks so much! A key note: we’re told it’s easier to do on a computer than a phone, if you’re on a phone, you have to back out of the show, search for inspire nation, then looking for the ratings and review tab. To check out Derek Rydalls equally incredible interview and more meditations by me and our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show, and InspireNationSHow.com. I send love, I send light. And many many blessings your way. Namaste. (Similar meditations to Wayne Dyer or Deepak Chopra, or NLP work by Tony Robbins) Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Help | Mindfulness | Law of Attraction | The Secret | Health | Wealth | Abundance | Inner-Peace | Happiness | Business | Career | Love