Teaching your children mindfulness and core life values through books with Andrew Newman
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Release Date: 02/08/2021
113: Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity with Tracee Stanley
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Tracee Stanley teaches Yoga Nidra and it's teachings allow you to powerfully and authentically transmit transformative and healing experiences that lead to the state of Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra is not about reading a script in a relaxed voice. It is the art of guiding yourself and another into the deepest state of consciousness where deep rest, spacious awareness, and Presence are experienced.
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112: Changing our mental state with words - Core Language Upgrade with Mark England
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Mark England's mission is to help people create more powerful, more fulfilled lives using the power of better words and stories. Procabulary is the language of getting things done.
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111: Why couples become unfulfilled & how to break free from unconscious relationship roles with Anat Peri
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Anat Peri is the Founder of Training Camp for the Soul and a Transformational Life Coach, specializing in developing her clients’ emotional resiliency as the access to taking inspired action. With over16 years of experience in developmental work, she has helped hundreds of people create the life they desire. Her work teaches people to use their emotions as allies to uncover what they truly want in life and propel them to more success and true, deep happiness. www.trainingcampforthesoul.com
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110: Venerable Tri Dao - Monk Life and Inside a Monk's Mind.
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
00:00:40 – When Venerable wakes up in the morning, he is grateful he has two eyes to see. He realizes the world is waiting for him with his duty as a Monk. 00:2:30 – What inspired his first social video was the path to peace. He went through a lot before becoming a monk and shares his experience towards complete peace. 00:16:20 – Venerable Tri Dao shares his deep and fascinating thoughts on Karma. 00:28:00 – As a Monk, he was trained not to engage in any form of sexual pleasure. He shares how he has let go of that desire through death meditation, monastic meditation and other training....
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109: Alyse Bacine - What are Akashic Records? Our kids chose to be born to us for a reason.
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
This week we sit down with Alyse Bacine. www.alysebreathes.com
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108: Positive ego defense mechanism and the importance of self regulation with Amy Edelstein.
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Amy Edelstein started her meditation practice in 1978. And even opened and ran her own silent retreat center for 17 years. She even worked personally with the Dalai Lama. In 2014 Amy used her experience and expertise to established Inner Strength Foundation, an organization that helps teens cultivate calm, curiosity, and care. Over 15,000 inner-city Philadelphia public school students have gone through our 3-month mindfulness and systems thinking training with incredibly moving results.
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107: Being curious instead of being distracted. Heavy Weight of Judgement with Charles Freligh, PhD
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Charles Freligh, PhD is a writer, meditation teacher, personal guide, and consciousness explorer. He is one of the top meditation teachers on the insight timer app. What's it like to be more curious about everything? Our emotions, experiences, feelings, relationships, perspectives...etc...What's it like to realize how much we critique and judge, and get curious about it.
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106: What is self love, how to release tension and stress, taking emotional inventory, and less fighting with your partner with Josh Trent
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Josh is extremely versed in his expertise. He has a company called www.wellnessforce.com and Helps Humans Discover Physical & Emotional Intelligence. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation about breathwork, emotional inventory, and better conversation with your partner. "Magic of breath allows you to show up more loving"
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105: Are your Values aligned with your Financial Investments? - Mary Ann Hawley
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Have you ever thought about what companies your money is going to, specifically your investments? Mary Ann Hawley is the CEO & Founder of UnifyImpact, a brand new digital platform that empowers millennials to align their investment decisions with their values with the help of Environmental, Social, and Governance data.
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Meditation 10: Natasha Mason - Guard your sanctuary
Mindful Impact with Justin Francisco
Natasha Mason - Guard your sanctuary
info_outlineToday, we will have an insightful conversation with Andrew Newman, a brilliant children's storytime book author, about mindful practices with your children, including meditation and creativity. He will talk about teaching your children mindfulness, core life values, and much more.
3 Key Points:
- Sitting as a parent is an immense mixture of responsibility and power. Show our kids what we want them to learn.
- Teach children mindfulness at an early stage, use bedtime stories to be with them fully in the last 20 minutes of their day to help them discharge their daily struggles as they transition to sleep.
- Meditation practices help children to slow down as they transition to sleep. Make it as a spiritual practice, give as much of that loving presence as you can.
Episode Highlights:
- 06:08- The last 20 minutes of the night creates an impact on what's going on in our brain.
- 07:24- Use the transition points of sleep and wake in the first 30 minutes of the day to sit us up.
- 08:38- Teach kids mindfulness early so that they don't have to unlearn a bunch of stuff like adults.
- 16:12- In the moment of surrender, something magical happens.
- 17:21- Problem can't be solved from the same level of consciousness that we created a problem with. Have a space for a new level of consciousness.
- 19:00- The therapeutic relationship is learning one's triggers and learning how to be non-reactive when activated.
- 20:30- Therapeutic relationship is the same aspect as the parent-child relationship.
- 23:21- The our breathing practice- I breathe for me, I breathe for you, I breathe for us, I breathe for all that surrounds us.
- 29:26- Andrew's morning practice helps the stream of consciousness come out for him to go into the space of openness.
- 31:32- Andrew's struggles from the business standpoint relates to the period of surrender.
- 40:50-The power of a story shifts us from a perspective where we hate to hate, thereby creating a safe place.
- 43:50- Anticipate challenges in time and translational speed of kids, be encouraging of slowing down.
- 45:00- Use the breathing technique to slow kids' systems down.
- 45:21- Model to our kids what we want them to learn.
- 45:25- Kids are designed to seek love, and the fastest way to get love is to mimic the person who gives them love.
- 49:10- Andrew gave his message to his 18 y/o self, who needed encouragement.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “The power of the story is that it shifts us from this perspective where we hate to hate. That shift is one of those mechanisms of creating safety.. “- Andrew Newman
- “We don't have to fight until we reach the point of surrender. We can choose to surrender earlier and ask for help because, in the moment of surrender, something magical happens. “- Andrew Newman
- “If we think the same way we have always been thinking, we will get the same result. We need something new to influence ourselves and change the course of our lives.“- Andrew Newman
Resources Mentioned:
- Justin Francisco: LinkedIn | Website
- Andrew Newman: Conscious Bedtime Stories | LinkedIn | Instagram