Jen mentions that she owns a production company in partnership with her husband, and she owns a coaching and consulting business, as well. (1:16)
Jen shares that they are storytellers at heart and they’re currently in the process of building a new art of mindful storytelling program, and their purpose is to connect with entrepreneurs and to support their journey. (1:35)
Jen mentions that as a mindful business coach, she connects people back into their business in a mindful way, and supports them on their journey, as aspiring entrepreneurs or established entrepreneurs. (1:56)
Jen leads the mindful moment exercise. (3:59)
Jen shares the three common issues in seeking mindfulness. (7:44)
Jen thinks that a lot of people have a perspective on what they see and read that; they want to understand. (7:56)
Jen mentions that if you’re going to practice mindfulness, you must always sit and do meditation every day, for 30 minutes. (8:55)
Jen shares that the micro mindfulness moment is one of her favorites and all you have to do is to stop for a second, put your hand on your heart, and take 5 breaths. (10:58)
Jen shares a mindful exercise that she recommends to people, and it’s called the stop exercise. (15:26)
Jen shares that taking a moment to stop is something that most people don’t often recognize. Because we react very quickly when our negative emotions are taking control. (16:40)
Jen mentions that she’s currently studying mindful self-compassion. (18:49)
Jen mentions that finding and building self-compassion, within themselves is challenging for most people, but everyone has it. (21:29)
Jen shares her three guiding principles. (30:47)
Jen shares an exercise that’s beneficial in any organization, and it’s called a soft landing. (36:33)
Key Quotes:
“We all adapt much more quickly than we give ourselves credit. But we don’t realize it within ourselves. So, our ability to adapt to uncertainty and change is higher than we give ourselves credit for.” – Jennifer James
“Just stop and take a breath, observe how you feel in that moment, recognize it, label it, and then proceed. Sometimes just taking that moment to stop allows you to ground yourself at that moment, and not react. It gives you that moment of choice and the choice is ours, we own that.” – Jennifer James
“You have to have a foundation of understanding and believing in yourself before you can actually externally put that out into the world, and allow others to believe in you as well. It starts inside, having the confidence to do that. Not as easy, but it starts with baby steps.” – Jennifer James
“If you put on your curiosity hat before every single conversation, whether it be at home or work, it helps reframe how you enter into that conversation. Cool. And it allows you to think differently.” – Jennifer James
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Steve Wilson, Psychologist, the Founder and President of World Laughter Tour. Steve is also known as ‘The Joyologist’ and ‘The Cheerman of the Bored’. He discusses what humor and laughter hold for human beings, and shares his program called The Prescription For Good Hearted Living.
Episode Highlights:
Judith introduces Steve Wilson. (00:39)
Steve mentions that he’s a formally trained psychologist and he has retired from the private practice of psychotherapy. (1:24)
Steve shares a story that happened 40 years ago when he attended a workshop in Chicago. (1:44)
Steve mentions that he was called by the universe to change his life and his practice to focus on what humor and laughter hold for human beings. (2:27)
Steve shares that it’s been 20 years since he established the World Laughter Tour. It’s a curriculum to teach people how to create therapeutic laughter and to switch those wrongheaded attitudes and ideas. (3:49)
Steve shares that 7,000 people have taken his course. They want to learn and utilize those tools for the benefit of their own health and happiness and to share it with other people. (6:17)
Steve shares the difference between laughter and humor is that laughter is a physical act that human beings do. On the contrary, humor acts as a shock absorber and keeps you from being jolted. (8:58)
Steve mentions one of the aspects that he tried to get across to people is respect for individual differences. Human beings are different and it doesn’t mean they are wrong or bad. (12:58)
Steve mentions that once you have a moment to be mindful of your sense of humor, one of the prescriptions that he will issue is to take five minutes a day for humor. (13:26)
Steve shares that his program is called The Prescription For Good Hearted Living, and it consists of 6 practices that you can do to prevent the hardening of attitudes. (18:25)
Steve mentions that the Wednesdays for gratitude is the centerpiece of the program. (23:15)
Steve explains that a great sense of humor is a crucial ability to identify the absurdity in adversity. (40:39)
Steve shares the difference between laughing with somebody and laughing at somebody. (42:03)
Steve explains that it’s significant that we must not lose hope. We should always hope that we can recover, hope that we can repair the world, and hope that we can repair ourselves. (45:40)
Key Quotes:
“Your sense of humor is something you develop, but the ability to laugh is inborn. Did you know that people who are born blind and deaf, laugh? We don’t learn to laugh by watching other people or hearing other people, we have a natural way when the circumstances are right.” – Steve Wilson
“As soon as you get into that humor and that laugh, and respond to it instantly, your brain chemistry changes and sends a signal that every system in your body to turn on to health, and it does it almost instantly. It will keep the healthy aspects of your muscular system to act healthy when you have a true mirthful laugh.” – Steve Wilson
“Use this poem as you go through life. Let this always be your goal. Keep your eye upon the doughnut, not upon the hole. Look at what you have not what’s not there. Gratitude turns out to be the antidote for self-pity and despair. How can you have that so strongly, if you’re grateful for things that you have in your life and what is going on?” – Steve Wilson
“The modern science of laughter is about compassion. That when we have because, to have a great sense of humor, I think one must have a great sensitivity about humor.” – Steve Wilson
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview David Nichtern, a senior Buddhist teacher, meditation guide, musician, four-time Emmy winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and the founder of Dharma Moon and 5 Points Records. David talks about the three dimensions of life being fully integrated, what we can learn from Buddhist practices during this time, and how to utilize mindfulness as a tool in our state of mind.
Episode Highlights:
Judith introduces David Nichtern. (00:39)
David thinks that his most significant aspect is being eclectic. (1:36)
David mentions that if you go to a pure view of the phenomenon, everything is unprecedented. (16:20)
David shares that from a Buddhist point of view, it’s a great time to practice. Because what was always true is now obvious. (16:35)
David shares that mindfulness is the best tool for our state of mind, and it enables us to perceive grounded information and the truth of the situation. (18:51)
David mentions that impermanence is considered to be one of three vital descriptions of life as it is. (21:41)
David mentions that there are three marks of existence, and only one is impermanence. (24:10)
David feels that the contemplative element is significant at this moment. (26:51)
David shares that Sister Pema Chödrön is an excellent meditation teacher and she has a book entitled Start Where You Are. (29:24)
David thinks that everyone needs some time to play, and creative solutions come out of a sense of less tension, more openness, more sense of play. (32:53)
David mentions that in some very advanced Buddhist traditions, they say that noticing, recognizing, and remembering is the main practice. (38:02)
Key Quotes:
“Expressing yourself creatively and relating skillfully to everyday life and livelihood and things like that have equal weight. So, you can see as you travel through different communities that sometimes, one is weighted more than the other significantly.” – David Nichtern
“Impermanence just simply means that there’s a fundamental dimension of reality in which that’s just simply true. The condition part of reality it’s simply true, you can observe it if it’s given as a contemplation to us, everybody should just think about it for five minutes.” – David Nichtern
“As a meditator, just start where you are, you sat down, you took your seat in the middle of a thunderstorm, in the middle of chaos, in the middle of a prison camp, if that’s where you are, just tune in to your body, speech, mind, and work with it from there.” – David Nichtern
“Everybody in the entertainment industry knows you’re only as good as your last movie, and that’s true of meditators. There’s no accumulation pot for your experience, it’s fresh every time, and people who are going to tune their mind to that freshness, then there’s a certain kind of sense of creativity and facing adversity.” – David Nichtern
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Chris Salem, Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and CEO at EFA Movement. Chris talks about the fine line between kindness and compassion. He also shares how mindfulness plays a significant role in building a core foundation.
Episode Highlights:
Judith introduces Chris Salem. (00:44)
Chris shares that he’s working with executives to help build and scale their businesses and their brands by teaching them how to become trusted advisors in their business. (1:16)
Chris shares that finding the harmony between work and life can be difficult. (7:36)
Chris mentions that mindfulness plays a significant role in building the core of that foundation. (8:10)
Chris shares that a lot of times, people will experience frustration and stress because they tend to focus more on the elements that play into their weaknesses or on the things that they can’t control versus the things they can. (8:59)
Chris mentions the two habits that he always recommends for everyone which are meditation and journaling, daily. (10:46)
Chris mentions that he’s a big believer that mindfulness is the core nucleus of everything. (15:50)
Chris shares that mindfulness leads to clarity and clarity leads to the ability to make, calculated risks, learn from mistakes, make better decisions, and take action. (18:03)
Chris mentions that in reality, multitasking is counterproductive and, oftentimes, it doesn’t lead to sustainable results. (22:42)
Chris shares his advice with everyone is to control what you can and let go of what you can’t. (28:25)
Key Quotes:
“I’m a firm believer that any sustainable results that you seek in your life, in business, overall, start with the foundation, and it’s a process that when you go through the trials and tribulations of life and business, you approach it in a way that you could see the blessings and opportunities disguised and what you become as part of that process.” – Chris Salem
“To break these cycles, we as people have got to take responsibility for our own lives, our actions, our roles, and duties. We can’t assume and speculate somebody is going to help us do that. We’ve got to take that responsibility. That’s where change takes place.” – Chris Salem
“If we commit to it, controlling what we can do our part, and empowering people to do the same for themselves, we can come together interdependently over time, to be more productive, more efficient, more functional in terms of what we do, and why what we do to create a better environment around us.” – Chris Salem
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Bradford Tilden, classically trained composer, pianist, and crystal-sound healer at Crystal Music Healing. Bradford talks about the abilities of crystal healing and how music is utilized as a tool in helping people become mindful.
Episode Highlights:
Judith introduces Bradford Tilden. (00:39)
Bradford mentions that he’s working a lot in raising consciousness, expanding people’s awareness, and empowerment. (1:36)
Bradford leads the mindful moment exercise. (4:03)
Bradford thinks that his favorite modality that’s fun to play with is crystal healing. Because crystals are conscious beings and crystals have a lot of information. (11:12)
Bradford mentions that crystal healing has a lot of potential for charging, raising your vibration, loosening up, clearing negative energy, and expanding your consciousness. (11:28)
Bradford shares that engaging with the power of your voice is the most profound transformation that he’s been able to create. (12:39)
Bradford shares that sound has a significant force or energy expression, it can both create and destroy. (15:08)
Bradford mentions that music is a very powerful tool to help people become mindful or to move on from difficult times or to release emotions. (17:57)
Bradford shares that he’s currently working on the language of reality being understood as a quantum holographic model, where the attention of the concert, the focus of consciousness is what creates reality. (21:03)
Bradford mentions that the quality of sound is one of the pure essences of lifeforce in a sense. (25:58)
Bradford mentions that the breath is the gateway to your higher consciousness. (27:48 )
Bradford shares that the Amethyst crystal is significant because it’s the universal healing stone. (32:47)
Key Quotes:
“I always love to inspire people whenever I get the opportunity to teach people. I love seeing that flash of awakening in their eyes and it’s just a very wonderful world that I’m envisioning for all of us. And I work a lot with raising consciousness, as a whole of humanity along with Mother Earth.” – Bradford Tilden
“Meditation takes you out of the 3D, and crystals are multidimensional beings when you feel their energy that’s taking you out of the 3D. And I think that’s where we’re all headed. Mindfulness and being in the present moment ironically takes you out of the 3D because you become so much more aware of everything else beyond the physical.” – Bradford Tilden
“The sound is just everywhere. You know, just because you can’t hear it doesn’t mean it’s not producing a sort of vibration or frequency. And when you find the right frequency, you can work with it therapeutically, and your music soothes the savage beast and music helps to unlock emotions, and brings back memories.” – Bradford Tilden
“I believe that when you’re enlightened, you’re able to maintain that state of centered connectedness, groundedness at all times. But as humans, we oscillate and we’re looking for tools to bring us back into that state, to maybe stay in that state a little bit longer, or to have our fundamental vibration within ourselves, rise a notch and be just that little bit higher and stronger.” – Bradford Tilden
“Just acknowledge within yourself, that you are a being of love and light, that your intentions are pure, loving, and all that you do. And once you get to that mindfulness moment, just say I am a being of love and light and know that you’re here now and the best thing that you can do to help with all that noise is to stay positive, have a strong vibration, and share that positivity.” – Bradford Tilden
In this episode of Cloud 9 Online’s MediMindful Moment Podcast, co-hosts Judith Dreyer, Jeff Nelder, and Henry Edinger interview Sara Daves, Intuitive Purpose Coach, and Conflict Strategist. Sara talks about how she helps people discover their true purpose in life and how the conflict resolution circle helps in understanding ourselves.
Episode Highlights:
Judith introduces Sara Daves. (00:41)
Sara shares that when she’s talking about purpose, it’s about natural talents, gifts, and abilities that we are all born with. (1:32)
Jeff proceeds with the mindful moment exercise. (3:55)
Sara mentions that she has an online coaching program for women or those who lead with their feminine energy to learn how to manifest, and she’s doing conflict resolution as well. (7:25)
Sara shares that the conflict is a gift and it serves as the bridge between separation and connection. (11:24)
Sara mentions that the tool she offers is called a conflict resolution circle. (12:56)
Sara shares that if you have a conflict that is occurring, there are ways to handle that, and she teaches the process of the unit of the circle to everyone. (13:44)
Sara shares that mindfulness is about being aware of what’s going on around you, and practicing mindfulness with yourself, which means that you are growing your self-awareness. (16:08)
Sara mentions that the more we learn about ourselves, the less we judge ourselves. (17:11)
Sara shares a story about purpose and conflict resolution. (19:27)
Sara mentions that everyone’s different and everyone has their own way of being in service to the world. (21:50)
Sara shares that the more that you’re in a state of joy, the more you will uplift others. (35:47)
Key Quotes:
“I think of this as a big pie, and it’s cut into seven and a half billion pieces. So everyone is like one of those slices of this beautiful, delicious pie. And there is a different perspective for every slice. So we’re never looking at the world in the same way, and we’re never moving through the world in the same way, and we all have something very special to give in service to each other.” – Sara Daves
“My purpose is to anchor the consciousness of oneness here on the planet, or help do that in my very small way because we do need to come into this understanding of our connection, and have that concept. And really getting to know yourself is a perfect way to do that. It’s a perfect way to begin.” – Sara Daves
“You don’t have to wait for something horrible to happen to you, you can choose to get on the front end of that and learn about yourself and decide to do something different. Because the longer we tolerate that, the more of a blow-up it’s going to be, later.” – Sara Daves
Judith Dreyer, MS, BSN, Writer, Speaker, and Workshop Presenter, Master Gardener.
