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Mindfulness with Art
by Art burns
Welcome to my Mindfulness podcast, where amazing things happen. Cover art photo provided by Annie Spratt on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt
Episodes
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Love = Understanding
Well, Hello!!! I know it's been ages! I hope you're doing well and I'm thrilled to upload some content to the ol' podcast. Let's see who's still listening!!! This is some content I created on another video platform. If you're interested, my handle over there is art_mindful. Anyhoo, I'll be...
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Inner Nobility
In this episode I talk about the inner nobility that all people, even those who do very harmful things, possess. In the end I give you some practices to help you see the inner nobility in others and to develop the mental habit of seeing it in everyone with whom you interact. Enjoy.
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Awareness
In this episode I talk about the importance of expanding our awareness, how to do it, and why it matters.
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Avoid emotional hijacking with SBNRR.
In this episode I go over an amazing practice that will help you avoid emotional triggers for a more pleasant experience in any aspect of your life.
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Active Listening
In this episode I discuss the practice of active Listening and the enormous benefits that arise from this regular practice. And I also demonstrate how performing this practice will also help you develop mindfulness! And in the end, I give you this super easy formal and informal active Listening...
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Neuroplasticity: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Brain
In this episode I go deep into the science of the brain and talk about how the mindfulness practices we do affects the actual structure of the brain.
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Envisioning.
In this episode I discuss the practice of visualization, or envisioning and how it works to allow you to shape your reality with your mind.
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How long do emotions really last in our bodies?
In this episode I talk about emotions and their duration inside our bodies. Science tells us that the actual emotive response lasts only 90 seconds. But most people can extend that for hours, days, weeks, and even months and years. Here I give you 2 simple ways you can control this process for…
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The difference between hesitating and pausing.
In this episode I talk about the wonderful power we can gain from an intentional pause and how it differs entirely from the debilitating stress response that happens when we non-consciously hesitate. I also review a practice of pausing to help you in any situation in your life. Enjoy!
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Integration in Real Time: How to Recognize and Implement Integration. Any Time, Any Place.
In this episode I discuss how your brain functions when it is not in a balanced integration. And I give you tips on how to recognize when you are outside the flow of well being and exercises on how to regain the balance that gets you back into the flow.
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Altruism in action!
In this episode I tell a true story that happened to me just yesterday that illustrates four different ways in which mindfulness works in real life.
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Integration and the Default Mode Network
In this episode I talk about a very powerful neural network called the Default Mode Network and how it can impose upon us a false sense of separate self that often leads to depression, anxiety, and addiction. Of course, I give you a couple of super easy exercises to render this state powerless…
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“Chance Favors the Prepared Mind.”
In this episode I talk about the value or presence and dwelling in the open awareness where anything is possible. And how that can prepare our mind for anything that presents itself to us.
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Meditation Monday: Multiplying Goodness Meditation
In this meditation we go a step further in our quest of kind intention. This beautiful meditation will provide you with practice of kind intention and also help develop a sense of connection to the whole world around you.
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Sweaty Palms and Mindfulness
In this episode I talk about the chronic condition of sweaty palms with which I used to suffer, how mindfulness has helped relive this condition, and most importantly, what mindfulness and the process of RAIN had allowed me to understand about my (formerly) sweaty palms.
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Meditation Monday: Just Like Me and Loving Kindness Meditation
Welcome to Meditation Monday!!!! Every Monday I am going to record a guided meditation here for you to follow along with and experience the amazing benefits of meditation practice. This week we did Just Like Me and Loving Kindness Meditation: a short practice aimed at developing empathy and...
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Kind intention and brain integration.
In this episode I revisit the concept and subject of loving kindness and I explain the many physical and emotional benefits.
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The Power of Concentration
What if I told you that meditating for 10-20 minutes per day could increase your ability to summon the power of your concentration? Well that’s just what I do in this episode!
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Inner Nature
In this episode I follow up the higher purpose with a discussion of finding and embracing your inner nature. It includes an amazing fable: the story of the stone cutter.
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Higher Purpose
In this episode I talk about the amazing and powerful benefit of being a part of something higher than yourself. Experts say that without this sense of higher purpose, we are destined for a life of mediocrity that lacks true happiness.
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Thoughts
In this episode I talk about how the mind creates thoughts and how those thoughts tend to become stories that hijack our emotions. I give you 4 great practices to help understand this process and avoid said hijacking.
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Attention
In this episode I explore the two types of attention that live within our awareness: open attention and focused attention. At the end I give you a great practice to develop each of these important and beneficial skills.
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Awareness and how to expand it
In this episode I talk about awareness and how it can become a lot like tunnel vision when we focus on that one thing that brings us worry or concern. In the end I give two really great practices on how to develop a broader level of awareness and prevent the mental hijacking that can occur when a...
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Your Mindfulness affects those around you.
In this episode I discuss how, like Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn says, when one person in a family practices mindfulness, the rest of the family becomes more mindful as well.
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Self Love
In this episode I talk about self love as the opposite of the self criticism and self judging that most of us grow up with and how these negative tendencies of our minds limit us and block us from our true potential. At the end I give a simple yet powerful exercise you can do to enhance your self...
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The habit of gratitude.
In this episode I discuss how a simple exercise of gratitude can change your brain and your life without adding any time or pressure to your already busy life.
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Mindfulness as a path to spirituality.
In this episode I talk about yet another amazing benefit of western, science based mindfulness practices: as a primer for entry into a spiritual practice such as Buddhism. So if you’ve always wanted to practice Buddhism but feel intimidated for lack of time or any other reason, listen to this...
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Emotional Intelligence
In this episode I discuss the hugely important subject of emotional intelligence, how it affects our lives and relationships, and how mindfulness practices work to enhance this quality within us to make us smarter and capable of becoming whatever we want to become.
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Mental Models
In this episode I talk about mental models that are formed through our thoughts and memories. And I talk about how these thoughts, memories, and mental models are often one sided as a result of our judging and critical mind. Finally, I offer the solution: that simply practicing an attitude of non...
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Non Judging
In this episode I talk about how judging can affect our bodies in extreme ways beyond our mindfulness practices.
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Send you Brain to the Gym
In this episode I talk about the exercise of your Brain in mindfulness practice and how realizing your mind has wandered is the exercise that builds strength in the part of your brain responsible for Empathy and Emotional Intelligence.
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Being present with all you do.
In this episode I discuss how you can be present with all your activities. I even walk you through a helpful list of common activities you can try.
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Angry Art
In this episode I talk to you from my car outside my house because it’s late and my kids are asleep. And I just tell a bit more of my story about how I came to be called Angry Art.
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Active Listening
In this episode I discuss the difference between listening to respond and listening to understand. I discuss the benefits of the latter and the drawbacks of the former and I give two exercises to help train yourself in the mental habit of actively listening in every conversation you have.
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Viva (las) Vagus!!!
This episode is all about the Vagus Nerve. Not that Vegas. :) This Nerve is associated with a vast amount of health benefits and I review some of them here. I also give you a few ways to improve your health through increasing the Vagal Tone of this very important Nerve in your body.
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Being the best version of you.
In this episode I talk about a little known and seldom mentioned benefit of mindfulness practices: when you are truly present in the moment, you can be the very best version of yourself. Enjoy!
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How you will know that mindfulness is working.
In this episode I discuss the fact that there is little in the way of physical indications that mindfulness is ‘working’ for you. The only way you can see the effects is in how you respond differently to situations in which you would have been triggered before you took up the practice. Enjoy.
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Mental States and Mental Habits
In this episode, I talk about the three negative mental states from which all negative emotions arise and about how mindfulness practices help us develop mental habits to avoid the negative mental states.
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SBNRR (AKA: Siberian North Railroad)
In today’s episode I discuss another wonderful and helpful acronym for a practice you can use in any interaction in which you may be triggered or overcome with emotions. This tool helps you to avoid an action you will regret in such a circumstance. Enjoy. :)
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RAIN
In this episode I talk about a popular acronym in mindfulness called RAIN and how you can use it in any difficult or challenging situation to avoid lasting harm caused by an emotional hijacking.
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So what is mindfulness, anyway?
In this episode, I take a step back and review the definitions of mindfulness and what they practically mean in our lives. I also talk a good deal about Emotional Intelligence which is a happy byproduct of the presence we cultivate when we practice mindfulness.
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Practice
In this episode I discuss why practice is so important to combine with the ‘learning’ of mindfulness. I also describe my 6 month program that transforms peoples’ lives. Enjoy!
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The practice, not the knowledge, is key.
In this episode I discuss how I first learned about mindfulness and how it changed my life. But also how I deteriorated back to the old ways because the knowledge wasn’t enough. I needed to practice this knowledge for it to really work.
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I always felt it was too late to change.
In this episode I talk about all the false beliefs I held about meditation and mindfulness. I talk about how these beliefs held me back and how I destroyed each one of them with the realization of how these practices work.
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Gratitude and Loving Kindness
In this episode, I talk about the benefits of focusing on the positive things in your own life and on the well beings of others. I share two very simple practices that require no special training or anything and that you can start doing right away. Enjoy!
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I knew something had to change.
In this episode, I explore implicit memories and beliefs that prevented me from ever examining the things that caused me stress and anxiety, even though I always felt like something was wrong.
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Brain triggers and the Mighty Amygdala
In this episode, I go a bit deeper on the subject from yesterday concerning the sympathetic nervous system and how even thinking of an experience that triggered us can act as a further trigger thanks to this over achieving security guard in our brains called the Amygdala.
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How much meditation should you do every day? And Why?
In this episode I talk about the sympathetic nervous system and the dangers it holds for our physical and mental health and how just 10 minutes of meditation every day can save your life.
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Riding my emotions like a horse.
In this episode I talk about the emotional roller coaster I was stuck on before I discovered mindfulness practices.
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Welcome to my Mindfulness podcast, where amazing things happen. Cover art photo provided by Annie Spratt on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt
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Mindfulness with Art is created and hosted by Art burns.
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