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New Mindfulness Meditation Program Online and Mobile Phones

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NOTE: Elevated Existence readers get a 20 percent discount on a one-year subscription to the online/app program. See below in bold type!

Following the successful release of its Mindfulness Meditation app, featuring guided meditations by Stephan Bodian, an internationally celebrated meditation teacher and licensed psychotherapist, specializing in stress management, Mental Workout released its new Mindfulness Meditation program – the first in a series of program launches utilizing the company’s new technology platform.

The program features six guided mindfulness meditations of different lengths; brief introductory mindfulness exercises; body scans; relaxation exercises; instructions on how to meditate and improve on practice; eight short teachings on the integration of mindfulness into everyday life; and an eight-week intensive meditation plan.

The new Mindfulness Meditation program is being introduced as one of the first two programs on Mental Workout’s new technology platform – the other is Freedom from Stress™, which was also created with Bodian and includes stress-reducing strategies that go beyond mindfulness meditation.

“My primary motivation since I began teaching meditation more than 30 years ago has been to help people reduce their stress and discover greater happiness and peace of mind,” said Bodian, who is the author of several books, including the bestselling “Meditation For Dummies,” and is also the former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal.

“By teaming up with Mental Workout, I have already been able to bring the benefits of mindfulness meditation to many more people. With the new program, we can do even more to motivate, inspire, and support people in integrating mindfulness into every moment of the day,” he said.

Users can access their program subscriptions and profile information seamlessly across a growing range of mobile devices – including on iPhone and Android devices – as well as on the Web.

Mindfulness Meditation is available for purchase at Mental Workout’s online store, and inside Mental Workout’s upcoming mobile app for iPhone (later this month) and Android (January 2013). These mobile apps will be free to download, and by using the same account details, program subscriptions as well as profile information will be in-sync across all devices.

Each program costs $17 for a one-year subscription, but Elevated Existence readers can get a 20 percent discount this month by using the promo code “elevatedexistence2012.”

To redeem the discount:

1. Go to http://www.mentalworkout.com/redeem/

2. Enter the code “elevatedexistence2012”

3.Follow the instructions

 

Jerry Seinfeld Talks About His 40 Years of Transcendental Meditation

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Did you know comedian Jerry Seinfeld is a devotee to transcendental meditation (TM)? He has actually been practicing for 40 years, and was recently on Good Morning America to talk about it and his support for the David Lynch Foundation, which teaches children in schools and war veterans the technique as part of its program.

“It makes a difference, but it’s very hard to explain. You know how I was describing it to somebody? I was saying, how your phone has a charger. It’s like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind. That’s what TM is,” Seinfeld explained in the broadcast.

Joining him on the show as Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation. Roth explained the technique is not about a religion or a belief system, but simply a technique to quiet the mind.

“The whole idea is we have active, noisy levels of the mind – that we’ve got to go here, go do this, do that. But every human being has deep within, a settled, calm, silent level of your mind. And this transcendental meditation has that active mind slow down,” he noted.

To see the more than 3-minute segment, watch the video below:

Naam Yoga Holds World Peace Prayer and Meditation Marathon on December 21

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On December 21, 2012, Naam Yoga will host a free 14- hour continuous World Peace Prayer and Meditation Marathon (“Naamathon”), which includes a live webcast for people worldwide to join in the event.

Naam Yoga created a mass healing impact uniting more than 15,000 people in peace, on November 25, 2012, for the world’s largest yoga “super class” of its kind, in Mexico City, according to the company.

“This Naamathon provides an opportunity to bring about true change in the world. By broadcasting, Naam Yoga seeks to expand the effects of vibrating love in unity with people around the world to bring peace and healing to our beloved planet,” the organization stated.

ONLINE EVENTS:
Thursday, December 20th — 7:30-10:00pm PST
Lecture and Winter Solstice Masterclass with Dr. Levry

Friday, December 21st from 7:00PM (through Saturday, December 22nd at 9:00AM): Naamathon

More information visit: http://www.indiegogo.com/naamyoga

Aromatherapy Inhalers

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Plant Extracts International – known for aromatherapy and diffusers – recently introduced inhaler blends that can be carried on the go!

Available in 10 varieties, the inhalers are created with essential oils, and each serves a different purpose. Breathe is a variety for support of the respiratory system with an invigorating Niaouli Melabelend of oils, while Calm includes a blend of Callitris, Boswellia and Lavandula.

They are available in custom blends, like Citrus, Yoga, Un-Nausea, and Calm, as well as single scents of Ginger, Lavender, Mandarin and Marjoram.

We recommend the set of six for $29.95, which allows you to sample some of their best blends!

Top Five Side Effects of Extreme Self-Love

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By Keri Nola, MA, LMHC

I’m often speaking, writing, teaching and practicing all things “self-love,” including ways to do it and what happens if and when we don’t. However, it recently occurred to me that I have never talked about the side effects of embarking on the self-loving journey. Before making a potentially life-altering decision, it’s always responsible to consider the possible impacts such a choice can have on our lives.  If you are ready to make an informed decision about filling your self-love prescription then read on…

Warning:  Always consult your inner wisdom before choosing to engage in self-loving behavior.  Some side effects of extreme self-love may not be reported, but most commonly people under the influence of self-love have reported the following…

5.  Increased feelings of Joy. How can we not be joyous when we’re loving ourselves!? If feeling joyful becomes overwhelming, consult your inner self-soothing department and take a deep breath, reminding yourself that you are worthy of infinite joy!

4.  Decreased experience of chaos and conflict in personal and professional relationships. We’re often so accustomed to chaos and conflict that when it goes away, we can freak out a bit and even begin to recreate it. If your self-love prescription leaves you waiting for the drama, pause, breathe, and know this too shall pass as you spend some time in your “new chaos-free normal.”

3.  Increased experience of peace, calm and relief. Watch out, folks … this side effect can really throw us for a loop! Do we even know what to do with ourselves when we are peaceful, calm and relieved? The good news is, you can get used to it, if you’re willing to let yourself. When you notice this side effect, consider leaning in and allowing peace and calm to fill the nooks and crannies of your experience.

2.  Increased productivity and prosperity.  Yup! You read correctly. Are you willing to give up self-judgment in exchange for increased productivity and prosperity? The truth is, we are all love, so when we align ourselves with that which we are, then we are able to welcome increased abundance as we remember that we deserve every bit of it. Don’t rely on my word though … try it for yourself!

1.  Extreme forgiving and loving others.  As we love ourselves, we realize we are one with others, and it would be incongruent to love and accept ourselves but not others. Beware that those you may have struggled to love and forgive before may soon be receiving your pardon. Choosing to love and forgive doesn’t mean we agree with what has or hasn’t happened, or what we perceive others to have done or not done. It simply means we agree to free ourselves and others from the past so we can be present now.

**This is not a complete list of side effects and many others may occur. In the event of a self-love overdose, beware of miracles and call on your highest self to celebrate as you express gratitude and appreciation. 

Keri Nola is author of “A Year on Your Path to Growth: Daily Inspirations to Reconnect with Your Soul,” and founder of Path to Growth LLC, a Central Florida-based integrative healing center that blends traditional and holistic techniques for journeys to peace. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Nola provides psychotherapy and facilitates therapeutic retreats for those seeking to reconnect with their inner wisdom, particularly after trauma or loss. She also offers heart-inspired business consultations for healthcare professionals. For more information visit www.pathtogrowth.com, on Facebook and Twitter @pathtogrowth.

NOTE: Picture of Keri Nola by Monica Alfonso

 

 

VIDEO: Dr. Shefali Tsabary on Becoming a Conscious Parent

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Ted Conferences feature some of the best thinkers of our time, and a recent video we came across shows Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of “The Conscious Parent,”explaining how we all internalize the voice of our parents – what they say to us and what they do – and carry this into adulthood. The parental voice creates a blueprint by which we define ourselves, and in the below video she explains why the way we parent needs to change.

“We need to occupy the role of parenthood in an entirely different way … we cannot expect our children to embody an enlightened consciousness if we parents haven’t dared to model this ourselves. It all starts with us and how we parent,” she explains in the video.

Many are still suffering from our own childhood wounds, and whether they realize it or not, these are having an effect of their children – and who their children will become when they grown into adulthood.

“We don’t hurt our children because we are evil or ill-intentioned – certainly not out of a lack of love,” Tsabary said. “We hurt our children for one reason only – it’s because we are hurting ourselves and we barely know it. It’s because we are unconscious; because we have inherited legacies of emotional baggage from our own parents. We are sitting on emotional baggage that lies dormant, unconscious waiting to be triggered at a moment’s notice. And who better to trigger us then our children. They just know the buttons to push. Through our children, we get theater seats — orchestra seats —  to the theatrics of our emotional immaturity.”

She continued: “When we lose our tempers with our children, and we believe they are devils and monsters, chances are it isn’t because they are that, but because they have triggered an old wound within us. They’ve made us feel feelings that we don’t care to feel. They’ve made us feel powerless and out of control, helpless, and in order to regain a sense of supremacy, we lash out at them in reactivity.”

Parents who have been conditioned to find self-worth outside of themselves are teaching these same values to their children. “Our children come to us whole, compete and worthy. They are happy with two sticks, a stone and a feather. But because we have been conditioned so deeply in an unconscious manner, so severed from our own sense of presence, wholeness, attunement and sense of self and abundance, that we project a sense of lack onto them,” she says in the talk.

“We teach them, do not depend on your sense of self and value, but look outward. Look to the Ferrari, the corporate corner office, to the casino, to the pill, to the bottle, to the needle, to spouse number one, two and three, to where you live, to where you graduate from – because we are severed from a sense of being. We are consumed by doing. This is how we know self-value…”

In her book “The Conscious Parent,” she shares the importance of transforming ourselves in order to empower our children with a new view.

“It is time for us to change the spotlight – to turn it inward – and change it from the child who needs to be fixed, the child as the one with the problem, [to] parental evolution as the solution … the time to awaken is now. The parenting paradigm needs to shift.”

See her 11 minute-talk in the video below: