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Episode 86 Out-Of-Control Obsessing: 5 Powerful Steps to Become an Effective Manage of Your Own Mind In this episode, I am going to give you 5 steps to stop the out-of-control obsessing that intrudes the mind on a daily basis. These effective steps put you back in control of your own mind and thus your own … Continue reading "Episode 86 Out-of-Control Obsessing" The post Episode 86 Out-of-Control Obsessing appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Your Independence Day: 3 Priceless Freedoms We Too Quickly Sacrifice Are you free? Really free? Do you decide how you spend your time? Do you have freedom? Think about your last 24 hours. Did you spend it the way you would choose? Did you do the things you want to do? If you could choose … Continue reading "Your Independence Day: 3 Priceless Freedoms We Too Quickly Sacrifice" The post Your Independence Day: 3 Priceless Freedoms We Too Quickly Sacrifice appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 84 Smartphones: 5 Surprising Ways they are Just Like Your Own Mind Smartphones have become a force to be reckoned with in our world. They are everywhere – schools, homes, churches, places of work, grocery stores, gas stations, sports events…. You just might be blown away by the similarities between these phones and your own … Continue reading "Episode 84 Smartphones: 5 Surprising Ways They are Just Like Your Own Mind" The post Episode 84 Smartphones: 5 Surprising Ways They are Just Like Your Own Mind appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 83 – 7 Easy Ways to Become Happier and Calmer How’s your life? Are you happy? Are you filled with stillness? Are you stressed and agitated? Is calmness a regular part of your life? In this episode, I will give you 7 easy ways to become happier and calmer. Imagine you are standing in … Continue reading "Episode 83 – 7 Easy Ways to Become Happier and Calmer" The post Episode 83 – 7 Easy Ways to Become Happier and Calmer appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 82 Let go of the Inhibitions and LIVE In this episode, I will explain how our own inhibitions get in our way and work against us. They make it almost impossible to create the type of life many of us desire. Let’s talk about how to get rid of them. For more reading, check … Continue reading "Episode 82 Let Go of the Inhibitions and Live" The post Episode 82 Let Go of the Inhibitions and Live appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 81 Hugging: Is it only about feeling good? In this episode, we will focus on the many wonderful benefits of hugging. It’s a long list, so hang on. Everything from lowering your blood pressure and decreasing inflammation to calming the mind and encouraging healing. Let’s go! So how many of you are huggers? Do … Continue reading "Episode 81 Hugging: Is It Only About Feeling Good?" The post Episode 81 Hugging: Is It Only About Feeling Good? appeared first on This Simple Moment.

If you want to be happy, then be happy! In this episode, I’m going to teach you a method for building happiness. It’s a simple approach and extremely effective. If you can be happy for one minute, you can be happy for a lifetime. But you have to want it! Do you really want to be … Continue reading "Episode 80 One Minute of Happiness: Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Mini-Vacation" The post Episode 80 One Minute of Happiness: Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Mini-Vacation appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Are you Preparing for Your Own Death? It’s Never Too Soon to Start! In this episode, I am going to tell you why and how you should be preparing for your own death right now. This isn’t morbid. It isn’t scary or sad. But rather it is extremely motivating and has the potential to make … Continue reading "Episode 79 Are you Preparing for Your Own Death? It’s Never Too Soon to Start!" The post Episode 79 Are you Preparing for Your Own Death? It’s Never Too Soon to Start! appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 78 – 5 Effortless Secrets to Manifest Compassion Effortless – These steps are centered around removing effort from your life. We actually work very hard to make our own lives difficult. To find true compassion inside you requires that you quit working so hard against this. We are wired for compassion if we would just … Continue reading "Episode 78: 5 Effortless Secrets to Manifest Compassion" The post Episode 78: 5 Effortless Secrets to Manifest Compassion appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Taking Responsibility for Others: An Exhausting Way to Live How many people are you taking responsibility for in life? Children? Spouse? Parents? Friends? Co-workers? We are too often guilty of trying to take responsibility for others. You may think you don’t do this.  If you are internally or externally justifying their behavior, then you are … Continue reading "Episode 77 Taking Responsibility for Others: An Exhausting Way to Live" The post Episode 77 Taking Responsibility for Others: An Exhausting Way to Live appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Filling up with emptiness: 5 nothing’s that will absolutely transform your life We spend so much of our life doing this and doing that, running here and there all the time. We seem to never be satisfied with where we are right now. But it is where we are right now that has the potential … Continue reading "Episode 76 Filling up with Emptiness: 5 Nothing’s that will Transform Your Life" The post Episode 76 Filling up with Emptiness: 5 Nothing’s that will Transform Your Life appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 74 Feelings Trump Thoughts In this episode I am going to discuss what runs our individuals lives – our feelings or our thoughts. I will go on to explain how you are not a victim but rather an extremely active participant in your current life circumstances. What runs your life – how you feel … Continue reading "Episode 74 Feelings Trump Thoughts" The post Episode 74 Feelings Trump Thoughts appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Three Essential Principles for Finding Peace We all say we want peace. Then we treat it like it’s some far off distant fantasy. We spend a lifetime searching for it, while all along it is right under our noses. Peace is within your reach right now. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only … Continue reading "Episode 73 – Three Essential Principles for Finding Peace" The post Episode 73 – Three Essential Principles for Finding Peace appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 72 Emotions: The Driving Force of Life Emotions truly matter in life. Have you heard this phrase – “People will forget what you said, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.” The emotions under your interactions will drive relationships. This applies to animals, kids and adults. If you want your dog to come … Continue reading "Episode 72 Emotions: The Driving Force of Life" The post Episode 72 Emotions: The Driving Force of Life appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 71 – Part 2 of the Self-Control: A Unique Approach for Parent and Child. In last week’s episode, we took an in-depth look at self-control. What it is, what it looks like, why it is necessary. We even compared how children define self-control with how adults define it. I gave you the 3 main … Continue reading "Episode 71 Self-Control Part 2" The post Episode 71 Self-Control Part 2 appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 70 Self-Control: A Unique Approach for Parent and Child In this episode we take an in-depth look at self-control. What it is, what it looks like, why it is necessary, the 3 main categories of it and how to develop it in yourself or in a child. A parent teaching a child self-control will often … Continue reading "Self-Control: A Unique Approach for Child and Parent" The post Self-Control: A Unique Approach for Child and Parent appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 69 Mattering: 5 Essential Ways to Ensure that You Matter Mattering may not be a real word, but the essence of it is vital in our human lives. Everyone wants to matter in life. But if we try to force it or fake it, we only ensure that we won’t matter in other people’s … Continue reading "Episode 69 Mattering: 5 Essential Ways to Ensure that You Matter" The post Episode 69 Mattering: 5 Essential Ways to Ensure that You Matter appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 68 Validation: The Need to Know that You Matter In this episode, I discuss internal and external validation, their benefits and dangers, the effects they have on us in life and some ways to make the most of your need for validation.   Two different sparring classes with two very different outcomes taught me … Continue reading "Validation: The Need to Know that You Matter" The post Validation: The Need to Know that You Matter appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 67 Escape the Mind: Falling below thought or rising above it The mind can hold us hostage with its non-stop thinking. It occupies our attention and disturbs our peacefulness. Can we do anything about it? Is there an escape? Yes there is! As I see it we have 3 states of consciousness in which to … Continue reading "Escape the Mind: Falling below thought or rising above it" The post Escape the Mind: Falling below thought or rising above it appeared first on This Simple Moment.

Episode 66: New Year’s Resolutions: Why do we even bother? We set them every year and every year watch them go quietly by the wayside. Why is that? Why are we so pulled to set the resolutions and yet unable to follow through with them? Let’s explore this Two kinds of resolutions To quit something … Continue reading "New Year’s Resolutions: Why do we even bother?" The post New Year’s Resolutions: Why do we even bother? appeared first on This Simple Moment.