Fishing Without Bait

James Ellermeyer discusses the concept of “finding yourself” and where you should be looking for it.  What is the controlled chaos of life and how we deal with it? Why is it important to create a reaction than to wait for one to come. How can you look to Pro Wrestling, the action and reaction, and the recreation personalities need to go through from time to time.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

Jim Eellermeyer discusses the further idea of Full Impact Mindfulness, being the bouncing super ball and jumping fully into an action.  What does it mean to be fearless?  What is your emotional potential energy?   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

This week, Jim Ellermeyer further discusses “Full Impact mindfulness”.  How do mirrors help us take a look at our selves and assess.  We discuss the light in your life that you let in when the windows of your life are clean.   Read “The Eyes of a Child” Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses looking at the “preview” of our life instead of buying a ticket to your life and participating.  How can we change our perspective to stop looking at the “monkey butt” of life and learning from failure.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses our minds and lives going  “down the rabbit hole”.  We discuss the song inside ourselves, and giving yourself permission to unleash that song and go down the rabbit hole in your life and venture into the unknown.    Challenge: Allow yourself permission to see where your curiosity goes.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer talks about the phrase “It’s good to be me” and taking a personal inventory of yourself.  Learning about emotional sobriety, and the influences in how we feel.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses “feeling the tingle” of life and participating in life.  What is holding us back from our Carpe Diem?  How do we become grounded.   Subscribe to our Podcast oniTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favoritePodcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses the concept of “Seize the Day!” or Carpe Diem!  What is holding you back?  This is a WAKE UP CALL!  How do we accept our base and foundation of our lives?   Challenge: What is your base.  The thing in your life that if you didn’t have that, you would have nothing else. From this episode: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-james-thurber Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses taking ownership of our negative thoughts and friends and filling our lives with positivity in our thoughts, actions, and the people around us.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses being truthful and why it is important, the visual masks we wear, our concepts of speaking the truth and perception of lies and speaking form our heart.From this episode: Natalie Edwards -  http://www.natedwards.co.uk/  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses why we continue to do things that do not work including the coping mechanisms, the illusion of control we present ourselves with, the male and other stereo types represented on television that teach us not to emote, how we give ourselves some “wiggle room”, and more! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the original blog post here. Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses a concept from Gestalt theory and How to survive emotional quicksand as we try not to fall into the trap of looking at who we are not rather than accepting who we are.     From this episode: "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim"  by Frederick S. Perls  http://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Verbatim-Frederick-Perls/dp/0939266164 How to survive quicksand : a guide to uncomfortable feelings http://head-heart-health.com/6773/a-guide-to-uncomfortable-feelings

This week, we read a blog post where a student describes her venture into mindfulness in the first 6 weeks and how it changed her life.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the original blog post here.  Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

Jim Ellermeyer discusses finding those glancing moments of mindfulness, Concentration, and more.  Challenge: Experiment with the flame meditation.  (review what it is at 8:00 in this week’s Podcast!) Tell us your results on Facebook and Twitter!  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the transcript here. (coming soon) Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

What board effects do our choices do around us?  How do we allow time to control us?  What are small changes we can make that can have a large effect?  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the transcript here. (coming soon) Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

We talk about the narrative of our lives and how we develop skills from speaking to the work we do.  How does our emotional detachment to an experience change our thoughts? What is your brain doing to protect you from these experiences? How do step back and become a nonjudgemental observer?  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the transcript here. (coming soon!) Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses our choices and get deeper into a conversation about how “making a choice” is not as easy as it sounds sometimes and how our responses change.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!  Read the transcript here. (coming soon!) Intro music: “Life” by Tobu    

Jim Ellermeyer discusses Time Line Therapy and gets us started with a self examination in our state of mindfulness. Where are your expectations on finding resolutions to your problems? What in our past shape how we behave today, and how can recognizing that change how we live?  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!  Read the transcript here. (coming soon1  Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

Jim Ellermeyer takes a look at Judaism and how mindfulness applies to the faith in its distant history, and more! Challenge: Try to give 10 blessings a day.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!  Read the transcript here. (coming soon1  Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

Jim Eellermeyer discusses buddhism, the suffering of life, how we decide to be with or without suffering, and the concepts of viparinama-dukkha, samkhara-dukkha, and dukkha-dukkha and break down where that voice in your head comes from.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!  Read the transcript here. (Coming soon!) Intro music: “Life” by Tobu