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Morning Mindfulness - A Few Positive Minutes to Start Your Day With

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This podcast is about mindfulness. It is about being in the moment. It is about paying attention. It is about nonjudgmental attitude. It is about awareness. It is about making wiser decisions. I am talking about lessons I've learned on my Martial Arts and Yoga journey, and what I've learned practicing meditation. My episodes are inspired by lessons I got from World's greatest success and leadership teachers.

Location:

Phoenix, AZ

Description:

This podcast is about mindfulness. It is about being in the moment. It is about paying attention. It is about nonjudgmental attitude. It is about awareness. It is about making wiser decisions. I am talking about lessons I've learned on my Martial Arts and Yoga journey, and what I've learned practicing meditation. My episodes are inspired by lessons I got from World's greatest success and leadership teachers.

Twitter:

@HPLPodcast

Language:

English


Episodes
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722-Information Age and How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

6/1/2021
There's an old saying, Knowledge is Power. Or I've heard a modern version: information is power. I agree to some extent. But today I want to challenge that cliche. The knowledge may, in fact, even produce devastating results if we're not mindful about what we see and hear. Let me show you how.

Duration:00:08:11

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721 - Outside World and my Greatest Martial Art Victory

3/23/2021
Since most of my training is in martial arts, and I've been doing quite a bit of training staying at home, I thought I'd share with you perhaps my greatest martial art victory. It's from the past, but it is as much, and maybe even more valuable today...

Duration:00:07:00

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720 - Dealing with Cough and Stuffy Nose

1/19/2020
Not a medical advice! This winter has been pretty cold. We had a lot of rain. That resulted into some waves of cold and flu in the community. Today I will talk about one way of dealing with cough I've used.

Duration:00:04:30

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719-Precious Things We May Often Take For Granted

1/17/2020
We often live with this idea that we'll be there for each other forever... Why don't we start practicing Love while we're still here?

Duration:00:03:56

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718-Almighty Obvious: Undeniable Power Of Manipulated Majority

6/12/2019
Humans, no matter if they are introverts, extroverts or whatever ..verts, are social creatures. Majority of us has a need, either conscious or subconscious, to belong to the pack, or a herd, and to receive an approval from our peers. And this is a foundation...

Duration:00:04:15

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717 - When Minority Wins: Genius Design To Introduce The Biggest Lie

5/23/2019
Today I’d like to talk about one clever, I’d say genius method of dirty propaganda. I read it was created by Joseph Goebbels, famous Nazi politician and minister of propaganda. Whether this is true or not, the method is quite powerful, in my opinion, and I am sure you can see it being used nowadays...

Duration:00:03:34

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716 - From Sublime To The Ridiculous: One Simple Way To Distort The Truth

5/6/2019
Horrifying details of the story are so disturbing that people may get emotional scars from the story itself. So painful that they cannot be erased by any logic explanation.

Duration:00:04:05

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715 - Beware of a Rotten Fish When Ordering Your Next Serving or Truth

4/26/2019
"Rotten fish" is a very widely used technique, so obvious that I'm sure you will immediately recognize it even though I won't point at anyone in particular. Let's say I want to make a rotten fish. I come up with some kind of a dirty story...

Duration:00:05:20

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714 - Targeted Truthfulness: Changing Listeners' Perception By Shaping Sincerity

4/22/2019
The whole purpose of military propaganda is to confuse and psychologically destroy the enemy to make them very vulnerable for easy termination. What does it have to do with Mindfulness? Everything! These techniques are used on us. Now. Practically every day!..

Duration:00:06:53

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713 - Decision And Process: Clearing Up Misconceptions About My Path to Success

3/25/2019
There’s no status quo. You and I cannot freeze our state of health, state of finances, or whatever you want to freeze. The cruel truth is, everything is changing. Every second. However, there’s a good news...

Duration:00:04:57

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712 - Campaign 50-50-25: Decision to Implement a Critical Life Update

2/18/2019
I survived... I was going downhill at 200 mph, metaphorically speaking, of course, and trying not to die. Until I finally got a moment to slow down, regroup, take a deep breath, look back and look at myself. And I did not necessarily like what I saw. That was when I got the idea of 50-50-25 campaign.

Duration:00:06:50

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711-Milestone Check: Mindful Review and Setting Goals For New Season

1/21/2019
It has been a while since my last episode came out. For quite a long while in fact. But I promised I'd come back, so here I am. Now let me ramble for a few minutes. First of all, why did I stop? There are several reasons, and I hope my explanation will give some of you helpful hints.

Duration:00:05:53

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710 - Attachments: Sure Way To Make Our Life Really Unbearable

3/2/2018
Changing direction or strategy is not quitting. There’s a difference between falling back on default program of actions and failing forward, meaning simply redirecting actions deliberately.

Duration:00:04:18

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709 - Mindful Madness: Turning Light Off Vs Shooting Light Bulbs

3/1/2018
In case with the light it is so obvious! We know how to address the issue, and what to expect as a result of our actions. However, there many other things in life that are not...

Duration:00:02:24

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708 - Overestimated Immunity: What We Think Vs What It Really Is

2/28/2018
Yesterday I started talking about being naive and how devastating it could be. And I’ve experienced it myself However, there’s much bigger issue that also comes out of that mindset. That’s what I’d like to remind you about today...

Duration:00:02:18

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707 - Naive Mindset: Righteous Path To The Wrong Side Of The Fence

2/27/2018
But I learned a couple of lessons. One, never forget that the outside World is not my friend. This is my and my only responsibility to follow the rules. So I have to stop being naive and pay attention to what I am doing...

Duration:00:02:16

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706 - Toughest Mindful Practice: Where Illusion And Reality Meet

2/26/2018
As you can probably guess, it is about mindfulness. But we will look at it from a different perspective. One of the key points in my stress management program is what I call a Controlled Tension...

Duration:00:02:24

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705 - Breathe And Smile: Going Back To Where It All Started

2/23/2018
Today I want to make a trip back to where my podcast actually started. You hear this every time you listen to it, but unless you listened to the very beginning, you may not know where it comes from. So you heard it: Let’s breathe and smile!

Duration:00:02:22

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704 - Flipped Perception: The Opposite Side Of Great Communication

2/22/2018
Yesterday I was talking about some really serious and quite obvious flaws in communication. Today I will continue, but we’ll look at it from a different perspective.

Duration:00:02:21

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703 - Distorted Transmission: Do We Really Hear What Was Said To Us?

2/21/2018
There are several flaws in our communications I’d like to point out. One, sometimes we listen to answer, not to understand...

Duration:00:02:25