MindYoga Quick Quotes with AnnetteQ: Recent Episodes
Annette Quarrier
Stretch your Mind like you do your body in Yoga. Each week I will post a quote and talk about how we can Stretch our Minds and unlock the Power within Us for more Peace, Gratitude and Beauty in our Life.
Join me this week and workout your mental muscle. Listen, stretch your mind and learn why silence is not empty, but full of answers. I’ll walk you through the benefits of doing so and how to get the most out of your quiet time. Not a fan of silence? You may learn you enjoy it more than you think you would. Take a listen and decide for yourself if you want to give it a try.
This week stretch your mind and think about what you want to change in the world and learn how you can start with making changes yourself. I’ll guide you through some questions to think about that will open your mind some more and allow you to discover how your thoughts create your feelings and how we are 100% in charge of our feelings. Others do not cause you anguish, you do! Stop the blame and take responsibility and begin helping the world change but taking care of your mental health.
There’s a popular saying “perception is reality” but this week I challenge you to think about this and question whether this is true. Our perception is our reality, but it may not be the reality. Listen and learn why what we perceive is not always the way things are. I’ll give you a real life example and show you how opening your mind can improve your mental health.
What’s your story? We all tell stories from our past, but is the story you telling hurting our helping you? We can rewrite our story. Yes the past is over, but we can rewrite it and make our next chapter better. Join me this week as we stretch our minds and think about how we can do this.
Do you have a hard time making decisions? Do you allow your indecisiveness to get in the way of what you really want? This week’s quote is “Indecision is the enemy of progress” and I not only talk about why this is true, but I walk you through some mental exercises which may help you understand why being indecisive is not helping you at all. Take out your Mental Mat, open our mind and take a listen.
In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and consider how often you worry about others. Most of us do this, but why? How can we stop ourselves from doing this? This week’s quote is perfect for dissecting and figuring out why. Get out your mental mat and join me now for just eight minutes and start to work that mental muscle of yours and get it in shape!
This week we stretch our minds around this quote. You may think you have an open mind, but do you really? I’ll ask some questions which you may discover and uncover your mind is not as open as you think it is. When we open our minds we can learn so much. Are you ready to listen and learn?
Do you feel if you failed you’ve let everyone down? Are you afraid to try anything new because you fear failure? In this week’s podcast I discuss why not only is failure an option, but it is necessary in order for us to learn from our mistakes and succeed. Listen and stretch your mind to the possibility that failing IS an option, and one we need in order to get to where we want to be.
Music--it brings us laughter, it brings us tears. In this week's podcast I discuss how listening to music can bring back memories we haven't had in years. What’s some of your favorite songs and what emotions do they bring out in you? How can a song from years ago take us back to the exact moment we remember hearing it? Listen and learn how music cam soothe our soul and why we love the songs we do.
What’s your story? We all tell stories from our past, but is the story you telling hurting our helping you? We can rewrite our story. Yes the past is over, but we can rewrite it and make our next chapter better. Join me this week and stretch your mind and think about the story we want to tell to ourselves and others.
Sometimes it’s not just physical weight but mental weight we need to lose. We are often unaware of how our thoughts weigh us down and this week I’ll ask some questions to stretch your mind and get you to uncover thoughts that weigh you down? Want to lose weight this week? Listen for the next few minutes and find out how!
This week’s Mind Yoga Quick Quote is from a Tim McGraw song. Do you believe you are better than you use to be? Or, do you believe you are the person you are and you can’t change? In this week’s episode I’ll talk about how we all have free will and each and every day we choose the person we want to be. Who do you want to be? Think about that, start stretching your mind and take a listen!
We’ve all heard this expression countless times. But have you ever really thought about your words and your actions towards others? We could have the best intentions with our words but our actions may not be demonstrating this. In this week’s episode I give examples and encourage you to stretch your mind and really look within to whether your actions are reflecting your words.
HALT is an acronym that stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about referring to this acronym before you make any decisions. If you are one of the four adjectives, or a combination of them, then HALT. Do not take action, until you take care of yourself first. An important lesson that can help us gain more clarity and lead a more peaceful life.
“Take Control Instead of Losing Control” is this weeks quick quote. Do you find yourself losing the ability to think and act rationally? Do you lose your temper more than you care to admit? In this week’s episode I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about why…why do we let things get the best of us and how can we have more control of our lives? We can’t control others but we CAN control ourselves. Learn how you can do this and have more peace in your life.
“If it’s none of your business, don’t make it your business” is this weeks Mind Yoga Quick Quote. I’ll talk about and encourage you to stretch your mind and really think about how often we give our opinion when not even asked and why we use the excuse “I was just trying to help”. Once we can become aware of how often we try to help others when we were not asked to, and once we can start to “mind our own business”, we will learn to have more peace in our lives.
This week we stretch our minds and think about when we should let things happen vs make them happen? How do we decide when we’ve done enough? How do we figure out when it’s ok to sit back and let it happen? Learn how to distinguish between these two important actions. They may be on different sides of the scale but they both have their time and place. Take nine minutes for YOU and take a listen.
n this week’s podcast we stretch our mind around the concept of self control and why it is the ultimate expression of power. Listen and learn how the more discipline and self control we have, the less we are giving our power away to others. Your life is not a random spin of the wheel. If you have lost your self control or just need a tune-up on using yours more, get out your mental mat and spend the next 9 minutes on YOU and take a listen!
We all have wounds that still need to heal. But did you know mental wounds are just like physical wounds in the sense that we have to stop touching them to let them heal? In this week’s episode our quote to ponder is “To Heal a Wound you have to Stop Touching It”. Wise words but hard to do sometimes. We know and can see the effects of touching a physical wound. We watch it become irritated and not heal quickly. Listen this week as we talk about how our mental wounds can be healed the same as our physical ones; if we stop touching them and we stretch our minds to figure out how we can do this.
“Your value does not decrease based upon someone’s inability to see your worth”. This week we stretch our minds around this quote and learn how perceived value is just that—what is perceived. We need to understand that when one person does not see our value, it is not a reflection on us at all. It is their inability to see our value. Take a listen for nine minutes and learn how to not let people’s inability to see our worth make us question our value.
In this week’s podcast we stretch our minds and learn how our inability to take responsibility places blame on others and stops us from having what we want. Our lack of taking responsibility causes undo stress and heartache. Listen and learn how if you want to change anything in your life, you need to look in the mirror and ask that person to change it.
Get out your mental mat and get ready to stretch your mind!This week’s Mind Yoga quote by Donald Hicks “Those who teach us the most about humanity are not always human” explores the many things we can learn from our pets and from animals in general. They may not be human, but they can teach us so much if we are open to watching them. Got 10 minutes? Massage your mind and take a listen!
This week we explore the possibility that our way is not the only way. By reflecting on the words “I never thought of it that way” we can open our mind and start to have more compassion towards others. We may even find more peace within ourselves. We are conditioned to think when someone does not agree with us, they are wrong and we are right, but are they? Take out your mental mat and listen to this week’s podcast. You may find stretching your mind and learning there is more than one way to look at things is just what you need right now.
How do we learn to embrace other peoples opinions and learn how to come together for the greater good? This weeks quote by Doug Floyd, “You don’t get harmony when everyone sings the same note” reminds us that it is ok for us to be different and something beautiful can still come from it. Listen, stretch your mind, and learn how to sing your own note and still join together with others to create perfect harmony!
In 1965 Burt Bacharach wrote a classic song called What the World Needs Now and the lyrics to that song are just as relevant now as they were back then. This week I encourage you to stretch your mind around some of the lyrics in this song. How do you give and receive love? Do you only show love to those you care about? Do you believe everyone, regardless of their religious or political views deserve love? Everyday we are faced with many choices and we have control over whether we choose love in any given situation. Give yourself 8 minutes of mind stretching exercise and take a listen. You deserve love and you deserve to take the time for YOU.
Do you know you by remaining calm you can stay in control? In this weeks podcast I walk you through an actual scenario that happened to me and how I was able to remain calm and stay in control. We are living in uncertain times but we do have control over whether we react or respond to any situation. Listen and learn how you can respond and remain calm. Less than 10 minutes to better mental health starts now!
Why do we get nervous before taking a chance? Is there anything we can do to calm our nerves? Listen this week and learn how we can turn our nerves, our doubts, our fears, into excitement! We CAN control our thoughts. Your mind wants to always take the path of least resistance. Your mind wants you to stay in your comfort zone. But if you are itching to learn how to step out of your comfort zone, join me this week for some mind stretching exercises to help you do jus that!
We are living in very uncertain times. Daily we are finding out about more and more activities that have been cancelled and although we cannot control what is happening around us, we can control our own actions and our own thoughts. But we need to remember there is one thing that no one can cancel —and that is LOVE. In this week’s podcast I ask you to stretch your mind and look at ways we can all use LOVE in the coming weeks to “control the controllables”. Learn how to use the most important virtue of all-LOVE-to help you combat feelings of anxiousness or stress you may be having. We will get through this and LOVE will be the answer.
This week we explore the quote “The relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have”. Listen and ask yourself 3 questions which will reveal a lot about the relationship you have with yourself. Learn how we teach others how to treat us and how we can make ourselves a priority and in return enhance our relationships. Spend less than 9 minutes on YOU and begin to stretch your mind to better mental health.
Wait, Breathe. Trust…can you do this? Most of us can’t. We’ve lost our patience or we’ve never had it to begin with. We live in a society where we can get almost anything instantaneously or with very little wait. And while it has its advantages, the disadvantage is we’ve forgotten how to practice patience. But the old adage “Good things come to those who wait” is still true. Listen this week and learn the power of patience.
Do your thoughts drive you crazy? “If it’s out of your hands it deserves freedom from your mind” is this week’s quote. Listen and learn how to do just that—let go of thoughts that are not helping your well being. We do have control over our thoughts, but until we understand how to recognize and release thoughts that are out of our hands, we will continue to allow them to consume us with worry. Spend less than 10 minutes of your day and improve your mental capacity by learning how to free yourself from thoughts you no longer want in your life.
On this week’s podcast we stretch our minds around a quote from Oprah,…”Your Life is always speaking to you. The fundamental spiritual question is: will you listen?”. But how do we know when our life is speaking to us? How can we listen if we are not aware of what it is telling us? I’ll walk you through some exercises which will answer these questions and more. You’ll learn how to distinguish between what your life is trying to tell you and what you are feeling. You hold the key to your life happiness. Spend less than 9 minutes to listen and learn more.
Did you know the world is full of unlimited abundance? How amazing is that? Abundance is everywhere and this week we stretch our minds and think about all the abundance that is around us every minute of every day. Listen and explore how we can change our mindset and learn to tap into the abundance that is all around us.
In this week’s podcast I teach how our Ego plays a big part of how we think and ultimately feel. I give you some questions to begin stretching your mind and have you think about how often you may, without even knowing it, be reacting because of your Ego vs. learning to respond with your soul. Take less than 10 minutes for YOU and take a listen. Your soul with thank you.
We are faced with many decisions throughout our day. And, you probably have never really thought about if your decisions are allowing you to evolve or simply repeat old patterns. In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and learn how in any given situation you have the choice…YOU get to decide if YOU are going to continue in a pattern that is not what you want but you continue it out of habit, or if you are going to make more conscious decisions that will help you evolve to be the person you want to be. Take a few minutes for your mental well being and take a listen!
Listen and learn this week how almost all our feelings are caused by our thoughts and how we DO have control over them. We will stretch our minds and look back at past feelings we have had and how we can trace it back to our thoughts. I will give you examples of how you can use this concept everyday to gain more peace in your life. Make your mental health stronger and take a listen!
Thera are numerous quotes around the “grass is greener” concept but have you noticed the grass is always greener where it’s been watered? We are responsible for watering our own grass, but how often do you feel frustrated because your grass may not be as green as someone else’s? Have you ever given any thought into how often you water your own grass? Listen this week and learn how easy it is to do this and the benefit of doing so.
This week I talk about the possibilities and advantages of stepping out of our comfort zones and breathing in fresh, clean air. It’s scary for many people to even think about doing this because we’ve been conditioned to believe it’s much safer to stay where we are. Once we realize the fear is in our head, we can begin to look at leaving as an exciting opportunity to grow. Listen this week and learn how to push through your fears and become like a beautiful butterfly who has left the safety of its cocoon and has learned to fly.
It’s a New Year and a new decade. Join me this week as we look back over the past year and recall how many times we made excuses, usually blaming others, for the circumstances in our life. Begin to understand how when we do this, we are allowing others to have control over our happiness. Learn how you can move forward—eliminating excuses and take responsibility for your life. Take time for you and take a listen! You can make 2020 your best year yet.
In this week’s podcast I talk about the conversations we have with ourselves everyday. These conversations, these thoughts are the basis of how we feel about ourselves and determine our future. They are the foundation for our relationships with others. We are in control of our thoughts and we can use them to either tear us down or lift us up. Begin to stretch your mind; listen and learn how to have healthier thoughts about yourself. Take time for YOU. Less than 10 minutes to better mental health begins now!
Do you put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket? In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about why you do this and I give you perspective on how you can stop and be happy now, regardless of what else is going on in your life. We each hold the key to our happiness. We choose our attitude and our mood at any given moment. Listen and learn how you can gain more peace in your day by taking control of your own happiness.
in 1965 Burt Bacharach wrote a classic song called What the World Needs Now and the lyrics to that song are just as relevant now as they were back then. This week I encourage you to stretch your mind around some of the lyrics in this song. How do you give and receive love? Do you only show love to those you care about? Do you believe everyone, regardless of their religious or political views deserve love? Everyday we are faced with many choices and we have control over whether we choose love in any given situation. Give yourself 8 minutes of mind stretching exercise and take a listen. You deserve love and you deserve to take the time for YOU.
What are your thoughts on forgiveness? Do you only apologize when you feel you have done something wrong? Are you quick to forgive or do you hold on to experiences where you have been hurt by others? This week we explore some different takes on forgiveness and we learn how letting things go is not condoning someone’s actions but rather it is helping us move on and be happier. Open your mind and give yourself 9 minutes for your mental health. Your happiness is up to you!
Thanksgiving is a time when we all count our blessings but what if we made a conscience choice to count our blessings more? We have so much to be thankful for and yet we often forget about the little things when we count our blessings. Listen this week and be reminded of the day to day, often overlooked items we can add to our gratitude list. You deserve to take time out for YOU and listen.
When we hear a “no” we feel rejected, angry and we are understandably upset. But what if that “no” is happening for us? What if we looked at the “no” as an opportunity because a better “yes” is down the road? In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about how you perceive a “no”. I’ll challenge you to think back to a time when a “no” did turn into a better “yes”. Take time for you and listen for less than nine minutes. Learn how to start taking control when you hear a “no” and how to move forward to get a better “yes”!
This week’s podcast teaches us that unless we save lives for a living, we don’t need to kill ourselves getting things done or proving our point to others. What would happen if we stopped killing ourselves and slowed down and enjoyed our life more? I challenge you to take out your mental mat and for the next nine minutes, listen, stretch your mind and learn how you can decide if your peace of mind is worth the stress and overwhelm you put on yourself.
In this week’s podcast we stretch our minds around the quote “Your Life is Your Story. Write Well. Edit Often”. What story do you tell yourself and others? Do you know you can change your story whenever you want to? You are the author of your story, you control the story you tell. Is there something in your past you’d like to forget—edit it out of your story. Learn how you can write your story to serve you better. You don’t have to keep telling yourself the same story over and over again. When we write well and edit often, we empower ourselves. Our stories become who we are. Listen for the next nine minutes and learn how to edit your story to benefit YOU!
In this week’s podcast we stretch our minds around the quote “If it costs you your peace, it’s too expensive”. What do we spend on our thoughts and time on and how can we learn to have more peace in our day? Take out your mental mat and start stretching your mind. This nine minute workout will be worth your time and you may decide what you learn is priceless!
In this week’s podcast we will stretch our minds and think about all we put on our plates in a day and consider the concept of having more time without rushing around getting everything done. I will encourage you to stretch your mental muscle and be open to slowing down in order to see how much life you do have time for. Take time for YOU for the next 9 minutes and take a listen.
How do we live less out of habit and more out of intent? In this week’s podcast we will stretch our minds and consider how we can do this. It’s easy to fall back into old habits but when we live with intent we will find more commitment to ourselves and others. Take 8 1/2 minutes right now for YOU! Listen and learn how you can achieve doing this and it is not as hard as you may think.
Do you believe people can change? And, if not, why not? In this week’s podcast we get out our mental mats and uncover why we may think some people can change and not others. We will stretch our minds and consider if we have changed at all through the years. Spend just 8 minutes on your mental health and take a listen.
In this week’s episode we stretch our minds and think about what we would attempt to do if we knew we would not fail. Why do we let fear hold us back? How can we forge forward when we are overcome by fear? Listen and learn how you can achieve your dreams when you put your fears aside and forge forward.
If you fear or dread change, this episode is for you! As a new season is upon us, I will encourage you this week to look at Autumn as the season that teaches us change can be beautiful! Whether you are a die hard lover of summer or you embrace the changing of seasons, listen and learn how to stretch your mind and look at change from a different perspective.
In this week’s Mind Yoga Quick Quotes episode we will stretch our minds and think about soul talk; deep conversations with others and how we feel after them and what is keeping us from having more. We have so many ways to communicate but yet with these forms of communication we are not often allowing our souls to connect. Listen and find out how you can have more meaningful conversations and how you can feed your soul and connect with others on a deeper level.
What do you fear? In this week’s episode I talk about our fears and how we can overcome our fears when we realize they are just thoughts in our mind. We often trust our fears, when we should instead be recognizing our strengths. Get out your mental mat and learn how to leave your comfort zone and the possibilities that await you when you do. Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength!
We all have wounds that still need to heal. But did you know mental wounds are just like physical wounds in the sense that we have to stop touching them to let them heal? In this week’s episode our quote to ponder is “To Heal a Wound you have to Stop Touching It”. Wise words but hard to do sometimes. We know and can see the effects of touching a physical wound. We watch it become irritated and not heal quickly. Listen this week as we talk about how our mental wounds can be healed the same as our physical ones; if we stop touching them and we stretch our minds to figure out how we can do this.
Are you the type of person who likes to have the last word? Do you think if you don’t, you are letting the other person get away with something? In this week’s episode I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about whether you want to waste your energy on having the last word. I’ll help you understand that not having the last word may not be a weakness but rather it is a strength that we can use to our advantage.
Do you put off making progress because you are too worried about making sure the result will be “perfect”? In this week’s podcast I talk about why we do this and I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about what your definition of perfection is. You may be surprised at what you discover about yourself and you may learn to make some progress and not worry so much about perfection.
We all have negative thoughts that creep up into our mind at times but how can we control them better? In this week’s episode I encourage you to think about how often you allow negative thoughts into your brain and I share ways to remove them from running your day. You can be in control of your thoughts. Listen for the next seven minutes and find out how.
This week we will stretch our minds on this quote. What story do you currently tell about your life? We’ll look at what we tell others and ourselves about our life. We will envision what we want our life to be like and we will examine whether we are living our life accordingly in order to get it. Invest 10 minutes in a healthy mindset and take a listen!
Listen this week and learn why we do not have to wear our Superman or Wonder Woman cape all day long. We’ll stretch our minds and begin to realize how these fictional characters were not “saving the day” all day long, and how we don’t have to either. Think you have to do it all? Think again. Take 9 minutes and begin exercising your mind for optimal mental health.
Expectations—we all have them of others, but what do we expect from ourselves? When we put expectations on others, why are we often disappointed? This week we will stretch our minds and think about both the expectations we put on others and on ourselves. How can we start to expect less and be happy more? Listen and find out!
This weeks podcast looks at this quote and takes listeners through some mental exercises to understand why we do this, the time and energy we waste doing this and how to stop. Take 8 1/2 minutes for YOU and take a listen.
In this week’s podcast I ask whether anyone has ever, in the history of mankind said Life is going to be fair? We all know life is not fair; yet we all still get upset when we feel an injustice has been done on ourself or someone we care about. How do we stop letting the injustices in the world get to us? How do we find peace when things don’t appear to be fair? Take out your mental mat and listen for the next 10 minutes. Stretch your mind and build some mental muscle!
This weeks I replay an earlier podcast on this great quote from Theodore Roosevelt. This week I will encourage you to stretch your mind and think about how when we compare ourselves to others, we often feel bad about ourselves and we rarely feel joy. But, there is another way you can think about your own life and others, a key that can unlock many a closed door for you. Spend 6 minutes on yourself and take a listen.
n this week’s podcast I use a quote from another Life Coach, Tiffany Ann Beverlin who posted recently “Everything in life is about priorities. Where do you want to be 10 years from now?” I encourage you this week to stretch your mind and think not just about your priorities and your future; but also about your mental budget. Do you spend any time getting your mind in shape in order for your priorities and your future plans to be fulfilled? Invest just 10 minutes right now on your mental health and take a listen.
In this weeks Mind Yoga podcast we stretch our minds and think about what we want vs what we have. . It’s ok to want things, but do you really appreciate all you have? How can we remember all we have more and still strive for more without being greedy? Give yourself the gift of the next nine minutes to listen and find out more.
In this week’s podcast I will encourage you to stretch your mind and consider how often you worry about what others are doing. Most of us do this, but why? This week’s quote is perfect for dissecting and figuring out why. Get out your mental mat and join me in some Mind Yoga and bring more peace to your day.
In this week’s podcast we learn to understand how to identify the energy we and others are giving off and determine how we want to spend our energy. We encounter people and situations everyday that can either drain us or lift us up. Stretch your mind for 7 minutes and learn how you can decide when something is worth your energy, and when it is best to let it go.
"We don’t create abundance, abundance is always present. We create limitations”. Do you agree with this statement? In this weeks podcast I talk about abundance and encourage you to stretch your mind and think about this quote. Abundance is Everywhere, but why do we not realize this? Listen and explore how we can change our mindset and learn to tap into the abundance that is all around us.
“We rarely get lost taking the high road” a friend said to me recently. This quote stood out from others about taking the high road because it referred to the possibility of getting lost. I never really thought about it before, but we do get lost when we react to a situation vs responding to it. We wander away from the person we want to be or become. Give yourself the mental exercise you deserve and take a listen.
How often do you put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket? Most of us do this more than we realize or even care to admit. When we rely on others for our happiness we are usually frustrated and disappointed. How do we take back our key? Join me this week for some mind stretching exercises and learn how to get the key to your happiness back on your own keychain!
What’s your story? We all tell stories from our past, but is the story you telling hurting our helping you? We can rewrite our story. Yes the past is over, but we can rewrite it and make our next chapter better. Join me this week sas we stretch our minds and think about how we can do this.
What is Good Karma and how do we get it? This weeks podcast is dedicated to my dog “Karma” who passed away this week. She taught me a lot about Karma and we are going to stretch our minds, learn some lessons and think about our own Karma and how we can generate more Good Karma. Spend 10 minutes and join me on a Good Karma Crusade. You deserve to treat yourself!
We’ve all heard this expression countless times. But have you ever really thought about your words and your actions towards others? We could have the best intentions with our words but our actions may not be demonstrating this. In this week’s episode I give examples and encourage you to stretch your mind and really look within to whether your actions are reflecting your words.
We talk to ourselves all day long, with our thoughts. And, what we tell ourselves has an impact on our life. Have you ever really taken an inventory of what you tell yourself? In this weeks podcast we will stretch our minds and think about this. “What you tell yourself everyday will either life you up or tear you down”. Spend the next 10 minutes and listen how you can life yourself up more and how to get rid of thoughts that tear you down.
This week’s quote is about the control we give to others when we are angry with them. It is totally normal to get mad at others, but when we stew in our anger, when we give our precious time discussing with others what someone said or did to anger us, we are giving them control over us. Learn how to have more peace and be in control of YOU.
HALT is an acronym that stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. In this week’s podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about referring to this acronym before you make any decisions. If you are one of the four adjectives, or a combination of them, then HALT. Do not take action, until you take care of yourself first. An important lesson that can help us gain more clarity and lead a more peaceful life.
“We need to get along with others even though we disagree with others”. In this weeks podcast we stretch our minds and really think about why we often have a hard time doing this. Why, when others do not agree with us, do we have such a hard time accepting this fact and moving forward? Listen and learn how we can we get along with others that don’t share our viewpoint. It’s not as hard as you may think and it’s all totally up to you—you hold the Power!
Byron Katie said recently in an interview I was listening to “We’re mentally running the world and we’re asleep to our own”. This quote made me think about how often our thoughts are about others. How often our mental energy is not focused on us, and instead is being wasted on things out of our control. Take time for YOU, listen and do some Mind Yoga on learn how to get back some of your wasted mental energy.
We all have habits. Some are good habits, some are bad habits. Some are voluntary, some are involuntary. But have you stopped to think about how your habits determine your future? In this week's podcast we will stretch our minds and think about this more. Make it a habit to start listening and learn how you can have the future you want. Make it a habit to focus on YOU>
Do you take care of everyone else and have no time left for taking care of yourself? In this weeks podcast I encourage you to stretch your mind and take some time to think about why this is. “You can’t say yes to everything and not say yes to taking care of yourself. To not say Yes to health” by Shonda Rhimes is this weeks quote. Put your health first and listen for the next 8 minutes.
Sometimes it’s not just physical weight but mental weight we need to lose. We are often unaware of how our thoughts weigh us down and this week I’ll ask some questions to stretch your mind and get you to uncover thoughts that weigh you down? Want to lose weight this week? Listen for the next few minutes and find out how!
How often are your thoughts about things in the past or the future? Are you able to be in the present moment and enjoy where you are, right now? Whether you are constantly running around and too busy to focus on where you are now, or if you don’t like to think about where you are now, this podcast will get you to stretch your mind and encourage you to make friends with the present moment. We all can benefit from taking time out for ourselves, spend the next eight minutes doing just that and be in the moment!
In this weeks podcast we look at our problems and learn ways we can not only decide if they are big or small to us, but also how we want to look at them. We’ll stretch our minds and think about what we consider a problem now and what we thought was a problem in our past. We get to choose how we look at situations and we get to decide how we perceive our problems. But we can change our thoughts about a situation by looking at it from a different view.
How often do you spend trying to change someone else? Are you able to believe and accept the fact that the only person you can change is yourself? A friend of mine recently said “I can’t change it, I can only do my best with it” when talking about a family members personality trait. This attitude and recognition is so important if we want to lead a more peaceful life. Listen to this weeks podcast and stretch your mind to think about this and how you can bring more peace to your life by adopting this mantra when dealing with others.
“If it’s none of your business, don’t make it your business” is this weeks Mind Yoga Quick Quote. I’ll talk about and encourage you to stretch your mind and really think about how often we give our opinion when not even asked and why we use the excuse “I was just trying to help”. Once we can become aware of how often we try to help others when we were not asked to, and once we can start to “mind our own business”, we will learn to have more peace in our lives.
Do you think people can't change after a certain age? We CAN change if we WANT to change. There is no age limit on improvement. Take a small step or a huge leap—the choice is yours to make.
“Take Control Instead of Losing Control” is this weeks quick quote. Do you find yourself losing the ability to think and act rationally? Do you lose your temper more than you care to admit? In this week’s episode I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about why…why do we let things get the best of us and how can we have more control of our lives? We can’t control others but we CAN control ourselves. Learn how you can do this and have more peace in your life.
“As we begin 2019 let’s leave our excuses in 2018”. It’s a New Year and time for a fresh start. In this week’s episode I talk about excuses and how we can’t move forward when we use excuses. We all use them, but how can we stop from doing so? Join me as I ask some mind stretching questions to get you thinking about how often you use excuses and the benefits of taking responsibility for our lives.
FORGIVENESS! It’s so important and we have total control whether we choose to forgive someone, but we often don’t. Why? Why can’t we move on and forgive others? As we begin a New Year, let’s try to forgive others (including ourselves) and start the New Year with a clean slate. In this week’s podcast I rebroadcast a previous episode on forgiveness and I also ask you if you can’t forgive someone, how can you expect others to forgive you? We all need forgiveness—we all have hurt people and not realized it. Forgiveness cleanses our soul and helps us to grow. Start now by getting out your Mental Mat and listening for the next few minutes.
This week’s podcast is a re-broadcast of an earlier Mind Yoga Quick Quotes and is one I got the most feedback on. Everyone Loves LOVE! And because during the holiday season, we tend to spend more time with those we love, I thought it appropriate to re-play and get our minds stretched some more on this subject. Listen and start exercising your mind and may your holiday season be filled with many moments with those you LOVE.
Our minds are so powerful and yet we often don’t give a second thought to our thoughts. Without a conductor, a train will become a runaway train, and our mind is similar. We CAN learn to keep it on track and avoid disaster. It takes practice and patience. Listen this week and give your mind a mental workout. I’ll ask some warm up questions to get your mind stretched so you can start exercising your most important muscle—your Mind!
In this weeks podcast I talk about our Ego’s and how our Ego plays a big part of how we think and ultimately feel. I give you some questions to begin to stretch your mind and think about how often you may, without even knowing it, be responding because of your Ego vs your Soul. Take seven minutes for your mental health and listen.
Eleanor Roosevelt said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. This week we take a deep dive into this quote and really begin to uncover why this is true. People say things and we feel all different feelings based on what they said, but it is not what they said, but how we think about what they said, that makes us feel a certain way. Take out your Mental Mat and get ready to stretch your mind!
“Closed Minds never open New Doors”. In this weeks podcast I discuss the benefits of having an open mind and I encourage you to stretch your mind and think about if you do or not. We often think we do, but there may be areas in your life where your mind is closed and you don’t even realize it. When are minds are open, we can receive more. Listen and start your mental workout for the day!
We have so many things to be thankful for and we often overlook the obvious. This week I give you a list of some things to be thankful for that may surprise you.
Are you a worry wart? Do you spend time worrying about things you have no control over? Do you worry about not just yourself, but others too? In this week’s episode I’ll talk about worrying and how 99% of what you worry about never happens. Listen for 7 minutes, stretch your mind and learn how to have more peace in your life.
This weeks quote is from the song Your Life is Now by John Melloncamp. It's a reminder how if we stop playing victim and change our mindset, we can change our lives. Your mental health is just as important as your physical health but why do we not workout our minds like we do our bodies? Listen for just 8 minutes and see how you can begin to think differently, once you are aware of what you are thinking about.
‘When you replace ‘Why is this Happening to me?’ with ‘What is this trying to Teach me?’, Everything Shifts”. This week’s episode talks about how we can learn to use moments of frustration, when we think or say out loud “Why is this happening to me?” to our benefit and once we dive into what the circumstance is that creates this response in us, we can then figure out the lesson we should be learning.