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Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Mindfulness Mode episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Mindfulness Mode for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Mindfulness Mode episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Mindfulness Mode - Break The Good Girl Myth; Majo Molfino
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07/02/20 • 32 min

Majo Molfino guides women toward more power and meaning through her unique blend of storytelling, design, psychology, and mindfulness. She is the author of Break the Good Girl Myth (HarperCollins, July 28, 2020) and host of the HEROINE podcast featuring award-winning authors, artists, and entrepreneurs, including Isabel Allende, Eileen Fisher, Luvvie Ajayi, and Esther Perel. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, FastCoDesign, Man Repeller, Levo League, Career Contessa, and 99U. She has a Masters in Learning, Design, and Technology from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Cultural Studies from McGill University.

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  • “Mindfulness has allowed me to accept, embrace, and settle my emotions.”
Thoughts on Breathing
  • “Breathing is everything.”
  • “Sometimes when my mind is really busy, I take the Yogic approach because through breathing I start to settle the mind.”
Suggested Resources Bullying Story
  • “When I was 13, I was bullied. It was a hard time. I was a new kid and I wasn't accepted in the school. I was snow attacked in school and it was a horrible experience.”
  • “I wish I had had some mindfulness to support me in dealing with the sadness because the memory came up decades after in retreats in flashbacks.”
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Get Bruce Langford's free training called The Stand Up Now Blueprint. Are certain areas of your life a struggle? Do you ever feel overwhelmed with anxiety & stress? How would you like to enjoy more contentment and happiness? In this training, you'll learn 5 Simple Ways To Move From Struggling To Productive. You’ll begin to accomplish things that truly matter to YOU in your life. Get the Free training at: www.standupnowblueprint.com/register

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Mindfulness Mode - Black Lives Matter With Emmanuel Songsore
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06/29/20 • 56 min

Emmanuel Songsore is a friend, musician, husband, YouTuber, Research Administrator at Laurier University, he holds a Doctorate of Geography, and he has personality with a profound mindfulness quality as well as a great sense of humor. Emmanuel was born in Ghana, West Africa – a country about a quarter of the physical size of our region of Ontario, but with a population of nearly 30 million people, it’s comparable to the 37 million population of the entire country of Canada.

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  • My Canadian friend Steve
Effect on Emotions
  • Mindfulness has kept my emotions in check.
  • I grew up a very angry person with a lot of volatile tendencies but once I became a Christian and I really took scripture seriously and welcomed the Holy Spirit and empowered me to live right, everything changed.
Thoughts on Breathing
  • Breathing has become [more important]. I realize with my work schedule and all the craziness, sometimes I'm working at my desk and I think, am I really breathing. Then I pause and take a deep breath and then I realize I wasn't breathing. After that, the intensity of my breathing increases.
  • I've started running and when I'm running I pay more attention to my breathing.
Suggested Resources Bullying Story
  • I went to boarding school. The older students were in charge of punishing students who were defiant and a lot of them took advantage of that to bully people.
  • Once when it was time for bed after I used the washroom, one the of the older students saw me and decided to punish me. He made me sleep on the wood floor under his bed. Mindfulness then for me was to just ignore him and at that point not respond.
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Get Bruce Langford's training called The Stand Up Now Blueprint. Are certain areas of your life a struggle? Do you ever feel overwhelmed with anxiety & stress? How would you like to enjoy more contentment so you felt happy and relaxed? What would you do to bring more peace into your life? You'll learn 5 Simple Ways To Move From Struggling To Productive. You’ll feel like you’re accomplishing things that matter to YOU in your life. Go To www.MM.com/sunblueprint

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Mellissa Seaman is a Stanford educated lawyer turned intuitive business Strategist. She's the creator of Soul Gift Quiz which has helped thousands of people worldwide discover their deepest gift; to align with life fulfillment and business success. Fortune 100 executives hire her to help them become channels of genius to create products in the world in collaboration with the highest power to make sure they create things that matter.

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  • My daughter Clarice
Effect on Emotions
  • Mindfulness makes my emotions possible to live with. My emotions are big. I'm an emotional type. My emotions hold a lot of charge and a lot of intelligence.
  • Without mindfulness, my emotions feel like a crazy dragon ready to consume me. And with mindfulness I can ride that dragon and I can be the steward of that dragon and allow that dragon to take me where I need to go.
Thoughts on Breathing
  • Breathing is just the first touchstone. It's everything, you know, the breath is everything.
  • I've done a lot of breath work, especially when I was living at Harbin Hot Springs and helping to lead breath work events there. I became so much more aware of my breath and even now, as you mentioned my breath, I can feel like my breath is a little bit high because I'm eager, you know.
  • So it reminds me to just sort of let my belly soften and let my whole body soften and arrive even more, even in the midst of my eagerness to be with you.
Suggested Resources Bullying Story
  • What comes to mind for me is that I do work with a lot of parents of very intuitive kids and I call them dragon kids because sometimes these kids have so much energy in their bodies that they might get labeled as having some condition, whether it's ADHD or autism.
  • I'm not a doctor so I can't say what those things are and who's what and blah, blah blah. But I do notice that there are a movement of kids now who have so much much energy in their little tiny bodies, you know, like there's so such big spirits.
  • And when I work with the parents of those kids and occasionally with the kids directly, which is super fun too, a lot of what we do is to help those kids become more mindful. And we want them to have resources to become centered and to relax into their own invisible team.
  • A lot of those kids are actually very aware that they have guardian angels or imaginary friends or some force that they can listen to you when they're quiet in here.
  • Getting them back in touch with that, in my mind, is what can also help them in instances where they're being bullied for being big or for being out of control or whatever.
  • That invisible team is right there for them and they have a different reference point than just these kids were holding themselves as the authorities on the playground, which of course they're not.
  • They're just more kids looking for their own power, looking to hold power in a way that can feel safe to them. And so mindfulness, in addition to the intuitive gifts, acknowledging and welcoming intuitive gifts, I feel like be a huge benefit to especially the sensitive empathic supercharged dragon kids.
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Gary Leland is an online legend. He started his first online store in 1996 and started podcasting in 2004. He is passionate about fastpitch softball, and sports in general. He sells softball related merchandise online and has a podcast called The Gary Leland Show where he interviews interesting guests about business and marketing. Gary has his feet planted firmly on the ground and after meeting him in person at Podcast Movement 2016 in Chicago, I got the feeling he has a real sense of mindfulness, even if he might use other words to describe it.

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  • My mother. She taught me when something was over it was time to move on. She taught me not to hang on to stuff.
Effect on Emotions
  • I don't hold a lot of emotions because of it. (Mindfulness). I don't hold a lot of pain, or being upset, or being mad. I pretty much live my live without any of those strong emotions. I don't dislike anybody. I had somebody embezzle $385,000. from me a few years ago and I don't hold any animosity to them.

[show-notes-emotions]

Thoughts on Breathing
  • I'm not into breathing and don't know much about it. I sure it's great. Everybody that I heard talk about it told me it does wonders. Maybe I need to investigate it. At the moment I don't do any kind of breathing or meditation or anything like that. I just enjoy life.

[show-notes-breathing]

Suggested Resources
  • Book: No books to recommend.
  • App: Most of my apps are strictly for business.

[show-notes-resources]

Advice for Newbie

I only do things 80% of the way, and then I'm ready to go on to something else. I don't sit there and dwell on getting it to 100%. I really feel like 80% is good enough and all you have to be is good enough. You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be good enough. While that other person's working on that last 20%, I've done two 80's and I'm half way through with my third 80. The other 20 can happen over time. These are the refinements.

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Kelly Roach is an expert at helping you achieve your dreams. Before the age of 30, she handled hundreds of millions in assets for a fortune 500 company, managing teams across 17 locations and breaking sales records on a regular basis. Now she uses the power of mindset, mindfulness and gratitude to help others achieve success through her International coaching and consulting firm.

Kelly is also host and founder of Unstoppable Success Radio.

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  • Website: kellyroachcoaching.com
  • Podcast: Unstoppable Success Radio
Most Influential Person
  • Tony Robins
Effect on Emotions
  • It definitely makes me much more even keeled. Since I started meditating I would say that I am much better able to handle the ups and down's of life much more quickly and have a better response to them.
Thoughts on Breathing
  • I am one of those people who probably holds my breath and gets way too intense in the moment at times. I think for me the number one thing is when I catch myself holding my breath and being so over the top intense, just taking a deep breath and just slowing down and decompressing. Also walking away from things for a minute so that I can gain some perspective, then revisiting them is the way I have to handle that.
Suggested Resources
  • The Oprah Show: Super Soul Sunday Episodes By Oprah Winfrey
Advice for Newbie
  • I would say get started on doing what comes naturally to you. If you like to walk outside, go for a walk and instead of listening to the radio or listening to music just say for ten minutes I am going to get still and present and just count my blessings. Find something that is a match for your personality for what's most comfortable for you. Definitely give yourself an opportunity to take a couple minutes for reflection everyday in a way that feels right for you that incorporates in your life. It will absolutely have an affect on not only your success but also your happiness.
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As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

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Mindfulness Mode - Muse For Meditation; Ariel Garten
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08/01/24 • 30 min

Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur who empowers individuals with the Muse for meditation. Ariel is the co-creator of Muse, a brain-sensing headband designed to enhance meditation and mindfulness practices. Dedicated to empowering individuals to conquer mental barriers, Ariel helps people foster healthy, happy lives, and unlock their full potential.

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  • Michael Apollo (Michael is the Founder and President of Mindful Gateway Consulting and a leader in the field of mindfulness)
Effect On Emotions
  • Mindfulness helps me deal with my emotions very effectively. The first thing that comes to mind is a stubbornness that would come up in conflict with my husband.
  • The stubbornness would come up in two parts. I would need to be right and he would need to be right. That would create attention and a stubbornness sensation.
Thoughts On Breathing
  • Some people may not be aware of the relationship between breathing and their HRV, which is heart rate variability.
  • We know we want it to be high, but what does that mean? This phenomenon is called asinalsodal arrhythmia.
  • As you breathe in, your heart rate increases, and as you breathe out, your heart rate decreases. This happens because as you breathe in, your heart rate is increasing and increasing, and the compensatory mechanisms in your body at that point say oh no, our heart rate is going up; we need to make sure that we're managing our blood pressure.
  • We dilate our blood vessels to keep our blood pressure constant as our heart rate increases with the in-breath. Then, your vagus nerve kicks in to bring in your parasympathetic nervous system to try to calm your body down, and your heart rate decreases with your out-breath.
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Mindfulness Mode - From Bonham To Buddha; Clementine Moss
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02/15/24 • 45 min

Clementine Moss is a rock drummer and author of the book From Bonham to Buddha and Back. She is also a spiritual counselor and a nondenominational Minister at The Foundation for the Sacred Stream. Using the modalities of Depth Hypnosis, Applied Shamanism, Energy Medicine, Sound Healing, and Morphic Awakening techniques, Clem has an active healing practice. She is certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Conflict Resolution. A Vipassana meditator for over thirty years, her study and personal practice spans many traditions. Clem lives in San Francisco with music manager and musician Tim Moss and Henry the Pug. Her writing has appeared in Modern Drummer Magazine, Memoir Magazine, and other online publications.

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  • I have that observer within me that watches things rising and falling out falling now for a while. For many years in my life, I thought that mindfulness was so that we didn't have to feel our emotions anymore. We didn't have to be in that, I realized, is an ignorance within us. We're supposed to feel fully. But if I feel sorrow fully, but I don't say I am a sad person. It's two different things. Do I identify with the emotions? Or do I allow myself to feel it fully?
Thoughts On Breathing
  • Breathing is the great gift. The deep breath, the holding of the breath, the holding the bottom of the breath; all of those are wonderful techniques for us to turn on our parasympathetic nervous system to quiet the mind to let the body know it's safe.
  • So the thoughts of fear that are constantly rising from our physicality, quiet down, and we can access that awareness underneath all the thoughts.
Bullying Story
  • I was bullied in junior high school, I grew very quickly. I was five feet eight inches tall in junior high school. And I was the tallest student and was taller than some of my teachers. I was gawky and had goofy hair. So I came from an elementary school where I was the president of the Student Council was kind of this celebrated person.
  • And then I got into junior high school and got bullied by other girls. It was very painful and a big shock to me that people were cruel that way. And I retreated into myself and so, you know, that stays with you. It's fear, right? Fear of judgment. I think around that time that internal negative voice became a megaphone within me. And it's been something I've fought and tried to understand through my whole life.
  • Now, do I see a benefit of that experience? Quite a bit. It drove me to understanding myself in psychology and spiritual practice.
  • When you can feel another's pain, you can't bully them. And, and when you're bullied, you can see I can look at those girls, and I can see what they were afraid of. I can see where it was coming from. it. It opens empathy. It's only compassion that problems would solve.
Suggested Resources Related Episodes Are you experiencing anxiety & stress? I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing coach, and hypnotist helping fast-track people just like you to shed their inner bully and move forward with confidence. Book a Free Coaching Session to get you on the road to a more satisfying life, feeling grounded and focused. Email me at
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Mindfulness Mode - Mindfulness For Perpetual Hope; Dr. Rosalind Tompkins
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06/17/21 • 34 min

Dr. Rosalind Tomkins is the founder and president of Mothers in Crisis, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to linking families and communities together to provide networks of support and encouragement for families to live productively, empowered, hope-filled lives. Recognized as a Hopeologist®, she received a Doctorate of Humanities Degree from the Five-Fold Ministry Theological University in 2012, recognizing her as a Humanitarian for the work that she has done to end drug and alcohol addiction. She’s the author of several books including Nimble Anointed Words Empower, As Long As There is Breath In Your Body, There is Hope, and You Are Beautiful. She’s also a columnist for the Tallahassee Democrat Newspaper and resides in Tallahassee, Florida.

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  • Jesus
Effect on Emotions
  • My blood pressure has gone down and I've become more active, and am able to stretch. I always wanted to be able to do that. My breathing is better and I have more energy.
  • It's a wonderful state of being to have that sense of well-being and peace.
Thoughts on Breathing
  • Breathing is so very important. I've learned to listen to different music and sounds that have helped facilitate that.
  • I have been able to get into that rhythm and to lower the beats per minute that my heart pumps. A lot of times, if we could just stop and breathe, then everything else would change, the whole atmosphere would change.
  • The situation may not change but we would change in the situation, if we would just stop and breathe.
Suggested Resources Bullying Story
  • When you start talking about bullying and things of that nature, it automatically brings back memories of childhood and some of the situations that I have gone through as I was growing up in the south.
  • When I went to elementary school was when they desegregated the school system. I remember very clearly how my aunt was a school teacher and worked in one of the best schools in Pensacola and she brought me and my brother along with her so that we could be a part of that education.
  • I remember being pinched and called names as a kindergartener. If the teachers had been practicing mindfulness it would have made a big difference. They would have been able to have deescalated some of the rhetoric and then I would know that I would have had someone to talk to.
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Mary Ann Bohrer is a PR professional, communications specialist, and intuition advocate who has interviewed some of the most gifted intuitives in the world. She has also interviewed top scientists, psi researchers, academicians, and even a leading Catholic Archbishop regarding the topic of intuition. She shares her findings in her new book, “The Gift Within Us: Intuition, Spirituality and the Power of Our Own Inner Voice”. Mary Ann strongly believes that every one of us, regardless of religious affiliation, or whether they identify as religious at all, has access to this amazing and life-changing gift, simply by listening to our own inner voice.

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  • Archbishop Harry J. Flynn
Effect on Emotions
  • “I welcome all emotions. I think that if you try to compartmentalize yourself and only want the good things, you're not being really mindful.”
Thoughts on Breathing
  • “When you just focus on your breathing, it's probably the most spiritual experiences that you can have.”
Suggested Resources Bullying Story
  • “If you're with somebody that's harming you physically or emotionally, get out. Trust your intuition, consciousness, and your mindfulness because that person is just there to harm you.”
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Mindfulness Mode - Unlearning Silence; Elaine Lin Hering
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06/03/24 • 54 min

Elaine Lin Hering is the author of Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully. A facilitator, author, and speaker, Elaine helps organizations and individuals develop communication, collaboration, and conflict management skills. Her global experience spans six continents, and she has facilitated executive education at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Formerly the Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Elaine has worked with diverse groups, from BHP Billiton coal miners to senior leaders at the US Department of Commerce. Her clients include American Express, Chevron, Google, Nike, Novartis, PayPal, Pixar, and the Red Cross. Her upcoming book is set for release by Penguin in 2024.[show-notes-bio]

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  • Sora Kim (Mindfulness Coach)

[show-notes-influence]

Effect On Emotions
  • I learned a very expensive lesson at Harvard Law School: Emotions are valid. I did not know this from my family of origin.
  • Mindfulness is the awareness of how I am feeling. What emotions are coming up? Can I give them names? Can I label them? Can I interact with them?
  • But any of that action first requires awareness.

[show-notes-emotions]

Thoughts On Breathing
  • We should breathe regularly. Yeah. And deeply. And intentionally, right, the breathing exercises I've learned from my own therapist have helped me. It's nothing novel; four counts in, four counts out. As a singer, we always talked about breathing from the diaphragm rather than the shallow breath. And that's really similar to mindfulness breathing exercises.
  • Again, the question to me is, why don't we do this more often, even if we know it is good for us? Even if we have experienced the positive impacts of the habit of breathing right, according to the pace around us.
  • And that's the opportunity for each of us to choose.
Bullying Story
  • As a parent, I've had conversations about whether my kindergartener is being bullied or is the bully. Bullying is all about impact, regardless of intention. Take the kid who took a pencil to my son's head; the narrative was he wanted to play but didn't know how to approach safely.
  • Bullying fascinates me because it's a disconnect between intention and impact. We often focus on our good intentions, saying, "That's not what I meant." But that doesn't absolve the negative impact or damage done to the recipient.
  • Mindfulness, to me, is aligning good intentions with awareness of their impact on others. Are you receptive to feedback, whether it’s someone saying "I'm hurt" or being silent? How do you reconcile your intentions with the actual impact? This intentionality is deeply interconnected with mindfulness.
    [show-notes-breathing]
Suggested Resources
  • Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully
  • Book: Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn by Omkari L. Williams and Layla F. Saad
  • App: The note-taking app on my phone
    [show-notes-resources]
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Nourishing Your Truth and Finding Your Voice; Shauna Reiter

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