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Of Dragons and Mindfulness

One day there will be no
more dragons…

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Mindfulness Can Help You Slay Your Dragons and Come to Terms with It…

Dear [fname]:

A short snippet from Michael’s Interview:

I was having breakfast with Supercoach, Michael Neill the other day and we got
to talking about our thought-experienced reality among many other things. And I
remembered this great story which came out of his interview for the movie and
wanted to share it with you:

“I had a client once, business client, and he said to me, I think it was two
weeks before the first session and the second session, and he came back for the
second session and said – what did you do to me? I said what do you mean?

He said, I have been biting my nails for 20 years, I have tried hypnosis, I have
tried CBT, I have tried all these things, I am not biting on my nails, I can’t
even get myself to bite my nails, what did you do? I said, well we can agree
that I didn’t do anything because I didn’t know you bit your nails, you didn

206,000 plus views and 40 Hours Left to Help

“My Thoughts are Just Not Me”

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We are is full swing production, looking at early June for rough cuts

Dear [fname]:

“I think that the best part of the program was just recognizing that my thoughts
are not me, that the thing of really detaching myself from my thoughts and just
becoming more aware of them, I think was just huge. Before it was just very
automatic, kind of just on auto-pilot, right? And letting my thoughts control,
it was really driven a lot, my stress is really a result of my thoughts just
fearing about the future, deadlines, and just a lot of the what-ifs, and it made
me more aware that I was having the thoughts. It was just so much of who I was
that I didn’t even, it just took control of me, but after becoming aware of that
I was able to kind of detach from it and just really focus on the moment and it
became less overwhelming. Say okay, I can only deal with the now and that just
almost muted the worry because I can’t worry about the future.” Yvette Chen,
Anal

Looking IN with Mindfulness

Mindfulness Helps Us Look In and See More Clearly

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The Ten Paradoxes of Mindfulness and an interview with
Dan Siegel, M.D.

Dear [fname]:

The ten paradoxes of mindfulness:

Donald Altman and I are working on a new series of books on the ten paradoxes of
mindfulness. In this parable, you’ll follow three travelers on an exotic journey
to find mindfulness. They “accidentally” encounter an unusual mindfulness
instructor on an unforgettable night filled with captivating experiences and ten
significant mindfulness lessons. Along the way, you’ll get your appetite whet
for the next book when they bring their children back to share the experience
and discover a whole new adventure.

Paradox 1: Act. React. But, Never Try

We’re at our best when, instead of swimming against the tide, we go with the
flow. Unfortunately that isn’t always easy. When we are mindful, we become less
likely to be carried away by the riptide of our mindless unconscious reactions.
Our past conditioning s

Mindfulness Improves College Testing Ability

Mindfulness Training Helps College Students

Association for Psychological Science:

As if the stress-relieving, healthifying effects of mindfulness weren’t enough,
a new study shows it could actually help students perform better on tests by
boosting their memory and reading comprehension skills.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows that
mindfulness training could help college students do better on the verbal
reasoning part of the GRE (Graduate Record Examination, an admissions test
commonly used for graduate school).

“Our results suggest that cultivating mindfulness is an effective and efficient
technique for improving cognitive function, with widereaching consequences,” the
researchers, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote in the
study…

Corporate Mindfulness and Your Work

Featured Story:
Corporate Mindfulness

Many people think of mindfulness as diametrically opposed to business, but only
until they see the overwhelming evidence of mindfulness’ benefits in all aspects
of business: innovation, productivity, health, collaboration, negotiation, etc.
Many companies that have realized the advantages of mindfulness training
encourage employees to center themselves during the day using various relaxation
techniques. Some businesses even institute mandatory retreats and mindfulness
breaks during the workday.

[2]Chapter 29 in The Ten Paradoxes: The Science of Where’s My Zen? (free
download click here) presents evidence of the positive effects of Mindfulness
(or what the ancient masters have called No Mind) and Business. Some of the
studies presented here may aid the implementation of mindfulness in your career
or business…

Trailer Hits 100,000 views

Over 100,000 views and climbing

Featured Expert:
Donald Altman, LPC

We have had screening requests from all over the world. The Mindfulness Movie
FaceBook Group page has tripled in the last few weeks.

Powerful Mindfulness TEEN Program

Powerful Mindfulness Teen Program

Featured Clip: UCSD Center for Mindfulness Teen Program

These teens are amazing and its really quite enjoyable to listen to their
dialogue of how mindfulness has helped them with anxiety, stress, depression,
bi-polar disorder and generally just getting a good grip on life! They will be
one of the featured narratives in the movie.

Mindfulness Good for Depression

NHS Recognition of Mindfulness

Featured Article: NHS recognises that mindfulness meditation is good for
depression

Scientists have now discovered how mindfulness meditation can give patients
control over levels of depression, anxiety and chronic pain, says Mia Hansson

Dan Millman Peaceful Warrior

An Interview with DAN MILLMAN

We wanted to share some of the great insights from our esteemed list of experts
being featured in the upcoming film, The Mindfulness Movie. So, now and then,
we’ll be releasing raw footage of exclusive interviews as we edit them. Here’s
our first release. Enjoy! And we hope you’ll be encouraged to participate in
sponsorship of the movie and enjoy great perks with your choice of
sponsorship level!

DAN MILLMAN; is a former world champion gymnast, college professor, and martial
arts instructor. His books have inspired more than three million readers in 29
languages.

In 2006, his first book, Way of the Peacefu Warrior, was adapted to
a film, “Peaceful Warrior,” with Nick Nolte, distributed by Lionsgate Films and
released by Universal Pictures in 2007…

Raw Footage

New Release…

An Interview with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

We wanted to share some of the great insights from our esteemed list of experts
being featured in the upcoming film, The Mindfulness Movie. So, now and then,
we’ll be releasing raw footage of exclusive interviews as we edit them. Here’s
our first release. Enjoy! And we hope you’ll be encouraged to participate in
[1]sponsorship of the movie and enjoy great perks with your choice of
sponsorship level!

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.; neuropsychologist, author of [2]Buddha’s Brain (published
in 22 languages). Dr. Hanson’s work has [3][jpeg] been featured on the BBC, NPR,
Consumer Reports Health, and U.S. News and World Report.

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built
essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their
brains in ways that changed history.

With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from
thousands of years of…