Why Mindfulness Is Vital For A Healthy Life: Bruce Langford – Ep. 255
“Mindfulness is being aware of your thoughts, why you’re doing what you’re doing, it’s about living in the moment, realizing that you’re okay and enjoying life at the same time. It’s about realizing that you don’t have to be focused on the past or the future. Of course, you can think about them once in a while; we’re not going to ignore things that happened and not learn from them but the problem is that sometimes we focus way too much on what has happened in the past or worry way too much about what might help in the future. Mindfulness is focusing on the moment and being aware of your thoughts.” – Bruce Langford
This week, I am joined by Host of the Mindfulness Mode Podcast, Speaker, and Co-Author of Cracking The Success Code, Bruce Langford. I learned about him via the Growth Now Movement and I was so inspired by his talk on self-love that I knew I had to bring him on the show to share what he knows.
Even though we’re all so set on just nutrition and exercise, self-love and mindfulness are vital factors for our health as well.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn all about:
- Why fitness and nutrition are such a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to being healthy.
- Why people have such a hard time why they’re bullying others or not taking care of themselves enough.
- The fact that we’re all being bullies to ourselves and how we can change that by how we deal with it.
- Focusing on being quiet with yourself and what really matters to you and how to deal with your emotions.
- How he helps people who struggle with or are afraid of meditation and sitting still with their feelings.
- Why we should choose to be happy now rather than seek it or see it as an accomplishment because we will never have this moment in our lives again.
Cracking The Success Code
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How to Crack The Success Code is a task that humanity has reflected on from time immemorial. The sages and philosophers of every generation have pursued this question with unrelenting determination because everybody is looking for the answer – regardless of their field. So, who has the answer? Has this book found the “Silver Bullet?” The answer to this eternal enigma may vary for each one of us according to our definition of success.
However, in this book, these Celebrity Experts(r) render their conclusions based on their proven experiences and core principles. Their answers are based on their firsthand knowledge versus academic hypotheses or philosophical assumptions. So, if you decided to learn more about success and achievement in your world, where would YOU look for the answers?
The “nuggets of wisdom” that the Celebrity Experts(r) in this book offer us look at a world that is new and unfamiliar economic territory for us all. They have “been there and done it.” They provide practical answers to these questions. Brian Tracy, for example, looks at changes that the business world and culture have experienced over the past hundred years, and, based on his knowledge and wide experience, projects how people will need to think and perform in the future to achieve success.
This kind of visionary thought will enlighten and guide those who wish to achieve successful or outstanding accomplishments. We are therefore left with the options of spending our lives trying to “reinvent the wheel” on our own, or we can use the proven experience of people like these Celebrity Experts(r) to Crack The Success Code for us. Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
About Bruce Langford
Bruce Langford became an entrepreneur in 2003 when shocked by the bullying he observed, he transitioned from being a teacher to a full-time advocate of bullying prevention. He founded the company, ‘Stand Up Now’ to share the message that respect can replace bullying. Bruce is also the host of the podcast, ‘Mindfulness Mode’ where his goal is to share how mindfulness can increase calm, focus and happiness for everyone, and ultimately reduce bullying.
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1:15 Opening comments with Rob and Devon
9:30 About our guest today – Bruce Langford
11:00 His life story and how he’s now helping people bring more self-love into their life.
13:00 Why fitness and nutrition are such a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to being healthy.
14:20 The connection between loving ourselves and loving other people.
16:00 His own experience with bullying growing up and witnessing it first-hand and in his family.
20:00 How he found his actual voice after going to a voice therapist.
24:00 His life as a music teacher and how helping bullied students led him down a new path to full-time supporting them.
29:00 Why people have such a hard time why they’re bullying others or not taking care of themselves enough.
33:00 The fact that we’re all being bullies to ourselves and how we can change that by how we deal with it.
34:30 Focusing on being quiet with yourself and what really matters to you and how to deal with your emotions.
36:30 How he helps people who struggle with or are afraid of meditation and sitting still with their feelings.
37:50 It’s okay to have fear because fear is a part of being human.
41:00 His daily routines and habits that he’s created for himself.
42:00 Why cold showers and sensations including the Wim Hof method are good for the mind and body.
46:00 His other daily self-care practices including movement and nutrition.
51:00 What mindfulness actually means to him.
52:10 A healthy method to be aware of our thoughts, emotions, and worries.
54:20 Why we should choose to be happy now rather than seek it or see it as an accomplishment because we will never have this moment in our lives again.
55:00 Why happiness is not about the physical things we have in our life but about deciding to be happy.
58:50 Our job as humans to figure out what makes us happy.
1:06:00 Final comments with Rob and Devon.
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1:09:00 Open Sky Fitness Closing
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