212 Transforming Lives With The Kindness Diaries Host, Leon Logothetis

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer. He left behind the life of a stockbroker to break new ground and experience new discoveries. He’s now visited more than 50 countries and traveled to every continent on the planet. When anybody says the word kindness, I literally think of Leon - He’s the host of a terrific TV series called ‘The Kindness Diaries’, which has the subtitle; One Man’s Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World. Before that, he had a show called the 'Amazing Adventures Of A Nobody', which follows Leon on his adventures travelling in America, The UK, and Europe on just $5, $5 pounds or $5 Euros a day. The bottom line is, Leon is all about kindness and helping others and of course that connects directly to the subject of mindfulness. Contact Info Website: www.LeonLogothetis.com Show: The Kindness Diaries TV Show: http://www.leonlogothetis.com/netflix/ Book: The Kindness Diaries by Leon Logothetis Social Media: Facebook / Twitter / Instagram: Leon Logothetis or Kindness Diaries Most Influential Person A teacher I went with on a journey to India a couple of years ago. [show-notes-influence] Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has affected my emotions by enabling me to become more balanced and more centered. And by enabling me to make better decision and not be so reactive. Thoughts on Breathing I never really realized the importance of breathing until I started doing mindfulness. Often we forget, it sounds silly, but we forget to breathe. I notice now as I give this talk, I'm actually breathing very shallowly. That's not good. When I breathe as fully as possible, it kind of invigorates me. Breathing is a really powerful and important part of mindfulness. Suggested Resources Book:The Kindness Diaries by Leon Logothetis Book: Find a starter course book on Mindfulness on Amazon App: Buddhify (All about meditation) Bullying Story As a kid, I felt very disconnected. At school I was bullied very badly. I had very few friends. I would go to school and feel profoundly alone. Not just the kids were bullying, but the teachers as well, which I could never understand. It was very disempowering. I made a commitment to myself that I would do my very best never to disempower someone but to empower them. When it comes to kindness, people at school specifically were unkind and I didn't understand. I thought, why are you doing this to me? Why are you behaving like this? I made a commitment that I would give back to people, come from a place of love. That's really how it all began. I could have dealt with this bullying better by sharing my pain with my parents and with other people that loved me, and I never did. Not until I was 16 or 17. When I started to share it, things started to shift.

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0:00.0	Mindfulness Mode, 212.
0:03.0	My pain pushed me.
0:05.0	I felt internally I was in so much pain, that emotional pain, that I felt like I had no choice.
0:13.0	I had no choice but to change.
0:16.0	You're listening to Mindfulness Mode with your host and mindfulness life coach Bruce Langford.
0:23.4	So great that you joined us today.
0:25.8	Thank you so much once again.
0:27.7	I'm always so grateful for my listeners.
0:30.4	It's exciting to tell you that I am on a summit.
0:34.6	I've mentioned it the last couple of times.
0:36.3	And that summit is hosted by
0:38.8	Lucia Ferraro, and Lucia was my guest on episode 211, the last episode. She is dynamic, she's
0:48.2	vibrant, she's full of life, and filled with wisdom. And she talked about surrender and how once she had made the decision to do something
1:00.3	important in her life, it was just a matter of doing it and surrender.
1:05.7	That's how she explained it.
1:07.1	And I thought that was very, very powerful.
1:09.5	She also said this. She said, everything comes from
1:13.3	nurturing and honoring yourself. And I think everything does. I think that's a great way to put it,
1:20.5	that we have to look after ourselves. We have to look after ourselves first. Once we do that,
1:26.8	she says, then we are open to give.
1:30.4	Then we can give so much more to the world and to others. So I really valued what she said,
1:36.7	but let me tell you how to get on the summit and I have to apologize. I am so sorry. I've given
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