Cow Hug Therapy; Ellie Laks

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

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

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ellie Laks is the creator of cow hug therapy as part of her work as the founder of The Gentle Barn Foundation. This foundation is a national organization that rescues and rehabilitates unwanted animals and heals people with the same stories of abuse and neglect. Ellie is a powerful speaker, celebrated animal welfare advocate, humane educator, animal communicator, and the author of Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at The Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, death, and Everything in Between. Ellie founded The Gentle Barn in 1999. She invented her own Gentle Healing method that allows old, sick, injured, and terrified animals to fully recover. Ellie has hosted hundreds of thousands of people who have come to The Gentle Barn seeking hope. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: EllieLaks.com, GentleBarn.org Most Influential Person My husband, the co-founder of the Gentle Barn Effect on Emotions Mindfulness empowers us to breathe, relax, and to say what we need to say in the most mindful way. Mindfulness helps us hear what someone else is saying and allows us to read between the lines. Mindfulness diffuses potentially explosive situations. It helps us get through whatever we need to get through. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing and focusing on the breath is important in my morning meditations. It helps me to get grounded. Breathing is a part of our cow hug therapy sessions. We encourage our guests to breathe and close their eyes and to connect with the cow. Suggested Resources Book: Communication With All Life: Revelations of An Animal Communicator by Joan Ranquet App: Audible and Podcast Apps Bullying Story Kids can be very cruel. There's this idea that there is a norm. Everyone's trying to fit in and be liked. Everyone's trying to get approval. No one's sitting in elementary school saying I am different and I love myself. We're all saying, “Let us fit in.” I think in the big picture, it's really cool that we get lost because when we become adults, we can become found. Related Episodes Come On Safari With Me; Rev Karen Cleveland 494 Live A Well Designed Life With Dr. Kyra Bobinet Embody Your Soul and Be Fully Present; Ken W. Stone

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0:00.0	Mindfulness Mode, episode 110. How can we be more gentle today?
0:07.7	Hey, Mindful Tribe, welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about how animals can help you
0:14.6	to feel better, can help you to heal, can help you to move forward in your life in one way or another. I'm here today with a woman
0:24.4	who has been working with animals for years and she has something called the gentle barn.
0:31.6	And we're going to learn about the gentle barn. She wrote a book called My Gentle Barn back in 2014 and has now written another book called
0:40.1	Cow Hug Therapy. How awesome does that sound. How the animals at the gentle barn taught me about life,
0:47.6	death, and everything in between. So I think this is going to be a really interesting conversation. I'm here today
0:55.0	with Ellie Lax. Ellie, are you in mindfulness mode today?
0:59.0	I am in mindfulness mode and I'm so excited to be here with you.
1:03.0	Me too. What does mindfulness mean to you, Ellie?
1:06.0	You know, honestly, and mindfulness is something that's very, very important to me.
1:10.9	It starts the minute I wake up playing beautiful, healing, peaceful, joyous music in the morning,
1:17.6	so I'm already setting that intention, making time every single morning to meditate,
1:22.5	also just connecting, grounding, centering, setting that intention for the rest of the day.
1:28.2	Beautiful.
1:28.8	And then all throughout the day, it's a blend of the things that I must accomplish, along
1:34.9	with doing things that really bring me joy, like being in my barnyard with the animals
1:38.7	or walking the dogs.
1:41.7	And, you know, it's a work in progress.
1:44.1	I am still working at it, and I will till my last breath.
1:47.7	But mindfulness to me is about really being intentional with every conversation, with every experience,
1:53.9	trying to come as the best version of myself. And you've had your gentle barn since 1999. Isn't that right? 25 years? I have. And prior to that,
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