Music In Mindfulness and Everyday Life; Michael Defern

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

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

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Michael Defern is a singer/songwriter, author, and video producer. He first became interested in mindfulness and awakening through the Twelve Steps, a tool he used to help maintain sobriety. Fifteen years later, Michael has sought to expand mindfulness into all parts of his life, including business, performing, writing, and raising kids. He owns a video production company with his wife, Heather, where they help business owners create content that digs deeper to connect with their audience, which is the subject of his recent book, How To Connect: A guide to creating content that resonates with your ideal client. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.MichaelDefern.com Podcast: Between Two Deferns Book: How To Connect: A guide to Creating Content That Resonates With Your Ideal Client by Michael Defern Most Influential Person Eckhart Tolle Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has been a life-changer in terms of communicating with my wife. There were so many things, especially financial things, where I would come at it in such a passive-aggressive way. I would stand there in the moment with her. What I've learned to do now is get anchored, try not to think at all, and just let it come out. The ability of being mindful has allowed me to respond instead of react. Thoughts on Breathing I need to plug my amazing vocal teacher, Breck Alan. One of his breathing exercises is something I use all the time in mindfulness and meditation. If you sit up straight or stand up straight and you pull yourself up from the back of your neck, and you almost tilt your hips back as if you were to put your hands in your back pockets and pull down slightly. You kind of have this reverse arch. You experiment and you get your body into the right position. It's called, ‘The Art of Body Singing‘, that's his brand. It's about getting into this position where the breath just comes in without any effort. Suggested Resources Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Book: Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler Book: On Writing: Stephen King Book: How To Connect: A Guide to Creating Content That Resonates With Your Ideal Client by Michael Defern App: Waking Up (Sam Harris's App) Bullying Story I definitely was bullied. And I bullied. My whole school experience from grade school to high school was one of being completely disconnected in my own head. Looking back, there were so many situations, had I had any kind of mindfulness or presence, I would have realized that I took things the wrong way or I would have seen things from the other person's perspective. If I could go back to fifth grade and someone did something that upset me, if I had been able to use mindfulness I would have wondered what they were going through to cause them to lash out at me. Related Episodes 487 Build Better Relationships With Author Bryan Falchuk 389 Fuse Corporate With Calm; YorYoga Founder Kremena 280 Focus on Health First Says Organik Founder Scott Simons Our Sponsor Use hypnosis to help others stop struggling with their deep-rooted issues like weight loss, smoking, painful experiences. Are you a coach or a healer who would love to have new skills to help your clients? Hypnosis can help people reach goals faster and easier than you thought possible. Become a hypnotherapist. The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers world-class training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com Special Offer Have you been trying to lose weight? Are you discouraged? It’s not hopeless. YOU CAN DO IT. I coach people just like you. I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing hypnotist, and you will get results with my help! I personally lost 35 pounds and I’ve kept it off thanks to hypnosis. Feel good and look good. Believe it. Watch my short video and get 5 Tips on How To Lose Weight For Good. Then book a Free Consultation to get you on the road to permanent weight loss. Go to www.MindfulnessMode.com/weightloss

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0:00.0	Mindfulness mode. You're not looking to connect with everybody. You're looking to connect with the people who get you. So part of it is finding what are you passionate about? What's something that you can create content with?
0:14.4	Hey, Mindful Tribe. I'm here with an author. He's a producer. He's a singer-songwriter. He's an extremely talented man and his life is centered around mindfulness.
0:25.9	He writes about mindfulness and he likes to help entrepreneurs with mindfulness. He helps them make a statement with their brand. He has so many talents.
0:36.3	He's written a book called How to Connect. The subtitle of the book
0:41.3	is a guide to creating content that resonates with your ideal client. I'm here with Michael
0:48.6	DeFern today. Michael, are you in mindfulness mode? I'm certainly trying to be.
0:55.3	Oh, that's good.
0:58.2	Well, Michael, what does mindfulness mean to you?
1:04.3	It's definitely evolved over the years, but I was just trying to explain it yesterday.
1:11.6	My wife and I were having a discussion where she's like, I can't just not think. And to me, so mindfulness I was telling her is not judging what's happening.
1:19.6	And so like the thinking could be happening, the experiences are happening, but to be mindful is to be in the present and to not be in the past or the future and just kind of
1:30.1	taking what is and not, you know, kind of not fighting with it, not judging it.
1:35.1	I really agree with that. I think that that is so important. In your book, you talk about how
1:41.0	you've been interested in how humans connect from an early age. Tell us about
1:46.9	that in your own words. I mean, I have a sense even as early as maybe fifth grade being very
1:55.0	curious about the adults and just, you know, curious about how people interact and all that.
2:03.3	I mean, I had no idea about any of this at that point,
2:07.6	but I struggled.
2:08.8	I struggled with connecting with people.
2:11.4	I struggled.
2:12.8	I was shy.
2:13.9	I felt like I didn't have any friends.
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