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Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

THE LIFE CHANGING POWER OF LOVING KINDNESS Plus Meditation! Chris Grosso | Thich Nhat Hanh | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

Michael Sandler

Success, Robbins, Motivational, Fitness, Health, Dyer, Self, Happiness, Selfhelp, Lawofattraction, Mindfulness, Entrepreneur, Relationships, Wayne, Religion & Spirituality, Wealth, Inspiration, Help, Spiritual, Tony, Inspirational, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Spirituality, Meditation, Business, Love

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt that you’re off-track or off path because of where you are, how you’re feeling, or because you feel what you’re doing isn’t good enough, or spiritual enough, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Chris Grosso, author of the best-selling book The Indie Spiritualist: A No BS Exploration of Spirituality and his latest book Everything Mind: What I've Learned About Hard Knocks, Spiritual Awakening, and the Mind-Blowing Truth of It All

And that in a sense is what we’ll talk about today…how everything is part of our path, the good, the bad, and the really, really ugly.

We’ll talk about getting through the tough times, finding our way, practicing non-judgment, particularly toward ourselves, righting the ship, and making peace with wherever we are.

That plus we’ll talk about punk rock, tattoos, ron burgundy, and skateboarding have to do with anything.

Questions and Topics Include:

  1. How everything is part of our path.
  2. What Chris’s life looked like when he was 16
  3. How Chris got involved with drugs and alcohol
  4. How Chris became an addict.
  5. How he learned he had a disease of addiction
  6. How he continued to relapse, and why...
  7. How being an introvert hurt him in his recovery
  8. How Chris began a spiritual journey while in his recovery phases
  9. What helped Chris begin to finally turn things around.
  10. How death-row inmate Jarvis J. Master’s book Finding Freedom helped rekindle his spark and gave him hope
  11. How to keep self-talk under control.
  12. Exercise from Thich Nhat Hanh for overcoming Negative Self Talk
  13. How Chris began cultivating compassion when negative self-talk would come up
  14. How Chris learned to sit with negative thoughts and emotions
  15. A second Thich Nhat Hanh practice for negative thoughts
  16. What is Loving Kindness to Chris?
  17. An amazing Loving Kindness Tatoo.
  18. What Thich Nhat Hanh means by ‘no love, no lotus’
  19. How to be loving and kind to yourself AND to others
  20. How taking care of the environment helps one feel better
  21. When you’re feeling bad or depressed a guaranteed way to feel better is to do something for someone else
  22. What the Medicine Buddha is and how it may have helped his dog Abby
  23. How Chris took his Boddhisatva vow
  24. The Medicine Buddha healing (and rebirth) mantra
  25. What does Everything mind mean, and why did he write this book?
  26. How everything is part of our spiritual path – everything.
  27. How we’re all one and what that means for us.
  28. Words of wisdom and compassion for parents with a child stuck in addiction.
  29. Why parents need to take care of themselves even when a loved-one is struggling.
  30. A beautiful loving-kindness guided meditation

Chris Grosso, The Indie Spiritualist, Shares How You Can Overcome Anything, Transform Your Life, Heal Addiction, Depression, Alcoholism, Anxiety & More. Plus Thich Nhat Hanh Practices & Guided Meditation. Spirituality | Buddhism | Health | Self-Help

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone welcome to Inspire Nation a daily show where we help you discover

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your inner passion overcome life's greatest challenges, and to shine

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bright.

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I'm your host Michael Sandler.

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Along with my wife and co-host Jessica Lee, you'll get expert heartfelt advice from leading authors, athletes and doctors,

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along with spiritual masters, peaceful warriors, and beaming beacons of light.

0:29.5

Plus you'll find guided meditations to help you through your day and on your way from some of the top

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meditation experts and spiritual masters out there.

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Be sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss a beat.

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Again, be sure to subscribe to the show. And if you like the show,

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please be sure to rate it and review it. Thanks so much, this greatly helps others find

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the show.

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To check out our schedule and get the latest advice,

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visit our website at inspire nation show.com.

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That's inspire nation show.

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Get ready to live your greatest life and to shine bright.

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Hi everyone, we're excited to announce our upcoming Inspire Nation club. We'll be live in just a few short weeks

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you'll get backstage access information live events and more you won't find anywhere else.

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We'll have more info up shortly on our

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Inspire Nation show.com so come join the club with us. And if you like this

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interview please do us a huge favor and rate and review our show on iTunes. It's the number one way to help our rankings and to help others to find the show.

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