Using Meditation To Master Yourself; Ashley Williams

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

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

4.8 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Williams is the founder and CEO of Clymb, an emotional wellness software for school-aged children. Ashley shares her personal experience of suffering from clinical depression in college and how she was introduced to mindfulness as a proactive approach to manage her emotional experiences. She also talks about how Clymb approaches emotional wellness for young people and how it can help increase social-emotional learning competency over time. Ashley emphasizes the importance of finding and sticking to a mindfulness practice, as it not only uplifts and transforms the individual but also those around them.Ashley Williams has dedicated her career to helping individuals and organizations increase their overall happiness and satisfaction in life. As an emotional wellness advocate, Ashley has shared her insights and strategies with audiences around the world.Ashley is the 2022 Culture Builder of the Year for Baltimore, which honors her work to make children’s happiness a policy priority.Ashley is an avid meditation practitioner who is passionate about sharing the transformative power of mindfulness with others and believes that it has the ability to improve the quality of life for anyone willing to commit to the practice. She is a student of Swami Nithyananda of the Awake Yoga Meditation community. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: https://clymbup.io/ Related Website: https://awakeyogameditation.org/ Most Influential Person Swami Nithyananda has been a powerful mindfulness influence in her life. Effect on Emotions [00:25:30] Mindfulness has helped Ashley deal with her emotions by accepting them and self-regulating in a healthy way. Thoughts on Breathing [00:26:26] Ashley discusses the importance of breathing and shares her heart-opening exercise, where she imagines breathing in and out of her heart. Suggested Resources Book: The Gospel of Ramakrishna by Swami Abhedananda App: Meditation Timer and Log App to track meditations and create a consistent practice. Bullying Story [00:22:22] Ashley talks about how bullying is a result of a lack of emotional intelligence and how mindfulness can help teach these skills to children and society as a whole. Related Episodes Your Presence is a Superpower; Elizabeth Tripp Mindfulness is My Diet Focusing On Nothing But Positive Thoughts; Olympic Boxer Daniel Hayes Myung Sung: The Korean Art of Living Meditation with Dr. Jenelle Kim

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0:00.0	Mindfulness Mode. It's a gift that you give to yourself, but it's also a gift that you give to your family.
0:08.0	Hey, Mindful Tribe, welcome to Mindfulness Mode. You know that I am passionate about helping children. I like to get in front of students in the classroom and teach music, teach mindfulness, teach whatever I can to help them with their life
0:24.2	and maybe lift them up a little bit, help them to learn about a different way of looking at life
0:29.7	so that they can truly be happy. Well, I'm here with a guest today, I'm happy to say,
0:34.5	who is dedicated to helping children and individuals, actually, of all ages.
0:41.8	And she helps them to increase their overall happiness and satisfaction in life.
0:47.7	Doesn't that sound like mindfulness?
0:49.8	She's an emotional wellness advocate.
0:52.8	And she's shared her insights and strategies with audiences around the world. She's an emotional wellness advocate, and she's shared her insights and strategies with audiences
0:55.9	around the world.
0:58.2	She's the founder and chief executive officer of Clime, C-L-Y-M-B, which is an emotional
1:06.6	wellness software for school-age children.
1:10.0	So you can tell we've got a lot to talk about.
1:12.4	I'm here with Ashley Williams. Ashley, are you in mindfulness mode today?
1:16.6	In mindfulness mode right now, Bruce, yes.
1:19.5	That's great. So Ashley, what does mindfulness mean to you?
1:23.9	Mindfulness means for me peace in the midst of chaos.
1:28.3	It means for me to be still while everything is moving.
1:33.3	It means for me like an armor to be protected from the assaults that every human experiences throughout the course of a day.
1:49.1	It means steadiness, stability, calm, peace, excitement.
1:55.2	There are so many different entry points in doorways when we talk about mindfulness.
2:03.9	But mostly what it means for me is to be grounded, to be rooted, to be steady in what's true. Because a lot of the times, the thoughts that we have, the beliefs that we hold, it's like we're looking in a smudged mirror
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