Jim Morningstar, PhD in this excerpt from LIWS #8: Working & Playing gives tips on Preventing Burnout. How we define and think about our work on a daily basis directly impacts our health and wellbeing. Work satisfaction is the only factor that has universally been linked to living longer in all cultures. Find ways to improve your work outlook and your time on the planet. It may not take getting a new job to improve your work satisfaction. Try out these tips to changing your experience of your work life today.
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How Breath Mastery Can Turn On Your Brilliance And Joy
Jim Morningstar, PhD, introduces a comprehensive form of breathwork that integrates both fast and slow breathing techniques to balance the nervous system, sustain emotional equilibrium and improve mental clarity. It blends ancient techniques with modern research to deliver simple diverse tools for healing and growth. Training is now available.
Jeremy Youst shares the qualities of a great practitioner
Jeremy Youst, Director of the Power of the Breath Institute, shares about the qualities of a great practitioner in breathwork or any of the healing arts. These are the traits which characterize one who stands out as a caregiver that effectively empowers others to embody their highest selves while continuing to evolve and discover themselves. Enjoy Jeremy’s 3:40 minute presentation and join him and Jim Morningstar in the Return to the Elements this July 12-14.
Breathing with the Gender Balanced Body Theme
Jim Morningstar, PhD, an originator of Therapeutic Breathwork, introduces breathwork with the Gender Balanced Theme, showing one of the six major breathing patterns seen in our world today. When frozen in gender confusion, this pattern has an unbalanced breathing rhythm that interferes with a more free form of expression and fulfillment of their full life potential. Jim explains the typical origins of this pattern and the breathwork goals to liberating it. For more information on Body Themes and Breathwork Training: www.transformationsusa.com.
Exercises for the Brain Heart Connection
Jim Morningstar, PhD, gives a 14 minute primer on the brain heart connection and how improving it can make a dramatic difference in the quality of your daily life. He leads you through a four minute coherent breathing exercise to bring your emotional and mental energies into harmony. Enjoy this revitalizing vacation from your stress and put it into your daily routine. This exercise is an excerpt from the 7th Life InWellness Class: Thinking, which is part of the 12 class Life InWellness Series.
Spiral Dynamics: Levels of Existence and the Theory of Everything
Jim Morningstar, PhD, gives an introduction to one of the most comprehensive overviews of human consciousness evolution that has had direct application to education, politics, business and the growth of personal values. It has been dubbed “The Theory of Everything.” From its conception in the 1950’s through world wide cross cultural studies, this tool has helped predict the stages of development that individuals and groups of people have gone through and continue to evolve into.
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Two Tools to Change your Mind and Your Life
With the Analysis Game you can discover the contents of your subconscious that interfere with achieving your goals. With the 4 “P’s” of Affirmations you can change these programs to support your total success. Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness and Transformations offers these tools for change in this excerpt from LIWS Class #7: Thinking. For the full class or the 12 class Life InWellness Series, see below.
Breathing with the Steadfast Supportive Body Theme
Jim Morningstar, PhD, presents the personality type and breathing patterns of the Steadfast Supportive Body Theme. He shows how these themes can become strengths rather than deficits through releasing limited holding patterns in the body and mind with the breath. He gives a live demonstration of this work in the 4 minute Intro video.
Introduction to Ethics and Sexuality in Non-Ordinary States of Breathwork.
Jim Morningstar, PhD, Introduces Ethics and Sexuality in Non-Ordinary States during Breathwork Training. The ethics of professional breathwork involves knowing and embodying the principles of safe and effective practice. This includes an ability to navigate and guide clients in a non-ordinary states of consciousness. In the full online Breathworker Training Module #8: Ethics in Breathwork, exercises and practice are provided to heighten awareness of one’s own issues and challenges and options for responsibly handling them from an integrative perspective.
Taiji Warm ups, standing and song gongs
Jim Morningstar demonstrates a series of Taiji Warm up exercises, standing postures and song gongs (energy moving exercises) that he has learned as a student of this comprehensive form of Self care. These particular exercises are taught through www.discovertaiji.com by Sifu Adam Mizner. As a student of Tai Chi since the early 1970’s, I have found the daily practice to be centering, strengthening and enlivening to my body, mind and spirit. It affords the opportunity to go as deep and as far in mastery as the student is willing to pursue. For Jim Morningstar’s Worldwide Learning Community: www.transformationsusa.com