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The Ready-to-Experience Mind | Paying Attention with Perspective

The Ready-to-Experience Mind | Paying Attention with Perspective

Todd Brossart
Emotional Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness

You have the ability to focus your attention on just about anything! Yet sometimes we become so close to our worries that we struggle to see what’s beyond the thinking mind. This week I talk about our ready-to-experience mind, and three simple ways to pay attention more mindfully.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.

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Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my six-day At Ease: Mobilizing Mindfulness mini-course for FREE

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Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com. Connect with Mental Events on social media and share your comments about the show on Instagram @mentalevents, and on Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

Fatherly Love

Fatherly Love

Todd Brossart
Emotional Health, Mental Health, Fatherhood

Happy belated Father's Day to all the dad's out there. It's extra special for me with the recent birth of our son. This week I share a note to my son and reflect on the current state of the podcast.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.

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Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my six-day At Ease: Mobilizing Mindfulness mini-course for FREE

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Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com. Connect with Mental Events on social media and share your comments about the show on Instagram @mentalevents, and on Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

In Remembrance Of | Honoring Those We've Lost

In Remembrance Of | Honoring Those We've Lost

Todd Brossart
Emotional Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness

Memorial Day is a special day! It’s a day of remembrance for all the men and women who died while serving in the military. Today’s episode is about the power of remembrance and how important people from our lives, not only shape us, but can continue to guide us. In this episode I’ll take you through a perspective taking, values-facing exercise to connect with people who've touched our lives.

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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.

.

Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my six-day At Ease: Mobilizing Mindfulness mini-course for FREE

.

Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.

Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com. Connect with Mental Events on social media and share your comments about the show on Instagram @mentalevents, and on Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

The Problem with Toxic Positivity

The Problem with Toxic Positivity

Todd Brossart
Emotional Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness

Good Vibes Only - is a saying and a belief that, "life can only be lived well by having good feelings." Unfortunately, living by this strategy makes people feel worse off in the long run. What if the problem of painful emotions and difficult thoughts you experience isn’t actually the problem? Toxic Positivity is a strategy we all mindlessly engage in from time to time. It's a stance of non-acceptance and inflexibility toward life.

Tune into this weeks episode to learn how to live the good life. To begin “holding” our unpleasant emotions – to gently observe and contact them without any effort to make them come or go. And despite what feels unpleasant inside, make flexible choices that are consistent with your personal values and chosen life directions.

Quarantine Questions | 25 Prompts for Self-Reflection

Quarantine Questions | 25 Prompts for Self-Reflection

Todd Brossart
Emotional Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Sometimes we don't know what questions we should be asking ourselves? We leave it to the mind to help us get by. And when has that ever gone awry? Jokes aside, slowing down to ask ourselves the larger questions is often avoided.

Considering the "bigger questions" can help us begin to regain some control in life. To guide your journey along, I’ve compiled a list of 25 questions to help your self-reflection within – to disrupt and decondition the unhelpful patterns that have kept you entangled in stress and other unpleasant emotions. The following 25 "Quarantine Questions" are intended to help you open up to the present moment, get in contact with a deeper sense of self, and move past needless reason-giving. They're an invitation to change your behaviors in a way that’s in line with what matters to you.

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