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Podcast – Stress Reduction and Accelerated Learning

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. “

-Ovid

Much of what is called accelerated learning is only standard learning with all the obstacles removed… and one of the largest obstacles to learning that we face is emotional pain and stress.

Emotional pain and stress can be looked at as and internal version of tension in the body. Tension in the body prevents fast and fluid movement. Relaxation, on the other hand, encourages faster and more fluid motion.

The same thing happens internally with learning!

When you minimize or eliminate the emotional pain and stress, learning becomes fast, fluid, and fun!

Or as Ovid might put it… the now rested field delivers a much more bountiful crop…

accelerated learning, bountiful crop, stress reduction

Given the ever increasing pace (and stress) in today’s work environment, what is the best way to get around the challenges of emotional pain and stress to learn new and challenging skills quickly and easily?

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Podcast – Intro to Stress Reduction

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If you have been following the blog, you will have seen several of the recent posts for pain and stress reduction.

I’m going to take it much further than this… I’m working on a complete program for discovering, understanding, and handling stress.

One of the basic techniques from this program will allow you to reduce stress by 90% or more in 1 minute or less…

I cover this and much more in today’s podcast…

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Interview with Shinzen Young

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“The higher your baseline Concentration, Clarity, and Equanimity, the broader and deeper your happiness…. that’s pretty much the E=MC² of human happiness.”

-Shinzen Young

Shinzen Young, flower

This is an interview I’m very excited about!

Shinzen Young is a very skillful Vipassana (mindfulness meditation) teacher, who has been practicing meditation for about 40 years, now.

He has taken powerful Eastern concepts and not only made them more palatable to the Western mind… but also created simple and powerful methods of training that can make a meditative lifestyle a reality for anyone who is willing to take up the practice.

And recently, he agreed to do an interview…

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