Mindful Lecture : Power thinker for Powerful Living

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Damaris Grossmann: 0:52

Hi, how are you? My name is Damaris Grossmann. I am an integrative family nurse practitioner, and holistic nurse certified yoga nurse. And I am here to talk today about powerful healing for powerful loving. Now that kind of contains many aspects. And we're just going to touch base on a few things. The way you think your prana, which is your breathing postures, how you present yourself and move, and then power foods. So objectives for this PowerPoint are, what is and describing what power thinking is and how it is affecting your everyday living, identify power foods and how it can be increased in your overall energy, identify powerful breathing techniques, compare and contrast, powerful yoga poses versus inferior yoga poses. But that's not even just posture for yoga, but postures in general. And then postures that are inferior, describe powerful sequences that you can do not just in yoga, but in your life. And then using a powerful life. poses and sequences in a chair, describe the powerful sequence standing, describe the powerful yoga nidra. And let's and we'll perform a guided meditation at the end. I so what is it to be a power thinker, so a power thinker uses their words with intention, what they say really matters. And they really try to change their thought process of negative to positive, because you can have five negatives and one positive and it's just, it takes so much effort, sometimes to really get that negatives washed away. So you really have to have at least five positives to get rid of one negative and the constantly or you have to work at it, it takes time. Your breath, chewing gum can help make me a better positive thinker. And that's because taking more time, the enzymes within the mouth help with kind of, it's a thinking process, it's just another way of being mindful. Drinking water, that is a factor in the sense of when you have your body which is made up of about 70% of water and you're drinking an adequate amount, you actually have clear mind and clear thought process, less sugar and fats. Your body only needs about 36 grams of sugar, which is like nine teaspoons. The average meal, just one cup of coffee or cereal usually has at nine teaspoons. The average person over eats about 100 grams per meal. And then another power thinker, they use their senses meaning they don't just think about one, how they act, but they think and feel something. So when they make decisions, they use their senses of touch, smell, see thought. And it's an embody of a holistic way of thinking. Other things that they may do is they may doodle, they may use artwork, they don't doesn't mean that they're an artist, per se, but they may take art and doodling to just kind of take themselves away from a situation to help get them through or just brainstorm people would call it also, they also use this way of getting out of autopilot, thinking more positive decluttering their life. And being outside in nature. As you see here in this picture, I'm sitting underneath a beautiful cherry blossom tree and taking a moment to breathe and be within nature. So we all can be power thinkers, you know, with just the with a little bit of good intention, transfer minute transforming our way of thinking and positivity. You know, positive thought is very possible. I noticed for myself, being a new mom, I find myself always having some moments of negativity. And I realized that you know, I have to just transform and change the thought process and say, You know what, I have a beautiful baby. I'm wake up every day, I'm grateful for my breath. I'm grateful for my life. And I'm grateful for this creation that I've made with my husband and ourselves and, and another adventures that we will have, like in your mind, you have to realize that you're five times more likely to have negative thoughts than you are positive. And you just have to change that way of thinking. I mean, it's really hard because you know, you'll realize in your life and as you see with other people that they're going to have negative thought process and it's just changing that way of Thinking each and every day. And you can do it, you know, you kind of have to think outside the box, you know, it's not the just work and play and make money. And, and, or you'll always notice there'll be somebody in your life that is a complainer or always negative and always upset and always having things that they're not happy with. Why is that? You know, that just might be, it could be a mental health situation, it could be just the way in and that is going on in their life at this moment, they may not have the elements of wellness that are making them healthy. And I go about that in another PowerPoint, and that's the 12 points of wellness, actually, it's about 15 points of wellness, and, you know, financial security, family security, life spirituality, like, those aspects are part of feeling good about yourself, too. So, you know, just positive thinking is not just about having a thought process, it's also having the actions that will make you have a better life. So here in this slide, I just have a picture of the brain, and the different parts of the brain. So you've got the frontal lobe, the sometta cortex, and the sensory parietal lobe, separate a lobe. And that just shows the different parts of the brain. I'm not here to do a neural lecture. But I'm just trying to represent initial information. Even though the brain all of these things that I put here, are still kind of associated with the entire brain. But for the most part, neurosurgeons and neurologists have stated that the frontal lobe is associated with reasoning, planning, speech, movement, and emotion. But when we really looked at it, the neuroplasticity and the way that our brain neurons function, it actually is throughout the brain, but they say that, you know, for the most part, major parts of the frontal lobe is that the parietal lobe, which is on the sides associated with recognition, perception, the simple lobes is associated with visual and that's toward the back. So if this was ever injured, you could have problems with vision, the temporal lobes is by the ears. And that is usually associated with speech, memory and hearing. Medulla oncologia, has to do with feelings hippocampus has to do with a lot of hormones, and the limbic system and or the prefrontal cortex and also is emotional. And another big one of that is Abdellah. Got medulla oblongata. And the amygdala has to do with anger and kind of fight or flight. And why do I bring this up? I bring this up because that when you're trying to kind of reprogram yourself and your life, you are also kind of reprogramming the thoughts and the way that you think so your mindful ways and the way that you're trying to be is part of that change and get yourself to rethink and build more memory, more movement, more positive thoughts. So how is a power thinker compared to someone that is like power less or not have powerful thought. Now, a power thinker does not mean that they're powerful, and that they're the most important person or egotistical or narcissistic, a power thinker is just a way of changing. So how do you compare the two necessarily, so a power thinker, shows gratitude complements, other successes, they like to read, often they want to find facts, they don't like to know about alternative thinking they want real truth. They want it to know what is going on. They're more joyful. They embrace change. They have to do lists, they're like really wanting to excel and change. Sometimes they just want to be within the moment, but at times, you'll notice They've really grown. Now how does that compare to someone that's power less like, so a power thinker still is always learning, you know, on the opposite end, powerless person may not be learning, maybe they just kind of go with whatever, you know, they call it parenting in a sense, where they just kind of repeat the same thing other people are saying without really learning about the facts. A power thinker is willing to forgive. A powerless person is more willing to have a grudge. And someone that is a power thinker is willing to brainstorm and change their perspective on something even if they may not agree with it, but they're trying to get more ideas out a brain. A powerless person may be angry, blame others and not willing to change their perspective. The power thinker they try to defy odds and get through life struggles, and they're not necessarily competitive, but they're willing to get through the challenges a little bit more. They take the time to make lemonade out of lemons. So that powerless person will be like, see the glass half empty, a power thinker thinks of the glass as half full. So it's really about trying to see one side of the other node is one right or the other. There's times when you are a power thinker. And there's times when you may feel doubt, I actually feel that some of the powerless moments make us better power thinkers. So you kind of have to have one and the other to be the best power thinker that you can be or the best positive person you could be. Because if you haven't seen the negative, you'll never really know what it is to be positive. Power thinkers are usually pioneers in the field, their goal setters, and they know what it is to have good fat and good exercise. And they usually don't eat a lot of sugary foods, alcohol consume substances that are like our alcohol, drugs and things that your body really does not need. So successful people, they compliment themselves, they're complementary to other people, they have a sense of gratitude, they forgive others, they're willing to give credit for victories of other people, they're not, they don't take all of the credit, they're willing to kind of collaborate together, they watch less TV, they're more reading there. And then the surly reading movie and audio books, they're just trying to learn things that they may not know, on a regular, they're trying to find out different ideas. And if they don't know something, they're willing to say, hey, I don't know this and let me figure it out or find an expert in that field. They share information, usually a little bit more joyful, they have to do less projects. The operation operate on like a transformational way of thinking of how do I make things better, I want to succeed, they want to journal they want to do things. Now an unsuccessful person as you probably know of somebody and even at this may be at some point in your life, where you have said to yourself, that you might have hold held a grudge, you may not have wanted to journal you may not have you may think of the world is all about you, you may criticize others, you may see people that have done this, you may be angry, may fear change. Now unsuccessful people not necessarily mean that they're all bad. But this might have been some point where you have observed this in your family and your friends yourself. You know, this could be just a period of time in your life where you were this way and now you want to change and this might be the time that you're going to do that. So it's just kind of really changing the way your thought processes so that your power thinking makes you more of a success, per se a go getter. So power superfoods. What does that entail? What exactly is that? So power? Superfoods are superfoods are the nutrient rich foods considered in your body that you can have that will give you the most amount of nutrients and vitamins for its pack so it's like the most amount in a packed amount of food and even a small amount that will give your body what it will need on a regular so these things are like avocados which has like the good fat blueberries very brain antioxidants, kales got the spinach, the vitamin K, cocoa powder, goji berries, ASYE powder, coconut powders or coconut oil, a lot of that good fats again chia seeds for omega three and also for helping with breaking down the other bad simple carbohydrates with a simple fats. Seaweed that has really good with omegas it's a good choice but instead of doing chips and other alternative to salty things is just maybe some nuts with slightly salted mangosteen which is a a superfood that you can get for that may combat cancer, inflammation. Maca powder that is a root powder, hemp seeds. Probiotics now probiotics vary. I have a whole topic on probiotics in the microbiome. And we're really in its infancy talking about microbiome and probiotics. But there is definitely a number of research with NIH on how effective probiotics are within the body even from infants all the way up to elderly. I give probiotics to my little infant and I take probiotics daily women's health, probiotics and so does my husband. Garlic is very good for the gut, but it's also very good for circulation. And there's many other things here you can see great fruit, flax seeds, raspberries, kiwis, tomatoes, cilantro, and many others and vitamin C, zinc. So there's no Ray walnuts for the brain, that there is a variety of fruits, I bet you you probably have your own amount of type of superfood that you would like. And let's discuss further in the chat or at some point, something that you like as your superfood, maybe you're making a smoothie out of it. Maybe you have it with yogurt, maybe it's just your daily oatmeal, whatever that may be. Let me know, I'd really like to hear your thoughts. So what is Prana? And how is that referencing to powerful breath. So to the Power of Thinking, and it's one of the PS and it's called prana in yoga world they call it prana pranayama, which is fiery breath, lifeforce breath. And in like just everyday life, your breath can really bring you calmness, it can bring you energy, it can be beneficial to help relaxation help decrease fighter flight, but help increase fight or flight, it really depends on the situation. But your breath is what brings you energy and helps relax you also. So in this picture here is myself and some colleagues of I was part of a social director a few years back and for veterans on. And we were at a race like a 5k race. And we did. Toward the end of the race, we were just kind of celebrating had our hands up and say there was a 5k and maybe 13 mile half marathon. And we were at the end and just very excited, put our hands up. And you notice we're just proud, positive and this is actually a pose that I'll show you later, but that V shapes the the hands up, we got the flag, you know, we're just being very excited and happy. So what is power postures, power posturing? What does that mean? So there's different ways of posturing yourself in a powerful way. You can be inferior, and you could be superior, and a mine. Be mindful that power posturing can be negative and can also be very positive. But what does it mean to have inferior posturing and superior posturing? As you can see in this picture below, you have someone slouching, you have someone with their hands behind their their head, you have a Wonder Woman kind of pose their hands on their hips. So you've got someone kind of looking down cross leg, someone just hurting their neck, someone looking down on the table. The top shows you the power pose, the bottom is more or lower powering submissive looking. Now, are each one of these wrong? No, it just depends upon the situation and what you're trying to do. These pictures were presented by Amy Cuddy from Harvard, she is a did a ton of research on power posturing, and she showed that when you present into these postures, she then had saliva test done on your cortisol levels that you actually have more confidence and are able to do more with the way in which you present yourself. So you could be in one of these poses, like the Wonder Woman pose, the hands on the hips or the head, head back and just kind of like hanging out. And if you did this for five minutes before you went into a job interview, your your competence levels would be higher. So here's the actual data that was presented by Amy Cuddy's research that it changed in your testosterone and cortisol levels after doing two minutes of power posing. So in the previous slide, we were talking about the power posing of having your hands up, you could have your hands at your hips. So if I was standing up and or slouching back, or you know, even having your hands or your legs crossed, not doing the power posing showed that you had less confidence, less cortisol, having the power posing showed you had more testosterone, more competence more ability to kind of command a room, let's say so there is showing that what you do and how you present yourself really can give you the confidence in that and the effort to make a difference. And like let's say let's getting a job interview. Do you go and, you know, put your hands in your hips and say, I've got this and you know, your power Thinking, Power, positive thinking, you know, and you got the posture and you're ready to go. And you go into that, that interview and you nail it because you feel competent and you feel that your, your body actually exudes more testosterone, and competence. So how do we apply this to, let's say, Chair health when you're in your office, or you're at work, and you want to take this to power pose, not just doing hands at the hips, but you want to figure out a way? How can I do a little bit of stretching and movement in my day, so that I can have a powerful way of just stretching and getting out and being active, but yet may may not be able to go for a run. So what I would recommend as you can just get into your chair, sit nice and comfortably, place your feet onto the floor, I call your core and your center body from head to toe, your corridor of strength or your health center of foundation, these shoulders up and back, gives you a better posturing. act of sitting is considered when you press your feet down into the floor, you bring your belly button up and in, you bring your shoulders up and back, you imagine there's a string at the center of your heart and your chest, it's going all the way up to the ceiling to the sky, your head is nice and tall, he take a breath in, take a breath out. And then sometimes posturing can manage when you're talking passively. So how do you passively sit, just you're not necessarily slouching but you're sitting, your feet is still kind of pressed into the floor, you're kind of typing, you still have a little bit of awareness, but you're not completely slouched over mountain pose, and even in the chairs, just kind of stretching your arms up, reaching up to the sky, going to the left, going to the right, and bringing the hands down. And then when you bring your hands to the side, you can reach your chest up, and they call that Cobra Pose or Cat Cat Cobra, and bringing it down. Cat Cow in the yoga world are just stretching inward and outward. And then if you get very tired, you can bring one leg over or criss cross, kind of stretching out the hips and you're going to lift up the chest turn, come back center, lift up the chest and turn. And then roll the shoulders up and back. How would you apply this sequencing if you're trying to do some yoga poses, you could you don't have to. But in some aspects, there are Mountain Pose straight up. Half Moon is standing with one arm, back and forth. Cobra, like I said was it's a straight stretch or your poses, I'll come up, see if you could see slight bend to the knees, arms out, lunge, foot forward. And I'll send you pictures of these. These are just a couple poses that you can do. Power rest is just as important as power posing power movement and our outer physical body and how we present ourselves, the inner self. And our surrendering will give us that strength and at peace within when we really look inward. So we're just going to do they call it yoga nidra or restfulness power rest, we're going to do a gentle body scan. And we're going to start from the feet all the way up to the head. And we'll go through that briefly. And I'll show you more, send you more links to some of my other body scans and quiet meditation and we'll just go through an five minute body scan. So come with me. And let's go through that. Now. You could do this easily at any time in your work and your life. If you just kind of need to reset it can be doing the sitting, lying or standing wherever you are even at work or in life wherever you're able to do this. I recommend it usually toward later in the afternoon or evening so that you can rest and just kind of get through the day. So what we're going to do is first press your feet down into the floor or no Your feet. So you're going to notice your big toes and you're on your left foot and your right foot, you're going to curl those turtles in and then you're going to release them. You're going to wiggle the left foot, and then you're going to lay it down, you're going to wiggle the right foot, and then let it sit. You're going to observe your calf's and your legs and just put a gentle awareness and noticeability there. Take a breath in and out. See if there's a heaviness on the left leg or the right leg. I want you to bring your legs in and then extend them out. Press the feet down into the floor or your heels down into the floor. See if there's a heaviness if it's light. Be aware. Then coming toward your hips. Noticing on the left side if it's a little heavy. Go into the right side. If it's a little heavier light, you're going to just twist one side and the other. And then coming to your belly, you can bring your hands at your belly. See if there is a little bit more movement there a little bit more anxiousness or tiredness or just excess movement or decreased movement. Kind of just put your hands there and take a breath. Breathe in. Exhale it out. And then coming up to the middle of the chest. You notice maybe in your ribs, bring your hands that ribs in your chest and see if you can bring the breath there. Maybe there's a tightness or maybe it's just quick breath. Try to breathe in here for a count of three. inhale 123 exhale, one, two, and three. And then bring your hands. Let's bring that up to the upper chest. Sometimes when we have quick, shallow breaths, we really kind of just want to slow that breath down. So instead of lower the breath, inhale, feel the rise of the chest and exhale. Inhale and lower. And then bring an awareness to the shoulders. First, the left side, maybe will wiggle it out. And then lower down and then the right side, wiggle it out. And then lower down. And bring a steady awareness down to the arms on the left side, the left elbow just Spiel how it feels. Maybe it's light, maybe it's heavy. And then bring your awareness down to the wrist, maybe roll arrest one side and then the other. And then to the fingers. I want you to squeeze the fingers tight. And then open them. And then each finger I want you to just wiggle them one by one pinky ring finger, middle finger, point here and then the thumb. Take a squeeze, tighten it and then relax. And then go to the right side. We go that right shoulder and then bring an awareness down to the elbow. Maybe open it up, close it until the forearm and the wrist roll or rest one way and then the other. Then coming to the fingers. You're going to squeeze the hand and then open squeeze and then open. Then you're going to wiggle the pinky the then the pointer and the middle finger and that ring finger to your thumb. Open and close and open and close both hands. Just tighten and then relax. And then coming up to the neck area. You know, sometimes our throat and our neck can get very tight or either maybe looking down too much in the computer and the phone. You know really be aware of those muscles and kind of first crunch your neck and your chin to the chest and then lift up and then chin to the chest and then lift up. Take a moment here. Breathe in, breathe out. And then coming to the face, your lips, maybe tighten the lips and then Relax, tighten. And then relax and then open up the mouth. Stick out the tongue and say breathe into the nose, take out the tongue, Lion's Breath, they call it and say, ha ha sound. Then you could close the mouth, slightly open with the teeth, and go. Breathe in and then exhale through the teeth. It's a cooling breath, fatale breath, or you can take the tongue. Pick it out, curl it, if that's possible, for you. Breathe out. And then take awareness to the cheeks. Close the eyes tight. And then open. Wiggle your nose, legally your nose up, really nose down, side to side. Smile, frown, smile again. And exhale. Take a notice to your eyes, close them tight, tight and open. bringing awareness to your left and right ear, maybe see if you can wiggle them or just go side to side with your neck. You know, we have two ears to listen twice as much as we speak. Take that into consideration. Be a bigger and active listener than you are necessarily a vocal speaker. Twice as much to listen one time in your speaking being an active listener. I'm not coming to your forehead, and we crunch the forehead and the eyebrows and then tighten it and then loosen, tighten and then loosen. And then coming to the head, the crown of the head, I want you to imagine that light and that energy, that awareness that you've brought all the way up to the crown of the head and kind of sit tall, bringing some breath. Exhale, inhale some love and peace for yourself. An exhale all of that stress, wonderful, great job with your restfulness you can use this in your practice and every day when you may need some moments just to kind of reset the body, even if you're just coming to some quick breath. So what are power affirmations. So power affirmations is a positive way and self affirmations to bring positive thinking. So these are intentions of hope and positivity that will help you ground they will help you feel good about yourself to help you kind of get into the zone. Some people will use mantras. So that's a repetitive phrase. But power affirmation does not have to be a repetitive mantra. But it is definitely a way of re phrasing things that come up to say you're have a body issue and say no, I am beautiful. I do have a beautiful body. I am good enough. I am happy. I do you know love my best friend, my mom, my dad, I am full of inner strength. I can do this. I can finish my work, I can go to school, I can finish accomplish XYZ put that into your you finish your sentence. But the whole part of is changing the way you perceive things and changing the negative into a positive and that affirmation. So if I wake up in the morning, and I say you know I am good enough, I can tackle the day. I am tired. But you know what I am going to go forth and I'm going to do something more than the average I will make a difference. I will do this will do that. And just saying it. Yes, I feel this way. Now the groundedness kind of comes in is you putting your feet into the floor, you know grounding your inner self and your body. You just say you got it. I've got this and it will bring you a little bit more inner thinking and positivity. The breath work like we were saying before, that gives you strength. In this picture here I just took of was Amy Cuddy, how I was talking about before was the research that we went over the power posturing. I was lucky to meet her for a Harvard Business Club meeting. She did a really amazing talk on her posture thinking and posture Research and I really enjoyed going to her book signing into her events. So that was us. She took a picture with me. So I was just really glad to talk to her about her research and how it actually can be used every day. And then I also use it through yoga posturing, and how we explained before. So we're talking about power thinking, right? And what are those statements about power affirmation of what what do we say when we do that. So here are a few that you can do. It's a beautiful day, I can do this, I am powerful. I am grateful, I'm going to get that job. I'm amazing. I love my family, I, I am enough. Love Goes with me wherever I go. So some things that I do is I not only say these things, but then I do a physical aspect that I'll do to make it work. So I'll take my hands and I'll take my fingers. And I'll do like I am happy. So I'll take my fingers and I'll touch my thumbs. And I'll say, I am happy. I am happy. Or I can do this or I'll look into a mirror and say yes, you got this. And that thought can even if it's just five minutes or five seconds of the day that could make a difference. Let's take a moment and enjoy guided meditation on being your powerful self, the powerful thinker that you are bringing prana green breath, using postures, eating powerful foods, taking things and being in the present moment. And realizing that you are the power thinker, you are powerful to help yourself in your healing and building your strength. So let's assume a comfortable position. Take this moment to gaze slowly at the ground or close your eyes and start to reset, relax. Take a deep breath in through the nose. Exhale through the mouth. Ha ha. Now inhale through the nose and exhale through the nose. Inhale. Exhale, emptying out

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the lungs. Take a nice inhale and emptying out the lungs completely this time. Each of these breaths, not strange. Just notice the inhalation and the exhalation, the ebb and flow of your breath the strength that your breath brings the exhalation how it releases the tension. With every movement of inhalation and exhalation is covered. unhurried pace helps release ideas and thoughts within the mind and allows you to let go. Were those eyes or close the eyes and place that beautiful? yourself. Almost smile in that picture the place in your mind by picturing this place. For me it may be the waves crashing the smell the salty water. You walking on the sand with my toes and the warmth of the sand. I don't know what that place is for you. My friends just acquired that beautiful place and breathe into right now. Keep a picture in your mind. Bring color just in the world or light surrounding that picture. That moment of happiness. beautiful and powerful. This time, take that moment and picture. Think of yourself in a powerful situation into something that you can imagine yourself overcoming. Kick yourself then say I can do this. Let's give ourselves an affirmation. I am good enough. I can Do this beautiful. Imagine yourself in that situation, overcoming, being the powerful thinker you are. And using your mind, your body, and your spirit to be as positive and loving to yourself. Walk into this situation, walk into this scene. Embrace it, be a part of it. Imagine yourself you're sitting in this, this beauty this place, this lovely entity of yourself. You manifested it, to bring you peace will bring you that positivity. And you have the powerfulness and that mindfulness to bring this into truth, and it will happen. Believe that you've created it in your mind. So then it now will be true. Take a breath in. Feel the calm and serenity within you. Relax the hands, relax the neck. Wiggle the toe. Roll the shoulders up and back your fingers and your arms slowing the breath, bringing yourself peace. to maybe a heaviness within the discipline happiness. Arms become one starts going down. Now just think about the power that lies within you. releasing the tension getting through the day. Crunch the future makes your face go. Anything that doesn't serve you don't take a moment for your hand in your heart. Feel your heartbeat can help you love for yourself. Exhale, love for others take a moment here. Inhale Exhale as the silence rushes through the mind and things may come up just observe it anywhere and go you really stay centered into the focus of what your powerful scene in your powerful moment is like right now. Sarah harpy and how it lacks slower and breathless in your control take a moment. Sir, yourself. Overcoming being the best version of who you can be powerful, feeling powerful in your powerful moment. You've got this. You are good enough. You are beautiful. You are amazing. Remind yourself that is all within present moment. Just time to pause to rest and degree. Be able to goodness within and reset yourself in this meditation and slowly come back to this moment. You can flutter the eyes open shoulders up and back. Don't forget to smile. Man your strength and peace each and every day. Like Love