Sept. 5, 2022
Mark Melvin - Finding the Perfect Amount of Happiness
Our guest this week is Mark Melvin. He was an accomplished corporate attorney in the alcohol industry for over a decade until he left the industry to pursue a more centered life. He now helps people answer the question “Who am...
Our guest this week is Mark Melvin. He was an accomplished corporate attorney in the alcohol industry for over a decade until he left the industry to pursue a more centered life. He now helps people answer the question “Who am I”? He does this by sharing techniques in yoga, meditation, and breathwork.
We Discuss:
- Mental Time Traveling - How to deal with thinking about the past stories that haunt us or future stories that cause anxiety
- How to stop intrusive and unwanted thoughts from controlling your emotions?
- What’s the cost of numbing the “voices” of anger, overwhelm, and anxiety?
- Breaking the conditioning from your upbringing
- Figuring out what YOU want to do
- Discovering how to play again and the benefits of getting to know your inner child
- How to slow down and regain control of your mind
- Developing an Indiana Jones Mentality
- Practicing micro-moments of creativity and failure
- Finding more joy in life by exploring creative outlets
- Breaking through the worry of the judgment of others
- Building resilience and self-efficacy
- Stopping the unraveling when you start to lose control of your emotion
- Becoming more centered
- How Yoga can reduce the disturbances distracting our mind from living our best life
- Finding the “perfect amount of happy” with breathwork
- How to enhance mental performance and focus
- Evolving into a fully realized human being
- How to come back from “Losing Your Mind” in stressful or combative moments
- Eliminating the “burry it down” moments” and how they can lead to immense stress and even death
- A call to selfishness that could change the world
Homework:
- Always breath in and out through your nose
- Take 15-minutes of calm “you-time” for yourself free of screens to start in a quiet and gentle way
Resources:
- Can’t Hurt Me - By David Goggins
- Extreme Ownership - By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati Yoga
- Othership- Breathwork App
- Episode 2: Ross Leppela - Building Your Sense of Belonging
- Autobiography of a Yogi - By Paramahansa Yogananda
- The Miracle Morning - by Hal Elrod
Connect With Mark:
Instagram - MarkaMelvin
mark@dominickq.com