Fishing Without Bait

Jim Ellermeyer discusses giving purpose to the day to day of your life.  Employing Full Impact Mindfulness and kindness in others and more! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu.

James Ellermeyer discusses the importance of names.  Why are we named what we are named, why do we share names with parents, and why do we name things. How can we recreate ourselves in renaming our life and the things in it.  Challenge: Create a new name for your self.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu.

Jim Ellermeyer discusses what it means to live life with “eyes wide open” and “eyes wide shut” Past episodes mentioned: Beginner’s Mind  Am I Alive Check In   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu.

James Ellermeyer discusses luck.  What is it.  How do we perceive it.  And how can we “change” it?  Challenge: Create your life instead of waiting for it to happen.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu.

James Ellermeyer discusses the source of our fear in our own heads as we identify our inner bully.  We name the bully and learn how to disarm it to conquer it.   Challenge: Identify your inner bully’s voice, give it a name, and start to ask it questions back.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses how we are controlled by fear and getting past that.  How do we learn how to “float” when swimming through your life and overcome to grow on this adventure of life.  Challenge: If you were not afraid, what would you be doing right now.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

James Ellermeyer explores the concept of lucid dreams and the concept of being right here not just when we are awake, but also in our sleep!   Think about what you want to do or dream about during the day.  Have quiet time and put those images into your head before you go to bed. 

James Ellermeyer discusses putting your life in a headlock or a cage, creating, rather than waiting for your life to flourish, and building the things in our lives that weigh us down. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

James Ellermeyer discusses the concept of “finding yourself” and where you should be looking for it.  What is the controlled chaos of life and how we deal with it? Why is it important to create a reaction than to wait for one to come. How can you look to Pro Wrestling, the action and reaction, and the recreation personalities need to go through from time to time.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu  

Jim Eellermeyer discusses the further idea of Full Impact Mindfulness, being the bouncing super ball and jumping fully into an action.  What does it mean to be fearless?  What is your emotional potential energy?   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

This week, Jim Ellermeyer further discusses “Full Impact mindfulness”.  How do mirrors help us take a look at our selves and assess.  We discuss the light in your life that you let in when the windows of your life are clean.   Read “The Eyes of a Child” Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses looking at the “preview” of our life instead of buying a ticket to your life and participating.  How can we change our perspective to stop looking at the “monkey butt” of life and learning from failure.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses our minds and lives going  “down the rabbit hole”.  We discuss the song inside ourselves, and giving yourself permission to unleash that song and go down the rabbit hole in your life and venture into the unknown.    Challenge: Allow yourself permission to see where your curiosity goes.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer talks about the phrase “It’s good to be me” and taking a personal inventory of yourself.  Learning about emotional sobriety, and the influences in how we feel.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses “feeling the tingle” of life and participating in life.  What is holding us back from our Carpe Diem?  How do we become grounded.   Subscribe to our Podcast oniTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favoritePodcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses the concept of “Seize the Day!” or Carpe Diem!  What is holding you back?  This is a WAKE UP CALL!  How do we accept our base and foundation of our lives?   Challenge: What is your base.  The thing in your life that if you didn’t have that, you would have nothing else. From this episode: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-james-thurber Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses taking ownership of our negative thoughts and friends and filling our lives with positivity in our thoughts, actions, and the people around us.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses being truthful and why it is important, the visual masks we wear, our concepts of speaking the truth and perception of lies and speaking form our heart.From this episode: Natalie Edwards -  http://www.natedwards.co.uk/  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Eellermeyer discusses why we continue to do things that do not work including the coping mechanisms, the illusion of control we present ourselves with, the male and other stereo types represented on television that teach us not to emote, how we give ourselves some “wiggle room”, and more! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher! Read the original blog post here. Intro music: “Life” by Tobu

Jim Ellermeyer discusses a concept from Gestalt theory and How to survive emotional quicksand as we try not to fall into the trap of looking at who we are not rather than accepting who we are.     From this episode: "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim"  by Frederick S. Perls  http://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Verbatim-Frederick-Perls/dp/0939266164 How to survive quicksand : a guide to uncomfortable feelings http://head-heart-health.com/6773/a-guide-to-uncomfortable-feelings