Men Talking Mindfulness

Emotional Awareness and Support

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Join Jon and Will with your comments and questions as they discuss awareness of your own and other's emotions and the need for support - receiving and offering it!  

Partnership with MovementRx and the Mindfulness and Movement Experience - here's the link: http://movement-rx.com/mtm 

We’ve also lately been reading a great new book, The Mindfulness Experience, written by one of our listeners and an alum of the MovementRx Mindfulness and Movement Experience, Keith Fiveson.  The Mindfulness Experience breaks down 8 strategies to improve and maintain optimal health and wellness - 5 strategies working from the inside out… and 3 working from the outside in.  The Mindfulness Experience, by Keith Fiveson, is available now on Amazon in paperback or Kindle format.  Order your copy today!  Here's the link to order yours today: https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Experience-Strategies-Live-Life/dp/1737081806/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XZM7AFANZQCN&dchild=1&keywords=keith+fiveson&qid=1630693399&sprefix=Keith+five%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-1 

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Timestamps from the show:    

1:10 Welcome 

3:15 MovementRx - Join the M2 Experience! 

4:30 What we’re reading: “The Mindfulness Experience” by Keith Fiveson 

6:00 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice 

10:45 What is Emotional Awareness? 

13:30 Three ways to developing Emotional Awareness 

15:10 Anger has depth 

17:00 Actions can speak as loud as (or louder than) words 

21:00 Emotional agility - how to get through the obstacle course of your feelings! 

24:00 Confined Masculinity is hindering your emotional abilities 

29:20 Bro Culture is a No Culture 

33:45 Change your Bro Network into a Support Network 

35:30 What is an Emotional Support Network and why you need one 

38:10 What did Will say? 39:30 Sometimes the best way to “fix” a problem is just listening 

41:45 Your emotional state affects your physical wellbeing 

47:00 Introverts benefit from support groups too! 

49:00 A blooming Bromance 

51:00 Tools for Emotional Literacy, Awareness, Agility, and building a Support Network! 

53:30 Strength in Vulnerability 

57:00 Put it in writing 

59:45 Will leads Closing Grounding Practice    

Opening and closing Music: Malecon by Soyb & Amine Maxwell https://soundcloud.com/soybmusic https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-malecon Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/xbWzYbtMgIE

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