What is joy made of?

If you understand the anatomy of joy, you can be in touch with it more of the time.

Joy is not something you create. Joy is within you, an innate resource that you can tune into.

Joy is not about escaping suffering and challenges. It is a quieting of the mind and “being with it.” Presence brings us into alignment to our joyful center.

“Joy lives in the heart.”

If you want more joy in your life, listen to a conversation I had with Qigong Master Teacher, Vicki Dello Joio. Her name means victory of joy. For more than 45 years, her brand of brilliance has empowered wellness-motivated and spiritually-inclined seekers and speakers to infuse body-mind-spirit practices into their very cells so they can tap into their birthright of joy — use it as a fuel not just a goal — for a lifetime.

“We have all kinds of feelings and emotions, and they all belong. Joy is the seed and essence of all of it.”

Join us for a Qigong movement practice to cultivate more joy at the 22:00 minute mark.

FInd Vicki at yourpowerpresence.com or https://www.vickidellojoio.com/

My name is Rich Life and this is the Releasing Mental Tension Podcast.

Become a part of a transformative conversation that helps you to relax into presence. The conversations I have in this space are based around the 3 Principles understanding of Sydney Banks, and enlightened Scottish mystic.

The 3 Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought help us understand the nature of our experience. Those who explore this understanding find that their lives transform. Listen for a richer experience of life.

Please help me reach more people with the message that the core of who you are is peace, love, and connection. Comment, like, and subscribe.

Visit my blog at richliferealization.com

Every time I put food into my body, it felt like eating glass.

2 years ago, I was in a cycle of pain and fear. Thankfully, I found an understanding that helped me stop perpetuating pain.

I recently had a powerful conversation with Painless author and Academy Award winner Chana Studley. Like me, she broke free from chronic pain by changing how she was using her mind.

Do you struggle with pain? Listen to this episode if you have:

Back Pain

IBS

Neck and shoulder pain

Stress related pain

Chronic pain

Food allergies

Emotions around pain

Fear about your body

The understanding we share is not a pain treatment, but it can completely change your relationship to pain.

Learn that you are never broken.

Learn how to use your mind when you’re dealing with physical pain.

Learn that “. . . your survival brain speaks the language of safety and danger.”

Never mind the pain.

Join me as we discuss how pain is perpetuated in the mind and body.

If you struggle with pain, you do not want to miss this!

Chana Studley has been coaching and counseling people for over 35 years.

Surviving 3 violent muggings and recovering from severe PTSD in the 1980s Chana went on to have a very successful Academy Award Winning career in Hollywood.

After graduating from The One Thought Institute in 2018 she has been leading the way in pioneering work with The Three Principles and the Mindbody Connection. Most recently she published her 4th book, Beyond Diagnosis, A Paradigm Shift from Pathology to Innate Health.

Chana is a World Health Organization Psychological First Responder and has diplomas in Psychology and Pharmacology. She is a certified Life Coach and successful entrepreneur and author.

Chana has previously published 3 Amazon #1 bestselling novels; The Myth of Low Self Esteem, dealing with trauma, Painless, a novel about chronic pain and Very Well, the story of 3 women’s journey with hormones and menopause.

Find her at https://www.chanastudley.com/

Pressure may make diamonds, but it doesn’t make us better performers.

What if the secret to high performance was letting go of pressure?

My guest on this episode, Coach Wyn Morgan, has found this to be true.

Learn how mental pressure lowers access to innate abilities. Explore how you can create with more inspiration, presence, and ease.

If you put pressure on yourself to achieve more, this approach to work and life can help you.

Wyn Morgan is a Certified Master Transformative Coach, Corporate Training Consultant and 3 Principles practitioner.

He has been mentored by George and Linda Pransky, Barb Patterson, Elsie Spittle and Michael Neill. “I am constantly amazed how much more there is to see and how much more wondrous and simple life can actually be”

“Helping my own clients in the corporate world achieve better results through the brilliance of their people along with those clients who come to me for their own personal needs is such a joy. I love watching them wake up to who they really are” Wyn says.

Find him at https://www.wynning.co.uk/

On Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wynning/?originalSubdomain=uk

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wyn.morgan

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@wynmorgan3079

Does difficulty sleeping cause you to dread your nights and days?

If you struggle to get to sleep or stay asleep, you need to listen to this episode of the Releasing Mental Tension Podcast!

My co-hosts and I struggled to sleep despite using the best sleep hacks. We tried meditation, red lights, no screens, and other disciplined sleep hygiene techniques. Even after years of research and hard work, we still found sleep elusive.

What if we all go about trying to sleep better in the wrong way? A hyperfocus on sleep actually makes sleep harder. We count our hours asleep, and then feel exhausted all day if it is “too low.” Our relationship with sleep may be more influenced by how we think. We can rest when we aren’t winding ourselves up.

Do you get stressed out just thinking about how you will sleep tonight? Learn how to relax and get better sleep by using your thoughts in a new way.

For this episode, I teamed up with the Better Than Therapy Podcast. Britta Kristen and Kevin Lawrence join me to discuss our failed sleep hacks and what really worked.

Hear from the husband and wife team of transformational coaches as they vulnerably and sometimes irreverently explore the art of transformation and the nature of the human experience.

Two podcasts at one time! This episode will be published on both the Better than Therapy and the Releasing Mental Tension Podcast.

Find their podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-than-therapy/id1780339923

Do you feel like you are going into the holiday from hell?

You can come to the holidays with a fresh perspective. What if the holidays this year could be more wonderful than you can imagine?

Learn to release mental tension around the holidays this year.

Be home for the holidays. We aren’t talking about being physically home. This holiday season, find your spiritual and mental home.

If your experience of the holidays is filled with:

Anxiety,

Depression,

Resentment,

or Disconnection

. . . then listen to this episode!

Bring curiosity, magic, and childlike wonder back into your life! Find peace in the season.

I discussed this topic with Coach James Abbott. This was a moving session for me and we hope it is for you too.

James is a well-being coach and author of “It’s Not What You Think”, a book designed to help you rediscover your wellbeing and experience more of it in your life.

The book talks about his own battle with anxiety and acts as a guide to help others see their way out of their own anxiety, panic and overthinking.

He trained with the wisdom and well-being Consultancy to become a well-being Coach. He is an Intuitive Coach and a mental health facilitator for Our Mental Health Rocks, a brand co-created with Julie Brown to make mental health simple for both children and adults to understand and bring into their own lives through their Project You private membership.

His personality brings connection, energy and humour into a room and naturally uplift those in it. James has a natural ability to connect with the people he’s working with. He is a deep listener and effortlessly adapts to his clients style and responds to their needs.

Email James at hello@ourmentalhealthrocks.com

Find him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.abbott.12327

Find him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesabbott80/

Do you want to unleash your creativity?

I used to block myself from being creative. Now, I experience a mental freedom that allows me to express myself with less hesitation.

We can plug up our creativity with perfectionism, judgements, and false beliefs about ourselves.

Do you block your creative flow? More creativity leads to better solutions, connections, and abundance.

If you want to unburden your creative spirit, listen to this episode of the Releasing Mental Tension Podcast.

Coach Aila Coats joins me to discuss how to drop the blocks that get in the way of our natural expression.

Read some of her inspiring words:

“We place ourselves in creativity jail when we’re placing a grade on everything we're up to.”

“It is a process of getting yourself off your mind.”

“(Creativity) is a dialogue with the Universe.”

“Can I tap into creative energy any time no matter what I’m thinking and see what happens?”

Aila started meditating and studying spiritual texts when she was 12 and hasn’t stopped for the past 30 years.

Her private practice includes teens, young adults and their families, as well as coaches, entrepreneurs and creatives. She runs a coaching school for professional coaches twice a year.

Aila published a book in 2023 called Coaching Teens Well ~ A Way of Being with Teens and their Parents.

Aila is passionate about supporting humans in remembering that they are not broken, but in fact are whole and complete and capable of moving through the world with peace of mind and freedom to create whatever it is that is in their hearts.

When she’s not coaching or speaking to groups, she can be found running through the mountains and swimming in the rivers with her husband and three wild and wonderful children.

Email her at ailahale@yahoo.com

Visit her website at https://www.ailacoats.com/

Discover Your Inner Power

We all have access to an inner power that gives us innate resilience, strength, and love.

We can innocently cover up this inner power with negative thinking. Then, addiction, fear, and worry fill our lives.

Whenever we are thinking positive, God is always near us. Whenever we are thinking negative, we are chasing God away.” - Philips Tayebwa

Join me for a conversation about happiness and love for oneself. In this episode, I bring on Philips Tayebwa, a 3 Principles practitioner working in Nakivale Refugee Camp in Western Uganda.

While this might not be the most polished episode with sound and internet challenges, it certainly has the most heart. Stick with it!

May this episode spread hope. It shows that everyone has the inner power to live a harmonious life even in the most challenging circumstances, no exceptions.

Just read some of Philips’s words:

“You are sleeping in yourself.”

“Happiness is inside us and free.”

“If I share love, I have love. I receive love.”

Philips Tayebwa is the CEO of Healing Health Healing Hearts, a 3 Principles psychotherapist, trauma rehabilitator, PDC trainer, and manager of 3 Principles Nakivale. He believes that happiness is not a luxury reserved for the privileged few. Happiness is our birthright, free to all who dare to dream and toil for a better tomorrow.

Find him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philips.tayebwa

Email him at: katwirephilips@gmail.com

Find the fundraiser here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/3p-nakivale-alcohol-department

Learn to take aligned actions, stress less, and find innate joy.

Do you struggle with your mental machine?

You know you are taking your meaning making machine (thoughts) too seriously if you struggle with:

decisions, stress, overwhelm, frustration, anxiety, unhappiness, and insecurity.

If that sounds like you, listen to a conversation I had with coach Wendy Williams.

Learn to release mental tension by approaching your mind in a new way. Relax into the way you were built.

When you understand how your meaning making machine works, it completely changes your experience of life.

You can move forward in a more informed way.

Read these powerful quotes:

“I've given up on the idea that i should have a lovely life 24/7”

“I don’t need to move forward on every inclination I have. Feelings come and then they go.”

“Am I working with the system as it is built or am I working against it?”

“The mind has the same drive as the body to keep me in homeostasis. It will take care of itself.”

Wendy is a lifelong learner, awake to opportunities to shine a light on all things wise and whole. A nurse educator specializing in psychological health, she always sees people's inner spark and capability. She is super happy to provide short term coaching to move things forward with kindness and humor for her clients.

Wendy weaves together her background as a nurse with experience in cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain and end of life. She knows, from experience, that everyone is made to live well and flourish.

Find her at Forwardwithwendy.com