Are you familiar with your emotional bandwidth? If not there is no better time than now to get familiar. I have found this to be a great value as I have learned when I need to step away. We became comfortable with knowing our limits and how to better enforce boundaries.

In our first in what is going to be a continuous series of heavy metal-inspired meditations is a short breathing exercise. The goal is to help try to quiet the mind. We spend ten minutes together focused on our breath and the music.

In this episode Chad Rohrbaugh, our music producer, has what he calls Viking metal for us. I found it very calming when I first sat with it. What you will hear during this is what I was telling myself to do during this time.

I hope you enjoy our first attempt at Metal Meditation. There are more to come. Next one is scheduled for 9/26/22. Until then let us know what you think in the comments here or on the website.

Getting familiar with what motivates us is extremely important. We see it all the time in countless self-help memes. They all mean well but I have always felt they missed the mark a bit. After all, do we know what "motivation" is? And if we do, how do we take that motivation and apply it so we can use it? What about self-discipline, is that important, or do we just need motivation? For such a seemingly simple idea, "just find your motivation and you can succeed," it is filled with so many questions.

It is my hope in today's episode we start to understand the power and strength we gain in understanding these ideas. That they are not just some self-help guru crap that has no value, like snake oil from the past. But real, valuable skills we can use! We can take motivation and self-discipline with us to grow even farther than we thought possible. At least that's my hope!