Fishing Without Bait 39: Super Ball
Jim Ellermeyer 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?
Fishing Without Bait 38: Mirrors and Windows
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.
Fishing Without Bait 37: Preview of Your Life
Jim Ellermeyer 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.
Fishing Without Bait 36: Down the Rabbit Hole
Jim Ellermeyer 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.
Fishing Without Bait 35: It's Good to Be Me
Jim Ellermeyer 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.
Fishing Without Bait 34: Feel the Tingle
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.
Fishing Without Bait 33: Carpe Diem!
Jim Ellermeyer 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?
Fishing Without Bait 32: Adding Positivity
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.
Fishing Without Bait 31: Mindfulness and Being Truthful
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.
Fishing Without Bait 30: Mental Finger Trap
Jim Ellermeyer 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!
Fishing Without Bait 29: Emotional Quicksand
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.
Fishing Without Bait 28: My Beginning With Mindfulness
This week, we read a blog post where a student describes her venture into mindfulness in the first 6 weeks and how it changed her life.
Fishing Without Bait 27: Mini Mindfulness
Jim Ellermeyer discusses finding those glancing moments of mindfulness, Concentration, and more.
Fishing Without Bait 26: Butterfly Effect
What board effects do our choices do around us? How do we allow time to control us? What are small changes we can make that can have a large effect?
Fishing Without Bait 25: Refocusing Rather Than Letting Go
We talk about the narrative of our lives and how we develop skills from speaking to the work we do. How does our emotional detachment to an experience change our thoughts? What is your brain doing to protect you from these experiences? How do step back and become a nonjudgemental observer?
Fishing Without Bait 24: Conscience Choice
Jim Ellermeyer discusses our choices and get deeper into a conversation about how “making a choice” is not as easy as it sounds sometimes and how our responses change.
Fishing Without Bait 23: Introduction to Time Line Therapy
Jim Ellermeyer discusses Time Line Therapy and gets us started with a self examination in our state of mindfulness. Where are your expectations on finding resolutions to your problems? What in our past shape how we behave today, and how can recognizing that change how we live?
Fishing Without Bait 22: Mindfulness Expression in Judaism
Jim Ellermeyer takes a look at Judaism and how mindfulness applies to the faith in its distant history, and more!
Fishing Without Bait 21: Life is Suffering
Jim Eellermeyer discusses buddhism, the suffering of life, how we decide to be with or without suffering, and the concepts of viparinama-dukkha, samkhara-dukkha, and dukkha-dukkha and break down where that voice in your head comes from.
Fishing Without Bait 20: Of Jihad and Rumi
Jim Ellermeyer discusses Islam and attempts to describe the true meanings of what a "jihad". We talk about basic concepts from the religion that sound remarkably like mindfulness, beginner's mind, and the writings of Rumi