Mark Melvin - Finding the Perfect Amount of Happiness

Our guest this week is Mark Melvin.  He was an accomplished corporate attorney in the alcohol industry for over a decade until he left the industry to pursue a more centered life.  He now helps people answer the question “Who am I”?  He does this by sharing techniques in yoga, meditation, and breathwork.

We Discuss:

• Mental Time Traveling - How to deal with thinking about the past stories that haunt us or future stories that cause anxiety
• How to stop intrusive and unwanted thoughts from controlling your emotions?
• What’s the cost of numbing the “voices” of anger, overwhelm, and anxiety?
• Breaking the conditioning from your upbringing
• Figuring out what YOU want to do
• Discovering how to play again and the benefits of getting to know your inner child
• How to slow down and regain control of your mind
• Developing an Indiana Jones Mentality
• Practicing micro-moments of creativity and failure
• Finding more joy in life by exploring creative outlets
• Breaking through the worry of the judgment of others
• Building resilience and self-efficacy
• Stopping the unraveling when you start to lose control of your emotion
• Becoming more centered
• How Yoga can reduce the disturbances distracting our mind from living our best life
• Finding the “perfect amount of happy” with breathwork
• How to enhance mental performance and focus
• Evolving into a fully realized human being
• How to come back from “Losing Your Mind” in stressful or combative moments
• Eliminating the “burry it down” moments” and how they can lead to immense stress and even death
• A call to selfishness that could change the world

Homework:

• Always breath in and out through your nose
• Take 15-minutes of calm “you-time” for yourself free of screens to start in a quiet and gentle way

Resources:

• Can’t Hurt Me - By David Goggins
• Extreme Ownership - By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati Yoga
• Othership- Breathwork App
• Episode 2: Ross Leppela - Building Your Sense of Belonging
• Autobiography of a Yogi - By Paramahansa Yogananda
• The Miracle Morning -  by Hal Elrod

Connect With Mark:

Instagram - MarkaMelvin

mark@dominickq.com