• Alessandro explains how when you are experiencing overwhelm you can settle your energy and mind through awareness, breathing and connection. He shares a chapter from the Tao Te Ching and reflects that nature is always supporting and our connection with heaven and earth is always there when our hearts are open.

    • Taking time for yourself is vital

    • The mind can be very busy and allowing your energy to settle can remove the stress

    • Become aware of your body and how you are feeling

    • The breath can be used to put attention on the lower abdomen and this will settle thoughts and the mind

    • Feet into the earth (yin) and sense the connection to heaven (yang)

    • When you empty the mind you have more space for solutions and inspiration

  • ‘There are always priorities and when you work on these everything else falls into place’

    ‘Nature is always there supporting us’

    ‘Take your time from a place of groundedness’

  • Empty yourself of everything.

    Let the mind rest at peace.

    The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.

    They grow and flourish and then return to the source.

    Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

    The way of nature is unchanging.

    Knowing constancy is insight.

    Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.

    Knowing constancy, the mind is open.

    With an open mind, you will be openhearted.

    Being openhearted, you will act royally.

    Being royal, you will attain the divine.

    Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.

    Being at one with the Tao is eternal.

    And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

    (translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

The Flowing Health Podcast.

Click here to Listen in & Subscribe

Here to Inspire, Empower & Entertain you.

To help deepen your connection to Yourself, Others & the world around you. Weekly chats with Inspiring guests, my own Journeys and Meditations.

Including Inspiration form Ancient Wisdom to help navigate Current Times with Greater Ease.

Remember, always keep a smile in your Heart.

Episode 16

 Reinventing Masculinity, The Liberating Power of Compassion And Connection.

Listen on this link

Alessandro is talking with the co-author of the inspiring book ‘Reinventing Masculinity’, Ed Frauenheim. Ed shares a fascinating insight into the liberating power of compassion and connection and how when men can expand beyond confined masculinity to liberating masculinity they can free both themselves and those around them.
Listen in to understand more about the power of liberating masculinity, compassion and connectivity and the positives it brings in every area of life
KEY TAKEAWAYS

∙      Men have had to show up differently at work and in their personal lives, we need to reinvent how men show up to solve global issues

∙      Men can experience a sense of confined masculinity

∙      Liberating masculinity is about men freeing both themselves and others

∙      Curiosity, compassion, commitment, courage and connection are the ways to move to a bigger way of living

∙      Men can have a better life experience if they can expand from their confined masculinity  and limiting factors of the past

∙      We have to be more willing to share and connect with others

∙      Psychological safety is key in the work environment

 BEST MOMENTS
‘I struggled to fit into the man rules’
‘There is a lot of good that ripples out from men liberating themselves from the narrow confines’
‘We are all going through similar issues’

  • Alessandro explains how when you are experiencing overwhelm you can settle your energy and mind through awareness, breathing and connection. He shares a chapter from the Tao Te Ching and reflects that nature is always supporting and our connection with heaven and earth is always there when our hearts are open.

    • Taking time for yourself is vital

    • The mind can be very busy and allowing your energy to settle can remove the stress

    • Become aware of your body and how you are feeling

    • The breath can be used to put attention on the lower abdomen and this will settle thoughts and the mind

    • Feet into the earth (yin) and sense the connection to heaven (yang)

    • When you empty the mind you have more space for solutions and inspiration

Episode 33

Inspiring Words for the Year

Episode 32

Act by Not Acting

Episode 31

Adapting To Change

Episode 30

Four Secrets to a Long Life

 

Episode 27

Stay Connected

Episode 29

It’s Your Time

 

Episode 26

Suffering is Optional

Episode 28

Courage

 

Episode 25

Start Your Day in A Positive Way

Episode 24

Covid - More Positives

 

Episode 21

Positives from Covid

Episode 23

When in Rome

 

Episode 20

Great Fullness

Episode 22

Transform Fear

 

Episode 19

Grounding Exercises

Episode 18

Empowering Yourself

 

Episode 15

It’s Not Happiness That Makes us Grateful

Episode 17

ABC of Health, Joy & Success

 

Episode 14

Anyway, Mother Teresa

Episode 16

Hope is a Superpower

 

Episode 13

Meditation to Relax The Mind

Episode 12

Call it Tao

 

Episode 9

Knowing Others VS Knowing Yourself

Episode 11

The Great Taoist

 

Episode 8

The Empty Boat

Episode 10

Those Who Do Not Talk

 

Episode 7

Usefulness Comes From Here

Episode 6

Action & Effortless Action

 

Episode 3

When you see the face of Anger - Look behind it

Episode 5

Everything That Exists

 

Episode 2

Yield & Overcome

Episode 4

The Universe is Sacred

 

Episode 1

Empty Yourself of Everything

Hello - welcome to the Flowing Health Podcast!

Listen to the intro episode. Launched in 2020.