Connections Radio Presents Michael Fischman “The Journey From Head to Heart”

Michael Fischman is a leader in the field of personal development, best-selling author of Stumbling Into Infinity: An Ordinary Man in the Sphere of Enlightenment. Not too long ago, as a high-powered advertising executive he was on a very different path. And then, he met Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Michael says, “I’d been meditating for 12 years and although I had times of great serenity, something was missing. I thought I needed to focus on getting along better with people and have more quality relationships. Meeting Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and learning the powerful breathing technique that is the basis of The Art of Living workshop, changed the entire direction of my life.

“I never realized how powerful breathing could be as a way to control my mind and emotions. I couldn’t control my mind with my mind but through the breath I now have a say over my thought patterns and emotions.

“My spiritual practice is about the journey from my head to my heart. I used to be seeking truth and judging everybody and everything until I realized that love is the greatest power for transforming the world. In my personal relationships, there’s a lot more warmth and depth and appreciation for individuals.

“We’re all looking for joy and hope that finding the right person will complete us and fill us up. I now know that joy is something inside me and things cannot fill me. Things are like the icing on the cake but I’m the cake. I am that divine consciousness and when I experience my authentic self I realize that that’s the source of joy for which I so deeply yearn.

“Since taking my first workshop, my entire orientation towards oneness has changed. Before that time I was like a bull in a china shop. There was me and then there was the rest of the world. People were a vehicle to get what I needed. I wasn’t sensitive to people’s feelings or what other people needed.

“As time has gone on I’ve found my needs decreasing and I am able to take greater responsibility not just for my family but for the whole planet. And now my life is about service, the service of helping uplift others and work more effectively with them.

“The breathing technique that I use and teach is an action that we take with the breath that gives a clear vision of who we really are. It’s based on the simple principle that every emotion has a corresponding rhythm of breath. Emotions and breath have a direct correlation. With this knowledge, we use the breath to become aware of when we’re not in our center, eliminate the emotional toxins that we have been holding in our body, and then return to our center.”

The Art Of Living Foundation has programs all over the world working with all kinds of groups and individuals in need. The program that Fischman is very closely connected with is, “Youth Empowerment Seminars” YES teaches breathing techniques to 6,000 kids to help them get through school and their day. In the schools in which they have been working the program has significantly changed the drop out rate.

Michael Fischman is the U.S. president and one of the founding members of the nonprofit Art of Living Foundation, whose programs have impacted more than 25 million people around the world. He has led breathing and meditation workshops at the United Nations, NASA, the World Bank, IBM, the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Army National Guard, and retreat programs in many other settings. A native New Yorker, he currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida. More about Michael and his fabulous book can be found at www.stumblingintoinfinity.com. For more information about the Art of Living Workshops visit www.artofliving.org

Cynthia James and Dr. Jordan Paul, hosts for Connections Radio, share a common passion for helping to heal separation and facilitate oneness. Our motto, “Stay Connected” means living in oneness with our authentic self and our family, including those with whom we live as well as every living thing with whom we share our planetary home.

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