The Best Free Training

Topic: Lists of free audio & video resources from LearnOutLoud
Format: Free MP3 audios, videos & podcasts (free registration required)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

LearnOutLoud is a GREAT place to find all kinds of free audio & video resources (MP3 files, podcasts, and more) to support your self-guided learning.  Their latest free emagazine featured a collection of links to summary lists of freebies they’ve published in the past. I’ll let them explain, below:

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Topic: Meditation: How, why, and tools
Format: Blog posts, podcasts, and links
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

If you’re like most of us, you wish your vacations would last much longer. In fact, I confess that I used to start feeling the dread of “vacation’s over” several days before my precious vacation was actually over.  I’ve since discovered, however, that my meditation practice provides me with brief, refreshing “daily vacations” every day.  So this year, why not use your official vacation time to learn to meditate? Unlike that sunburn and your empty wallet, your new meditation practice will continue providing daily benefits long after your official vacation’s just a memory.

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Topic: The Law of Attraction
Format: MP3 audio (1 hr. 47 min. download; free, but registration required)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

This audio is flat out amazing! It’s a powerful, intelligent reading of all 16 Chapters of William Walker Atkinson’s 1906 Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. This work is one of the foundations of the “new thought” principles that you might have come to know through the movie and book, The Secret, as well as all manner of publications related to the Law of Attraction. I originally downloaded this out of idle curiosity — to learn a bit about the roots of The Law of Attraction. But I was blown away by the crispness and vigor of Atkinson’s writing — the clean, direct expression and force of his ideas. And these are beautifully and energetically rendered by narrator David Mitchell.  This no soothing, sleepy, new-age audio — it’s an “in your face” tour-de-force that will challenge you to rethink what you believe about the way you think. And if you think you know all about The Law of Attraction, then this work is likely to surprise you with some new content and a sometimes edgy attitude. I loved it!

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Topic: Comprehensive Health and Medical Information
Format: Website with a comprehensive online collection of brief (under 2 minute) videos, brief articles, links, and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Do you have questions about a specific health issue or medical condition? If you’ve got a minute or two, you can go to Web MD’s amazing Health Videos A-Z collection and get a fast-paced, authoritative micro-lesson that will prepare you for a more informed, intelligent conversation with your doctor.

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Would you like to improve your mental or spiritual health? (“Spiritual” is used here in the broadest possible sense; no religious perspectives are advocated.) There are loads of great free training and educational opportunities that can help you recharge your emotional batteries. Below is a complete list of those we reviewed on this blog.

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Let’s face it: The holidays can be a real test of our mental health and well-being. For a few days (or if you’re “lucky,” a couple of weeks), we find ourselves outside our comfortable work routines and spending time with family members and friends we might see only once a year. If your family is like most, there are all sorts of emotional undercurrents running through these reunions.  Ancient roles, inescapable expectations, historic feuds, and long-running issues pollute what could be a fairly happy time — if only we could figure out how to connect to our own (and subsequently others’) happiness.

In the last couple of years I’ve spent a fair chunk of time exploring the topic of happiness. And here’s the great news: I am absolutely certain that you can (if you spend a little effort trying) teach yourself and your family group to be happier and to interact more positively. In this post, I share some of my recent podcasts that can get you started. I hope you find them valuable. And… HAPPY (Yes, Happy!) HOLIDAYS!!

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Topic: Introductory information about meditation and a collection of tools to help newcomers learn to meditate
Format: Web site with overviews, practical advice, and many downloadable audio/MP3 files
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Jerry Whiting’s Jet City Orange website is a great source of straightforward, practical information about the secular practice of meditation. And it includes an extensive collection of free tools in the form of audio (MP3) files to help you get started with your own meditation practice. No particular religious perspective is reflected in these tools.

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