Dear Friends,
This month's edition of the Transformational Thinking Newsletter is themed around the concept of Mastering Your Mind, named for my transformational retreat at Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica later this month. This is my second time offering this wonderful retreat, which not only includes transformational workshops and trainings with me, but also organic farm to table food, yoga, massages, mud baths and much more! I'm excited to announce that I'll be joined by my dear friend, Ben Decker, who is the Director of Education here at the Institute, and the author of Practical Meditation for Beginners. There are still a few spots to register, so I hope you'll join us! See below for more information.
With the explosive increase in popularity that meditation has received over the last few years, I'm not surprised that so many journalists have been asking me about how meditation might improve our sex lives! In the newsletter below, you will find an interview I did about meditation and sex, as well as an article I was featured in on the same topic.
I'm also excited to share with you an exclusive article by one of The IFTT's Certified Thought Coaches, Johnnie Calloway. Johnnie and I have a podcast together called; Says Who? For The Addictive Personality, and his article, The Importance of Thought Management, is a perfect reflection of his years of study, practice, and training through The IFTT. He is also the author of multiple books, and an inspirational speaker on the topics of addiction and transformational thinking.
I was so impressed with the Inner Truth Podcast I did, and the deep, meaningful conversation David Newell and I were able to have together on the importance of the inner journey, and the power of self-inquiry. I also enjoyed my conversation with Awaken.com, Present Without Thoughts. These are two serious podcasts which you can explore below.
Please do check out the upcoming dates at the end of this email - and save the date for my special weekend intensive Thought Coach Certification training! It will include all of the in depth, comprehensive curriculum of my four-week training, packed into one empowering weekend. You'll get the chance to work with me and my top coaches personally in the comfort and privacy of my Los Angeles home. There is limited space available, and we are now accepting applications.
I look forward to connecting with you soon!
Love & Light,
Ora
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JULY 22 - JULY 29, 2018
Mastering Your Mind Retreat,
Rythmia Life Advancement Center, Costa Rica
This transformational retreat will give you original, unique tools to shift your entire thinking process. By learning The Transformational Thinking Process, you will experience your thoughts in a whole new way so that ultimately you can be the "creator and master of your internal dialogue, which creates your reality." This retreat will include workshops with Ora Nadrich, yoga, meditation with Ben Decker, Transformational Breathwork, massages, fresh pressed juice, organic farm-to-table meals and more!
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
William James
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medium.com
Ora Nadrich Talks About How Meditation Improves Sex
by Jennifer Woods
Jennifer: Can you explain “present moment awareness” and Mindfulness, and how they relate to better sex? Is there a metaphor you can give for how our senses experience more satisfaction by being present?
Ora: A good metaphor for fully enjoying something by being totally present is when we’re watching a sunset. We’re so engaged and have surrendered to the beauty of what we’re seeing that there’s nowhere else we’d rather be than in that moment. This allows us to experience the beauty of a sunset with total awareness, which only heightens its beauty and increases our appreciation of it...
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"The deeper we go into ourselves, the more there is to discover, and the more we know, the less there is to fear."
Ora Nadrich
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Bustle.com
My Boyfriend & I Tried Meditating For 30 Days To Improve Our Sex Life
by Kelly Gonsalves / June 2018
Read enough sex advice columns, and you’ll conclude there’s only one way for a couple to rejuvenate a sex life gone stale: get kinky. Whether that means threesomes, new toys, bondage or what-have-you, a little experimentation in the bedroom is apparently all a couple needs to rekindle the spark.
In reality, of course, mundanity is far from the only reason sex can stagnate in a relationship. For me and my boyfriend Bert, rough play and sex parties are staples in our passion playbook — and yet as of a month ago, we’d been having a dry spell for almost three months. So instead of trying to go into overdrive with the kink, Bert and I decided we should go in the opposite direction: slowing down....
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"Detachment doesn’t mean you own nothing; detachment means nothing owns you."
The Bhagavad Gita
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InnerTruth.org
Thinking And The Power Of Self-Inquiry
Interview With Ora Nadrich
We have, by the latest estimates, between 40,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day. How we receive, respond and act upon those thoughts can be the biggest determinant in the outcomes of our lives (both emotionally and physically).
Not all of our thoughts are helpful, in fact many can be completely undermining. Some might not even be yours at all.
If you’re wondering how to take better control over your thinking process and by extension your life, this episode is for you...
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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe
in the heroic makes heroes."
Benjamin Disraeli
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The Institute For Transformational Thinking
The Importance of Thought Management
by Johnnie Calloway / July 2018
Johnnie Calloway is certified as a Thought Coach by The Institute For Transformational Thinking. He is a long time student of The Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, A Course In Miracles, and is the author of Taming The Dragon, and Dragons To Butterflies. He is the host of Morph Into a New You podcast, and co-host of the Says Who? For Addiction Podcast.
Most of us go through our day allowing our minds to go where they will, not realizing; "All thinking creates on some level" (A Course In Miracles). There are several quotes from ACIM that support the importance of thought management.
It is vital for personal growth to monitor our thoughts. If we can wrap our minds around how the process works: A thought produces a feeling, which becomes a belief, then becomes our behavior, which makes up our life. Break the process down and it becomes; changing your life begins with changing our thoughts.
At this point, most respond with, "It can't be that simple!" Well, it is that simple, but simple does not translate to being easy.
Thoughts are incredibly habitual and amazingly addictive. Especially the self-destructive ones. We think we are powerless over them. We go as far as to say, "I am not responsible for my first thought, just how I react to it." A Course In Miracles states; "This is a course in mind training." I say, life is a course in mind training. Yes, we can literally train our minds to think as we choose. Again, it is simple but not easy.
If we find ourselves feeling sad and we investigate our thoughts, we will always find; a thought preceding the feeling of sadness. Once the thought has been identified, we are on our way. Please, remember it is perfectly okay to choose to be sad. It is also incredibly empowering to own it as a choice rather than thinking we are a victim to the sadness.
Think about it! If we really wrap our minds around the empowering reality of our thoughts creating our lives, and we train ourselves in thought transformation, how alive we would be.
It takes honesty, an open-mind, and the willingness to change a life.
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Awaken.com
Interviews
Ora Nadrich: Present Without Thoughts
Awaken.com
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Upcoming Events
SAVE THE DATES
JULY 22 - JULY 29, 2018
Mastering Your Mind Retreat,
Rythmia Life Advancement Center, Costa Rica
This transformational retreat will give you original, unique tools to shift your entire thinking process. By learning The Transformational Thinking Process, you will experience your thoughts in a whole new way so that ultimately you can be the "creator and master of your internal dialogue, which creates your reality." This retreat will include workshops with Ora Nadrich, yoga, meditation with Ben Decker, Transformational Breathwork, massages, fresh pressed juice, organic farm-to-table meals and more!
REGISTER HERE
AUG 31 - SEP 2, 2018
Thought Coach Certification Intensive Retreat
Private Estate, Pacific Palisades, California
With such extraordinary success coming from The IFTT's Online Thought Coach Certification Training, we are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a special in-person weekend intensive training. Join us at Ora's private estate in Pacific Palisades, CA and leave with a transformed mind, lifelong friends, and your Thought Coach Certificate!
REGISTER HERE
OCT 1 - DEC 31, 2018
Meditation Teacher Training
The Institute For Transformational Thinking
Institute For Transformational Thinking Director of Education and author of Practical Meditation For Beginners, Ben Decker, will be offering an online 12-week Practical Meditation Teacher Training through The IFTT.
Registration Begins August 1, 2018
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