ManTalks – Spirituality 5.0

Date: March 16, 2015

Name: ManTalks – Spirituality 5.0

Presenters: Bradley Morris, Chris Brandt, and Mike Zaremba

One of the important topics in leadership is spirituality. When leaders expose to spirituality, they can unfold many obstacles and confusion. Furthermore, Leaders can discover the deep connection in their freedom, fulfilment and purpose. Mantalks, a community to rebuild relationship with deeper connection and living the truth, invites Bradley Morris, the founder of Cowabungalife, Chris Brandt, the Executive Director of Music Heals, and Mike Zaremba, co-Founder of Float House, to share their journey of spirituality. Their experience will provide leaders a guideline to access their deep understanding of their fulfillment and clarity.

Bradley Morris – Passion leads successful life

Bradley Morris lives as a lifestyle and business coach that educate entrepreneurs the meaning of life and career balance. Morris creates many effective meditation eCourses through his company, Cowabungalife, to support entrepreneurs in many countries. The inspiration and feeling of giving to the world is the fuel of Bradley Morris’ passion.

Spirituality has taught Bradley Morris the meaning of personal growth and discovers everyone has their own unique path to mastery. In Morris’ journey, golf has been his path to mastery. Morris was obsessed with gold since 12 years old. When Morris turned 18, he was determined to play in professional golf. However, work was not supporting his passion. He opened up an online company that sells man shirts, but he got himself into massive debt and got kicked out of the golf club. During his depression moment, he questioned himself and realized he needs to take up responsibility.

The depression forced him to be grateful of every moment in life. He became a speaker and an author. However, due to conflict of interest, he lost everything and lost his momentum. Morris was in depression once again.

Morris started meditation and tried to learn from nature. His life changed when he connected to meditation. He started to teach and conducted workshop; in addition, he launched many eCourses to help benefit people around the world.

The workshop and eCourses cannot sustain his current lifestyle, so he decides to pursue other career for additional revenue. With a rare opportunity, he accepts the job at a golf course and realizes his passion from youth. Morris understands the two worlds has become one and realizes all things in his life are preparing him to understand the missing link in his life. The tension from 10 years ago starts to come back. Morris believes it is time for him to pursue his golf passion once again.

The meditation and coaching have prepared Morris the clarity of his vision. Morris indicates his life has more energy than ever. The spirituality is in Morris’ mindset and now time is his control. Morris will do whatever it takes to conquer his new journey.

Morris recommends leaders to take one moment at a time and one step at a time. It is important to expand leader’s vision to next 10 years and understand what mastery looks like.

Morris shares the path of mastery includes 3 elements.

• Connect to leaders’ breath
• Penetrate leaders’ targets
• Get rid of fear

“Either living in the alignment or moving away from the alignment”

Chris Brandt – Journey of a music spirituality

Working as an Executive Director of Music Heals, Chris Brandt creates awareness for music therapy. Chris Brandt has over 10 years of music experience, including releasing his own record label. His passion of music has broadened his career, such as music editor, contributing editor and radio show host. Moreover, Chris Brandt also teaches music in BCIT and yoga workshops in meditation and educates many people around the world.

Chris Brandt shares people have the conception of believing yoga and spirituality are connected. People are more into yoga than regular tradition. The experience in yoga changed Brandt’s life and believes the idea of helping others is essential. Brandt believes in yoga, people are projecting from the teacher; in fact, it is experience from yoga projecting them.

“Spirituality is like a swimming pool, it all starts in shallow end”

Brandt visits Peru to climb the hill of Machu Picchu. He is able to communicate with himself during the experience in cave. Next, Brandt visits Tibet. He discovers the shift of reconnection is a part of life experience. The region from Tibet grows on him. Lastly, Brandt visits Ashram. He feels the instant karma of able to figure out everything immediately. During his intensive 10 days silent meditation in Ashram, he accomplishes the difficulty of let himself out and communicates to himself.

Last year, he was diagnosed with cancer and he was depressed. However, he treated as the next life test. Brandt realizes this might be the graduate class from his journey. If he is able to relate it to his life experience, he is able to help others with his experience.

Brandt suggests leaders to connect themselves through spirituality. There is always something worth teaching and leaders should find something worth teaching for the next generation.

“Truth sometimes is ridiculous; instead, speak the truth now because it is going to change in the future.

Mike Zaremba – Journey of spirituality

Mike Zaremba, the co-founder of Float House, believes floating practice is an important spiritual practice that uses the contemporary medicine. Mike Zaremba operates the Float House over 20 years in Vancouver. Moreover, he always challenges himself into uncomfortable experience to discover more deep connection with his life.

Coming from a religious family background, Mike Zaremba shares his father believes “spirituality is a crock”. Zaremba received this awareness from his father and determined to research the topic of spirituality. Zaremba shares his 3 phases in his journey of exposing his spiritual life.

Phase 1: Curiosity of knowledge

Zaremba emphasizes at the beginning of his journey, he wants to know everything. He reads all kind books, but Zaremba feels like an empty vessel that is pouring in limitation. Zaremba believes when people describe what they know, they limit themselves. This is the idea of subjectivity. People develop a filter based on their previous experience, which can limit how others are able to communicate their thoughts and feelings. Moreover, Zaremba believes all books are similar and he needs to discover the deeper meaning through personal experience.

Phase 2: Primary experience

Zaremba starts to dive into a practice of yoga. Yoga is believed to be the great way to connect to the inner body. Zaremba also experiences meditation and it brings the awareness to another level. He is able to see the nature’s cons.

The second Zaremba experienced is Pranayama. He is able to sense the energy of his body and understand the way of inhale and exhale from breath work can help him understand his presence.

The third Zaremba experienced is floating. Floating uses a device of float tank to minimize the environment and forces to go within. The depth is infinite and it can embrace people to create dream.

All practices prepare Zaremba to understand the reality. Moreover, Zaremba is aware of his conscious.

“Conscious is like a sea, what is your relationship with these compound?”

Phase 3: Journey in Peru

After the end of Zaremba’s relationship, he realizes there is no conscious connection with his heart. By trying to develop this connection, Zaremba got a great advice from his mentor.

“Focus on your conscious in your mind and bring it to your heart”

When he discovers the way to connect, Zaremba is able to feel the sensation. Zaremba describes the feeling as the force takes him up above the cloud and beyond the space. When Zaremba wants it back, the feeling goes back down. It is considered as the heart connection. Zaremba believes it is important for leaders to understand the importance to have the primary space in their hearts.

Questions and Answers

Zaremba’s most inspired moment in his journey is during his road of recovering from surgery. He feels grateful of everything he has. Morris’ moment is when he realizes he is good enough to believe. Brandt’s moment is when he realizes he does not have to be great, but he has the obligation to help others.

Zaremba’s father quote has created the distance between him and his father, but it shapes him the life his has right now. Zaremba mentions the conscious mind connects him from awareness, sensation and to heart.

As leaders, it is important to do something they love. By connecting their inner self from disconnecting the noises, such as cellphone, from the environment, leaders can discover the force from small meditation. Meditation is considered as daily maintenance. It is a moment of clarity and freedom is a mindset. Fully commit and adopt spirituality.