Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 6

In Session 6, Rick leads you through a relaxation technique called Progressive Muscle Relaxation.

Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 5

In Session five, Rick leads you through a mindful eating meditation.

Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 4

In Session four, Rick leads you through a breathing gratitude meditation.

Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 3

In Session three, Rick leads you through a loving-kindness meditation, extending compassion to the people closest to you and around the world

Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 2

In session two of ``Get out of your head and come to your senses,`` Rick expands on the breathing meditation he lead in session one, adding a simple, scientifically validated technique to calm the mind and body when you're experiencing strong emotions during a crisis.

Get out of your head and come to your senses: Session 1

In response to the global trauma and grief of COVID-19, Behavioral Essentials is leading a live meditation, mental hygiene and variety show every weekday. This podcast series includes live recordings from the sessions so that you can enjoy the content at your own pace, anywhere, anytime.

In session one, Rick leads you through an introductory breathing meditation to cope with anxiety you may be experiencing from COVID-19 and to connect you back to your senses.

Six Question to Ask yourself during COVID-19

In this meditation, Rick expands on a Greater Good Science Center article and leads you through a brief meditation on their six questions to ask yourself during COVID-19.

Who am I?

In this meditation, Rick contemplates the question of “who am I?” and invites us to begin to open our minds and hearts to other perspectives of identity.

Struggling with Self-Criticality

In this powerful coaching session, Rick speaks to an employee at Full Sail where Behavioral Essentials is launching a new coaching center about struggling with self-criticality and the fear of rejection.

Compassion for a Loved One

In this week's podcast, Rick shows you how to show compassion for a loved one by tapping into your own basic goodness and extending it to others.

Seated Breath Meditation

In this podcast, Rick guides you through the steps of establishing and practicing a seated breath meditation.

The Importance of Relaxation and Presence

In the third part of Rick’s conversation with John P. Milton, John discusses the importance of relaxing into the present moment and embracing the truth of change that is inherent in life.

Dealing with New Year's Depression

In this week’s podcast episode, Rick talks about his recent experience with Depression at the start of the new year and the realizations he had that helped him bounce back.

Perceptual Fields with John Milton

In Rick’s second interview with John P. Milton, John expands on the perceptual fields that are part of his fundamental truth and how we can use them to return to our natural place, reclaim our sense of interconnectivity and recover the fundamental joy that has existed for millennia in the natural world that we are inherently a part of.

The Fundamental Truth: An Interview with John P. Milton

Rick talks to John P. Milton, founder of the Way of Nature, about the first of his 12 principles of natural liberation which draws from his lifelong study and synthesis of the world’s great traditions and natural principles. In his Fundamental truth, “all perceived form is interconnected, constantly changes , continually arises from, manifests within and returns to primordial source.” He explains that this truth is a pathway to a more liberated state of being.

Leadership Essentials: Lesson 3

In the third lesson of the Leadership Essentials series, Rick talks about the importance of interconnectivity to leadership and leads you through a meditation that fosters awareness of the many natural support systems that are always available to you.

Leadership Essentials: Lesson 2

In the second lesson of the Leadership Essentials series, Rick explores the importance of relaxation as a leader and the many benefits it can bring.

Leadership Essentials: Lesson 1

Rick begins a 10-part series on Leadership Essentials that focuses on the core attributes of a leader. In this introductory lesson, he explores the importance of ``doing what you say you're going to do.``

A Meditation for Fall

In the second part of this series on fall, Rick guides you through a meditation on presence and acceptance as these themes relate to fall.

Welcoming Fall

In the first part of this two part series, Rick talks about the wonders of fall and shares an anecdote that illuminates the interconnectivity and change inherent in this season.

Low Creativity as a Strength

In this quick podcast episode, Rick explores a client example where having a low creativity score was a huge strength.

Behavioral Scale Deep Dive: High Creativity

In this quick podcast episode, Rick shares a story about how his high creativity score has effected him in his own life and gives advice on how to find balance if you’re highly creative.

Anxiety & The Vagus Nerve

In this week's podcast episode, Rick talks about anxiety and it's relationship to the Vagus Nerve and provides you with a simple, 3-minute practice that can help you start to overcome it.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

In this podcast, Rick helps you relax your mind and body through a technique called Progressive Muscle Relaxation. This technique is a wonderful way to slow down excessive thinking and rumination, and creates awareness of your body, encouraging you to notice what it feels like to be tense vs. relaxed in the present moment.

Support from all Directions

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks about the importance of connecting with nature and guides you through a practice he calls “Support from all Directions” that celebrates the wonderful realities that are around us all the time.

Breathing into your Center

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick guides you through a quick meditation that focuses on breathing into your center in order to calm the body and mind.

Tonglen Meditation

In this meditation, Rick's teacher, John P. Milton, a renowned ecologist, spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader and shaman, guides you through a Tonglen practice to expand your compassion and loving kindness to others by reducing your own painful attachments.

Compassion Meditation

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick leads you through a compassion meditation to bring happiness to others and encourages us to act in ways that are sustainable and life promoting.

A Meditation on Presence

In this episode, Rick introduces you to his dear friend and spiritual teacher, John P. Milton, a renowned ecologist, spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader and shaman, who leads you through a meditation on presence.

Relaxing the Inner Critic

In this discussion and meditation, Rick briefly addresses the dissatisfaction we all experience in our lives and provides a meditation to ease the endless cycle of craving and clinging.

Introduction to the Five Mindfulness Trainings

In the first episode of this series, Rick provides you with a way to approach Thich Nhat Hanh's five mindfulness trainings that he introduces and explores throughout the series.

Order & Structure

How orderly and structured are you? In this episode, Rick shares a brief funny story about one of our clients and dear friends who pays no mind to order and structure, in a hilarious and awesome way.

Dealing with Painful Emotions

In this episode, Rick discusses the many obscurations and blockages that contribute to our suffering, how we can become aware of them, and learn how to relax and release.

I have arrived, I am home

In this special episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick shares the significance of Thich Nhat Hanh as a teacher in his life and one of his favorite Gathas for practicing presence and mind-body-spirit connection.

Cultivating Compassion

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick teaches you how to cultivate compassion for yourself and others in this quick guided meditation.

Finding Inner Happiness

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick guides you through a seated breathing meditation that will help you become aware of the many elements of happiness that are around you all the time.

Guiding Gumby

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks to a highly driven creative engineer about his key behavioral attributes and shows how these traits can be both strengths and growth areas in his life. Rick guides you through using our behavioral assessment in this coaching session and gives advice to facilitate your own.

Digging Deeper

In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with Deepak Kumar, a successful Director of Business Operations, about his strengths and growth areas using the results of our behavioral assessment, The BE Success Survey.

Taming the Monkey Mind

Feeling stressed and unsettled? In this special episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick shares his thoughts on meditation and the benefits of establishing your own meditation practice. He provides simple meditation ideas that are accessible to everyone and guides you through the process of establishing awareness through mind-body connection.

Pixel Perfect

In Episode 8 of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with a Graphic Designer about her need to always feel in control and how she has realized that she defines her whole identity by the things she does and what other people think of her.

Mentor Casting: Eric Loyall

In this special episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with Eric Loyall, COO of SSA, a well-established company that operates visitor services at cultural attractions across the United States, about the importance of mentorship for personal growth and how his company invested in its own formal mentorship program to encourage understanding, connection and diversity.

Like a Bridge over Troubled Water

In this heart wrenching (and warming) episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with artist & musician, Shawn Rinehart, about his most tragic and impactful life event and how he leaned on his own strengths and the love of community to process his loss and grief.

Combatting Kali

In Episode 5 of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with Yogi and Entrepreneur, Kali Necrason about the importance of names and how their spiritual significance has informed her perception of herself. She talks about how she is constantly combatting her innate and intense forward energy and aggression because she sees it as the antithesis of her core spiritual self.

Chucking Kale at Your Husband

In Episode 4 of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks to a passionate creative who struggles with dealing with the “spongey” stuff that occupies her mind and the dissatisfaction inherent in being creative…sometimes manifesting into chucking kale at her husband. (Featuring a guest appearance by an epic thunderstorm… )

Unraveling the Human Doing

In Episode 3 of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with our senior consultant, Chu Shin, about his severe childhood trauma and how it has informed his need to prove himself and always do more.

Comic Relief

In Episode 2 of Natural Tendencies, Rick leads a verbal acupuncture session where he talks to one of his closest friends about having the rug pulled out from under his life after his parent’s divorce and early childhood losses, the insecurity and loneliness that resulted from that, and how he resorted to comedy as a means to make connections.

The Human Chameleon

In our inaugural episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks to a successful VP who he refers to as The Human Chameleon about dealing with anxiety, growing up with psychiatrists after a divorce and sacrificing your own needs for others.