Listen To Episode 149 As Johnny Blackburn Uncovers:
- How his injury allowed him to embrace his circumstances and make the most of the experience.
- What Johnny was doing during 2012, why he gathered so much information, and how he has evolved over the past 5 years to enter this state of relaxation.
- The importance of saying ‘yes' to the Hero's Journey and the process of Separation, Initiation, and Return to develop ourselves and better serve the world.
- Why Johnny wrote his book, Presence: A Practical Guide to Awakening Greater Potential in Work, Love & Life
- The Emergent Process and how to apply embodiment, relaxation, and awareness to your life.
- Why microscopic facial muscles are vital to know whether or not you can trust another person.
- How does behavioral flexibility plug into sustainable behavior and change?
- What is somatic awareness? What can our chest, stomach, and throat can teach us about emotional intelligence?
- Why we should give ourselves permission to feel our emotions.
- How holotropic breathing and other practices can be a great healing tool.
- His daily dream routine with keto, breathing, and meditation.
- David Deida's three stages to gender development for both men and women.
- How we can collectively progress with all of the emotions and thoughts surrounding #MeToo.
- What people can do to have more open discussions and become a better at speaking to their loved one.
Power Quotes From The Show
“The privilege of a lifetime is being and becoming who you are.” – Joe Campbell
“I had to put trust that this experience was happening for some reason that I didn't know yet and that I was going to take full responsibility for my situation and make the best of it.” – Johnny Blackburn
“Joy is the matriarch of all emotion and she only enters the home when all of her children are welcome.” – Joe Hudson
“There's this paradox with emotion that when it feels like we don't want to get rid of it, it won't actually leave us. Emotion needs to feel this complete quality of acceptance. Then, that degree of grounding allows it to be metabolized and released in seconds.” – Johnny Blackburn
“You can't Google ‘wisdom.' There's going to be a time when memorization won't be so important and you can just Google the information. So, our presence, awareness, emotional intelligence – these are going to become more valued capacities.” – Johnny Blackburn
About Johnny Blackburn
Johnny Blackburn is a professional coach, speaker & facilitator who empowers clients, organizations and audiences to discover and then live from their deeper Presence. Residing in San Diego, CA, he is a highly respected authority on human embodiment and professional performance.
Blackburn’s original background in Management Consulting, Master’s degree in Psychology and more than 2000 client-coaching hours as a Professionally Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation all combined with extensive professional development training make him a highly sought after guide to greater levels of presence, openness and thriving.
Personally, Johnny enjoys many forms of movement, martial arts, surfing, dancing Tango, being outdoors, reading, learning, laughing, preparing and eating delicious slow food, local community gatherings, traveling the world, going to festivals, having authentic conversations with friends, loved ones & “strangers”, and being still.