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I think; therefore, I am.

How about now, we pivot it to:

I am present; therefore, I am a gift.

Or even simpler,

✨I am breathing; therefore, I am.✨

The modern world perceives our attention as commodities.

Yet our attention is divine.

I invite you to steward our attention with deep intention.

Take a 😮‍💨 breathe to anchor our intention :

Where should I steward my attention to at this very moment with an eternal sense of peace ?

#Attention, #InnerPeace, #Intention, #DivineBeing, #Stewardship, #Breathe

3 days ago | [YT] | 1

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Authentic conversation is like a heart felt music 🎶.

When I was in elementary school, I would stay in a beautifully sun kissed room，listening to music and songs and immerse myself in the warm hug of the vibrations of the voices and rhythms and imagine myself singing and dancing. ✨

Those moments really helped anchor the self and soul in a compassionate ground.

Now as I start this podcast journey, I see and feel all the conversations as a song we make together.

With deep intention and heart felt authenticity, I see the music spread into the world 🌎 resonating with kindred spirits.

What is your music ?


#Reflection #Music #IntentionalConversation

4 days ago | [YT] | 1

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This is an ask to the emerging community here:

What are some deeply entangled questions you have about spirituality?

I encourage you to share your questions here.

This way we can co create content and experiences to support each other on this path of infinite evolution, anchoring in this deep eternal wave of stillness and joy.

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

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I first met Nathan Brown, PhD, when I was researching accessible bio-neuro-feedback devices to support our understanding of inner physiological state, so we can develop inner insights to anchor our energies in an expansive state of stillness of eternal calm and joy regardless.

This intentional state reminds me of the radical calm at the eye of a tornado. This is the intentional state I hope myself and everyone can effortlessly rest into more often.

We were born with this magic power and gradually lose it because we (especially those highly sensitive ones) were often taught that “we are too small and not worthy of love” through the tight knit (intentional and unintentional) systems, shaping our energies as we “grow up” to be more “compliant.”

Authentic diversity is often perceived as threats, even though we know (harmonious) diversity is an absolutely essential ingredient for a culture to flourish.

Over the years, I have been made aware that our heavy reliance on the brain (cognitive capacity) to process information, generate awareness, and to decide, to “perform “ to earn credibility and attention, serves as a “generator” of separation, harsh criticism, intolerance of diversity, and in a cliche word “pain,” and in other words, “lack of compassion” for ourselves and others. 

Our body's intelligence has been almost completely ignored or, at best, undervalued. 

According to Nathan, it takes our body two one-hundredths of a second to respond to what's happening externally, and ten one-hundredths of a second for that signal to even begin to reach our frontal lobe—where thinking happens.

So, within the eight one-hundredths of a second, our body takes a leading role in processing multitudes of information.

So, our body knows before we know? Interesting~

If we can create more space and respect for our body to develop awareness and intelligence inside of us, we will notice early signs of im-harmony and ease into stillness before the mind takes over.

Full Article: www.magicademy.club/wonder-leadership/non-anxious-…

Inner Atlas MicroChallenge: app.magicademy.club/

#NonAnxiousLeadership, #SpiritualWellbeing, #EmbodiedAwareness, #MindfulDecisionMaking, #CalmPresence, #BodySignals, #StressManagement, #AuthenticConnection, #Compassion, #LeadershipDevelopment

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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How does sunset 🌅 make you feel?

I was co-designing the MAGICademy app one night with ai.

We were testing the design of the menu. I said “menu is where we will be interacting often, how can we design to intrigue a sense of awe and magic ?”

ai provided some options and as we go through each design, one in particular caught my attention: a subtle transient hue from green to orchid purple.

I paused and looked at this for a long time and said, “I like the transient earthy canvas tone, how about let’s shift the green into golden yellow ? “ (my initial thinking was strategic, because it aligns with the podcast cover image color pallet)

Once the color is implemented, I found myself being “absorbed” into a totally deep awe moment…

The golden to purple transient color immediately brought me into a time of sunset, as I travelled on a bridge with friends, and the abundant golden sun light 🌅hugging the ocean as it farewelled for the day…

Memories start to resurface, the old school times, the music we played and sang along the way, the little dramas we experienced, and the beating heart inside with passion, love, and hope…

I felt in love in this moment. 💖 ( I dwelled inside this moment for a while…)

This could be a magical moment we can feel in a simple process of ordinary work, actually“intentional play.”

Would like to share this magical yet ordinary moment with you.

What is your magical moment in the process of “intentional play ?”

#IntentionalPlay #OrdinaryMAGIC #SunsetLove #SchoolTimeMemory #FutureOfWork

(Image generated by Gemini)

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

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Guided by this question: How to reawaken childlike wonder within each of us?

With an intention and deep commitment to embody this message beyond the ego mind, I have been diving deeply into my own psyche (light and shadows) and started to do daily reflections, readings, researching, and most importantly, meditative dancing and beingness.

Through the podcast as a medium, I am also experiencing an accumulative impact from the conversations with all the beautiful guests in the past years (behind the scenes, I have been working intentionally slowly; I was only able to air half of them, and I am on schedule to air the other half gradually as new conversations are also being recorded).

Before I knew it, I had embarked on an adventure into spirituality.

Once I realized that, I hesitated to continue, because my mind would tell me, "Wait, spirituality is this new age thing...no scientific proof yet...lot of woo woos..." "Do you plan to let go of all the formal academic scientific training behind you and go into this spirituality thing? " "You don't even have a specific religion yet...how do you know that you're spiritual?" "What makes you qualified to go on this adventure?" "Is there a scientific method to validate or disvalidate if people say they are spiritual?"

Whenever my mind tries to play this domination game on me, I hug my mind with loving compassion and say gently, "Thank you for your care, and let's just pause for a bit."

Then I would feel my body gradually release this tension, and I could find my inner anchoring stillness with joy.

The intuition told me that there is some connection between "childlike wonder" and "spirituality' on a very deep level. (I have learned to respect and honor my quiet inner voice more nowadays.)

The fact is that spirituality is not woo-woo anymore. It is also not a religion.

According to Lisa Miller and her book "The Awakened Brain," we humans are universally equipped with a capacity for spirituality, and our brains become more resilient and robust as a result of it.

I will share gradually as I continue to search and re-search into this space.

hashtag#Spirituality hashtag#ScienceOfSpirituality hashtag#PersonalJourney hashtag#HumanPotentials
hashtag#ChildlikeWonder

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

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What if leadership wasn’t about the burden to be the smartest in the room with all the tactics and strategies, or having all the answers?

What if leadership is simply a gentle start from the heart?

Starting from the heart is to cultivate self-wisdom through presence and deep self-reflection, nurturing relationships through acceptance and clarity, and designing conscious structures to value collective psychological safety and childlike wonder.

When these come together, they form what Gregory Stebbins calls the wisdom of the heart.

In this MAGICademy conversation, we explore a conscious model of heart-centered leadership, rooted in compassion, empathy, and authentic connection, creating work spaces that are human, humane, and future-ready.

It’s not about being perfect—it’s about breathing, learning from experience, and choosing connection over fear.

Because at the end of the day, leadership is less about power and more about connection.

✨ Breathe. Stay present. Lead with heart.

Full article: lnkd.in/ey6djiaN

Hop on a microchallenge to discover your inner wisdom: lnkd.in/eck3pwGh

#WiseLeadership #HeartCenteredLeadership #SelfWisdom #RelationalWisdom #OrganizationalWisdom #WisdomOfTheHeart #ConsciousLeadership #MindfulLeadership #AuthenticLeadership #PsychologicalSafety #ChildlikeWonder #CollectiveFlourishing #LeadWithHeart #FutureOfLeadership

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

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What is dance meditation (personal experience) ?💃

I use to dance when I was a kid because my mom thought I was too “fidgeting” and dancing provides an effective energy and expression outlet.

For many years, I have been hearing a voice inside 🎶”Jiani, please dance again!” I kept ignoring it, because “I have been too busy” or “it sounds so unprofessional and childish” or “Who am I to dance ? “

This year, the more I resist the voice the stronger it gets.

Finally, I listened to the voice and started to dance under the guidance of a dancing friend.

7 months later, with some first hand experiences, I am now reflecting on this and sharing it with you in case your inner dancer is calling you to do the same. ✨

During dance meditation, there is no specific choreography to follow, it is just music, me, and the space.

Listening to the body and move without thinking or judgement is the key.

When I tried to set a goal and say, “hey let me weave in this particular gesture into the movement” I felt the stress and end up not fully immersed in the moment.

When I just let the music lead the body, new moves emerge unexpectedly.

I become the joyful dancer and observer at the same time, not only seeing myself moving with the music in space, I also feel the somatic element, the increased heart rates, the sweat, the soft touch of the wooden floor, the gentle flow of the wind as I move…

It is a Flow State through movement. Being anchored with fluidity in the moment is deep healing.

In this dance meditation, I don’t have to sit still or put on a particular posture, what I do is simple, just move with the body through music.

Move gracefully when music is peaceful, move unapologetically fiercely when music is wild, move like a shaman when music is mystically and motherly earthy. 🌍

If you are curious about this experience, I invite you to give a try. Find a safe and open space in your home (dim the light) or the garden, put on your fav music and let your body be your guide. 💜✨

#DanceMeditation #Reflection #SomaticHealing #DanceToHeal

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 3

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✨ Dear magical community, due to increased workload to

+ produce each episode with more intention (make it more engaging and relatable )

+ design week long micro challenge to embody the podcast message into our daily action

+ alongside with the experiment on an app to build a global community, 🌍

( another app?! 🥹 sorry I couldn’t think of another way to connect people globally also in a way that each person can create and own their own data as experiences unfold to learn more about themselves along the way. If you have another idea beyond app, happy to hear it!)

MAGICademy episode will be distributed most likely on a Sunday morning 7am est from now on. Hope it can hold space for each one of us as we step into a new week of new beginnings 💜✨🙌

(Actually each evening when we go to sleep and each morning when we wake up is already a new beginning; or each moment we become aware of our thinking feeling and being, we consciousnessly decide how to respond in the next moment is also a new beginning.)

Thank you for your support and patience. ☺️🌍💜

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

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Hello MAGICademy community, we are in process of developing focused research informed videos around the topic of creativity and creative thinking alongside with topics such as spirituality, aiming to help us reawaken childlike wonder resilience and mentality.

Please share with us via comments of some key questions you have always been pondering within your own life and context.

We will take them into heart and explore if we can produce more focused content to answer your questions ✨💜🔥💎

With love and light,
Jiani & team

4 months ago | [YT] | 2