Author and Film Producer Tom Cronin on "The Portal Book and Movie: How Meditation Can Save The World"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for episode #154 with someone who travels globally presenting about something we all need to learn how to experience in today’s world--- author of 6 books and the co-creator of the Portal Film/book experience, where he teaches about the power in the stillness and the science behind the stillness—Tom Cronin, also known as The King of Calm.<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a></p> <p>Watch this interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/veUZ-C5REl4'>https://youtu.be/veUZ-C5REl4</a></p> <p>Learn more about Tom Cronin here <a href='https://www.tomcronin.com/'>https://www.tomcronin.com/ </a></p> <p>See past episodes of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast here <a href='https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/'>https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/</a> </p> <p>On this episode, you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎ How Tom Cronin, from Australia, overcame a nervous breakdown by starting a meditation practice, inspiring him to share his story others with The Portal Film and Book.</p> <p>✔︎ A Deep Dive into the Top 4 Meditation Styles (Concentration, Contemplation, Chanting and Transcendental).</p> <p>✔︎ Tom’s thoughts on The Plane of Possibility and How to Create Something Out of Nothing.</p> <p>✔︎ Why meditation is an important and timely topic to change the world during these high-stress and anxiety times.</p> <p>I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies in our schools, sports, and workplace environments with ideas that we can all use, understand and implement immediately.</p> <p>Our guest this week, Tom Cronin<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> spent 26 years in finance, as one of Sydney Australia’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career when anxiety and chaos he was experiencing due to stress and poor li