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129: John Prendergast

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This week we talk to John Prendergast about tuning into our body

John J. Prendergast, PhD, is a psychotherapist, retired professor of psychology, spiritual teacher, and founder and editor-in-chief of Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology.

He received his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies.  He is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist.

In This Interview, John Prendergast and I Discuss:

  • The One You Feed parable
  • How important our body is
  • What “knowing” is
  • Learning to trust our deeper knowledge
  • The difference between inner knowing and hunches based on fear
  • Finding true knowing from ego desires
  • The static in our system
  • Observing thoughts as just thoughts
  • Learning to be more aware to the sensations and feelings in the body
  • Our brain- The Thought Factory
  • Scanning the body
  • Identifying with the world from our thinking, not our body

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. 

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed

The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

108: John Lee Dumas

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This week we talk to John Lee Dumas

John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, awarded ‘Best of iTunes 2013’. John interviews today’s most inspiring and successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Success, INC, & TIME Magazine.

John also founded the #1 Podcasting community in the world; Podcasters’ Paradise; a community where over 1500 Podcasters learn how to create, grow, and monetize their podcast in a supportive environment.
He just completed the book The Freedom Journal. It is designed to help you create and complete a major goal in 100 days.

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In This Interview, John and I Discuss Accomplishing Your Goals

  • The One You Feed parable
  • Controlling our outlook  on life
  • Being grateful for today
  • The three things he does when he feels down
  • The value of exercise and fresh air
  • Surrounding ourselves with positive people
  • The legacy of Scott Dinsmore
  • John’s time in the army
  • Avoiding “time traveling”
  • The preciousness of life
  • Balancing ambition and contentment
  • Compare and Despair
  • The fixed and growth mindset
  • The Freedom Journal
  • SMART goals
  • Why creating specific goals is so important in achieving them
  • Setting attainable goals
  • Not starting too big on our behavior change
  • The 10 day sprint
  • The lesson it has taken John the longest to learn

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Eric’s Bookshelf

Looking for a good read? Here’s a list of categorized books that are personal favorites of Eric, host of the show. You can’t go wrong with any of these books.*

Fiction

Business/Productivity

General Spirituality

Buddhism

Memoirs

Miscellaneous

*In the Spirit of Full Disclosure: The links for the above-listed books are Amazon affiliate links & we’ll be compensated if you buy stuff from Amazon using those links. You pay no more and the show gets a few pennies.

That said, your trust means everything to us and we would never recommend anything lightly – these are all books that have had a profound impact on Eric during the course of his life.

053: Michael Galinsky

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This week we talk to Michael Galinsky about the role of emotions in physical pain 

Michael Galinsky is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, and musician who has produced and directed a number of documentaries, including Battle from Brooklyn and Who Took Johnny. He also runs a production and distribution company called Rumur. He is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund his new film, All The Rage which is based on the pioneering work of Dr John Sarno. Dr Sarno is a leading figure in understanding the role of emotions in physical pain.

 In This Interview Michael and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • The history of Dr John Sarno.
  • How being a “goodist” can create strong repression and anger.
  • How repressed emotions can cause physical pain.
  • His family history with Dr. Sarno.
  • His personal battles with pain.
  • How Howard Stern, Larry David and John Stossel are fans of Dr. Sarno.
  • How pain is a normal problem but chronic pain is a failure of the body to heal itself.
  • The challenges in healing the emotional issues that can cause physical pain.
  • The role of fear in causing physical complaints.
  • Meditation practice as a way to manage challenging emotions.
  • How pain can be a barometer of how we are doing emotionally.
  • Knowing is not the same as doing.
  • The difference between acceptance and repression.

Michael Galinsky Links

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Kino MacGregor

Strand of Oaks

Mike Scott of the Waterboys

Todd Henry- author of Die Empty

Randy Scott Hyde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

050: Dan Wilson

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This week we talk to Dan Wilson

This is another interview that has great personal significance to us. Dan was part of Trip Shakespeare which is one of Eric’s all-time favorite bands. He also went on to form Semisonic another band that we loved.

Dan Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and visual artist. He is known as the leader of the band Semisonic, for which he wrote the Grammy-nominated “Closing Time” and the international hit “Secret Smile.” Wilson has also released several solo recordings, including the 2014 release Love Without Fear. He was also a member of the Minneapolis psychedelic rock band Trip Shakespeare.

Wilson is also an acclaimed and highly successful co-writer and producer, who has collaborated with a diverse array of artists including: Adele, Pink,Keith Urban, Weezer, Dierks Bentley, John Legend, Taylor Swift, Nas, Spoon, Alex Clare, Birdy, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

His collaborations have earned him two Grammy Awards. His first was the 2007 Song of the Year Grammy for “Not Ready to Make Nice,” one of the six songs he co-wrote with the Dixie Chicks for their Album of the Year winning Taking the Long Way. Wilson also shared in the 2012 Grammy for Album of the year for his work as a producer of the hit “Someone Like You,” one of the three songs he co-wrote with Adele for her album 21.

 In This Interview Dan and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • Neither wolf wins permanently, the battle always goes on.
  • How what we focus on grows.
  • How a good plan and acting is better than waiting on a great plan.
  • Nurturing our gifts to the world.
  • How malleable our lives and character really are.
  • The meaning between Love Without Fear.
  • What stands out to him from the Trip Shakespeare time.
  • How Trip Shakespeare wrote songs.
  • The Trip Shakespeare re-release project.
  • The art of reinterpretation.
  • Dealing with comparison and envy.
  • Life changing advice from Frank Stella

Dan Wilson Links

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Kino MacGregor

Strand of Oaks

Mike Scott of the Waterboys

Todd Henry- author of Die Empty

Randy Scott Hyde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

002: Oliver Burkeman – The One You Feed

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This week on The One You Feed our guest is Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a journalist for the Guardian and the author of a wonderful book called The Antidote: Happiness for People who Hate Positive Thinking. Oliver is funny, thoughtful and articulate. I think it was a great interview.

In This Interview Oliver and I discuss…

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  • The One You Feed parable.
  • Why you should ask yourself:  “What is the worst thing that could happen”.
  • Do you have a problem right now?.
  • What musterbation is and why you should avoid it.
  • Why positive thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
  • Why focusing too much on your goals can be counterproductive.
  • How many wars were started in world history because somebody forgot their coffee in the AM.
  • What pop songs can Oliver not get out of his head.
  • Why positive thinking abhors a mystery.

 Oliver Burkeman Bio:

Oliver Burkeman is a  writer for The Guardian and he is based in Brooklyn, New York. His  new book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking explores the upsides of negativity, uncertainty, failure and imperfection. Each week inThis Column Will Change Your Life  he writes about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness, and makes unprovoked attacks on The Secret.

Oliver Burkeman Links:

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 Some of my favorite Oliver Burkeman articles:

There is no One True Secret of happiness, love, productivity, or anything else

Oliver Burkeman interviews John Oliver

This column will change your life: triple constraints

The theory of the hairy arm: the tactical benefits of making deliberate mistakes

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175: Tom Asacker

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This week we talk to Tom Asacker

Tom Asacker, a popular speaker and acclaimed author, is recognized by Inc. Magazine, M.I.T., and Y.E.O. as a past member of their Birthing of Giants executive leadership program. He is a former General Electric executive, recipient of the George Land Innovator of the Year Award, and a former high-tech business owner. Asacker has been a strategic adviser to startups and Fortune-listed companies. He is the author of critically acclaimed books including his latest, I Am Keats. 

In This Interview, Tom Asacker and I Discuss…

  • His book, I am Keats: Escape Your Mind and Free Yourself
  • John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • That once you have a story, that’s the end of any change
  • How limiting a story is
  • That we are spinning stories all of the time
  • The difference between fact vs truth
  • How attached we are to our perception of the world
  • That technology promotes the myth that we are in control
  • The truth that you can’t learn about life by merely reading about it, you can only truly learn about life by living it
  • Our reasoning mind that differentiates us as animals
  • That life is a journey of paradoxes and ambiguity
  • The importance of being empathizing and being mindful throughout this journey
  • The desire for meaning
  • How everyone is looking for meaning externally in their lives
  • How that won’t work because our culture is broken
  • That it is a personal discovery journey to live life
  • How we always have the opportunity to make other people’s lives better but we have to be awake in life to do so
  • The importance of control and certainty in our lives
  • How to differentiate the voices in our heads
  • That the end result of anything that we’re seeking is a feeling
  • Human nature is to be curious, compassionate and creative
  • What would happen if characters in movies could control their scenes? The result would be crushingly boring movies. Can you see the correlation between this idea and life itself?

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. 

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feedThe Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

022: Frank Turner

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This week on The One You Feed we have Frank Turner.

This is a big episode for me. When I came up with the concept of the show, Frank Turner was the first person I thought of that I wanted to have as a guest. His music is hugely important to me. He feeds my good wolf on a regular basis.

Frank was a singer in a hardcore band, Million Dead. When they broke up he started out on his own with an acoustic guitar. He has released  five solo albums, two rarities compilation albums, one split album and five EPs. His fifth studio album, Tape Deck Heart was released just over a year ago.

In This Interview Frank and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • The feeling that there is never enough time.
  • The importance of friendship in feeding your good wolf.
  • His role as a CALM Ambassador.
  • Building a community around music.
  • What punk rock meant to him as a kid.
  • Staying connected to his values of openness and community as he gets more famous
  • Music as a refuge for those that don’t fit in.
  • Music that he turns to to feed his good wolf.
  • Writing the press release for John K Samson’s latest record.
  • The challenges of alcohol and drugs.
  • Getting older and the changes in identity that come with that.
  • His love of dogs and his amazing “dog policy” at shows
  • His forthcoming record.

Frank Turner Links

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Rich Roll

Todd Henry- author of Die Empty

Randy Scott Hyde

177: Kurt Gray

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This week we talk to Kurt Gray

Kurt Gray is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his BSc from the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. He studies the mysteries of subjective experience and asks such deep philosophical questions as: Why are humanoid robots creepy? Why do ghosts always have unfinished business? Why do grandma’s cookies taste the best? And why do adult film stars seem stupid? His research suggests that these questions—and many more—are rooted in the phenomenon of mind perception. Mind perception also forms the essence of moral cognition.

In science, he likes to wield Occam’s razor to defend parsimony, asking whether complex phenomena can be simplified and understood through basic processes. These phenomena include moral judgment, group genesis, and psychopathology. He has been named an APS Rising Star and was awarded the Janet Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Research.  He was also given the SPSP Theoretical Innovation Award for the article “Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality.” His work has been generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He recently published the book,  The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels and Why it Matters

In This Interview, Kurt Gray and I Discuss…

  • His book, The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels and Why it Matters
  • People who we perceive as having a mind similar to ours
  • The uncertainty about the minds of others
  • The two fundamentally different factors in how we see minds
  • Agency: the capacity to act and to do
  • Experience: the capacity to feel and to sense
  • The moral responsibility connected to these two things
  • Thinking doers
  • Vulnerable feelers
  • Didactic completion
  • The objectification of women
  • That child abuse often occurs with parents who view their children as having a higher agency than they are capable of having
  • The danger of inferring intention
  • Moral typecasting
  • That we treat our heroes poorly
  • The Just World theory
  • How we rationalize our behavior
  • That we give more sympathy to people who are at a greater distance from us
  • The poorer you are, the more likely you are to believe in God
  • Seeking control as a motivation
  • How to increase self-control
  • The implementation intention study
  • The when and the then and how it takes away self-control entirely
  • What the self is from the perspective of his work
  • The analogy of particle board for the self
  • The way people respond morally is the most essential to our perception of who they are (vs physical traits)
  • That we perceive the world rather than understand it directly

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. 

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feedThe Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

113: Mirabai Starr

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This week we talk to Mirabai Starr about grief and healing

Mirabai Starr writes, speaks and leads retreats on the inter-spiritual teachings of the mystics.

Known for her revolutionary translations of John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Julian of Norwich, Mirabai renders mystical masterpieces accessible, beautiful, and relevant to a contemporary circle of seekers. Her commentaries on the interconnected wisdom of all traditions are lyrical and evocative.

Mirabai builds bridges not only between religious traditions, but also between contemplative life and compassionate service, between cultivating an inner relationship with the Beloved and expressing that intimacy in community, between the transformational power of loss and longing for the sacred.

Her latest book is called Caravan of No Despair

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In This Interview, Mirabai Starr and I Discuss:

  • The One You Feed parable
  • Walking the landscape of loss in a genuine way
  • Learning to be present even when things are really hard
  • The death of her 14 year old daughter
  • How sometimes spiritual teachings fail us and are of no use
  • Realizing that we share our suffering with so many other people
  • The Stages of Grief
  • Returning to joy after great loss, it eventually happens
  • How tragedy and trauma are not guarantees to transformation
  • The states of mind that allow us to turn our pain into treasure
  • Cultivating curiosity about our experiences, even when painful
  • The Dark Night of the Soul
  • The transforming power of love
  • How vast we are as beings
  • Telling the truth about grief
  • The holiness of being broken open
  • What mysticism is
  • Mystical poetry
  • The desire to experience union
  • The four arms of yoga in Hinduism
  • Approaching the divine in the way that is best for each of us
  • What interspirituality is
  • The difference between interspiritual and interfaith

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