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Meditation & Mindfulness

A collection of The One You Feed Episodes that deal with meditation and mindfulness

Meditation for Anxious People with Lodro Rinzler

February 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Lodro Rinzler is the co-founder of MNDFL meditation studios, has taught meditation for 20 years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and is the award-winning author of 7 books. He has spoken across the world at conferences, universities, and businesses as diverse as Google, Harvard University, and the White House.

In this episode, Eric and Lodro talk about his new book, Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times and they walk through many practical strategies to employ on the spot when you’re feeling stressed or anxious to help you come back to a sense of “okay-ness” in the present moment.

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In This Interview, Lodro Rinzler and I discuss Meditation for Anxious People and…

  • His book, Take Back Your Mind: Buddhist Advice for Anxious Times
  • The difference between anxiety and stress
  •  Useful vs Not Useful thinking
  • What to do when thoughts come up during meditation
  • The question “Is this helpful?”
  • The question “Is this useful?”
  • Discovering what happens when we unhook from anxious thoughts
  • How to deliberately experience “30 seconds of contentment”
  • Dispelling the myth that your mind is too busy to meditate
  • Buddhists connecting our faith as being rooted in our direct experience
  • How turning a boat one degree at a time leads to a completely different land
  • Working with your mind vs your mind working you
  • Meditating without judging ourselves
  • Learning to be with difficult emotions through meditation
  • Saying to yourself, “It’s ok to feel this”
  • What it means to drop the story and feel the feeling
  • Asking yourself, “What can I enjoy right now?”
  • What it means to have a “thought party”
  • The idea of “basic goodness”
  • The metaphor of going to get a box of cereal from the grocery store when you already have a cupboard full 

Lodro Rinzler Links:

lodrorinzler.com

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Lodro Rinzler on Meditation for Anxious People, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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Hardcore Zen with Brad Warner

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Meditation and Activism with Justin Michael Williams

July 14, 2020 1 Comment

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Justin Michael Williams is an author, a top 20 recording artist, and a transformational speaker who is using music and meditation to wake up the world. With over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice of color for the new healing movement. Between his podcast, keynotes, and motivational online platforms, Justin’s teachings have now spread to more than 40 countries around the globe. His new book is, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us.
In this episode, Eric and Justin Michael Williams explore the connection between meditation and activism, which is to say, the work we do to heal ourselves and then the work we go do to help heal our world. 

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In This Interview, Justin Michael Williams and I Discuss Meditation and Activism and…

  • His new book, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us
  • The role, place, and importance of inner work and outer work
  • That out of all the healing modalities he’s tried, meditation has had the biggest impact on his life
  • How it’s not always our thoughts that create our reality
  • That awareness calls us to get up off of our meditation cushion and take action
  • That the real reason we meditate is to become more alive
  • That we meditate not to disconnect but to reconnect
  • That actions create our world
  • The two things that co-create our reality: What happens to us and our reaction to it 
  • That privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through, it’s about what you haven’t had to go through
  • De-colonizing the oppression that lives within us and de-colonizing the external structures that hold us back in the world
  • Calling people forward vs calling people out
  • How we can’t shame people into long term change
  • The type of meditation he teaches: Freedom Meditation
  • That the guru is within you

Justin Michael Williams Links:

justinmichaelwilliams.com

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Justin Michael Williams on Meditation and Activism, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Austin Channing Brown

Jamia Wilson

Jeff Warren

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Henry Shukman on Paths of Spiritual Awakening

April 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Henry Shukman is a poet, writer, and Associate Zen Master who lives in New Mexico where he teaches at Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has published eight books to date of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He writes regularly for Tricycle, The New York Times, and other publications. In this episode, Eric and Henry discuss his beautifully written book, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.

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In This Interview, Henry Shukman and I discuss Paths of Spiritual Awakening and…

  • His book, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
  • How to work with the 3 poisons that we all have: Greed, Ill Will, Delusion
  • Opening up to pain (rather than turning away from it) so that we can heal
  • His experience with dysthymia 
  • The awakening experiences he has had in his life
  • Learning how to be with his pain and wounds in order to heal
  • A major myth of meditation
  • How he knew he was ready to work with a spiritual teacher
  • His realization that awakening experiences are doorways and we must then step onto the paths they open up to in order to continue our spiritual growth
  • The value of community in spiritual growth
  • The trouble with thinking you have to do things alone
  • Discovering for ourselves the deep experience of the ordinary moments of our lives
  • The wisdom of cherishing the normal and finding beauty in ordinary things
  • Poetry as the practice of paying very close attention to things
  • The different levels of love

Henry Shukman Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Henry Shukman on Paths of Spiritual Awakening, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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Ryan Oelke

Norman Fischer

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Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

November 19, 2019 2 Comments

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Loch Kelly is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and the founder of The Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Loch works to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. by offering in-person retreats, workshops, and online video and audio courses. He has served on the New York Insight Teachers Council and has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, U Penn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and well being. Loch also studied extensively with Mingyur Rinpoche and was invited to teach direct realization by Adyashanti. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians and practicing awareness psychotherapy in New York City for 30 years. His latest book is called, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life.

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In This Interview, Loch Kelly and I discuss Effortless Mindfulness and…

  • His book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
  • The good wolf & the bad wolf: how there are no “bad” parts of us
  • Feed the one who is aware of the two wolves
  • How he defines “effortless mindfulness”
  • Flow consciousness
  • Deliberate mindfulness vs effortless mindfulness
  • Objects of consciousness vs the space that objects are in
  • Mindfulness is about awakening rather than it just being about stress management
  • Relieving suffering at it’s root
  • Small glimpses, many times and the practice of the “small glimpses” techniques.
  • Dropping from head mind to heart mind
  • Non-dual awareness as well as Awareness-based knowing

Loch Kelly Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Loch Kelly on Effortless Mindfulness, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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Dorothy Hunt

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Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D-Mindfulness and Depression

April 9, 2019 2 Comments

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Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is the co-founder of the Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles and is the creator of the 6-month Coaching and Mentorship Program: A Course in Mindful Living. He’s a psychologist and international speaker and mindfulness educator. He’s written many books and in this episode, he and Eric discuss his book, Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self Compassion. There are so many practical approaches and new perspectives in this episode. We think you’ll get a lot of useful information out of the conversation.

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In This Interview, Elisha Goldstein and I Discuss…

  • His book, Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self Compassion
  • That what you practice and repeat is what you get
  • Depression Triggers and Depression Cures
  • Thoughts, Emotions, Sensations, and Behaviors
  • The triangle of awareness
  • Procedural memory
  • The habit loop being like a traffic circle with 4 entry points
  • The way our brain associates things
  • The way our nervous system is overwhelmed when we’re experiencing depression
  • Avoidance and depression
  • How naming something gives us a little space and perspective
  • How naming something actually changes the activity in our brain
  • Perspective-making tools
  • The way journaling objectifies your experiences
  • Natural anti-depressants
  • Mindfulness: a state of engaged curiosity
  • Relating to your experience differently through mindfulness, self-compassion, play, compassion, purpose, and mastery
  • The growth mindset in contrast to the fixed mindset
  • Practicing being curious in your daily life to cultivate a growth mindset
  • How a learning mindset is related to a growth mindset
  • The importance of play as well as how to discover what kind of play you might enjoy as an adult

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. Links:

Mindful Living Collective

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If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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Florence Williams

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Ralph De La Rosa on the Mind as Your Teacher

November 13, 2018 3 Comments

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Ralph De La Rosa is a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC. He specializes in helping people resolve their childhood traumas, anxiety, depression and intimacy issues. You might have seen his work in places like CNN, GQ, Self, or Women’s Health. His new book is called The Monkey is the Messenger and it is an instructional and revolutionary look at what it means to attend and befriend ones self. In this interview, he shares some of the key practices that are most helpful along this journey. 


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 In This Interview, Ralph De La Rosa and I Discuss…

  • His book, The Monkey is the Messenger
  • The truest sentence he knows – there’s always more to the story
  • The monkey – what it is and why it’s on our side
  • The monkey mind as our teacher
  • The monkey mind drives us towards meditation and away from meditation
  • Our triggers are on the surface and they are connected to something deeper within us that’s unhealed. We can absolutely get to that root through mindfulness and meditation.
  • The value of showing up for a daily practice
  • Drawing the attention out of our head and into our body gets our brain activated in the right hemisphere
  • The right hemisphere – nonlinguistic, free of chatter
  • Emotions are held in the body
  • The unconscious mind is accessed in the body because emotions show up in our body
  • Radical Nonpathology
  • Love, gratification and safety are at the root
  • How can I be happy? How can I avoid suffering?
  • What looks pathological are our misguided attempts to meet these root needs and drivers
  • Holding our emotions like children
  • Using circumstances to heal rather than being retraumatized through emotional warmth
  • That difficult emotions are messengers to us
  • Abandoning or ignoring any part of ourselves is equivalent to enacting aggression towards ourselves. 
  • How Vinny Ferraro says you can’t hate your way into enlightenment
  • The inner critic
  • Emotions always follow a logic

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