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

How to Find and Follow a Healing Path with Henry Shukman

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Find and Follow a Healing Path

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You’ll Learn:

  • The importance of being with and opening up to pain to find healing
  • Why working with a spiritual teacher can be an important part of a healing path
  • How awakening experiences are doorways we must walk through to find spiritual growth
  • The value of community in a spiritual journey
  • How to discover the deep experience of life’s ordinary moments
  • What Zen and poetry have in common
  • What it means to come home to and discover a deeper part of ourselves

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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Deconstructing Yourself with Michael Taft

Spiritual Direction with Seifu Singh-Molares

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How to Live in the Light with Deepak Chopra

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In this episode, Deepak and Eric discuss his new book, Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization.

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Live in the Light and …

  • How awareness can be defined by what it is and what it isn’t
  • The purpose of meditation and the value it can bring to your life
  • Why it’s important to understand there is no good or bad meditation
  • The ancient teachings of yoga and how the different yoga poses are shifts in awareness
  • Defining the different types of yoga and their meanings

Deepak Chopra is the founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global and world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. He is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books translated into over forty-three languages, including multiple bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”

Connect with Deepak Chopra: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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Jillian Pranskey on Deep Somatic Listening

Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness with Jack Kornfield

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How to Free Yourself from the Inner Critic Through Mindfulness with Ginny Gay

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Free Yourself from the Inner Critic

Ginny Gay is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher and has worked with Eric to create content here at The One You Feed for the past 8 years. Prior to that, she spent 13 years in the corporate world where she thought climbing the corporate ladder equated to success in life. Instead, that approach ultimately led her to a place of severe burnout, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Now, she knows that for her, success in all aspects of life comes from living from a place of authenticity and integration where meaningful work and relationships are the fruit and contribution to the world. 

Ginny loves creating courses, programs, workshops, and written content to help people live life more skillfully and help them navigate the difficulties that come from the inherent challenges of being human so that they can experience more peace, purpose, and joy in their daily lives.

In this episode, Eric and Ginny discuss her story of struggle and growth, how to work with the inner critic and what it means to practice mindfulness.

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Ginny Gay and I Discuss How to Free Yourself from the Inner Critic Through Mindfulness and …

  • The way not wanting to experience internal pain can drive us to act in potentially harmful, problematic ways
  • Her experience in a fundamentalist Christian church
  • Her experience hitting the glass ceiling in the corporate pharmaceutical industry
  • The circumstances surrounding her addiction and burnout 
  • How she was able to believe in growth through difficulty during the worst time in her life
  • The key learnings that helped her transform her life from the ground up
  • The radical shift she made that saved her life
  • The power of naming things as they show up inside of us
  • The corrosive impact of the inner critic
  • How to differentiate the inner critic from our helpful inner conscience
  • Where the inner critic comes from
  • The various ways the inner critic shows up in us
  • How to free yourself from the inner critic
  • What mindfulness really means
  • The benefits of practicing mindfulness
  • The connection between mindfulness and meditation
  • Her definition of spirituality
  • Her mindfulness program, The Well Trained Mind

Ginny Gay Links

FREE 3-Part Mindfulness Training: How to Quiet the Inner Critic

The Well Trained Mind Program

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Ginny Gay, check out these other episodes:

Mindfulness in Nature with Mark Coleman

Transforming Your Inner Critic with Dr. Aziz Gazipura

Become 10% Happier Through Meditation with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris is best known for his work on ABC News, Nightline and Good Morning America.  He is the author of the book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story

In this episode, Eric and Dan discuss his original skepticism of meditation and the benefits he discovered from developing a regular meditation practice.

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Dan Harris and I Discuss Becoming 10% Happier Through Meditation and …

  • His book,  10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story
  • How the mind can be trained for compassion and happiness
  • Exercising the brain just like the body
  • The science of meditation
  • How we all have an inner voice or narrator in our head
  • The scientifically proven benefits of meditation
  • Our tendency to focus on the bad things and ignore the good.
  • Finding the line of when to push forward or back down
  • The happiness set point theory.
  • Motivation coming from happiness versus pain
  • How a certain amount of stress is necessary
  • Dealing with failure and setbacks
  • His experience of discovering awareness in the present moment
  • Meditation as a mechanism of learning mindfulness
  • The practice of meditation is about remembering

Dan Harris links:

10% Happier Website

Dan’s Twitter

Facebook

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Dan Harris and Oren Sofer on Mindful Communication

Meditation for Anxious People with Lodro Rinzler

From Suffering to Acceptance with La Sarmiento

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La Sarmiento has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1998. They are the guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington’s BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Sanghas, a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and Cloud Sangha, a contributor to the Ten Percent Happier app, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader Training Program.

In this episode, Eric and La discuss how to move from suffering to acceptance and belonging through mindfulness practices.

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La Sarmiento and I Discuss Suffering and Acceptance and…

  • Finding connection and acceptance with someone who has very different beliefs
  • Their feeling of not belonging in the dominant culture
  • When they decided to claim their belonging
  • Their important work helping teens 
  • How they intentionally doesn’t prepare her Dharma talks ahead of time
  • The questions to ask when suffering 
  • How being mindful doesn’t mean doing it right, it’s being aware of what you’re doing
  • Taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and Sangha helps them to remember to mindful
  • The practice of learning to be more comfortable with being uncomfortable
  • How the dominant culture needs to better understand inclusion and assimilation
  • How their dog Casey opened her heart

La Sarmiento links:

La’s Website

Facebook

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How to Build a Home for Your Soul with Najwa Zebian

Parenting a Transgender Child with Paria Hassouri

Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness with Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.  Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide.  He’s led international Buddhist teacher meetings and has worked with many of the great teachers of our time.  He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and his books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.  He is also a father, a husband, and an activist.

In this episode, Eric and Jack discuss his book, No Time Like the Present:  Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

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In This Interview, Jack Kornfield and I Discuss Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness and …

  • His book, No Time Like the Present:  Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
  • The first step to dealing with difficult emotions is seeing and accepting what’s there
  • How practicing mindfulness expands your window of tolerance 
  • Tools to help us remember the vastness
  • Remembering that our story is always changing
  • How we are bound to experience both the beauty and pain in life
  • The importance of compassion 
  • How there are many simple practices to transform our heart and mind
  • Choosing the best spiritual practices based on what we’re drawn to
  • His work with Father Greg Boyle, writer of Tattoos on the Heart
  • The possibility of seeing the Buddha-nature in every human being
  • The refuge in community and how we need each other
  • Trusting that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves
  • Learning to trust our inner knowledge, heart, and body
  • Accepting our fear and understanding that growth comes after fear
  • The doubting mind and our capacity to recognize it
  • Learning to not judge the thoughts that come up in meditation
  • His shift in life from actively getting things done into relaxing more and seeing how things turn out
  • How we all have the seeds of awakening within us

Jack Kornfield Links:

Jack’s Website

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

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Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

Tara Brach