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Greg Marcus is a practitioner, facilitator, and innovator of American Mussar which is a 21st-century spiritual practice for an authentic and meaningful life. He has a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and earned his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT. He worked for 10 years as a marketer in the Silicon Valley genomics industry, after which he became a stay at home dad, writer, life balance coach, and biotech consultant. His latest book is called The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar. 

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In This Interview, Greg Marcus and I Discuss Spiritual Practice of Good Actions and …

• His book, The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance Through the Soul Traits of Mussar
• The Jewish Spiritual Practice of Mussar
• Taking mindful action in everyday life
• The Soul Trait of Enthusiasm
• Too much of a Soul Trait vs not enough of a Soul Trait
• The middle way as it relates to Soul Traits
• Focusing on a Soul Trait for 2 weeks
• How to move head knowledge into heart knowledge
• The Morning Mantra
• Picking 1 specific action to take
• Journaling
• The Great Wall of Mussar – and how to overcome it
• Handling significant emotional disruption
• How our free will isn’t always accessible to us
• How to slow the train of emotional disruption
• Shadow Soul Traits
• Inverting the Shadow Trait: What is the light that’s casting the shadow?

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Greg Marcus Links:

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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

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Loch Kelly Links:

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Judith Blackstone is an innovative and experienced teacher in the contemporary fields of non-dual realization and spiritual, relational, and somatic psychotherapy. She developed The Realization Process, which is a direct path for realizing fundamental consciousness. She also teaches the application of non-dual realization for psychological, relational, and physical healing. Judith has taught The Realization Process for over 35 years throughout the United States and Europe. She currently has 6 books in publication including her latest book, Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness.

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In This Interview, Judith Blackstone and I discuss Healing Trauma through Consciousness and …

• Her book, Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness
• Uncovering fundamental consciousness
• Attuning to the 3 components of fundamental consciousness: awareness, emotion, and physical sensation
• Defining trauma
• The way we hold back things that won’t be met with approval
• How traumatic events cause us to be divided – driving us out of our fundamental nature of wholeness, which is fundamental consciousness
• Inhabiting our body vs scanning our body
• Releasing trauma through our bodies
• Healing trauma through consciousness
• Psychological healing in addition to spiritual awakening
• The role of memory in healing trauma
• Accessing memories through somatic connections
• Healing trauma in relation to other people as well as with other people

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Judith Blackstone Links:

realizationprocess.org

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David Richo, PhD is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, CA. He combines Jungian, poetic and mythic perspectives in his work with the intention of integrating the psychological and the spiritual. His books and workshops include attention to Buddhist and Christian spiritual practices. He is the author of the classic book, How To Be An Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration and his latest book, 5 True Things: A Little Guide to Embracing Life’s Big Challenges, is the focus of the conversation in this episode. If you’ve experienced difficulty in life – and who hasn’t? -then this episode on navigating the 5 givens in life is for you.

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In This Interview, David Richo and I Discuss Navigating the Five Givens in Life and…

• His latest book 5 True Things: A Little Guide to Embracing Life’s Big Challenges
• That perfection is not a human option
• How a “given” can be looked at as an immutable fact or something that we’ve been granted
• Navigating the 5 givens in life that are the ingredients of a life with meaning, character, depth, and compassion
• Life is not always fair and that pain is part of everyone’s life
• The importance of saying yes to these givens as it brings more equanimity and serenity into our life
• Accepting the things we cannot change, while trusting that if life is like this, these “givens” aren’t penalties – rather, they have gift dimensions
• How we create our own suffering through our saying “no” to what is
• His words, “Anything that crosses swords with our entitled ego is a powerful source of transformation and inner evolution.”
• The ego tries to control the givens
• That love is accepting someone as they are, knowing that everyone comes with these 5 givens
• How the opposite of yes is not no, but rather it is control
• Building the inner resources that make me strong enough to handle whatever givens come my way as well as the importance of becoming skilled at grief
• His words, “A spiritually evolved adult seeks not an answer, but a significance.”
• Live with the questions and notice where they take us
• Act with loving-kindness in addition to holding difficulty with mindfulness
• Spirituality is the intersection of 3 paths: letting go of ego, “yes” to the conditions of human experience, and compassion
• Happiness is not a reward and suffering is not a punishment

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David Richo Links:

davericho.com

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Tony Wrighton is a regular on Sky Sports News, the author of 3 books, and the creator and host of the Zestology podcast. In this episode, Eric and Tony talk about managing and optimizing your energy, ways to build fun into your day, techniques from Neurolinguistic Programming to help with anxiety and a lot more. This conversation is all about being intentional and smart about how you structure your days in order to support and promote your own well being.

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In This Interview, Tony Wrighton and I Discuss Managing your Energy and …

• Trying to meditate with a 4-month-old
• How there’s not a good and evil wolf – rather, many different wolves
• His training in NLP
• The role of control in our lives
• Parenting
• Why he named his podcast Zestology – and what it means to him
• The idea of managing energy – without it, you can’t do anything. With a lot of it, you feel you can conquer the world
• The thing that helps with energy and well being as well as what counts as a “fun” activity for him.
• Meditating, sleep, good food, intermittent fasting, exercise
• The thing that, when he didn’t do it, caused his daily energy level to decrease by 30%
• How he tracks the variables that contribute to his energy levels
• His books: Confidence in a Minute, Persuade in a Minute, and Relax in a Minute
• The NLP technique of anchoring in addition to managing your inner voice.
• How we get used to anything in life so it’s important to switch things up
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Authenticity

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Tony Wrighton Links:

tonywrighton.org

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