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In This Interview, Jeff Warren and I Discuss…
- The Wolf Parable
- His book with Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgitty Skeptics: A 10% Happier How to Book
- The role of meditation in living with depression
- The voice in our heads
- Not identifying with the voices in our heads
- Coming out of the conversation in our heads
- The idea of “I can’t meditate”
- Thinking we’re supposed to stop thinking when we meditate
- Changing the relationship with your thoughts
- Focusing on an anchor, getting lost in thought, realizing you’re lost in thought and coming back to your anchor = mediation
- How quick we are to conclude that meditation isn’t for us
- That meditation is a practice
- Celebrating the coming back from thought in meditation
- Training affability during meditation
- Finding enjoyment and curiosity during meditation
- Asking “What’s the attitude in my mind right now?” during meditation
- That attitude is what you’re training during meditation
- Looking at the world with interest
- Equanimity = a lack of pushing and pulling on experience
- Opening to experience so that there’s no friction
- When everything has permission to express its self fully
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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
Jeff says
This meditation-macgyver has been the best meditation teacher. I’ve ADHD and jeff has ADD. He makes things so relatable in the simplest of terms. #snowglobe cheers, the other jeff: the cool-jeff