In This Interview, Jillian Pransky and I Discuss…
- Her book, Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind and Open Your Heart
- How she used to believe anxiety and depression was a choice
- Learning to be with the bad wolf
- Befriending her bad wolf
- That not everything can be fixed
- When surrender is needed
- Not being able to fix some way someone has treated us
- Restorative Yoga
- Paying attention to our body and mind so that we’re aware of how we shut down and open up and to be with it with openness
- Deep listening to yourself can leave you more hard and cutoff or open and tender
- The tension in our body signifying the stress response
- Paying attention long enough that it softens and shifts
- Judging the tension we find in our bodies
- Getting curious about the tension we find, breathing into it
- Asking “How am I still guarding myself when I don’t have to be?” during Restorative Yoga
- “Doing Less”
- How the busier we are the less we have to feel
- Listening is the act of allowing
- Love is the act of allowing
- Allowing yourself to be supported even when you’re active
- That which is regular is way better than that which is a lot
- A little bit all the time re-wires us
- How exhausting it is to be somewhere we’re not
- Our thoughts are like social media
- Forward thinking and past thinking after present moment being
- Letting go vs Letting be
- Analogy of salt in water: shot glass vs mason jar
- “The practice isn’t about learning how to stay here but learning how to come back.”
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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
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