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119: Rick Heller

March 29, 2016 1 Comment

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This week we talk to Rick Heller about secular meditation

Rick Heller is the author of the new book, Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy — A Guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard.

Rick leads weekly meditations at the Humanist Community at Harvard.

Rick received a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. He also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT

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In This Interview, Rick Heller and I Discuss:

    • The One You Feed parable
    • His new book, Secular Meditation: 32 practices for cultivating inner peace, compassion & Joy (A guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard)
    • How in the brain, two negatives do not equal a positive
    • What a “Humanist” is
    • A secular view of meditation & mindfulness
    • Other types of meditation beside breath focused meditation
    • How there’s no such thing as an inherently negative stimulus
    • What face meditation is
    • How the muscles in your face can affect your inner speech
    • How to relate to emotions with mindfulness
    • That recognizing an emotion actually brings it’s feeling back toward neutral
    • What “positive equanimity” is
    • The difference between cognitive reappraisal and positive thinking
    • Different approaches to help us achieve “mindfulness of life”
    • When you’re more “in your head” about something than you are collecting sensory information about something, you’re really just dealing with abstractions
    • Skepticism surrounding the concept of “no self” as a goal to pursue
    • His working definition of enlightenment
    • A secular version of the serenity prayer

Rick Heller Links

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  1. Linda says

    May 20, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    I have your podcast but I do not see this on it. Will it be eventually?

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