Podcasts about our senses

Lee Klinger Lesser is our guest today. A graduate of the Hoffman Process, Lee has led Sensory Awareness somatic workshops worldwide for many decades. She teaches workshops to diverse groups, including veterans and wildland firefighters. Lee led and co-founded a non-profit organization to work with military veterans: Veteran's PATH. While she no longer leads this organization, Lee still works with Veterans, many of whom have graduated from the Hoffman Process. As a Hoffman grad, Lee is familiar with the "Left Road, Right Road" tool, a choice point that occurs many times each day of our lives. Lee speaks to how crucial presence is in choosing the steps of our lives and the direction our lives take. The question she often holds is, What does this moment ask of me? In each moment, we can ask ourselves this powerful question. It's a way to slow down and realize that everything that exists is here and only here. Each moment asks us to stop and sense our next step, or in Hoffman terms, whether or not we will go down the Left Road or Right Road. The capacity Lee has to express the power of an embodied life in words is extraordinary. Listen in as she offers an articulated path to conscious choice in each moment of our lives. She says, "If we keep offering what we can offer, and we have confidence in our own possibility to have impact and our capacity to respond, then we're not going to have regret. We may not be able to change things, maybe we're not going to be able to change what we want, but the way we're living and what we offer is coming from our own love and our own vitality and our own ability to respond." We hope you enjoy this deep and rich conversation with Lee and Drew. Content warning: This episode references suicide. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, you can call the US National Suicide Prevention Program at 800-273-8255 (or simply 988), or message the crisis text hotline at 741741. More about Lee Klinger Lesser: Lee studied Sensory Awareness for 33 years in the United States with Charlotte Selver, the founder of this practice. Through Return to Our Senses, she's been leading workshops since 1976, in English and Spanish. Lee sees over and over again the gift that this practice brings into the lives of so many people and into our world, which is in such great need of people living with awareness, resilience, and presence. She has reached into communities facing significant challenges to offer the resource and refuge of this practice. Lee led and co-founded a non-profit organization to work with military veterans: Veteran's PATH —Peace, Acceptance, Transformation, Honor. She led this work for 12 years, stepping away from a formal role in the organization in Fall 2019. Under new leadership, the organization dissolved in 2023. Lee still facilitates programs for veterans and honors this work as some of the most meaningful and life-changing work she has had the privilege to do. She witnessed veterans open to devastating experiences, face, and transform pain into new possibilities. Lee continues to be inspired by the profound commitment to service and the loving dedication to community that she experienced in her work with veterans. Lee's work and the Climate Crisis: Over the past six years, Lee has been helping to develop programs for Wildland firefighters on the front lines of the Climate Crisis. These firefighters are seeking support to meet the overwhelming challenges they are facing. Whether we realize it or not, we are all on the frontlines of the Climate Crisis. This has led Lee to develop programs to integrate the practice of Sensory Awareness with responding to the Climate Crisis. She is dedicated to bringing forward the core lesson she has learned from her years of practice: “There is no place to run, there is no escape from being with what is.” This is especially poignant and true as we realize that this Earth is the only home we have. We cannot run from what is happening.

What does it mean to engage Jesus with our senses? What is an embodied approach to studying the life of Jesus as opposed to the way we normally read the gospel accounts? How could this change the way we encounter Jesus in the gospels? We'll discuss these questions and more with our guest, Talbot colleague Jeannine Hanger in her new book, Engaging Jesus with Our Senses. Dr. Jeannine Hanger is Associate Professor of New Testament at Talbot. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, and is scholar in residence at CoastlineCovenant Church in Southern California.==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which offers degrees both online and on campus in Southern California. Find all episodes of Think Biblically at: https://www.biola.edu/think-biblically. Watch video episodes at: https://bit.ly/think-biblically-video. To submit comments, ask questions, or make suggestions on issues you'd like us to cover or guests you'd like us to have on the podcast, email us at thinkbiblically@biola.edu.

In this episode of The Biggest Table, host Andrew Camp explores the intersection of faith, food, and sensory experience with guest Jeannine Hanger, an associate professor of the New Testament at Talbot School of Theology. Hanger discusses her latest book, 'Engaging Jesus with Our Senses,' which examines the sensory metaphors in the Gospels and their implications for spiritual practice. The conversation covers the role of taste and how using our senses can deepen our engagement with Scripture and our relationship with Jesus. They also touch on the importance of moving away from purely cognitive approaches to faith, the historical and cultural context of sensory experiences, and practical ways to integrate sensory awareness into communal worship. The episode concludes with personal reflections on favorite foods and the sensory dimensions of faith.Jeannine Hanger is Associate Professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Her research interests focus on the Gospels, more specifically participation with Christ. Her newest book, Engaging Jesus With Our Senses: An Embodied Approach to the Gospels, published by Baker Academic, is the latest articulation of this. Outside of teaching at Biola, Jeannine has been married for 26 years to her husband Garrick, a pastor at Coastline Covenant Church in Redondo Beach. Together they have three kids, ages 21, 19, and 17.Buy Engaging Jesus with Our Senses on Amazon. This episode of the Biggest Table is brought to you in part by Wild Goose Coffee. Since 2008, Wild Goose has sought to build better communities through coffee. For our listeners, Wild Goose is offering a special promotion of 20% off a one time order using the code TABLE at checkout. To learn more and to order coffee, please visit wildgoosecoffee.com. 

Send us a text In this episode of Evolving Humans, host Julia Marie channels a profound conversation as The Channel about the limitless potential within each individual. Kristin Raftery guides the process, and we are grateful for her assistance.The discussion explores the concept of divine alchemy and the journey of remembering one's own magnificence despite the limitations of the physical world. The Channel emphasizes the importance of connecting with one's inner light and the power of faith in transcending physical constraints. They discuss the nature of reality, the essence of truth, and the continuous process of creation through thoughts and words. The conversation also touches on the interconnectedness of all beings and the significance of recognizing the divine within oneself and others. The episode concludes with a reminder to explore with curiosity and to nurture the desire to understand beyond the physical realm. RESOURCES:Many thanks to Pixabay's AlexWitLight's Music healing frequencies 184989 for the music bed for this episode.Evolving Humans on YouTubeThank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.usEvolving Humans with Julia Marie is now on YouTube, and will offer more than the podcast episodes there, so give us a "SUBSCRIBE"!https://www.youtube.com/@EvolvingHumans731You can find my book, Signals from My Soul: A Spiritual Memoir of Awakening here: https://tinyurl.com/Book-Signals-from-My-Soul

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/whatif Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0NCSdGglnmdWg-qHALhu1w Link to my cancellation insurance: https://becomepluribus.com/creators/20 Link to my Twitter - https://x.com/whatifalthist Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlyn... Bibliography: Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell The True Believer by Eric Hoffer Dominion by Tom Holland Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington Strategy by Lawrence Freeman The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis The Unabomber's Manifesto The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch The Total State by Auron Macintyre The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt Nihilism by Seraphim Rose Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt A History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Assemblywoman by Aristophanes  The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman The Future is the Past Country by Edward Dutton Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West's by Edward Dutton Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin American Nations by Colin Woodard A Secular Age by Charles Taylor A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent Behave by Sapolsky Seeing Like a State by James Scott Coming to Our Senses by Morris German Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose Curt Doolittle Yuri Bezmonov Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman The Managerial Class by James Burnham The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson The Evolutionary Psychology behind Politics  The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried Shadow World by Robert Chandler Envy by Helmut Schoeck A History of Manners by Norbert Elias The Elephant in the Brain by Smiler The Story of Work by Lucassen  The Fate of Empires by Hubbard The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

Very rarely do we get to sit down with an author to talk about her book. Even MORE rare is the fact that this author is our very own Jeannine Hanger! Hunter and Jeannine talk about the inspiration behind her new book, Engaging Jesus with Our Senses. You should 100% buy the book.

In this episode of History 102, 'WhatIfAltHists' creator Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg dive into the West European Dark Ages, discussing the period from the fall of Rome until the rise of medieval Europe around 1000 AD. Were they really a decline or a period of critical transformation? Uncover the surprising truth behind this oft-misunderstood era.

Send us a Text Message.The Channeling Project begins with a session from January 2024. Your host moves into a light trance state, and the observer asks the questions.Some of the topics covered in this episode are:The role of our human senses as a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.We talk about way showers, and the importance of the Divine Feminine Energy at this time.We explore the process of co-creation with the universe, emphasizing the need for alignment with one's desires and consistent nurturing of these desires. The concept of soul integration is also discussed, likening it to re-hydrating dehydrated food, where consciousness is the water that brings awareness to aspects of oneself. RESOURCES: Julia Marie's WebsiteThank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.us

Link to Philippe Fabry's New Book "Rise, Fall, Reclaim" https://amzn.to/3t9lcLr Link to his English speaking YouTube Channel-   / @philippefabry-eng   Bibliography: The Rule of Empires by War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat War: What is it Good for Ian Morris Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Inglorious Empire by Sashi Tharoor War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley Atrocities by Matthew White Coming to Our Senses by Morris Berman The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler The Isles by Norman Davies Inside Africa by John Gunther Inside Asia by John Gunther The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Rise of the West by McNeil The Pursuit of Power by McNeil Roll, Jordan Roll by Eugene Genovese War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin Dominion by Tom Holland 5th Sun by Camilla Townsend Colonial Empires by Fieldhouse Millennium by Ian Mortimer Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer African Founders by David Hackett Fischer Fairness and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot A History of Latin America by Hubert Herring Africa by John Reader Wars of Empire by Douglas Porch Generations of Captivity by Berlin History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Civilization by Niall Ferguson India by John Keay The Soul of India by Amaury de Riencourt The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt A History of the World by William McNeil The General Crisis by Geoffrey Parker

Go to https://www.galaxylamps.co/whatif and use code WHATIF to get your Galaxy Projector 2.0 with 15% off! Link to Pluribus. Cancellation Insurance-https://becomepluribus.com/creators/20 Link to my podcast-   / @commonground-qg5oj   Link to my Twitter-https://twitter.com/whatifalthist?ref... Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlyn... Bibliography: Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilChrist Seeing Like a State by James C Scott A Secular Age by Charles Taylor The Unabomber's Manifesto by Ted Zazynsky The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt The Growth Delusion by David Pilling The Third World Century by Charles Stewart Goodwin The Leviathan and its Enemies by Samuel Francis Regime Change by Patrick Deneen After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried The Culture of Narcissim by Lasch Stolen Focus by Johann Hari Lost Connections by Johann Hari Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Evil by Baumeister The True Believer by Eric Hoffer Behave by Sapolsky The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt The Coddling of the American Mind by Jon Haidt The Culture Map by Erin Meyer Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung Dominion by Tom Holland Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari War in Human Nature by Azar Gat The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton Atrocities by Matthew White The Dictators by Richard Overy Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder The Rise of the West by McNeil Europe by Norman Davies The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary The History of Manners by Norbert Elias Ultrasociety by Peter Turchin Millennium by Ian Mortimer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley The Pursuit of Power by William McNeill The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens Reason, Faith and the Struggle for the West by Sam Gregg Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia Envy by Helmut Schoeck Cynical Theories by James Lindsay Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris Th History of Philosophy by Will Durant The Philosophy of History by Hegel Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holliday Examined Lives by James Miller Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker The Rebel All by Joseph Heath The Lessons of History by Will Durant Seven Theories of Human Nature by Stevenson Trump and a Post Truth World by Ken Wilbur Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford A World after Liberalism by Matthew Rose Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth The Myth of Disenchantment by Strom Coming to Our Senses by Morris Berman A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson

Are you familiar with Jon Kabat-Zinn? In short, he's one of the people who has made meditation mainstream. While I generally don't like words like ‘mainstream' and ‘conformity', anything that makes helpful tools more accessible to the masses is good in my book.Known as one of the creators of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Kabat-Zinn has written a bunch of books and helped teach meditation to all sorts of regular people. This article is inspired by Kabat-Zinn's book, “Coming to Our Senses”.This talent of being able to teach complex and often polarizing subjects to ‘regular people' is the type of thing we need right now. This is one of the reasons I left academia. Scientists are really bad and explaining their findings to regular people. When I was a scientist and polled my colleagues, they nearly unanimously agreed that this type of dissemination — the sharing of complex knowledge with regular people — was NOT a scientist's job. I suppose journalists and writers are ‘supposed' to do these things?I tried to explain this in my fourth episode, “Quiet vs Distraction”. But this is an issue that continues to be central to my work. Anyway, Kabat-Zinns uses the term ‘mindfulness' to describe a meditation-like state we can maintain for most of our lives. More importantly, his writings and teachings help regular people learn how to do this.Mindfulness practice is about focusing our awareness to pay better attention to our individual and communal lives. Paying attention, I argue, is the key to human success — and the answer to all of our problems.I truly believe this. Until we figure out how to pay attention we are not going to progress as a species. I also believe that most, if not all, human problems are related to our lack of awareness.This includes collective problems like: Disease. War. Income inequality. Racism. Prejudice.As well as individual problems including:Anxiety. Suicide. Relationship issues. General dissatisfaction with life.In this episode, I argue that we cannot move forward as humans until we learn to be mindful. I think the solution to all human problems starts with self-awareness, moves on to awareness of our connectivity, and finally permits real progress. That's a massive oversimplification if ever there was one, but it also perfectly describes my work and where I am headed. Until we learn to care for ourselves, we cannot possibly hope to protect our planet.Until we can identify what we are feeling. . . what we value. . . what we truly need . . . we can't possibly solve problems of modernity.I think mindfulness is a way of reconnecting with ourselves and each other. The problem is one of marketing. How do we introduce mindfulness and ‘awareness management' to people across cultures without scaring people away? If you are picking up what I'm laying down please let me know. This community is growing and we need to know each other.You can follow my writing here on Medium or at www.chrisburcher.com. Subscribe and follow my podcast or YouTube channel if you prefer oral and written formats. If you are enjoying this content, please tell your friends.

Kabat-Zinn on the nitty gritty practicalities of starting a practice, being fully present with no agenda, and letting go of “the story of me.”Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Back in the 1970s, he came up with something called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, which is a secular way of teaching Buddhist meditation. He's written many books, including Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; and Coming to Our Senses. His latest book is called Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief.In this episode we talk about:The nitty gritty practicalities of starting a practiceHow he's learned to be more relaxed about his practice—including advocating for meditating in bed How to practice being fully present with no agenda How investigating your motivations—something most people don't do— can help you be more mindful How to practice letting go of “the story of me”Related Episodes:Tripping Out with a Legend: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Pain vs. Suffering, Rethinking Your Anxiety, and the Buddha's Teaching in a Single SentenceJon Kabat-Zinn | Meditation as a Love AffairJon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress ReductionSign up for Dan's weekly newsletter hereFollow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTokTen Percent Happier online bookstoreSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelOur favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular EpisodesFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/jon-kabat-zinn-2024See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello Toddler Tunes family! We've journeyed through the wonders of hearing, sight, smell, and taste, and now, we're reaching the grand finale of our sensory adventure. This week, I am so excited to introduce you to the magic of our sense of touch

We're excited to share's today's episode The Amazing Adventures of Our Senses.  In this episode, Henry and friends to embark on a journey to discover the incredible wonders of our senses. Let's join them and explore the magical world of how we experience the things around us!Visit our website for  free activities and to learn more the topics and  books mentioned in this episode.Books mentioned in today's episode:"The Magnificent Makers: Riding Sound Waves" by Theanne Griffith.This podcast is a production of  What is Black.Created by Dr. Ashaunta Anderson and Dr. Jacqueline DougeEpisode written by Jacqueline DougeMusic: Snap Happy by Shane Ivers-https://www.silvermansound.comSound design and editing: Vita Productions, LLCCover art: Dreahna Lewis IllustrationRate, Review and Subscribe to the podcast!Thank you for listening to the show. For more visit, https://www.whatisblack.co/henryslibarypodcastThis shownote contains an affiliate link to Bookshop.org. If you click on it, and make a purchase I'll receive a commission.Support the showWhat is Black Social Media Links:https://www.instagram.com/whatisblk/https://twitter.com/whatisblkhttps://www.facebook.com/WhatisBlk/

Welcome back to Season 10 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain learns best, taking us ALL to new, and often unimaginable heights.    Today we're going to go back to where we left off with EPISODE #291 “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” where we covered: ✔ A review of where our podcast began, and where we are going. Each episode we create, it becomes clearer to me that social and emotional skills are important for understanding who we are, and are crucial for propelling us forward. Social and emotional competencies form the backbone of who we are (our identity), along with our character, and I'd like to continue to uncover how science can strengthen this understanding, (with the topics I chosen listed in the diagram in the show notes) expanding our awareness as we move towards our goals, or whatever it is we are working on.     I remember professor of psychology, Maurice Elias summed it up well when he spoke about where SEL began for him in the mid 1970s. He saw a need for these SEL skills back then, (decades before they were infused into our classrooms) saying these skills “could propel someone forward” but he mentioned the importance of “character to steer our direction.” I've not forgotten about Character, it's an important topic that I've been writing about in my spare time. We'll cover the basic character traits in the future, showing were character fits into this equation. I know there's a lot to the formula for success, and I don't want to leave any stones unturned. For today's episode #293, we are going back to the basics, with the Fundamentals that started for me with those 12 teenagers all those years ago. When I was speaking with Brian Proctor, on our last episode, #292,[i] it hit me that some concepts we had both heard over and over again (like the hour glass that Brian put on the cover of his book that represented staying in the present moment- I had forgotten that's what it meant. I would have told a story about it representing the fact we only have a certain amount of time to live our life, and to live each moment to the fullest) reminding me of the importance of reviewing these lessons. Or some of the phrases we used to hear over and over again like “you don't need to know HOW you are going to do something, just figure out what it is that you want, and the how will show up.”  All of the concepts that we heard, that yielded results for anyone who studied and applied them, were ideas that were simple enough to understand, yet most people never followed through with them. This is what Brian Proctor wrote about in his book, and there were many lessons he learned that went much deeper than the usual topics like goal-setting, or confidence building, but there was a foundational level that everyone started with, and I'd say it was with those Fundamental lessons that we taught to the teens. We recently covered “Diving Deeper into Our Subconscious Mind”[ii] (which was the 4th tape the teens learned). Today we will cover some of the important concepts of “Using the Conscious Mind and Our Senses” and in a couple of days (when I've written the next episode, we'll cover)  “Going Beyond Our Senses: Using the Faculties of Our Mind.” This will provide us all with the solid background of these success principles that I saw working for so many people over the years. I even heard from Ryan O'Neill, from EPISODE 203[iii] recently. He's the paranormal researcher I worked with years ago, who took these ideas and used them for his family, as well as for his own results, where he skyrocketed to high levels of achievement with his work, but I would say his results were predictable. He did things a certain way. Would you know he's still reading the book I sent him in the mail (from Arizona to Scotland) in 2013, and tabbed 3 specific chapters, explaining the importance of reading Wallace Wattles “The Science of Getting Rich” book, chapters 4/14/7 in that order. I'll cover this book, (that inspired Rhonda Byrnes to create the movie, The Secret) on my next deep dive at the end of the year, but if you look at Ryan's book, from the photo is the show notes, you can tell that he actually READS it! And I don't need to see the book to know this, as his results tell me what's happening in his mind. It's all begins with this picture where you use your imagination factor to create whatever it is you want, in your mind. I didn't cover the part where we think in pictures, because I think I've covered this enough on the podcast with our review of The Silva Method.[iv]   WHAT SHOULD WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT OUR CONSCIOUS MIND, so we can be sure we are using it to achieve results like Ryan O'Neill and thousands of others?   1: LEARN TO USE OUR 5 SENSES, BUT KEEP IN MIND THEY ARE LIMITED: Imagine your mind with your conscious mind as the top part of your head, the subconscious is the bottom, and your body is below this circle. Attached to your conscious mind is your 5 senses, that you use to see, hear, smell, taste and touch the outside world with. We also have the higher faculties of the mind (our ability to reason, our intuition, perception, will, memory and imagination) that help us to go beyond our 5 senses. Why would we want to think beyond our five senses? This is where David Eagleman's book, The Brain, or his podcast, Inner Cosmos, ties the science to something I had heard often over the years, but the way that Eagleman describes it, completely made sense to me.  He explains that our biology allows us to “see” certain wavelengths but we actually only see “a tenth of a trillionth of the light waves out there”[v] meaning there is much more than our human eyes can see. He expands this idea and dives into an explanation of how “radio waves, x-rays, gamma rays all have different frequencies, and we are completely unaware of them because our biology wasn't designed that way.” (Inner Cosmos Podcast). He says that “our brains are sampling just a little bit of the world” so I translated this back to what we taught those teens. We told them “don't look at what you can see with your eyes (whether it be poor grades, sports results, money in your bank account), just be open to the fact that you can change what you see, by doing things a certain way, completely changing your results. 2: REMEMBER WE HAVE THE AMAZING ABILITY TO THINK and it's the conscious mind that we call the thinking mind.  It hit me while listening to Brian Proctor's interview, that when his Dad was asking us “what do you really want” he wanted to see if we had the ability to answer him. Could we think new and original thoughts, or would we just look at him and say “I don't know.” This ability to think is what will determine our results in life, and like I said with Ryan O'Neill, his ability to think made it easy to predict the results he would have in television, by the fact he is still studying, learning, reading and applying what he is learning for these new results. It's in our conscious mind that we have the ability to THINK new thoughts, or take ideas and IMAGINE them on the screen of our minds. But how many of us create NEW ideas? Look around you right now, and notice what others are doing. Ask them questions, and see what's on their mind? I remember while studying the basics of Neuroscience with Mark Waldman, he would often say, “please interrupt me, and challenge things that I'm teaching you” as this would show that his students are thinking critically, and not just taking notes. 3: USE YOUR 5 SENSES TO GATHER INFORMATION, AND THEN GET CREATIVE taking your thoughts or ideas to a new level, using your 6 higher faculties. Imagine an idea coming into your mind. You can sense the idea, and then think about it. Do you like the idea? Does it make sense to you? You have the ability to reject an idea (using your reasoning faculty), but if you like the idea, and you accept it, maybe you even love this idea, you now send it over to your subconscious mind, that we went deep into on EP 291[vi]. This is the creative process where you take an idea (a thought), spend some time in thought about it, decide you like the idea, and with emotion, you turn it over to your subconscious mind where the magic begins. This is how Proctor taught the teens to turn their C grades into A grades (by teaching them to see an A grade with their imagination FIRST). Once they could see the new grade, they started taking the actions needed to actually earn this A grade, but it started with their ability to put this conscious idea in their mind first. They had to THINK! We heard so many stories like this over the years, especially in sports. A golfer described how he would picture the golf ball going into the cup in his imagination first, and evening hearing it spinning around. PUTTING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND INTO PRACTICE: Take out a notepad and sketch out the diagram of the conscious mind, subconscious mind and the body (that was created by Dr. Thurman Fleet in 1934). Here's my sketch below. Now start to THINK. What do you really want? Write out YOUR IDEA, circle it, and if you resonate with what you have written, add emotion to it, and see what comes to mind when you READ what you've written. If it's a goal that stretches you, like we've mentioned before, you might read it and think “this is too far off from where I am right now” but it's here we will take the higher faculties of the mind (next episode) to help change this discord. But for now, just notice how you feel. Use your conscious mind to either accept the new idea, or reject it. When I first wrote on my notepad that I wanted to make neuroscience simple for educators and students, I remember almost wanting to hide my notebook, and not tell anyone this is what I wanted to do. It just seemed so far off from where I was, and I wasn't sure how I would ever do this. Now, I receive emails from leaders around the world, looking to see how they can add simple neuroscience into their curriculum. It just boggles my mind that it started with writing out an idea, and then taking action on the idea, until finally, one day, you look up, and you are living what you wrote. To review and close out this episode on “Using the Conscious Mind and the 5 Senses” we covered: ✔ 3 concepts about our conscious mind and our senses to help us to THINK. ✔ An activity encouraging us to write out something we REALLY want, and see how we feel about this NEW goal or idea. This will prepare us for our next episode, where we will then look at the 6 faculties of our mind (our reason, intuition, perception, our will, memory and imagination) to help us to see beyond our senses. I hope this lesson has helped you to see some of the fundamentals that I've seen take people to incredible heights. Brian Proctor outlined some other lessons learned on our last interview, and I wasn't surprised at the reaction to his episode. I always love hearing how these episodes are helping you, and Brian's interview was one I'll never forget. I'll see you in a few days for a look into the faculties of our mind, and will close with a quote reminding us to THINK. If you don't like what you see in your world, (whether you're a student, and want to change your grades, or an athlete or a salesperson who wants to change their results, it all begins with the conscious mind, and our ability to THINK, and CREATE the results we really want in our life. REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #292 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-proctor-on-my-father-knew-the-secretgrowing-up-with-bob-proctor/   [ii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #291 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-unleashing-the-power-of-our-subconscious-mind/   [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #203 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/case-study-with-paranormal-researcher-ryan-o-neill-on-making-your-vision-a-reality/   [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/   [v] David Eagleman Inner Cosmos Podcast “Can We Create New Senses for Humans?” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-we-create-new-senses-for-humans/id1677842672?i=1000616626191   [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #291 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-unleashing-the-power-of-our-subconscious-mind/  

Explore Easter - Episode 2 :Explore theResurrection Story through Our Senses

March 15, 2023 Daily Devotion: “Come to Our Senses" 2 Kings 5:1–14 A man named Naaman was a high-ranking Syrian soldier. He was influential, wealthy, proud—a man of dignity, courage, patriotism, and military clout. There was only one problem: the man had leprosy. Through a chain of interesting events, Naaman was led to Elisha for cleansing from his dread disease. It fell to Elisha's servant to be the bearer of news the Syrian officer did not want to hear. As we read in the account, the high-ranking soldier was offended. He became enraged. And look who was caught in the crossfire—the servant. The dear guy didn't generate the news, he just communicated it . . . and boom! The result? Feeling and hearing the verbal blows of disrespect and resentment. Let me stretch this out and apply it. There are times when God's servant is called upon to confront or in some way tell another the truth that the individual does not want to hear. The information may be painful to accept, but it is what God wants said. So the faithful servant says it. Graciously yet accurately. And all of a sudden the lid blows sky high. He is caught in the crossfire. What do you do in such precarious moments? Fight back? Yell and scream and threaten in return? Listen to God's counsel to servants whose job it is to say hard things: The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. (2 Timothy 2:24–26) What wise counsel! Not quarrelsome, but kind. Not irritated, but patient . . . even when wronged. Not angry, but gentle. God may be using your words to help the hearers "come to their senses," which may sound very noble. But, believe me, there are times it's not a lot to write home about. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gerzon-etino/message

It is Day 42 in the trial of United States v. Joseph Biggs, et al., in which five (5) members of the Proud Boys are being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6, 2021. The New York Times reports on the cross-examination of one, Jeremy Bertino, and the nature of his testimony as it impacts the rest of the case. On today's stream: › US v. Biggs Trial Update and New York Times Article › Norm and Mike want LAL to be on Every Law School Campus — You Can Help! › Volodymyr Zelensky Warns that the U.S. Will Have to Send Its Sons and Daughters to War; Rising Global Tensions and Our Senses of Self Join us.  Daily livestreams beginning at 7:45am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy. › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegiti... Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy:  Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

It is Day 42 in the trial of United States v. Joseph Biggs, et al., in which five (5) members of the Proud Boys are being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6, 2021. The New York Times reports on the cross-examination of one, Jeremy Bertino, and the nature of his testimony as it impacts the rest of the case. On today's stream: › US v. Biggs Trial Update and New York Times Article › Norm and Mike want LAL to be on Every Law School Campus — You Can Help! › Volodymyr Zelensky Warns that the U.S. Will Have to Send Its Sons and Daughters to War; Rising Global Tensions and Our Senses of Self Join us.  Daily livestreams beginning at 7:45am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy. › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegiti... Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy:  Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

It is Day 42 in the trial of United States v. Joseph Biggs, et al., in which five (5) members of the Proud Boys are being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6, 2021. The New York Times reports on the cross-examination of one, Jeremy Bertino, and the nature of his testimony as it impacts the rest of the case. On today's stream: › US v. Biggs Trial Update and New York Times Article › Norm and Mike want LAL to be on Every Law School Campus — You Can Help! › Volodymyr Zelensky Warns that the U.S. Will Have to Send Its Sons and Daughters to War; Rising Global Tensions and Our Senses of Self Join us.  Daily livestreams beginning at 7:45am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy. › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegiti... Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy:  Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

It is Day 42 in the trial of United States v. Joseph Biggs, et al., in which five (5) members of the Proud Boys are being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6, 2021. The New York Times reports on the cross-examination of one, Jeremy Bertino, and the nature of his testimony as it impacts the rest of the case. On today's stream: › US v. Biggs Trial Update and New York Times Article › Norm and Mike want LAL to be on Every Law School Campus — You Can Help! › Volodymyr Zelensky Warns that the U.S. Will Have to Send Its Sons and Daughters to War; Rising Global Tensions and Our Senses of Self Join us.  Daily livestreams beginning at 7:45am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy. › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegiti... Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy:  Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Why does the world appear different when we're in love? How can one colour make us feel anger and another calm? Why do sounds like chewing and yawning cause emotional distress for some people? Aristotle said that there were five senses but scientific research suggests that there could be many more than that, with some studies claiming that there are up to 52. On this episode we're joined by Ashley Ward, Professor in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sydney. In discussion with zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke, he explores some of the fascinating findings in his brand new book, Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses, and the mechanisms at the heart of how we navigate the world. ... Did you know that Intelligence Squared offers way more than podcasts? We've just launched a new online streaming platform Intelligence Squared+ and we'd love you to give it a go.  It's packed with more than 20 years' worth of video debates and conversations on the world's hottest topics. Tune in to live events, ask your questions or watch back on-demand totally ad-free with hours of discussion to dive into for just £14.99 a month. Visit intelligencesquaredplus.com to start watching today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world - coalescing in any moment, in any combination, to varying degrees, to relay what is going on around us and within us. But when you stop to think about the level of complexity involved in making sense of all of this in your brain - it really is quite astonishing. That being said, are we guilty of doing our senses a disservice by reducing their scope to just five? Is there more to it than just smell, sight, taste, touch, and hearing? If so, what are the other ways we sense the world and what function do they serve? Ashley Ward is a professor in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sydney & author of ‘Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses' - he joins Jonathan to discuss.

Sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste: all of our five senses provide unique pathways to presence and happiness. We spend a few minutes being mindful of each one. How to Do This Practice: Find a comfortable place where you feel safe. Close your eyes or soften your gaze. Take a few deep breths, noticing the sensation of the air as it moves through your nose, into your lungs, and back out again. Sound: For a few breaths, pay attention to the sounds around you. Notice where they are in space. Touch: Put one hand on top of the other. Notice the sensations you feel in your hand as your fingers' knuckles touch the other, like temperature and texture.. Shift your attention to your cheeks, noticing temperature and the feel of the air. Taste: Now, pay attention to the taste you are experiencing on your tongue. There may be no taste or the taste of saliva. Smell: Move your focus to the smell around you as you take a breath. See how many odors you can identify. **Sight: Finally, focus your gaze on a point eight inches in front of you for a few seconds and see what colors, forms, light, and shadow you notice there. Take a few more deep breaths here and notice if any of your senses feel heightened. More resources from The Greater Good Science Center: Listen to our Happiness Break on body scan meditation: https://tinyurl.com/bd6x8ba5 How to Focus Under Pressure (podcast) https://tinyurl.com/mxpd6mtd Coming to Our Senses: https://tinyurl.com/3d4jkprr Hands-On Research: The Science of Touch: https://tinyurl.com/y79vpbre 10 Steps to Savoring the Good Things in Life: https://tinyurl.com/2zwb5y8v We love hearing from you! Tell us about your experience with the five senses meditation. Email us at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or use the hashtag #happinesspod. Find us on Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap Help us share Happiness Break! Leave us a 5-star review and copy and share this link: https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap We're living through a mental health crisis. Between the stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, burnout — we all could use a break to feel better. That's where Happiness Break comes in. In each biweekly podcast episode, instructors guide you through research-backed practices and meditations that you can do in real-time. These relaxing and uplifting practices have been shown in a lab to help you cultivate calm, compassion, connection, mindfulness, and more — what the latest science says will directly support your well-being. All in less than ten minutes. A little break in your day.

Whew, chile! This episode decided to go THERE! Episode 7, "Our Senses, Restored" gave all it needed to give. Who showed up at Nova's doorstep? Who showed up at Ralph Angel's (old) doorstep? And can SOMEBODY please snatch Micah up!! All these questions and more addressed on this episode of Bourbon & Bordelons. Plus some Advictions and a complimentary shot of bourbon! Take flight! Edited and Mixed by Panama Jackson Music: Intro- "Perfume B-Side" by Berto Antonio Outro- "Cleopatra" by Berto Antonio Music used by permission from Berto Antonio's 2020 release, WRTHY, available on all streaming platforms.

This week: Jon and Tyler bridge the gap between self-gratification and baseball while discussing the latest TV shows and video games. (00:00:53) Coming to Our Senses (00:04:00) Pure Evil Essay Request (00:08:36) Rings of Power and House of the Dragon (00:15:07) IMDB Movie List (00:19:46) She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (00:22:08) Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (00:43:48) Jon's Dreamy Baseball Story (00:52:23) Tyler's League of Legends Career (00:53:58) Jon's War on Chipmunks (and Farmers) (01:00:10) Sex on Stairs (01:04:44) iPhone 14 Pro and the Evolution of Everything (01:13:23) Keyboard Update: Norse and Blurple (01:16:01) Steam Deck (01:20:07) Google Stadia Shutting Down (01:21:18) Treating Orcs Poorly (01:27:40) Cheaper by the Dozen's Tom Welling (01:31:15) Game: Splatoon 3 (01:44:08) Game: Survivor.io (01:46:22) Game: Tinykin (01:49:09) Game: Mothergunship: Forge

2020 2021 was a year that brought on the automatic physiological reaction of the fight or flight response in our bodies. This accumulated stress has affected all of us. Patricia McLaughlin is a mindfulness instructor and talks with librarian Jessica D'Avanza about how we can combat this stressor and calm the nervous system through mindfulness. Patricia answers the questions, “What is mindfulness” and “How can it help me?” She shares tips for ways you can find ease in the world and discover the possibilities that the new year can offer. At the end of their conversation, Patricia offers listeners a guided mindfulness exercise. You are invited to stick around and practice what you learn in this episode or come back to the mindfulness exercise at any time you feel it could be helpful. Patricia McLaughlin, Esq., a professor of law, has been a member of the RI Bar for over 30 years and has held various leadership positions in education. She is a certified yoga teacher and mindfulness instructor who teaches a variety of offerings of in-person classes and online courses in workplace sessions and community settings. She is also a facilitator for Meditate Together, hosted by Mindful Leader, a worldwide program that offers free live group meditation sessions, 24 hours a day, five days a week in an effort to help as many people as possible during these challenging times. You can contact Patricia at patriciamclaughlin4@gmail.com or visit her website at amindfulnessjourney.com. Patricia's Recommended Books on Mindful Living Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn Full-Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn (for those looking to go deeper) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rhodyradio/message

On this week's show, Disneyland pros, David and Ronn take a deep dive into several sizzling Disney topics. Disneyland as a 360° Experience: The Subtle and Brilliant Ways Disneyland Sets the Bar using Our Senses and Emotions. How many wonderful and magical things does Disneyland do that we take for granted   – or don't even realize they are doing? Spoiler Alert: A LOT! Disneyland is a masterclass in "art."Would the ideal Tomorrowland in Disneyland be better than an ideal Westcot in California Adventure? And, when, where, and how in the heck did Ronn and David meet anyway? Plus, we remember, celebrate and honor Captain EO, Donald Duck, the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, and the Mickey Mouse trademark in this week in Disney history. All this and the big reveal of our Favorite 5 "Disneyland Entertainment" Things of all-time - that are not rides, and more!

2020 was a year that brought on the automatic physiological reaction of the fight or flight response in our bodies. This accumulated stress has affected all of us. Patricia McLaughlin is a mindfulness instructor and talks with librarian Jessica D’Avanza about how we can combat this stressor and calm the nervous system through mindfulness. Patricia answers the questions, “What is mindfulness” and “How can it help me?” She shares tips for ways you can find ease in the world and discover the possibilities that 2021 can offer. At the end of their conversation, Patricia offers listeners a guided mindfulness exercise. You are invited to stick around and practice what you learn in this episode or come back to the mindfulness exercise at any time you feel it could be helpful. Patricia McLaughlin, Esq., a professor of law, has been a member of the RI Bar for over 30 years and has held various leadership positions in education. She is a certified yoga teacher and mindfulness instructor who teaches a variety of offerings of in-person classes and online courses in workplace sessions and community settings. She is also a facilitator for Meditate Together, hosted by Mindful Leader, a worldwide program that offers free live group meditation sessions, 24 hours a day, five days a week in an effort to help as many people as possible during these challenging times. You can contact Patricia at patriciamclaughlin4@gmail.com or visit her website at amindfulnessjourney.com. Patricia’s Recommended Books on Mindful Living Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn Full-Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn (for those looking to go deeper) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rhodyradio/message

On Episode 7, Black Jesus is back! White Jesus talks about his smartphone trying to teach him new racial slurs....listener voicemail as Black Jesus tries to give advice to a fan....and is White Jesus recording the show without pants? Chapters 00:53 Sponsors/Opening Banter 4:15 White Jesus's Sister is in law school 9:59 Joe Rogan Pee Break 20:07 "Niggardly"? 24:05 Disciple Hotline Voicemails! 36:33 Ricardo? 38:33 Ride Oversharing 50:25 Real News with White Jesus 1:09:18 Wrap Up. 1:16:43 "The Shape of Our Senses" by DGBC Support, subscribe, all that stuff.... We want this show to be listener driven. Let us know what you'd like to hear us discuss Leave a voicemail for the podcast on out hotline: 954-580-FUNK Email: bwjpodcast@yahoo.com YouTube: Black and White Jesus Podcast Instagram: BWJP.RADIO Send feedback, topic suggestions, hate mail, whatever brings you joy. Thanks for listening...enjoy the show! Theme music by Casino Medicine "Meet You There" See music video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yRoIVLtSJeQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bwjp/support

Lisa is joined by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. who is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (in 1979), and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995). He retired from his positions at the medical center in 2000. The Center for Mindfulness has been under the leadership of Dr. Saki Santorelli since that time, and during those years, it has grown remarkably and its programs have become more and more influential both in the US and internationally. More than 20 years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, in The Healing Power of Mindfulness, he shares a cornucopia of specific examples as to how the cultivation of mindfulness can reshape your relationship with your own body and mind - explaining what we're learning about neuroplasticity and the brain, how meditation can affect our biology and our health, and what mindfulness can teach us about coming to terms with all sorts of life challenges, including our own mortality, so we can make the most of the moments we have. Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses, The Healing Power of Mindfulness features a new foreword by the author and timely updates throughout the text. If you are interested in learning more about how mindfulness as a way of being can help us to heal, physically and emotionally, look no further than this deeply personal and also "deeply optimistic book, grounded in good science and filled with practical recommendations for moving in the right direction" (Andrew Weil, MD), from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.

The post 05/16/20-Dominican Dimensions-The Faith and Our Senses appeared first on St Gabriel Catholic Radio.

Discover how mindfulness can help you with healing. More than 20 years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, in The Healing Power of Mindfulness, he shares a cornucopia of specific examples as to how the cultivation of mindfulness can reshape your relationship with your own body and mind - explaining what we're learning about neuroplasticity and the brain, how meditation can affect our biology and our health, and what mindfulness can teach us about coming to terms with all sorts of life challenges, including our own mortality, so we can make the most of the moments we have.  Originally published in 2005 as part of a larger book titled Coming to Our Senses, The Healing Power of Mindfulness features a new foreword by the author and timely updates throughout the text. If you are interested in learning more about how mindfulness as a way of being can help us to heal, physically and emotionally, look no further than this deeply personal and also "deeply optimistic book, grounded in good science and filled with practical recommendations for moving in the right direction" (Andrew Weil, MD), from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast episode relates beautifully to the 'Life-Giving Rhythms' map from 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' life-mapping materials by http://www.onelifemaps.com. Even if you have yet to engage in this life-enhancing process, you'll enjoy the possibilities Christine Sine opens to you as she looks at many activities as spiritual practices to help you connect with God, who is always present.I choose to breathe in the wonder of God's eternal love, And dance to the rhythm of eternal breath, Listening to the whispers calling me to slow down and take notice. I choose to absorb the beauty of the divine presence, to delight in the Creator of all things and relish the delight God takes in me. Can you imagine a God who dances with shouts of joy, laughs when you laugh, loves to play, enjoys life, and invites us to join the fun? Like many of us, Christine Sine had spent many years with an image of God who was "a very serious, workaholic type of God." And even when her theology told her this was not true, she struggled to live into this new way of thinking. What she needed was a childlike spirituality. In this book, Christine Sine, online host of the Godspace community, invites us to pay attention to childlike characteristics that have the power to reshape us. Each chapter addresses a childlike characteristic to embrace, including delight, playfulness, imagination, awe and wonder, love of nature, the ability to live in the present, and much more. Fresh spiritual practices that engage all our senses help us live a new spiritual life that embraces the wonder and joy that God intends for us.Christine Aroney-Sine is the founder and facilitator for God Space, an online community that grew out of her passion for creative spirituality, gardening, and sustainability. She and her husband, Tom, are cofounders of Mustard Seed Associates. Christine trained as a physician in Australia, practiced in New Zealand, and developed and directed the healthcare ministry for Mercy Ships. Her books include Rest in the Moment, Return to Our Senses, GodSpace, and Tales of a Seasick Doctor.Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-pageIf you are interested in becoming equipped to facilitate others thru 'Listen to My Life' life mapping materials, you can get more information about our upcoming Facilitator Certification Workshop, November 18-20 in the Chicago Area. You can find more information here: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/november_2019-facilitator-certification-workshop-landing-pagePlease explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.Please join us for a virtual journey thru 'Listen to My Life' starting September 10, 2019 with Sharon Swing, Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley. Find out more at: https://onelifemaps.lpages.co/september-2019-listen-to-my-life-virtual-workshop-landing-pageAudio Meditations as a Thank You for Your SupportWe're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help? Become a patron of OneLIfe Maps at the $5 a month or more level at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps recieve access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.EquipmentWe've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use, with links to Amazon included:Recorder https://amzn.to/2WoWgOsMicrophones: https://amzn.to/2SuA27bMicrophone Stands: https://amzn.to/2UcPdnbHeadset: https://amzn.to/2T8loHSMicrophone Wind Screens: https://amzn.to/2T7xlh3Headset Extension Cords: https://amzn.to/2VsuPP0Headset Cable Splitter: https://amzn.to/2tGMoyPThe links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you heard the term 'sensory hypersensitivity,' but don't really know what it means? Perhaps you should ask someone in benzo withdrawal. Sensitivity to sights, sounds, smells, and tastes can be common. Learn the causes and a few tips on how to cope.In today's episode, we talk about the withdrawal symptoms of the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. These include light and sound sensitivity, blurred vision, dry mouth, thrush, difficulty swallowing, and tinnitus among others. We also hear a benzo story from Washington, DC, learn the role homeostasis plays in recovery, and spotlight an amazing documentary film by an Irish journalist. Welcome to Episode #16 Today we focus on the withdrawal symptoms associated with the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. We talk about the causes and provide a few tips on dealing with them. We also hear a long benzo narrative from Washington, D.C. In addition, we learn about homeostasis and touch on some issues with disability insurance. And of course, in our spotlight, we take a look at a documentary film by Shane Kenny. But first, let's list the resources used in this episode, and then we'll dive deeper into the content of episode 16. Episode Resources The following resource links are provided as a courtesy to our listeners. They do not constitute an endorsement by Benzo Free of the resource or any recommendations or advice provided therein. MAILBAG"The Ashton Manual," by C. Heather Ashton"Benzo Free," by D E Foster"Conversation with a Caregiver," Benzo Free Podcast Episode #12 BENZO NEWSBF BLOG: "It's Senior Week at Benzo Free" by D E FosterBF BLOG: "The Lost Years: A Father, a Son, Benzos, and Aging," by D E FosterBIC: "Do You Want to Share Your Story Publicly?"NEW YORK TIMES: "A Quiet Drug Problem Among the Elderly," by Paula SpanBF PODCAST: "The Dangers of Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly," by D E FosterMEDICAL SPECIALTY DIALOGUES: “Once prescribed, 25% of elderly become dependent on benzodiazepines: JAMA, by Hina ZahidNPR'S FRESH AIR: "'Mind Fixers' Documents The 'Troubled Search' For Mental Illness Medication," by Terry GrossFOX SAN ANTONIO: "The pills doctors are calling the next drug crisis," by Emily Baucum BENZO SPOTLIGHTYOUTUBE: "The Benzodiazepine Medical Disaster," by filmmaker Shane KennyBENZO.ORG.UK: "Withdrawal Reactions from Chlordiazepoxide (Librium)" by Leo E. Hollister, Francis P. Motzenbecker, & Roger O. Dean, as published in Psychopharmacologia, 1960 FEATURE: The Assault on Our Senses "The Ashton Manual," by C. Heather Ashton"Benzo Free," by D E FosterTHE TIMES: "Tranquillisers drove me on the brink of suicide," by Shane KennyMAYO CLINIC: "Oral Thursh"JOURNAL OF ORAL PATHOLOGY & MEDICINE: "Atrophic tongue associated with Candida," by H. Terai and M. ShimaharaHEALTHLINE: "7 Symptoms of Candida Overgrowth (Plus How to Get Rid of It)" BENZO FREE LINKSWebsitePodcast Home PageFeedback FormDisclaimer Podcast Summary This podcast is dedicated to those who struggle with side effects, dependence, and withdrawal from benzos, a group of drugs from the benzodiazepine and nonbenzodiazepine classes, better known as anti-anxiety drugs, sleeping pills, sedatives, and minor tranquilizers. Their common brand names include Ambien, Ativan, Klonopin, Lunesta, Valium, and Xanax. Introduction In today's intro, I decided to talk about a TV show. A sitcom that my wife and I watched which triggered an emotional reaction in me, and it didn't in my wife. It reminded me of how, even if someone was by your side all throughout benzo withdrawal, they still probably really know what it was like. Mailbag This is where we share questions and comments which were discussed: QUESTION: What about homeostasis? "Am I 'tilting at windmills' or dealing with real underlying health issues?"This comment was from Terry in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. He wanted to know if our symptoms are actually part of homeostasis, our bodies ability to heal and return to normal,...

Don't fall into the trap of thoughts that swirl through the mind, especially those laced with judgment. Instead, learn to let them pass through without getting sucked in. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

This guided meditation allows us to move out of our own experience and open up to what is happening around and within us. This meditation cultivates awareness in a detailed way to deepen your mindfulness practice.    Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses.   Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Please enjoy links to books, authors, apps, etc. we discussed in this episode. Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's by Olivia Hoblitzelle Dan Harris - 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris Insight Timer (app) Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses and Full Catastrophe Living Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine by Saki Santorelli

Holiday Mentors, Profitable Podcasts, Trauma Therapy, and More Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got holiday mentors, profitable podcasts, trauma therapy, and more. For all the links, check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/2018-12-04-process-hacker-news-holiday-mentors-profitable-podcasts-trauma-therapy-and-more/. Enjoy! Events Why not eat, drink, be merry, and get mentored by design experts this season? Cascade SF, founded by Andi Galpern, is bringing you Holiday Mentor Night on December 11 in San Francisco. If you missed out on Finish Up Weekend last September, here’s another chance to join! Alex Hillman invites you to get on the list while it’s early and enjoy a weekend of productivity from January 25 to 27 at Indy Hall in Philadelphia. Courses Become a certified coach through Courageous Living Coach Certification, a training program created by Kate Swoboda. Registration for 2019 trainees is open until December 10. Media The National Business Book Awards official podcast, Curating the Business Conversation, recently kicked off their first episode, which features Jennifer Riel discussing integrative thinking as described in her book, Creating Great Choices. Entrepreneur and podcaster Jordan Harbinger joins Tom Morkes on the In the Trenches Podcast to share some of his secrets about starting and growing a profitable podcast. Seth Godin was also a recent guest on Tom’s show. Jessica Spaulding of Harlem Chocolate Factory shares her ups and downs as an entrepreneur on the Side Hustle Pro podcast, hosted by Nicaila Matthews-Okome. Writing Have you heard that Tara Hunt is dropping the word “Social” from the Truly Social brand? Read her newest LinkedIn post to learn why. Christine Henderson just published this interview with Maria Dismondy, in which Maria shares her background, her writing journey, and her approach to social media management. Recommended Resources On The Trauma Therapist with Guy Macpherson, who was recommended by Lisa Dale Miller, Trauma Consultant Margi Bennett speaks about human rights and trauma advocacy. Kimberly Bryant, one of Michelle Kim’s influences, shares her background, the foundation, and the mission of Black Girls Code in an article on Success. The Healing Power of Mindfulness, the third installment of the Coming to Our Senses series by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is now out. Jon is a prominent figure in the mindfulness community who has touched the lives of many practitioners, such as Bill Duane, Rhonda Magee, and Lisa Dale Miller. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

Block off some time for yourself to engage in connection, compassion, and kindness. This immersive heartscape meditation offers deep healing of ourselves and others.  Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

When scientists discovered that our brain communicates with our body through electrical signals, they had a scientific and philosophical freak-out: if it took a not insignificant amount of TIME for our brain to process the world around us... then that information -- OUR SENSES -- were always TOO SLOW! What did this mean for our SENSE OF REALITY? And when we began exploring the solar system, our communication with our far flung human and robot astronauts was even more DELAYED. What The IF is going on??? An encore presentation of... the totally bizarre time when our BRAIN SIGNALS slowed down so much that they couldn't keep up with our dancin' feet!

From page 54 of 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' - "Letting go really refers to choosing to become transparent to the strong pull of our own likes and dislikes, and of the unawareness that draws us to cling to them. To be transparent requires that we allow fears and insecurities to play themselves out in the field of full awareness. - Try it out just for fun. See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging."The book, Wherever You Go,There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PHD and it inspired me to make some changes.Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the author of numerous books, including Full Catastrophe Living, Arriving at Your Own Door, and Coming to Our Senses.You can purchase Wherever You Go,There You Are on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Jon-Kabat-Zinn-Wherever-You-There/dp/B00SCSTAQ2Sources:https://www.amazon.com/Jon-Kabat-Zinn/e/B000AQ12GA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1538088229&sr=1-1http://www.blogher.com/what-it-means-be-impatiently-patient-your-key-extreme-successShoutout to the sponsors of the podcast:DDP Yoga www.DDPYoga.comThe Clay Cup @TheClayCupTrade Secrets @SecretsInTradeJoos @TheJoosBarSports Evolution @LeadingAthletesAll music on this episode is from the amazing JAKE OVER. Find him on Facebook. Listen to the show on Spotify @ https://goo.gl/RPCjD6iTunes: https://goo.gl/3gMfeiStitcher: https://goo.gl/e4fFfqPippa: https://goo.gl/BYNdVw Also find me on Google Play & iHeartRadio by searching ‘Rob Z Radio’ You can call me directly @ (814) 799-0064 Please give me a rating on iTunes. It would help the podcast tremendously. How can I make more $$$ for you and/or your business?Message me with "Fix My Social" on any of my platforms Twitter & Snapchat @RobZyoFacebook, Instagram & LinkedIn @RobZRadioYouTube @RobZShowwww.RobZRadio.com My mission is to help businesses and individuals stand out through their social media networks. I like to describe it as taking a brick and mortar business and turning it into a personality that people can identify with. Giving businesses an identity. Call me (814) 799-0064More about DDP Yoga:Diamond Dallas Page originally developed DDP YOGA for athletes like himself who had suffered years of injuries due to high-impact sports. For the first 42 years of his life, Dallas was a guy who "wouldn't be caught dead" doing yoga, or anything like it.When he ruptured his L4 and L5 spinal discs during the height of his professional wrestling career, he was so desperate to keep his childhood dream alive, he was willing to try anything. So he tried yoga for the first time in his life.Because Dallas (DDP) had so much experience in many other areas of fitness, he quickly started mixing elements of yoga with his rehab and traditional calisthenics. For almost a decade, DDP has refined his program and has become a master at teaching it to others, as well as motivating individuals to believe that anything is possible with dedication and hard work.Along the way, Dallas learned that very deconditioned men and women could do DDP YOGA as well -- he was amazed to see stories of people doing DDP YOGA losing literally hundreds of pounds! As Dallas puts it, "weight loss just happens to be a really AWESOME side effect of DDP YOGA!"DDP Yoga combines the very best of yoga, old-school calisthenics, sports rehabilitation therapy and dynamic resistance to create one of the most effective fitness plans in existence today. It allows anyone to:Get a kick-ass cardio workoutIncrease flexibilityStrengthen core musclesExperience almost no joint impactWhat Makes DDPY Different Than Traditional Yoga and Other Fitness Programs?What separates DDP Yoga from all other kinds of yoga is not just that it is fronted by a celebrity, or that the program combines yoga positions and calisthenics with physical therapy principles, or even that it has an interactive app that lets its users do the workouts from anywhere, but that DDPY is something that anybody at any age or skill level can do. Unlike traditional yoga, DDP Yoga isn't just stretching, it's stretching and strengthening your muscles, ligaments, and tendons.DDP Yoga may have a strong celebrity following (e.g. Darius Rucker, Chris Jericho, A.J. Styles, Gabriel Iglesias), but the program is rooted in adaptability and “making it your own.” Finding the motivation to start doing DDPY is often the major hurdle for people, as it may entail trying things that were not originally part of their lifestyle. In addition to steadily completing the workouts, followers of DDPY are encouraged to reconsider their diets and overall attitude. When following all of these concepts, results are nearly guaranteed. Just ask military veteran Arthur Boorman , who previously walked with crutches and leg braces, or Jared Mollenkopf, who lost around 300 pounds in a little over a year. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you ever tried to make a change, go after a goal, or set a new intention, only to get discouraged and give up when you don’t see results in a few days or weeks?Perhaps you need to learn to be impatiently patient. I know those two words are opposites, but learning this skill will help you handle setbacks and have a less stressful life.Patiently Impatient is most of society today. Slow to start and quick to quit.Impatiently Patient is what you NEED to be if you want to grow. Quick to start and devoted to the path.I read a book, Wherever You Go,There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PHD and it inspired me to make some changes.Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the author of numerous books, including Full Catastrophe Living, Arriving at Your Own Door, and Coming to Our Senses.You can purchase Wherever You Go,There You Are on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Jon-Kabat-Zinn-Wherever-You-There/dp/B00SCSTAQ2Sources:https://www.amazon.com/Jon-Kabat-Zinn/e/B000AQ12GA/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1538088229&sr=1-1http://www.blogher.com/what-it-means-be-impatiently-patient-your-key-extreme-successShoutout to the sponsors of the podcast:DDP Yoga www.DDPYoga.comThe Clay Cup @TheClayCupTrade Secrets @SecretsInTradeJoos @TheJoosBarSports Evolution @LeadingAthletesAll music on this episode is from the amazing JAKE OVER. Find him on Facebook. Listen to the show on Spotify @ https://goo.gl/RPCjD6iTunes: https://goo.gl/3gMfeiStitcher: https://goo.gl/e4fFfqPippa: https://goo.gl/BYNdVw Also find me on Google Play & iHeartRadio by searching ‘Rob Z Radio’ You can call me directly @ (814) 799-0064 Please give me a rating on iTunes. It would help the podcast tremendously. How can I make more $$$ for you and/or your business?Message me with "Fix My Social" on any of my platforms Twitter & Snapchat @RobZyoFacebook, Instagram & LinkedIn @RobZRadioYouTube @RobZShowwww.RobZRadio.com My mission is to help businesses and individuals stand out through their social media networks. I like to describe it as taking a brick and mortar business and turning it into a personality that people can identify with. Giving businesses an identity. Call me (814) 799-0064More about DDP Yoga:Diamond Dallas Page originally developed DDP YOGA for athletes like himself who had suffered years of injuries due to high-impact sports. For the first 42 years of his life, Dallas was a guy who "wouldn't be caught dead" doing yoga, or anything like it.When he ruptured his L4 and L5 spinal discs during the height of his professional wrestling career, he was so desperate to keep his childhood dream alive, he was willing to try anything. So he tried yoga for the first time in his life.Because Dallas (DDP) had so much experience in many other areas of fitness, he quickly started mixing elements of yoga with his rehab and traditional calisthenics. For almost a decade, DDP has refined his program and has become a master at teaching it to others, as well as motivating individuals to believe that anything is possible with dedication and hard work.Along the way, Dallas learned that very deconditioned men and women could do DDP YOGA as well -- he was amazed to see stories of people doing DDP YOGA losing literally hundreds of pounds! As Dallas puts it, "weight loss just happens to be a really AWESOME side effect of DDP YOGA!"DDP Yoga combines the very best of yoga, old-school calisthenics, sports rehabilitation therapy and dynamic resistance to create one of the most effective fitness plans in existence today. It allows anyone to:Get a kick-ass cardio workoutIncrease flexibilityStrengthen core musclesExperience almost no joint impactWhat Makes DDPY Different Than Traditional Yoga and Other Fitness Programs?What separates DDP Yoga from all other kinds of yoga is not just that it is fronted by a celebrity, or that the program combines yoga positions and calisthenics with physical therapy principles, or even that it has an interactive app that lets its users do the workouts from anywhere, but that DDPY is something that anybody at any age or skill level can do. Unlike traditional yoga, DDP Yoga isn't just stretching, it's stretching and strengthening your muscles, ligaments, and tendons.DDP Yoga may have a strong celebrity following (e.g. Darius Rucker, Chris Jericho, A.J. Styles, Gabriel Iglesias), but the program is rooted in adaptability and “making it your own.” Finding the motivation to start doing DDPY is often the major hurdle for people, as it may entail trying things that were not originally part of their lifestyle. In addition to steadily completing the workouts, followers of DDPY are encouraged to reconsider their diets and overall attitude. When following all of these concepts, results are nearly guaranteed. Just ask military veteran Arthur Boorman , who previously walked with crutches and leg braces, or Jared Mollenkopf, who lost around 300 pounds in a little over a year. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Take a guided walk to help savor your day. This walking practice isn't about where you go or how fast you go. It's about staying consistently in the present moment and embracing mindfulness with each step.  Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

With the demands of modern times, it can be difficult to live a life that feels truly balanced. Jon Kabat-Zinn, author and professor emeritus of medicine, says mindfulness can be a vital tool in cutting through the noise of daily life. Jon, the founding executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, offers an introduction to the practice of mindfulness and reveals how it can be used to help manage stress, anxiety, pain and chronic illness. He also discusses his books, including the best-seller "Wherever You Go, There You Are" and "Coming to Our Senses," and shares a simple test to help you begin cultivating your own mindfulness practice.

The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  Michelle has been reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s new book Falling Awake, How to Practice Mindfulness in Everyday Life and she wanted to share it with everyone. From Amazon... More than 20 years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2005's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our well-being on every level, physical, cognitive, emotional, social, planetary, and spiritual. Now, the original text of Coming to Our Senses is being repackaged into 4 smaller books, each focusing on a different aspect of mindfulness, and each with a new foreword by the author. In this second of these books, Falling Awake (which was originally published as Part III and Part IV of Coming to Our Senses), Kabat-Zinn focuses on the "how" of mindfulness - explaining how meditation brings us into intimate relationship with all our senses, how to establish a formal meditation practice, and how to overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction. By "coming to our senses" - both literally and metaphorically - we can become more compassionate, more embodied, more aware human beings, and in the process, contribute to the healing of the body politic as well as our own lives in ways both little and big. Remember to register for the free online conference Mindful Parenting in a Messy World which runs from September 18th-20th here. Sign up for the Mindful Parenting Online Course ‘The Foundations of Practice” offered October 2018 here.  

Once you're familiar with basic breath awareness practices, another powerful sitting meditation practice involves expanding the field of awareness to include sensations within the body. Notice sensations as they arise to ground yourself in the here and now. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Cultivate mindfulness with this guided meditation. You'll tap into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Cultivate mindfulness with this guided meditation. You'll tap into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware. Show notes: This meditation is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, available here. These guided meditations are designed to accompany Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Meditation is Not What You Think and the other three volumes based on Coming to Our Senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as well as the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

In this episode, I am excited to have Harvey Freedenberg on to talk about how a daily meditation practice can revolutionize how you perceive the world and potentially help your firm. Harvey Freedenberg is Firm Counsel at the law firm of McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC, a firm of approximately 135 lawyers in Harrisburg, PA. He will soon be retiring after 40 years of practice that included insurance defense, general commercial and intellectual property litigation. Since August 2015, he's been engaged in a daily mindfulness meditation practice. He's participated in a week-long retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and has completed an eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. Topics Covered Harvey goes into both how he found himself practicing meditation daily and the benefits of his retreat and the MBSR course he is completing. How he went about introducing his firm to his meditation practice and how they received it. What the benefits that lawyers can see personally, professionally, and health-wise are when they adopt a consistent meditation practice. He also dives into his past work in loss-prevention work for his firm and how a healthy meditation practice could help curb incidents in firms. Harvey talks about resources he would recommend to lawyers who want to start meditating or improve their meditation practice. For more information on Harvey, find him at: Twitter: @HarvF Sources mentioned: https://www.headspace.com/   Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! hello@jeenacho.com. You can also connect with Jeena on Twitter: @Jeena_Cho For more information, visit: jeenacho.com Order The Anxious Lawyer book ? Available in hardcover, Kindle and Audible Find Your Ease: Retreat for Lawyers I'm creating a retreat that will provide a perfect gift of relaxation and rejuvenation with an intimate group of lawyers. Interested? Please complete this form: https://jeena3.typeform.com/to/VXfIXq MINDFUL PAUSE: Bite-Sized Practices for Cultivating More Joy and Focus 31-day program. Spend just 6 minutes every day to practice mindfulness and meditation. Decrease stress/anxiety, increase focus and concentration. Interested? http://jeenacho.com/mindful-pause/ Transcript Harvey Freedenberg: [00:00:01] There's really no separation between what you're experiencing sitting on the cushion or on a chair, and the experience that you might have stopped at a traffic light or talking to a colleague about a case, or dealing with a family member. Intro: [00:00:18] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho. Jeena Cho: [00:00:40] Hello my friends, thanks for being with us today. In this episode, I am so happy to have Harvey Freedenberg, who is the firm counsel at the law firm of McNees Wallace and Nurick, which has approximately 135 lawyers, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He will soon be retiring after 40 years of practice that included insurance defense, general, commercial, and intellectual property litigation. Since August 2015 he has been engaged in daily mindfulness meditation practice. He's participated in a week-long retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn, I am totally jealous by the way, at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and has completed an eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. We have lots of things in common and to talk about, so I'm really excited. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:01:30] Thank you, and I'm happy to be here. It's really a pleasure when we've interacted on social media. But this will be the first time we'll have a chance to chat so I'm looking forward to it. Jeena Cho: [00:01:37] Yeah, thank you so much. So I'm curious, what led you down this path of practicing mindfulness? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:01:46] Well it was something that I had dabbled with years ago, and didn't really have any kind of understanding how to go about it. I would say it was probably in the 1990's, and I was one of those people who tried it a few times and thought that the goal was to make my mind blank. And when I couldn't do that I sort of put it aside. So as you said, a little over two years ago in August of 2015 I had just read an article in The New Yorker magazine about the Headspace app. And reading that coincided with a period in which I had a couple of cases that were causing me quite a bit of angst, shall we say. And I thought, you know I'm going to give this meditation a try, to see if I can turn to this to perhaps relieve some of the stress I was feeling from this litigation; it was a couple of particularly contentious cases. So I downloaded the app, which offers 10 free ten-minute sessions, and I have to say I was pretty much hooked from the first session. I gained a pretty quick understanding of how the process of meditation was supposed to work, with the guidance of Andy Puddicombe, who was the one of the founders of Headspace. And the timing was right and it just clicked for me. And I've continued as you said on a daily basis since that time, which was late August of 2015. So it's now been about 27 months. Jeena Cho: [00:03:23] Yeah, I want to also give a shout out to Headspace. It's such a wonderful program, and I think what it's really excellent at doing is making it a part up your daily diet, just like brushing your teeth. And I think the way that Andy guides you through the process and really explains what meditation is all about, because I think so often there is that misconception that meditation means that we sit quietly and that our mind goes blank. And then when of course that doesn't happen and there's lots of thoughts and sometimes very distressing thoughts, then we become discouraged and say I'm not doing this correctly. And of course as lawyers we are very much focused on doing things correctly. Now I'm using my air quotation marks here. So I am a huge fan of Headspace. Do you still use it? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:04:11] Yes, I still use it. I have been through all the packs as they call them, which are basically structured courses that run either 10 days or 30 days around a given topic. So for example, there's one on stress, there's one on anxiety. There are a number that they started last or I guess earlier this year on various sports and fitness activities. And you work through those on a day-by-day basis and they are all organized around that theme. So yeah, I'm finding that very useful. And I've branched out into other guided, unguided meditation. As you mentioned, I've been to a retreat, which I'm happy to talk more about. [00:05:00] But that was really the door that opened it for me, and since that time I've recommended it to a number of attorneys in our office. My brother has become an avid meditator as a result of my telling him about it. So it's something that I think is a good entryway for people who might be on the skeptical side about whether or not they can meditate. Jeena Cho: [00:05:25] Yeah I think it is a really great doorway for entering into your own mind, which is what meditation is all about. Did that happen before or after you took the MBSR course? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:05:43] The retreat was before, I'm actually just finishing up the MBSR course right now. That sort of grew out of the retreat. I decided I would say after about a year or so that I wanted to have a retreat experience, and I was familiar with the Omega Institute from a couple of friends of mine who had attended other programs there. It's located about a four hour drive from Harrisburg, so it was very convenient. And I had read a couple of Jon Kabat-Zinn's books, "Wherever You Go, There You Are," "Coming to Our Senses." And if I have ever anyone who I consider a sort of meditation and mindfulness mentor, I would say he would have to be that person. So when I saw there was an opportunity to study with him and with his son, I jumped at it. So by the time I got to the retreat, which was in May of 2017, I had about 21 months of daily meditation. [00:06:50] So I considered myself a fairly experienced meditator. It was when I when I got to the retreat (this was not a silent retreat by the way, although significant portions of it were silent, so during periods at meals or when we were not actually engaged in practice) I talked to a number of people who had been through the MBSR, the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, and that got me interested in taking the course. And I found that there was an instructor here in Harrisburg that was offering that course, so it was convenient for me to take it and I started in October this year. [00:07:28] So the retreat was just a way of I thought deepening and strengthening my practice, and it was it was quite valuable. It was a different experience from sitting down and meditating 15 or 20 minutes first thing in the morning, which is the typical practice that I have. We were meditating from 6 a.m. or 6:30 a.m. until about 9 in evening, with breaks of course. There was yoga, there was both sitting and walking meditation. There were discussions in the group, so it was a pretty intensive experience. Again, not as intensive as a silent retreat, but certainly something that gave me more of a foundation in a meditation practice. Jeena Cho: [00:08:20] Yeah. What did you learn or when I say what did you get out of the retreat I don't mean you go to get something out of it. But what did you realize, what did you learn about yourself, or what insights did you gain? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:08:37] Yes that's striving, if you're going to get something out of it you're striving, which was something we were cautioned against. Well I think that is the largest takeaway I got from that retreat was that meditation is really about life. That as John repeatedly said, "You're not here to learn how to do some trick or to operationalize a technique." It's so much more than that, and that everything that's happening in that retreat experience and of course you hope when you walk out of it and come back to your daily life, is part of a mindfulness practice. [00:09:32] And there's really no separation between what you're experiencing sitting on the cushion or on a chair and the experience that you might have stopped at a traffic light, or talking to a colleague about a case, or dealing with a family member. So it's kind of a seamless integration. I would say that was the strongest takeaway that I took from that experience. Jeena Cho: [00:09:58] Yeah, what a delightful realization that mindfulness is not something that you do here, and then there's the rest of your life; that it's really an integrated experience. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:10:13] Right. And that's one of the biggest challenges, is to take the experience that you're having, of sitting in silence and watching your thoughts, of not reacting to them, letting thoughts go as they're going through your mind, focusing on your breath; that's the kind of meditation and I'm doing. Translating that experience into your daily life when you get up out of the chair and you have to go to work or some other activity, that you need to have those reminders that this should be seamlessly integrated with your life. Jeena Cho: [00:10:58] Yeah, definitely. Have you tried to take this work or this practice to your law firm, and if you did how was it received? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:11:07] I did. I have, and I've been very pleased with the results. There's a little bit of a backstory that. Your book has something to do with that, "The Anxious Lawyer" which I was very excited about. I don't remember when I first read about it, but I remember I was meditating at the time, and as soon as I saw this book was coming out I placed my order for it. So I had it on the day it was published, and I read it very avidly. And I recall you and Karen Gifford, your co-author, did a series of webinars, I think it was in conjunction with the National Association of Women Lawyers, I think that was the name of the organization, right? So I participated in those, I think that was in the fall of 2016. And one of the nice benefits was that you kindly gave everybody who was in the seminar two copies of the book. So I had the copy I purchased, and I thought you know this would be a good introduction to mindfulness meditation to lawyers in the firm. So I sent out a firm-wide e-mail and I said, I have two copies of this book and I included a link to the Amazon description so they could read a little more about it. I said I'll raffle these off, send me an e-mail if you're interested. We have about 135 lawyers at our firm, I think 30 lawyers responded; roughly a quarter of the firm. And I raffled them off and I thought, well there's some interest here. [00:12:53] And sort of on a parallel track with that, again this was in 2016. One of the things that I do as part of my responsibility as firm council is to attend an annual meeting that our malpractice insurance company holds every June, because part of my duty is lost prevention. So I handle the ethics issues and I also deal with preventing claims against the firm and if necessary, defend those claims. And there were a couple of things that happened at that meeting. One was a gentleman named Patrick Krill, who you might be familiar with. Jeena Cho: [00:13:35] Yeah, I do know him. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:13:36] Who was the organizer of the study co-sponsored by the American Bar Association and the Hazelden Foundation on mental health in the legal profession, presented the findings of his study. And they were quite alarming. And I don't think it's an exaggeration to use that term. Jeena Cho: [00:14:00] No, definitely not. The results were that basically a third of the lawyers in our profession are suffering from depression, stress, anxiety, and very, very heavy rates of problematic drinking. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:14:12] Right, and probably some drug addiction thrown in there, which I think he said was under-reported. So that was sort of another piece of the puzzle. And then third was some discussion about a trend in the in the professional liability field, that insurers were starting to see a spike in claims arising from mistakes that were the kinds of things that good lawyers generally don't find themselves getting in trouble for. That is, conflicts of interest and other problems are more the source of malpractice claims. [00:15:02] And so there was some discussion about what might be driving this. And some of the concerns surrounding technology, the pace of legal practice. The fact that we're basically on 24/7 because I can turn on my smartphone at 11:00 on a Sunday night and find an e-mail from a client. And so with that information, I went back to the firm and I thought about this some more and I said, this is something.. all the issues that are being talked about here, whether it's the issues relating to mental health or problems in practice that might contribute to mistakes, are the kinds of things that I think meditation and mindfulness potentially can be helpful in addressing. Jeena Cho: [00:15:53] Right. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:15:54] So for several years I was the chair of a committee we have at our firm called the professional and personal development committee, which in part focuses on life issues. In addition to things that will benefit attorney's practices, but we put a lot of emphasis on wellness at our firm, on making sure that people stay physically and mentally healthy. And I thought this was a program that the committee might be interested in, and I pointed out that I had 30 lawyers who said they were interested in getting a copy of your book. Jeena Cho: [00:16:32] Yeah, so you had a little bit of data. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:16:35] Yeah, so they eagerly embraced the idea and we agreed on a time to do it. So it was about two months ago that I did a lunchtime presentation. I think we had 25 people sign up for it. Our main office is in Harrisburg and we have several regional offices around the state and elsewhere, and a few people called in, several other people e-mailed me and said they were sorry they could not attend because they had a scheduling conflict, so we had about 20 people in the room. I did about a one-hour presentation, which included a brief guided meditation. Five minutes or so, I didn't want to do it any longer than that. And I got a great response. I know of at least one or two people who at least said they have continued to try to meditate since that time. So I think it was a really good introduction to the practice. [00:17:40] So that's how I brought it to our firm, and I think it's certainly something that lawyers generally should be introduced to and will benefit from. Jeena Cho: [00:17:51] Yeah, which leads me perfectly to my next question, which is what are those benefits that you think lawyers can gain from practicing mindfulness? In your own life or in your own law practice, what type of benefits have you seen? And what are sort of the practical implications for other lawyers? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:18:14] Well I have to break this down into two parts. I sort of joke about the first part of this, which is I wish I had discovered this oh I don't know, 25 years ago when I was a busy litigator. By the time I started meditating, I was definitely in the winding-down phase of my active litigation process. But I know enough of it, and I certainly can reflect enough on my experience as a litigator, that first as a way of relieving the inevitable stress that comes with a busy litigation practice. It gives you an opportunity to have something to turn to when that stress intensifies. And I think it certainly is beneficial, I can think of occasions when I was in a difficult courtroom battle or in a deposition with a particularly unpleasant lawyer on the other side, that being able to have the mental space that I think meditation creates would have been very helpful to me. So I think it's an extremely practical tool that a lot of lawyers would benefit from if they could incorporate that into their practice. [00:19:40] So that's the one piece. The other piece is, and this may be.. I won't say it's unique to me because there are lawyers in other firms that do this job. But I have found it to be extraordinarily helpful in the work that I have done as the firm counsel. What happens typically, I have other people on an ethics committee I don't do this all by myself for a firm of our size, so there are two other members that work with me on loss prevention issues and several members on an ethics and conflicts committee. But the vast majority of questions have come to me over the nine years that I've been doing this job. And they come from every area of the practice. I would say the majority have to do with conflict issues, but they could deal with anything from difficulty with an opposing counsel, inadvertently receiving a document, what do would do with it? An improper communication that somebody has made with our client, I mean the whole gamut of issues that arise in regards to professional conduct. So it's sort of like a helpline and I've got to be prepared to respond to all these questions. And it's certainly been a great value to me in becoming a better listener, sort of listening for the question maybe below the question that I'm being asked. And to help the lawyers in our firm and to help me sort of clarify what our values. Not every question is as simple as, do we have a conflict or don't we have a conflict. There are a lot of judgment calls that go into this job and in handling, I've literally had thousands of interactions with our lawyers over the time that I've served. [00:21:55] And I think having a mindfulness practice helps you clarify what your values are, to shift your perspective to look at something from a variety of different angles. I love the idea, I know you're familiar with it, the beginner's mind. I don't approach these consultations with the idea that I necessarily have all the answers, and therefore I'm willing to listen and to sort of allow my perspective to take shape. And I think all that is just enhanced and deepened by a mindfulness practice. [00:22:39] And then the other aspect, if I can go on for one more minute about this, is on the loss prevention side. These can be very difficult conversations, for anyone who's ever had them. When a lawyer comes to you and says, "I think I made a mistake," or, "I did make a mistake," and you're the one in whom that person is confiding, you're dealing with what can be a very fragile situation. And I think you need to approach it an empathetic way. The lawyer who you're talking to has probably been beating himself or herself up for at least 24 hours, maybe lost some sleep over the issue. And in addition to that, they are imagining all of the horror of the consequences that they think are going to occur as a result of what they believe their error might be. So they're engaged in catastrophizing about that. Your job is to sit there, even in a situation where you say, well this might be bad. And not to respond to it, not to react to it in any kind of an impulsive way. Not to do anything that's only going to exacerbate that person's psychological distress. [00:24:24] I like to think I had some of those qualities before I started meditating, but I assure you that they are a lot better than whatever I had. Since I have been meditating, because I'm very conscious now of the thought process that I'm going through. So it's just, it's kind of a long-winded answer and there's a lot in there, but there are just so many ways in which this has enhanced the way that I practice, and the way that I really look at what the practice of law is all about. Jeena Cho: [00:25:02] Yeah. And I know to be true what you're saying just from my own experience and just having worked with lawyers on bringing mindfulness into their own life. You know, for me I feel like it actually has made life clearer. It just feels like we all sort of walk around with these blinders and these filters, but it feels like I can see life with just so much more clarity. And so when my mind is doing the catastrophizing like you say, I can go oh, I'm catastrophizing and I'm literally imagining the worst case scenario because I missed a deadline and I know, maybe forgot to file this thing. And the mind is doing that thing where it inevitably leads to, like I'm going to be disbarred and then I'm going to be homeless. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:25:56] Right, that's it. And the mind doesn't sort of stroll down the road to those, the mind races to the worst possible consequences of what might happen. And this acts as a brake on that. So it's very helpful to have that, I think that kind of approach to it. And I think I have some of the feeling that you have, that I think I am able to see some things more clearly. You know this is not a panacea, it's not going to transform someone's personality overnight. But I think there is an evolution that takes place over time, and if you ask people who are close to me about certain behavior traits or certain personality traits that I had before I started meditating and to compare that to now, they will tell you there's been an improvement. So I would say don't ask me, if you want to know whether meditation is having an effect, ask your spouse or your close friends and I think they will tell you that it has. Jeena Cho: [00:27:14] Yeah, it's so funny because my husband also meditates with me. And there will be days where for one reason I don't meditate for a few days, and he'll actually notice and go, "Have you been meditating?" And I'm like, no. And he's like, "Maybe you should." So it's apparently very noticeable when I'm not meditating. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:27:34] Well one of the things about Headspace, and it's not without some controversy, is they have something called a streak, where they will tell you how many days in a row you've meditated. And I've had this very long streak, and some people derive that idea. They say, you know it's not about counting and striving and all that, but to me it's useful to track how much time you're doing it, how dedicated you are to it. And I don't know what I would do if I didn't meditate, I wish I was committed to physical exercise as I am to meditation, because I can't imagine what a day would be like if I didn't sit down for at least ten minutes to meditate. [00:28:22] I have made it an absolute priority in my life, and I try to do it first thing in the morning because I find I'm most alert then. I find if I do it late at night I'm more likely that maybe nod off, which is not the ideal. But it's just, it's like brushing my teeth or eating or getting dressed. Jeena Cho: [00:28:44] Yeah, totally. Yeah. And I found not only my ability to respond to difficult situations, but also like I'm able to just experience more joy in my life that I didn't notice before. And I think a lot of that is that we as lawyers spend so much time sort of in that space of catastrophizing, and also we have the negativity bias. Where we're constantly looking at all the things that's not going right in our life, and we don't have that counter-balance. And I feel like meditation has really served as a counter-balance. And you know, even being grateful for something that's really important and critical, like oh I have a healthy body, or I have a roof over my head. Or I have you clean water. [00:29:33] Just so many incredible blessings, and I think often we can just get into this mode of looking at life with this grim lense and saying, oh everything's not okay, and look at all these things that are not going my way. And we really just forget the incredible amount of blessings that we all have. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:29:53] Yeah, and the problem is that our professional training.. I mean some of us come to profession with that kind of mindset, but our professional training exacerbates that if we are already that way, or inculcates that if we aren't. And that is to look at things like, what's the worst case scenario. If you're a litigator, you're by definition in a situation of conflict. One of the things that's occurred over my 40 years of practice is of course there's much more emphasis on alternative dispute resolution, mediation, and things of that sort. But those are still situations of conflict. And then you throw in the fact that lawyers are I think by definition perfectionists; everything has to be done exactly right. You know, you read and re-read a contract or a plea to make sure that you have not missed anything. So all these things are sort of reinforcing that kind of negative self-critical mindset, and that makes it very hard to walk outside your office and look up at the sky, or pick up a leaf and look at it, or focus on what's happening in the moment. You know, John Kabat-Zinn likes to say, "This is the only moment you have. This moment that you're in right now is all you are doing. If you're living in the past with regrets about what you did last week or last month, or your anticipating something in the future, you're missing out on what's happening right in front of you. [00:31:46] And it's easy to do that as a lawyer. There's always a deadline coming up, there's always a trial next month or six months from now. Your phone's ringing, your clients are upset about what's going on in a case. So I think you need something to anchor you. And I found that meditation for me has been that anchor. Jeena Cho: [00:32:10] Yeah, yeah. So true. I remember when I did the eight-week mindfulness based stress-reduction class, there's like a day-long retreat that you go on. And we were doing walking meditation and I saw this giant, beautiful rose bush and I walked over to it and I smelled the roses. And it's so cliché, like smell the roses. But I did, and it was just one of those blissful moments, and I remember being like this is why they tell you to smell the roses. I mean, like you know its so cliché. Like oh, smell the roses. But how often do we actually pause to do nothing but savor and smell a rose, which is like this incredibly delightful experience. So now I take it to heart and I make a point to actually go smell the roses when I see a rosebush. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:33:02] Well we just had our retreat for the MBSR course, and I had a similar experience watching a duck glide across a still pond. To stand there and say, when have I done that? I don't want people to leave this podcast with the impression that you're going to be walking around this blissful smile on your face and all of life's stresses will suddenly bounce off of you. It's not that way, but just the fact that more times a day than you could ever imagine you're going to stop, you're going to take a deep breath, you're going to look at something in a new way. You're going to focus on a problem in a different way that you wouldn't have if you were wearing the blinders of your conventional thinking. Suddenly these things are going to start adding up and give you a much richer and fuller perspective on life. [00:34:10] At least that's been my experience. And in conversations with lots of other people who are doing this as well, I don't think there's anything unique about me by any means. Jeena Cho: [00:34:21] Right. Yeah, I remember going into my first MBSR class and I was just so stressed and so anxious. And typically they start by asking the group, you know what brings you here. And you kind of go around and everyone shares. And I'm like, oh! There are 49 other people in this room that have the exact same thing that I'm struggling with. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:34:44] The idea of as I've heard it expressed of "just like me." If you look at people who are doing something, or if you're critical of somebody, you're being trained through this process to take a step back and say you know, that person wants the same kinds of things that I want. Maybe they're not going about getting them in the most skillful way, but they're no less human than I am. And it gives you a very different perspective on the people that you interact with. Jeena Cho: [00:35:24] Right, yeah that idea, "just like me," was so critical for me. Especially for the litigators out there and the lawyers that are handling really contentious cases. Because there are just people that you come across and you're just like, I really do not like this person and I have nothing in common with this person. And you can really start to personalize every interaction with this person. I had this one particular opposing counsel, and she and I were just not getting along, to put it mildly. And we were doing that thing where we would send one nasty e-mail after another, trying to find each other. [00:36:01] And something clicked inside my head when I learned that concept of "just like me," because I realize you know just like me, just as I find her to be incredibly difficult and I don't want to be on this case with this woman, she probably feels the exact same way. And just like me, she too wants peace and happiness and joy and safety and security; all of these very, very human things. And I think we can often sort of lose sight of that, our common humanity. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:36:34] Well you mentioned the e-mails, sending off nasty e-mails. And that at times has been the bane of my existence, both as an attorney, a litigator representing clients, and on occasion as firm counsel. Of course not too often because I've tried to reinforce that message to our lawyers, but think about the way e-mail, (which has been around basically for 20 years, I'd say since the mid 1990's) people send the most outrageous things and do it in such an impulsive way. And they live to regret it. If you have something that's going to intervene between writing that nasty e-mail that's going to get you or your client into a lot of trouble in that case and clicking the send button, that's a really valuable skills to have. [00:37:38] And there have been times when I've completely rewritten an e-mail, when I said no this is not the right tone. I just had to get this down, get it out of my system. Now I'm going to go back and re-write it. So I think mindfulness gives you the space that is going to have you sending fewer of those e-mails, or reacting to the bait. You know how there are certain lawyers who's game plan is to try to get you to lose control? Every litigator has them, they have one or two or three of those. [00:38:17] One of the worst things about caller ID is, you now know you're going to have a phone call with that nasty lawyer you can't stand because you see the phone number or the name of that person. At least in the old days in my practice, the phone would ring and I would pick it up. Now you have an opportunity through mindful to say.. and one of the things I've started doing, this is fairly recent, is I will let the phone ring three times before I pick it up. I've had to educate a couple of lawyers in our firm who give me one ring and then they hang up. But the point is you know, take a couple of breaths, get yourself grounded. It's kind of a mini-meditation that you're doing, and then you're able to field that (what you know is going to be a stressful phone call) with a little more mindfulness. [00:39:17] I think that's a technique that, you don't have to be meditating to do that. It certainly helps to get into that meditative state, but it's something that I think is very valuable. And then when the other attorney starts hurling insults at you or at your client, you're less likely to get into an escalating war of words. And that could be very valuable. Jeena Cho: [00:39:40] Yeah and often mindfulness is talked about in the context of there's a stimulus and there's that knee-jerk reaction, and mindfulness gives you that ability to pause before your knee-jerk reaction. Which then becomes a response, so you can sort of respond with the best intentions. Sometimes we send off e-mails and it might not get us or our clients into trouble, but we just know that was not my best work. That was not my most genuine, I didn't show up as my best self when I sent that e-mail. Which was a little bit hitting below the belt or was unnecessarily unkind, or you know whatever that may be. [00:40:23] And I think as lawyers we have that obligation to try to show up as our best selves, and to really be clear about our intention and what we hold to be true and what we value as sort of the core of who we are as lawyers, and how we're going to show up for every case or every situation. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:40:43] Well one myth that I would like to offer my small debunking of, is the idea that a meditation practice and mindfulness are somehow going to make you soft, weak, ineffective, not aggressive on behalf of your clients; and none of those claims are true. I would say if anything, they're going to make you a better lawyer. Because you're not going to leap to instant judgments. You're not going to think that you know all the answers and find yourself closing off avenues of thought or investigation that might help your client's case. So when I've heard that objection, I think that's one of the easier ones to debunk. I think it makes you potentially much more powerful and much more effective, because you're learning more about how your own mind works. And you know as a lawyer, that's our tool. We don't have machines, we don't have MRI's or x-ray machines, we have our minds and we have our thought process. So anything that contributes to clarity of thinking and soundness of judgment and empathy, that's a good thing. And those are all qualities that meditation fosters. Jeena Cho: [00:42:23] Yeah. So I guess to kind of wrap things up, now that we've hopefully shared very fully all the different benefits and why lawyers should practice mindfulness, what are some resources that you would recommend for lawyers who want to start meditating? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:42:41] Well I'm allowed to say this because I know you're not a soft promoter, so I would strongly, strongly recommend your book "The Anxious Lawyer" that you and Karen Gifford wrote. The thing that I think is beautiful about that for lawyers is that as distinguished from the many, many hundreds of fine meditation instruction books that are out there (and I've read a number of them), this is specifically geared toward lawyers. It has a lot of information about your experiences and Karen's experiences in practice, and how the techniques of meditation and mindfulness are applied. So if you're looking for a book to get started, I would certainly highly recommend "The Anxious Lawyer". And then Headspace, As I said has been a great app for me. Another app that I've experimented with a little bit is Dan Harris' app, 10 Percent Happier, which has a variety of instructors in the app and it's I think maybe a little glitzier than Headspace. Either one of those. And then there are lots and lots of apps out there, Insight Timer is another one that has free meditations.. Jeena Cho: [00:44:03] Right, that's the one that I use, yeah. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:44:06] So there are plenty of resources out there, but I think your book is as good a starting place as any. And it's also got a program, a week-by-week program for eight weeks to introduce somebody to a mindfulness practice. And it's very clearly written, there's no jargon in there, so go buy Jeena's book. Jeena Cho: [00:44:34] I appreciate that, that's very kind of you. Harvey, for the folks that want to connect with you or ask you questions, or just want to pick your brain. what's a good place where they can go and do that? Harvey Freedenberg: [00:44:51] Well I think the best place Jeena, since I'm transitioning out of my law practice, would be on Twitter. My handle there is @HarvF, "H-A-R-V-F". I've also created a couple of lists there, one is on mindfulness and meditation, which has several hundred people that are involved in various aspects of meditation. So you might want to check out that list. So that's probably the best place to get in touch with me right now. Jeena Cho: [00:45:25] Wonderful. And you are very active on Twitter, and I always enjoy reading what you have to say. So definitely go connect with Harvey on Twitter and I will also include his Twitter handle in the show notes. And my final question to you is, the name of the podcast is called The Resilient Lawyer. What does it mean to be a resilient lawyer to you?. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:45:50] I love the name of the podcast, and I thought a lot about this. To me, it's somebody who keeps the practice of law in its proper perspective. And it is someone for whom the various aspects of life, which would include work as a lawyer, family, community service, exercise, sleep, nutrition; all the things that go into healthy living. And through mindfulness and meditation, in my case a practice of mental and emotional self-care, that all of those elements are in harmony or balance. I think if you can achieve that or strive in that direction, that you will be well on the path to becoming resilient. Jeena Cho: [00:46:45] I love that answer. Harvey, thank you so much for sharing your time and your wisdom with me and the audience. I really appreciate it. Harvey Freedenberg: [00:46:54] Thank you Jeena, it's been a real pleasure. And thank you for all you're doing to spread the message of mindfulness. Jeena Cho: [00:47:04] Thank you. Closing: [00:47:05] Thanks for joining us on The Resilient Lawyer podcast. If you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It's really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for The Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that, so we really appreciate it. As always, we'd love to hear from you. E-mail us at smile@theanxiouslawyer.com. Thanks, and look forward to seeing you next week.

“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.” - Alan Watts What’s the conversation you are having with yourself right now? Maybe you’re thinking about an email you wrote earlier, or need to write later. Maybe you’re thinking about an ever-growing todo list, and feeling the anxiety well up within. Or maybe you are doing all of the above. When you stop to really notice, it’s amazing how many conversations we are having internally at any given time. The most important conversation we have is with ourselves. What are you saying right now? Congressman Tim Ryan is our guest for Episode 38 of the Reboot Podcast. Tim is a special guy, and not just because he’s a congressman, and not just because he’s from Ohio - though that's pretty great too - but because he’s committed to bringing heart, humanity, mindfulness and a long term focus into a space that doesn’t always welcome it: government. In this conversation (originally recorded in November), Tim shares his journey to mindfulness, his ongoing practice in noticing his own inner conversation, and his commitment to mindfully planting seeds for the future and having the patience to watching them grow. Links Sharon Salzberg - http://www.sharonsalzberg.com/ "A Mindful Nation" by Tim Ryan - http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Nation-Practice-Performance-Recapture/dp/1401939309 Jon Kabat-Zinn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn "Coming to Our Senses" by Jon Kabat-Zinn - http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Our-Senses-Ourselves-Mindfulness/dp/0786886544 "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn - http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Revised-Edition/dp/0345536932 "Wherever You Are, There You Go" by Jon Kabat-Zinn - http://www.amazon.com/Wherever-You-Go-There-Are/dp/1401307787 Deepak Chopra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra Wayne Dyer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Dyer Parker Palmer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Palmer

Coming to Our Senses;Listening to What our Bodies are Saying We all know the five basic senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. These are the necessary building blocks for constructing the framework of how we perceive our world, but they are just the beginning of the story. Our senses are a major part of our non-verbal communication, providing clues and information to us as we explore our day to day routines and interact with others. Our senses often combine to work together, forming complex systems that we use to filter our experiences. It is through the senses that the rest of the world “talks” to us. When we are fully present to this information, we become more connected to our surroundings, to the world, and ultimately to the Divine presence that is within all beings.  During this episode we will explore and rediscover our sensual selves to reconnect to the voices of our senses, and how sensory awareness impacts all areas of our lives: our relationships, spirituality, especially our intuition. We will learn about ways we are limited in accessing our sensory input, and discuss exercises we can take with us to expand and explore deeper sensory experience.About Kali As a Reiki Master Practitioner (Reiki 3), Spiritual Health Coach, teacher of Empowerment and Sacred Sexuality, Kali offer many avenues of outreach such as workshops, personal coaching, energy work, and various other offerings. Kali is the energetic force behind Awakening the Iris, a unique blending of Reiki energy work, Spiritual coaching, sensuality awareness, sexuality education and rites of passage development provides an empowering foundation for transformation, a sacred journey for spiritual healing and growth. She is currently facilitating a Women’s Spirituality Circle at A Path to Integrative Healing in Raymond NH, and is active in several communities in NH and MA.

Coming to Our Senses;Listening to What our Bodies are Saying We all know the five basic senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. These are the necessary building blocks for constructing the framework of how we perceive our world, but they are just the beginning of the story. Our senses are a major part of our non-verbal communication, providing clues and information to us as we explore our day to day routines and interact with others. Our senses often combine to work together, forming complex systems that we use to filter our experiences. It is through the senses that the rest of the world “talks” to us. When we are fully present to this information, we become more connected to our surroundings, to the world, and ultimately to the Divine presence that is within all beings.  During this episode we will explore and rediscover our sensual selves to reconnect to the voices of our senses, and how sensory awareness impacts all areas of our lives: our relationships, spirituality, especially our intuition. We will learn about ways we are limited in accessing our sensory input, and discuss exercises we can take with us to expand and explore deeper sensory experience.About Kali As a Reiki Master Practitioner (Reiki 3), Spiritual Health Coach, teacher of Empowerment and Sacred Sexuality, Kali offer many avenues of outreach such as workshops, personal coaching, energy work, and various other offerings. Kali is the energetic force behind Awakening the Iris, a unique blending of Reiki energy work, Spiritual coaching, sensuality awareness, sexuality education and rites of passage development provides an empowering foundation for transformation, a sacred journey for spiritual healing and growth. She is currently facilitating a Women’s Spirituality Circle at A Path to Integrative Healing in Raymond NH, and is active in several communities in NH and MA.