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451: Don’t Take What Happens in Your Head Personally | Bonus Meditation with Joseph Goldstein

2022-05-20

Emotions can feel so personal. Joseph helps you get your feet back under you. Remember: your mind doesn't have to push you around.

About Joseph Goldstein:

Joseph is one of the most respected meditation teachers in the world -- a key architect of the rise of mindfulness in our modern society -- with a sense of humor to boot. In the 1970's, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) alongside Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. Since its founding, thousands of people from around the world have come to IMS to learn mindfulness from leaders in the field. Joseph has been a teacher there since its founding and continues as the resident guiding teacher.

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I'd say bonus meditation time we ve gone to some pretty heavy places on the show this week, focusing on what it feels like to lose losing people jobs relationships. We really been talking about the full spectrum of grief in the buddhist tradition. One supremely counter intuitive way to deal with whatever emotions or states of mind are coming up, is to not take them seriously, but how to actually do that were in a practice today with the maestro Joseph goldstein co, founder of the insight, meditation society and one of the founding, Features on the ten percent happier app one more thing before we get started here. Many of us want to live healthier lives, but keep bumping up against the same obstacles over and over again. The larger culture bombards us with new tapes and hacks and quick fixes
Time to close the gap between who we are and who we want to be, but what if there were a different way to relate to this gap, that would make you more likely to succeed. Actually what if you could find intrinsic motivations instead of just reacting to suffer cultures telling you in order to make habit, changes that will make you healthier and happier and not send you into a shame spiral. form healthy habits without taking your own, but unnecessarily we ve taken one of our most pie miller courses over on the ten percent happier app and turned it into a meditation challenge. The healthy habits challenge with stamford psychologist kelly mechanical will help you understand the benefits of self compassion, which sounds gooey, but is evidence based. I assure you, the better if self compassion, when changing your habits and understand why self criticism a go to for most of us is actually counterproductive when you're working toward difficult goals, you'll also learn about them
in some social connection and habit change and how to experience the discomfort that comes with change without reacting to it in our habitual and reflexive ways. The healthy habits challenge kicks off on Monday june thirteenth to join. Just download the ten percent after app where we get your apps or go visit, ten percent dot com- that's all one word spelled out. If you already have the app just open it up and follow the instructions to join and if you're not already a ten percent happier subscriber you can join us by starting free trial. That will give you access to this challenge, along with everything on the app, and I think it's all fantastic, so go check it out Joseph over to you. This is One of the areas we get most identified with his different mine, states and emotions. Understanding, their essential, insubstantial nature and our own
conditioned responses to them the doorway to a much greater understanding and ease in our lives. She will be using the terms mine states, any motions, interchangeably begin. The meditation by settling into the awareness of your body posture, said. No you're sitting. Become mindful of your body breathing. Breathing in no you breathing in eating out. No are you breathing out. Sometimes using a soft mental note of in and out along with each breath,.
As you sitting with the breath of the body politic, into any arising minds: states our emotions. They might be feelings of boredom or restlessness irritation or fear. One indication that were not being mindful of them. Is when we feeling some kind of suffering my distress. Knowing that were not ease can be taken as feedback that will not accept Thing about his arising.
All of these emotions in mind, states are passing and insubstantial, like clouds in the sky. The mind can also get just caught up in pleasant mindsets, and these two are financial in passing,. So, as you said, and different, emotions are mine states, whether Isn't or unpleasant become predominant. You can remind yourself. It's just the mind state and relax.
into the flow of your life experience. The becoming mindful of any predominant mind, state or emotion,. remembering their insubstantial and passing nature.
Sometimes use the phrase: it's just a mindset to remind you of the empty passing transitory nature. When you're ready, you can open your eyes acting with the world around you. This practice is particularly helpful. times, both in your meditation. I'm in your life when the mind feels caught up in some,
Emotional pattern and helps to open the space for clear and wise discernment. good being with you, and I look forward to being with the next time, thanks again to Joseph what, back here. On monday for a brand new episode with Stephanie foo Just wrote a memoir about overcoming some truly horrific things in her life and She learned in her really heroic and systematic mission to address these issues, which you learn, I think, will be applicable. to all of us can then make a little ask here. If you like our show- and you want to know The work were doing. There are some quick and very The things you can do to help us out first, please leave us five star rating and review. Those are really helpful. There's a reason why podcast hosts ask for them all the time
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