Meditation in Three Minutes a Day?: Richard Dixey on PYP 604
Can meditating just 3 minutes a day give you real and lasting insight into your true nature?
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The Feeling of Being Alive: Robbie Bent on PYP 498
With effects as profound as meditation and safer than psychedelics, breathwork, cold exposure, and heat exposure can democratize access to heightened and expansive states of consciousness, and better psychological and physical health.
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Supporting Spirituality Through Technology: Danielle Roberts on PYP 435
Danielle Roberts is a visual artist, technologist, and meditator. She’s the creator of MeditationLab, whose mission is to support spirituality through technology, and AwarenessLab, which develops tools for awareness from a technological, artistic, and experiential perspective.
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Healing from Racism with Bianca and Michael Alexander: PYP 419
I reached out to Bianca and Michael because I was turning into an asshole.
Specifically, I was full of rage and outrage and judgment at all the racists out there.
And the fact that I was right, and on the side of right, and standing shoulder to shoulder with people of color, and fighting against systemic oppression that has been going on far too long – just made me more of an asshole, to be honest.
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The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis: Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD on PYP 411
Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness.
Dr Jankovic Weatherly is a real stickler for evidence of efficacy, whatever modality she’s exploring or recommending. Which makes her a very reliable podcast guest, especially when talking about topics not fully embraced by mainstream medical practice.
And, she’s a mom struggling to homeschool two children in a New York apartment while working full time from home.
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Exploring Digital Spirituality with Gregory Grieve: PYP 399
Meditation apps have become a huge market. Headspace, Calm, 10% Happier, Insight Timer, and others promise stress relief, better health, and even spiritual contentment to users.
Gregory Price Grieve, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studies the nexus of spirituality and digital media. He recently published an article with Beverly Maguire, professor of East Asian religions at UNC Wilmington, titled, “Meditation apps might calm you – but miss the point of Buddhist mindfulness.”
In the article, the authors argue that the for-profit app industry has packaged Buddhist technology in a way that totally flips the underlying goal of Buddhism on its head.
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The Gift of Boredom: PYP 386
Many of us are bored right now, in lockdown or sheltering in place.
We can paper over our boredom with mindless consumption, or we can use it to begin a process of profound healing.
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“It Turns Out Willpower Doesn’t Exist” with Jud Brewer, MD PhD: PYP 337
Jud Brewer is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and a second-time guest on Plant Yourself.
I wanted to catch up with Jud to find out how his academic research and public writing had migrated into the world. What is the state of mindfulness-based health improvement? Does he have data on how his approach compares to current best practices, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for smoking and other addictions.
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Rediscovering Radical Wholeness with Philip Shepherd: PYP 326
Philip Shepherd is the author of Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Presence and the Ordinary Grace of Being.
I was introduced to Philip’s work by my friend and teacher Mark Leuchten.
About 12 pages into Radical Wholeness, I felt my entire worldview shift. Some of the cultural blinders that had blocked my understanding of wholeness were revealed, and I began to understand where I was in conflict with myself, and why, and what I could start to do to harmonize myself. I needed to know more.
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Mastering the Meditation Habit with Emily Fletcher: PYP 254
Emily Fletcher is one of the new faces of an ancient practice. Former Broadway star and founder of Ziva Meditation, she talks funny, dirty, relatable, and wise about one of the simplest, cheapest, and most profound of wellness practices: going within ourselves.
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