Pain Pushes, Vision Pulls: Jeffrey Siegel on Values, Vision, and Getting Back Into Your Body

05/19/21 • 78 min

Today I had the opportunity to sit down with my friend and colleague Jeffrey Siegel (@jeffsiegelwellness). Jeff's holistic background in Mind and Brain Education from Harvard University and Buddhist Studies from The University of Hong Kong provides a way towards lasting wellbeing that feels as good as it looks. Jeff coaches clients to help integrate the deep inner work of personal transformation while developing a bold vision, clear goals, and healthy routines. In addition to wellness coaching, Jeff teaches mindfulness and mediation at Harvard and Tufts, and leads corporate wellness workshops and classes for innovative companies that care about making the office a place that supports people's health and happiness.

In this episode we cover a ton of ground. As you can tell from the bio, Jeff’s expertise is wide ranging, and we zoom in on how to create lasting behavior change, how values and vision unite to draw us closer to our best self, and then we unpack a few practices you can use to build the connection with your body. This one is a long one, and it’s well worth the time. I hope you enjoy!

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Mental Training Lab - Pain Pushes, Vision Pulls: Jeffrey Siegel on Values, Vision, and Getting Back Into Your Body

Transcript

Jeffrey Siegel00:00:00.000

Was your mind at least for just like a split second 100% just connected to your body. And it's those little moments of connection that build your capacity to do that at a larger scale. This is the importance of practice, practice builds capacity.

Pete Kadushin00:00:29.620

Welcome to the mental training lab. I'm Pete Kadushin, your host, and my job is to have fun conversations that leave you with actionable too