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Embark on a transformative journey with "The One You Feed" podcast, hosted by Eric Zimmer. Drawing wisdom from the old parable of the two wolves within us, this show explores growth and well-being. Through insightful interviews with thought leaders and experts in development, Eric delves into topics like mindfulness, resilience, and positive habits. Gain practical advice and reflective insights to navigate life's challenges and nurture your inner strength. "The One You Feed" is a valuable resource, offering inspiration and actionable strategies for a more fulfilling existence. Join Eric as he shares wisdom, fostering the growth of the positive wolf within you. Feed your curiosity and embark on a transformative path with "The One You Feed"!
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Oliver Burkeman on Time Management for Mortals
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12/03/21 • 50 min
Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and writer based in New York. He is well known not only for his amazing books, but he also wrote a popular weekly column on psychology called “This Column will Change Your Life” which was printed weekly between 2006 and 2020.
Oliver joins Eric for a third time on the show, and in this episode, they discuss many things, including his new book, “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals”
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Oliver Burkeman and I Discuss Time Management for Mortals and ...
- His book, “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals”
- How we invest more energy and focus on trying to escape certain feelings
- Finitude and understanding that life is finite
- Time and how we relate to it as something we have and use
- The idea that we are time rather than we have time
- Accepting the truth of your finitude allows you to live more in the present
- Confusing meaningful with extraordinary
- Cosmic insignificance therapy suggests that we reexamine the threshold of what makes a meaningful life
- Our tendency to want to define and measure what is meaningful in life
- How the pursuit of using time well can lead us to live in the future rather than being present
- Asking ourselves if something is expanding or contracting to us
- The modern attention economy and being aware if we are choosing where our attention goes
- How the things that matter most to us can provoke unpleasant emotions that lead to seeking distractions
- The problem isn’t how things are, but rather how we think they should be
- Trying too hard to be present in the moment
- Accepting the impossibility of complete control
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How to Explore Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit with Lyanda Haupt
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07/25/23 • 65 min
Lyanda Haupt shares what it means to explore life at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit. With a rich academic background in biology, Haupt’s work seeks to break the barrier between science and the average understanding of environmental realities. Through her compelling narratives and insightful perspectives, listeners are offered a gateway into a realm of spirituality deeply intertwined with the natural world.
In this episode, you’ll be able to:
- Discover the intricate connection between the realms of science, nature, and spirituality and why it matters in your daily life
- Uncover methods to nurture a deeper, more immersive bond with the natural world around you
- Understand the pivotal role of hope and resilience amid change and uncertainties
- Find out how to create equilibrium in your life by connecting your inner world with the natural world.
- Learn why feeding your inner “good wolf” is vital during periods of trials and tribulations, and how to do it effectively
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Jack Kornfield on Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness
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10/26/21 • 50 min
Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide. He’s led international Buddhist teacher meetings and has worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and his books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. He is also a father, a husband, and an activist.
In this episode, Eric and Jack discuss his book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
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In This Interview, Jack Kornfield and I Discuss Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness and ...
- His book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
- The first step to dealing with difficult emotions is seeing and accepting what’s there
- How practicing mindfulness expands your window of tolerance
- Tools to help us remember the vastness
- Remembering that our story is always changing
- How we are bound to experience both the beauty and pain in life
- The importance of compassion
- How there are many simple practices to transform our heart and mind
- Choosing the best spiritual practices based on what we’re drawn to
- His work with Father Greg Boyle, writer of Tattoos on the Heart
- The possibility of seeing the Buddha-nature in every human being
- The refuge in community and how we need each other
- Trusting that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves
- Learning to trust our inner knowledge, heart, and body
- Accepting our fear and understanding that growth comes after fear
- The doubting mind and our capacity to recognize it
- Learning to not judge the thoughts that come up in meditation
- His shift in life from actively getting things done into relaxing more and seeing how things turn out
- How we all have the seeds of awakening within us
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Judith Grisel on the Neuroscience of Addiction
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09/22/20 • 44 min
Dr. Judith Grisel is a professor of Psychology at Bucknell University. Judith is a behavioral neuroscientist with a particular interest in addiction. Her work includes trying to determine what is different about people who develop drug addictions before they ever try a drug.
In this episode, Judith and Eric discuss her book, “Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction” where she shares her personal experience of overcoming addiction as well as her passion for research into the neuroscience of addiction.
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In This Interview, Judith Grisel and I Discuss the Neuroscience of Addiction, and...
- Her book, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction"
- Channeling her strong will and enthusiasm for addiction into recovery
- Focusing on what she wanted rather than what she didn't want
- The complexity of addiction is there are so many factors that lead to it
- Nature via nurture as well as the inherited risks of addiction
- The increased risk of teenagers with addictive disorders when using drugs or alcohol while the brain is still developing.
- The neural states associated with addiction also come from our history, culture, socialization, communication, and even microbiomes.
- The "debt of addiction is accrued when borrowing good feelings from the future is due"
- Mechanisms of what happens in the brain when abusing substances
- Tolerance is when the brain adapts and counteracts the effects of the drug
- Dependence is when you no longer like yourself without the drug
- Younger adults may be more prone to addiction, but also more resilient.
- Her experience of receiving tough love from her parents that ultimately led to recovery.
- How isolation causes addiction and addiction causes isolation
- Connection is crucial in the process of recovery
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Radhule Weininger on Heart Medicine to Find Peace and Freedom
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06/17/22 • 54 min
Radhule Weininger, MD, PHD, is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher. She leads meditation groups in Santa Barbara and retreats globally, at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, Spirit Rock, Insight LA, the Esalen Institute, and the Garrison Institute. She is the author of HeartMedicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom.
In this episode, Eric and Radhule discuss psychological and spiritual healing of LRPPs (Long-standing Recurrent Painful Patterns that stem from trauma.
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Radhule Weininger and I Discuss Heart Medicine and How to Find Peace and Freedom and...
- Her book, HeartMedicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom.
- "LRPP's" Long-standing Recurrent Painful Patterns of hurt.
- How LRPPs often originate from trauma in our past
- Understanding that there are no shortcuts to healing, it takes constant tending
- How LRPPs can also find meaning and purpose in our lives
- The obsessive and habitual components of LRPPs
- Learning to tap into the different types of awareness
- Psychological and spiritual healing and how they go hand in hand
- The steps to begin healing our LRPPs
- Finding a self compassion practice and making it a new habit
- Allowing mystery into the healing process
- How our heart can become the doorway to the great mystery
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Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy
Inner Freedom Through Mindfulness with Jack Kornfield
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Beth Jacobs on Original Buddhist Psychology
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11/12/21 • 47 min
Beth Jacobs is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a former faculty member of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. She is also a teacher in the Soto Zen tradition and incorporates Buddhist studies and meditation into her work as both a psychologist and a writer.
In this episode, Eric and Beth discuss her book, The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life
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In This Interview, Beth Jacobs and I Discuss Original Buddhist Psychology and ...
- Her book, The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life
- Abhidharma is the structural layout of the Buddha’s original vision of the universe
- Understanding the complex laws of how forces move together in the universe
- The entity of “me” exists from the arbitrary framework we create for ourselves
- The 5 skandhas are what is used to construct our reality: form, feelings, perceptions, habit formations, consciousnesses
- Neuropsychology and the 17 steps of perception
- Interdependent origination is the idea that everything is in motion and connected
- How consciousness is just an interaction
- The various lists of lists in the Abhidharma
- Energy, mindfulness, and investigation
- The idea of gently removing our obstructions
- Writing and meditation as powerful tools for awakening
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Norman Fischer on Spiritual Growth through Imagination
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03/10/20 • 42 min
Norman Fischer is a poet, author, Zen Buddhist teacher and priest. He’s a graduate of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and he’s been publishing poetry since 1979. He’s the author of 17 books of poetry, 6 books of prose on Zen and religion as well as numerous articles and essays. In this episode, Eric and Norman discuss his book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path.
If you are interested in learning more about how to integrate and embody spiritual principles into the moments of your daily life, Eric teaches people how to do just that in his 1-on-1 Spiritual Habits Program. Click here to learn more.
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In This Interview, Norman Fischer and I discuss Spiritual Growth through Imagination and...
- His book, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path
- Redefining imagination and discovering it’s prevalence and role in life
- The role of imagination in spiritual paths
- How we don’t see the world exactly as it is, but rather through filters
- Loosening our grasp on what we think of as absolute reality
- Constructing useful stories in our mind rather than living by our default stories
- The essential ways in which imagination enriches the experience of our lives
- When we realize we are making our lives for ourselves, we have the power to make it differently
- The Bodhisattva: A Buddha in training
- Compassion, Love and Service for the benefit of others
- The Bodhisattva Path
- The myth of separateness and the truth of interconnection and love
- That holding two (seemingly contradictory) ideas in our mind at one time offers us depth perception
- How ideals can inspire us rather than put pressure on us
- The disease of perfectionism
- How to engage in “Joyful Effort” when you don’t feel very joyful and don’t have much effort to spare
- Patience: Just keep going and be of benefit to others
- Turning toward what’s arising: facing it, embracing it, breathing into it and going forward with it
- The problematic nature of favoring one’s own suffering over the suffering of others
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Mark Nepo on Connecting to What Matters
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04/07/20 • 44 min
Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and cancer survivor who has taught in the fields of poetry, health, and spirituality for 40 years. Mark is a New York Times #1 selling author who has published numerous books and audio projects. In this episode, Eric and Mark discuss his book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters. This episode is a tonic to the suffering that we are facing right now in the midst of a pandemic. This conversation offers some of the most liberating wisdom that, when connected to, releases us from the grip of fear so that we are living from a place of presence, peace, and connecting to what matters.
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The wisdom and practice of self-compassion is a foundational principle that Eric teaches and helps his private clients learn to apply through the 1-on-1 Spiritual Habits Program. To learn more about this program, click here.
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In This Interview, Mark Nepo and I discuss Connecting to What Matters and...
- His new book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters
- The value in cooperating, listening and working with things (rather than trying to bend them to our will)
- That “sin”, as literally translated, is the same as “opaque” or, “not seeing”
- That when we lose sight of the vastness to which we belong, succumbing to our narrow condition, we paint everything with the color of our trouble
- How the surface of the ocean is what’s choppy and as we go down below the surface, we connect with the depth that is less tumultuous
- “Rightsizing” our perspective on troubles by putting them in a larger perspective of vastness and wholeness
- How to move at the pace of what is real: synchronizing the moving pace of mind, heart, and body
- That the power of reading out loud is like the difference between reading sheet music and hearing it in our heads vs. actually playing the music
- That we meditate not to be great meditators, but to be clear vessels
- How we’ve become “addicted to the noise of things falling apart”
- That things are always simultaneously falling apart and coming together
- We are challenged to honor what we’re going through while at the same time remembering that what we’re going through doesn’t define us
- Asking “What is actually happening?” so we might identify right action
- Waiting for the cloud of fear to pass so that you can decipher what is actually dangerous
- How in the modern world we have catastrophized our relationship to the unknown
- That the unknown can produce love and beauty just as it can produce difficulty and hardships
- The truth that there is no “there”, there’s only “here”
- That often, when you can’t leave a difficult situation, you realize that everything you need is right here
- The menacing assumption that life is somewhere other than where we are
- That out of fear, we make a god of survival. But without thriving, what’s the point?
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Kamla Kapur on Transformative Powers in Life
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03/03/20 • 41 min
Kamla Kapur is an award winning author, poet and playwright. She was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. Kamla now divides her time between living in the remote Indian Himalayas and in San Diego, California with her husband. She holds a Master’s Degree in Literature from Kent State University in Ohio and she studied Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Kamla was on the faculty of Grossmont College in San Diego for 18 years and her stories, poems, and plays have been published in many prestigious Indian and American journals. In this episode, she and Eric use her new book, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit: A Journey to Healing the Heart, as a jumping off point to discuss the transformative powers we experience through various life experiences.
If you are interested in learning more about how to integrate and embody spiritual principles into the moments of your daily life, Eric teaches people how to do just that in his 1-on-1 Spiritual Habits Program. Click here to learn more.
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In This Interview, Kamla Kapur and I discuss Transformative Powers in Life and...
- Her book, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit: A Journey to Healing the Heart
- The deep wound to Rumi’s heart that transformed him and brought forth his treasured body of work that we now know and love
- How suffering can be our greatest tutor and guide in life
- The idea of expansion and contraction in our lives
- That when your heart breaks, it breaks open
- How suffering can open us up to being more aware and connected to our higher selves
- That those who transform as a result of their suffering are open to a different way of thinking as a result of the difficult things that happen to them
- The transformative powers of hope, joy, and love
- Rumi’s stories of characters embracing suffering
- How all suffering has the power to awaken us
- The transformative power of suffering
- The transformative power of acceptance
- How Rumi says, “When the candle of your youth dims, you have to light the candle of the spirit.”
- Actively ascending to our aging
- The awe and wonder of existence and the mystery of life that we as humans can perceive
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John Mabry on Shamanism and Spirituality
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08/20/21 • 39 min
John Mabry is a United Church of Christ pastor and is the Director of the Spiritual Direction Program at Chaplaincy Institute. He is the lead singer of 2 bands in the Bay area and is the author of many novels and books on theology, spirituality, and spiritual guidance.
In this episode, Eric and John discuss his book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
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In This Interview, John Mabry and I Discuss Shamanism, Spirituality, and ...
- His book, Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding
- How life is messy for everyone and how we’re not seeing everyone’s entire picture
- His Shamanic journey experience of finding wisdom and healing
- The upper, middle, and lower worlds as part of a shamanic journey
- His spirit animal, the panther
- How practice and training our imagination can form relationships with spiritual realities
- The importance of leaving room for mystery
- How our culture reinforces that only what can be measured and explained is real
- Using the word trust rather than believe
- His morning practice of imaginative prayer
- His exploration into the different spiritual traditions and finding where his heart lives
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How many episodes does The One You Feed have?
The One You Feed currently has 874 episodes available.
What topics does The One You Feed cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.
What is the most popular episode on The One You Feed?
The episode title 'Oliver Burkeman on Time Management for Mortals' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The One You Feed?
The average episode length on The One You Feed is 45 minutes.
How often are episodes of The One You Feed released?
Episodes of The One You Feed are typically released every 4 days, 5 hours.
When was the first episode of The One You Feed?
The first episode of The One You Feed was released on Jan 6, 2014.
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