1619: [Part 2] On Transforming the Judgmental Mind: Stories From 7 Days of Silence by Dr. Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry

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🗓️ 17 May 2020

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Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry shares her thoughts on transforming the judgmental mind. This is part 2 of 2. Episode 1619: [Part 2] On Transforming the Judgmental Mind: Stories From 7 Days of Silence by Dr. Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry Elana Miller is a psychiatrist based out of Los Angeles, California. She loves to write, read, and make music. Elana received her B.A. in psychology at Harvard University before studying at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. I completed my psychiatry residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was nominated as a UCLA Exceptional Physician. The original post is located here: https://zenpsychiatry.com/judgmental-mind/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1619 on transforming the judgmental mind stories from seven days
0:06.8	of silence, part two by Dr. Yelana Miller of ZenSyciatry.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:13.0	Happy Sunday and welcome back or welcome for the first time if you're new here.
0:16.6	This is where I read to you like a big ongoing audiobook but from many different authors.
0:21.8	Today being a continuation from yesterday so I'd recommend listening to yesterday's episode first.
0:26.8	But if you're all caught up let's get right to part two and continue optimizing your life.
0:35.2	On transforming the judgmental mind stories from seven days of silence, part two by Dr. Yelana Miller
0:42.0	of ZenSyciatry.com. The second seven transforming the judgmental mind replaced negative mind states
0:49.5	with positive ones. I recently read a story of Burmese Buddhist monks who traveled up to the
0:54.5	top of the Himalayas in freezing cold temperatures, wrapped themselves in wet sheets,
0:59.2	and then meditated on a heat growing from their bodies to the point where they dry the sheets through
1:03.9	the sheer power of their thoughts. Even after only a week of intensive meditative practice,
1:10.0	I have no doubt that such a feat is possible. One of the tools we studied as an antidote for the
1:15.5	judgmental mind was the divine abode practices of which there are four. Loving kindness,
1:21.6	compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. We practice cultivating these positive mind states
1:27.6	toward ourselves and others through repeating specific phrases over and over. For example,
1:32.7	to practice loving kindness toward myself I would repeat, may I be safe and protected,
1:37.9	may I be healthy and strong, may I be happy, may I live with ease. After hours of repeating these
1:45.2	phrases they seem to take on a life of their own. At one point we didn't exercise directing loving
1:50.2	kindness toward ourselves, then toward a mentor, then toward a good friend, then toward a familiar
1:56.0	stranger, then toward a difficult person, and then toward all beings. Over the 45 or so minutes
2:02.7	of the exercise I swear I could feel an inner ray of warmth and compassion grow and grow
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