17. Waking Up, Growing Up: A Conversation with Thomas McConkie Part 3

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🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Thomas and Bill share a deeper discussion around mindfulness and meditation, and how this practice can help us connect with our true nature. This is a discussion about “waking up.” They explore how we can experience gospel principles such as obedience, service and charity in a mindful, integrated way. When we can move from “achievement” to “embodiment”; from checklists, to presence, we have the opportunity to bring our full selves.

To this episode, Thomas lets us experience meditation through a guided experience.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from
0:04.4	Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the
0:08.8	Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what
0:11.9	restoration really means as the church moves into its third century
0:15.2	and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel
0:19.9	can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the
0:24.4	church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the
0:28.2	marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has
0:32.2	totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.
0:36.0	I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.
0:38.5	It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for
0:43.9	yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple
0:48.3	Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the
0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Welcome back to this deep dive with Thomas Wirthland McConke,
1:08.0	Mindfulness Teacher and researcher in the field of adult development.
1:12.0	I'm Bill Turnbull from Faith Matters Foundation
1:14.8	and in this episode we explore the spiritual practice of meditation and
1:19.2	mindfulness. What can it teach us about our true selves and about our fault selves?
1:25.0	How can these practices help us get unstuck
1:28.0	when we seem to have reached a spiritual plateau?
1:31.0	I notice after 20 years of being in a regular meditation practice and prayer practice that the world feels more effortlessly holy to me.
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