185 // Focusing on Mudita
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to episode 185 of The Mindful Kind podcast.
In this episode, I've explored the concept of Mudita (vicarious joy), including what it is, why it's important and how I'll be cultivating Mudita in my own life.
Here are the ways I'll be cultivating Mudita:
- By asking my friends and family about the joyful experiences in their lives
- By feeling happy for people's "highlight reels" on Instagram
- When feelings of jealousy or envy occur, I'll try to lean into Mudita
- By becoming more present for the experiences of joy in my own life
Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 185 of the Mindful Kyan podcast. |
| 0:37.7 | On this episode, I'm excited to talk about a really beautiful Buddhist concept called |
| 0:42.6 | Mudita, which is basically vicarious, sympathetic or appreciative joy, or in other words, |
| 0:49.0 | feeling happy for other people. |
| 0:51.2 | It's one of the four Brahma Vihara's also known as heart practices, |
| 0:55.3 | which includes loving kindness, compassion, mudita and equanimity. So imagine your friend |
| 1:02.6 | calls you to tell you she's been given a wonderful promotion at work with lots of great |
| 1:06.9 | opportunities to travel and work with like-minded people. You feel a sense of genuine |
| 1:12.5 | happiness and joy for your friend, even though their joy doesn't directly have anything to do with |
| 1:17.7 | you. That is Moldita. When I came across this concept during some research last week, it really |
| 1:24.4 | sparked my curiosity. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I could |
| 1:29.0 | actually work on cultivating Moldita in my life. I love the idea of practicing vicarious joy and |
| 1:36.0 | perhaps even searching for it in moments of jealousy or envy. You know when something really great |
| 1:42.5 | happens to someone else and you get that sinking feeling |
| 1:45.1 | of disappointment or envy, wishing that the great thing had happened for you, I think that's |
| 1:50.8 | a potential opportunity to search for a spark of Moldita and lean into it. |
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