203: How to practice gratitude during the coronavirus | Light Watkins

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Light Watkins: “The more we can stay connected to the moment by living through a space of gratitude, the more intelligent decisions we’ll be able to make individually and collectively." It seems that people are using meditation as a way to cope with uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus, no matter if they're new to the practice or a seasoned pro. Watkins, an internationally-renowned meditation teacher and best-selling author, joins co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why a gratitude meditation is crucial during this time, plus: *How to approach fear-mongering friends* *How to use time as opportunity for spiritual growth* *How small acts of kindness can change the world* To learn more about our three products that Jason swears by right now: For guarding your gut check out probiotic+ at mindbodygreen.com/probiotic For stress support check out hemp multi+ at mindbodygreen.com/hemp For sleep assistance check out magnesium+at mindbodygreen.com/magnesium Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Also be sure to check out our classes on Meditation For Anxiety and A Meditation Expert's 14-Day Guide, first-of-their-kind learning experiences taught by Watkins, himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Hey guys, hope everyone is doing okay. Today we are in for another treat in this special edition. We have my good friend, a phenomenal
0:57.3	meditation teacher, MBG class instructor, make sure to check out his classes in the show notes and one of my just
1:04.9	all-time favorite people light walkins light how are you doing man I'm doing well
1:10.1	I'm excited to be here on the planet during this time. So I like the
1:17.0	perspective. I like this perspective. So you know as a as a meditation
1:22.4	teacher as someone who I consider to be a spiritual leader
1:26.3	you know how are you making sense of all this? Well I think you think my basic understanding of life in general is that it's that very popular quote that we see on Instagram, which is things happen for us not not so much to us and if we just take that
1:48.6	that mindset that this is there's an opportunity here to learn from some of this for some of us the
1:56.1	opportunity is to just slow down you know for others of us the opportunity is to step
2:01.3	up and become a leader in our community or to look at all the ways in our life that we are not strengthening our immune system and our financial health and all the other different aspects that are now being exposed.
2:16.0	I think when we come out of the other side of this, which we all are in one way or another,
2:22.0	we're going to be a lot stronger and we're going to be a lot,
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