2648: [Part 1] On Transforming the Judgmental Mind: Stories From 7 Days of Silence by Dr. Elana Miller

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry shares her thoughts on transforming the judgmental mind. This is part 1 of 2. Episode 2648: [Part 1] On Transforming the Judgmental Mind: Stories From 7 Days of Silence by Dr. Elana Miller 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 Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2648 on transforming the judgmental mind stories from
0:06.5	seven days of silence, part one by Dr. Ilana Miller of ZenSyciatry.com and your narrator
0:13.5	Justin Mollick reading you blogs every single day of the year.
0:17.0	At these articles a little longer than normal so read the first half today and then finish
0:21.0	up the rest for you tomorrow.
0:23.0	So that's get right to part one as we optimize your life.
0:30.8	On transforming the judgmental mind stories from seven days of silence, part one by Dr. Ilana
0:37.0	Miller of ZenSyciatry.com.
0:40.8	On the first evening of my recent seven days silent meditation retreat, at a strange
0:45.2	stream I was in my house and had flooded.
0:48.6	As I walked through the rooms I waited in several feet of water, panicked I raised to call
0:52.9	my landlord to help me.
0:54.4	I could feel the anxiety and fear as I rushed to dial her number, mistyping at several times.
1:00.0	Instead of picking up the phone though, she had her husband answer.
1:03.2	He was unkind and dismissive and told me that his wife didn't want to talk to me.
1:07.9	I could feel her presence in the background and became more and more upset as she refused
1:12.4	to get on the phone, refused to help me, refused to even talk to me.
1:17.6	The next morning I woke up and still felt the weight of my anguish in the dream.
1:21.6	I wondered why that dream came to me when it did and what it was trying to tell me.
1:26.5	In dreams, other people often symbolize parts of ourselves.
1:30.7	In real life my landlord is very sweet and non-dismissive woman and so I felt that
1:35.0	our presence symbolized a part of myself that is dismissive and cruel to my own anguish
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