A Soul Boom Discussion on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Connection with Rainn Wilson
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Rainn Wilson delves into the conversation tackling many topics including mental health, spirituality across traditions, and the importance of connection. He also explores the universal struggle between our lower and higher selves, shedding light on the battle within. You’ll also hear Rainn’s interesting personal anecdotes and spiritual insights that emphasize the significance of practices like meditation and connecting with nature.
Every Tuesday starting April 9th, Rainn Wilson is releasing the Soul Boom podcast! Tune in each week to a series of intimate conversations that tickle the mind, heart and soul. Never too precious, yet unafraid to touch on the profound, Soul Boom digs into the core of the human experience: creativity, spirituality and psychology. Bringing to the conversation some of the most brilliant and heart-felt artists, thinkers and doers, Soul Boom guides the listener toward transformation on both a personal and societal level. Also, laughs.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Uncover the benefits of meditation for enhancing mental well-being
- Explore the sacred in everyday life for a deeper sense of fulfillment
- Embrace the transformative impact of nature on wellness and spirituality
- Discover how spirituality and connection can lead to improved mental health
- Understand the role of spirituality in overcoming addiction for lasting recovery
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| 0:00.0 | We're wired for transcendence. Prayer and devotion does not have to be to an entity with a will and a beard, |
| 0:08.2 | but connection to the greatest possible love and unity that binds us all and gives us our common humanity. Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:25.0 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:30.0 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:36.5 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:40.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead |
| 0:46.9 | of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just |
| 0:52.4 | about thinking. our actions matter. It takes |
| 0:55.4 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This |
| 1:00.1 | podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:04.4 | how they feed their good wolf. My whole life I've been told this one story about my family, about how my great-great-grandmother |
| 1:25.2 | was killed by the mafia back in Sicily. I was never sure if it was true, so I decided to find out. |
| 1:32.9 | And even though my Uncle Jimmy |
| 1:34.8 | told me I'd only be making the vendetta worse, |
| 1:38.1 | I'm going to Sicily anyway. |
| 1:39.8 | Come to Italy with me to solve this 100-year-old murder mystery. |
| 1:43.7 | Listen to the Sicilian inheritance on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 1:47.6 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:51.4 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is a guest that has been on two |
| 1:55.7 | previous times. He's closing in on the record of most appearances on the one you |
| 2:00.4 | feed. It is Rain Wilson, an American actor, comedian, |
| 2:04.8 | podcaster, producer, writer, director, and the list goes on and on. You guys |
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