Benjamin Shalva

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Education

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🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week we talk to Benjamin Shalva about spiritual cross training Benjamin Shalva is a rabbi, writer, and yoga instructor, he leads spiritual cross-training seminars and workshops around the world. He received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and his yoga teacher certification from the Yogic Physical Culture Academy in Los Cabos, Mexico. Shalva serves on the faculty of the Jewish Mindfulness Center of Washington and the 6th & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC, leads musical prayer services for Bet Mishpachah in Washington, DC, and spends his summers as the camp rabbi of Tamarack Camps in Michigan. His writings have been published in the Washington Post, Elephant Journal, and Spirituality & Health magazine. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he lives in Reston, Virginia, with his wife and their children. His new book is: Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching Through Silence, Stretch, and Song In This Interview, Benjamin Shalva and I Discuss: The One You Feed parable His book, Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch & Song How he has been searching all of his life That spiritual work produces nothing tangible That spiritual growth is slow yet real & discernable in our lives Spiritual connection & growth, like friendship, is built through time, energy & attention What "spiritual cross-training" is His spiritual experience with the 3 modalities of silence, stretch & song How sticking to just one spiritual practice, over time becomes hobby The importance of "diving deep" into your chosen 2-3 spiritual practices How to deal with ego & ambition when it shows up in your spiritual practice How inviting the ego voice in his head to join him in his spiritual practice has been a useful tool in his life How what you resist, persists That, in the spiritual journey "...when we've exhausted all other options, we always have one weapon left in our arsenal....laughter"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All or nothing goals tend to be goals that require us to sacrifice everything else.
0:13.7	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:18.8	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:25.9	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:32.0	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:38.6	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
0:45.2	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:50.9	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
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1:37.6	podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Benjamin Shalva who is back on the
1:44.8	podcast for a second interview. Ben is the nationally renowned author of Ambition Addiction,
1:50.8	How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within. His previous book was spiritual cross-training,
1:57.4	searching through silence, stretch, and song. Ben has been published in the Washington Post,
2:02.4	Elephant Journal, and Spirituality in Health magazine. He's a rabbi, writer, meditation teacher,
2:08.4	and yoga instructor. Shalva leads spiritual seminars and workshops throughout the world.
2:13.9	And here's the interview with Benjamin Shalva. If you value the content we put out each week,
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