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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Benjamin Shalva

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation   This week we talk to Benjamin Shalva Benjamin Shalva is the nationally renowned author of Ambition Addiction: How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within and Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song and has been published in the Washington Post, Elephant Journal, and Spirituality & Health magazine. A rabbi, writer, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor, he leads spiritual seminars and workshops around the world.  In This Interview, Benjamin Shalva and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, Ambition Addiction: How to go slow, give thanks and discover the Joy Within That ambition can be healthy and it can also cross the line to being destructive The casualties ambition can leave behind The mirage of "any day now" The signs and symptoms of ambition addiction That addictive behavior is something we do often and it's counterproductive The helpfulness of the question: Is my goal an all or nothing goal? That the road to hell is not paved with good intentions, it's paved with unexamined intentions Recovering from ambition addiction The technique of breath, word and deed The key step of slowing down   Please Support The Show with a DonationSee 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.

0:13.5

Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

0:20.5

Quotes like garbage in,

0:22.1

garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't

0:28.3

strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't

0:36.0

have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back

0:39.5

and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious,

0:45.9

consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people

0:51.6

keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

1:09.1

Thanks for joining us.

1:15.9

Our guest on this episode is Benjamin Shalva, who is back on the podcast for a second interview.

1:23.5

Ben is the nationally renowned author of Ambition Addiction, How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within.

1:29.1

His previous book was Spiritual Cross Training, Search, searching through silence, stretch, and song.

1:34.0

Ben has been published in the Washington Post, Elephant Journal, and Spirituality and Health magazine.

1:35.2

He's a rabbi, writer, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor.

1:39.5

Shalva leads spiritual seminars and workshops throughout the world.

1:43.2

And here's the interview with Benjamin

1:45.2

Shalva. If you value the content we put out each week, then we need your help. As the show is

1:51.7

grown, so have our expenses and time commitment. Go to one you feed.net slash support and make a

1:58.8

monthly donation. Our goal is to get to 5% of our listeners supporting the show.

2:04.2

Please be part of the 5% that make a contribution and allow us to keep putting out these

2:09.2

interviews and ideas. We really need your help to make the show sustainable and long lasting.

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