Brian Tom O'Connor

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Brian Tom O'Connor Brian Tom O’Connor is an actor, theatre director, cabaret performer, and formerly depressed guy who stumbled onto the source of joy and happiness in the background of all experience. He is the author of the book: Awareness Games: Playing With Your Mind to Create Joy In This Interview, Brian Tom O'Connor and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, Awareness Games: Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy Real reality vs Virtual reality Why games are a more effective approach than questions to exploring awareness The fact that you don't have to believe anything to play a game That trying to reproduce an experience isn't doable That trying to get rid of an unpleasant feeling isn't doable That the mind is an excellent servant but a poor master The power of noticing "the whiteboard itself" rather than what's written on it The three basic questions: What's in awareness now? What is awareness? Who/what is aware? The Future Fishing game The Past Catching game The game, Slippery Mind That awareness games can be a good break from a serious meditation practice The benefit of allowing emotions to flow through you The game, Include Include Include 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	In a question, there's implied a correct answer.
0:03.0	And in games, there's implied you're fooling around to see what's there.
0:15.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:22.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:36.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:39.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.0	Our actions matter.
0:46.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:55.0	How they feed their good wolf.
1:09.0	Hey everybody, are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed?
1:13.0	I'm Roy Scovol.
1:14.0	And I'm Daniel Van Kirk.
1:15.0	And it's the Penpals podcast.
1:16.0	Maybe you've had a penpal before, where you have two of them right now.
1:19.0	You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.
1:23.0	Got a mean grandma, need a new haircut, whatever it is, send it to us.
1:26.0	And we have guests like Will Ferrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne, Brett Goldstein, and Mandy Moore.
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