Congressman Tim Ryan
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Tim Ryan about mindfulness in everyday life
Tim Ryan is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is the author of A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit and The Real Food Revolution: Healthy Eating, Green Groceries, and the Return of the American Family Farm.
In This Interview Tim and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
How we can't know what wolf we are feeding without awareness.
The importance of time for contemplation.
How meditation can increase the space between stimulus and response.
His path to mindfulness.
What mindfulness means to him.
The regret of missing our lives by being distracted.
Trying to remain mindful in Congress.
Bringing mindfulness education to the Youngstown School System.
Teaching kids to pay attention.
Mindfulness doesn't make you soft, it makes you tough.
Mindfulness = mental toughness.
Mindfulness gives us the ability to get back up when we have been knocked down.
How Mindfulness has been shown to accelerate the healing process.
The main objections he hears to mindfulness practice.
How this is the first generation in American history that has a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
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| 0:00.0 | We weigh 20 more pounds than we did in the 1960s and we've only grown an inch taller on average. |
| 0:07.6 | And this is going to be the first generation of Americans that won't live as long of a life as their parents. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:23.7 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:28.2 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:33.8 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:38.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:42.8 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:45.6 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:49.1 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:51.1 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:52.5 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.4 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 1:01.8 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm Entertainment and Lifestyle Reporter Tommy Diderio. |
| 1:17.9 | On my new show, I've never said this before. |
| 1:20.3 | I'll be talking to different artists and the stars of your favorite movies and shows |
| 1:24.7 | and getting the full story. |
| 1:26.5 | And of course, as the title suggests, I'll also be asking all of my guests to tell me at least one thing |
| 1:33.5 | that they've never said before. |
| 1:35.5 | Listen to, I've never said this before. |
| 1:37.9 | With Tommy Diderio on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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