Cory Allen on Mindfulness and Understanding Identity

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Cory Allen is a writer, musician, and the creator of the podcast, The Astral Hustle. He focuses on how to live better with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, and philosophy. In Cory’s first appearance on the show, he discussed his book Now is the Way.

Today, Cory and Eric discuss mindfulness, identity, and much more!

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Cory Allen and I Discuss Mindfulness, Understanding Identity, and…

How we are always reacting to our situations
Mistaking our reactions for who we are
Understanding our identity and where it comes from
What we’re really looking for when we seek material wealth
The pull of not feeling satisfied and constantly seeking satisfaction
Differentiating our identity and our wanting
Overwhelm is what leads to difficulty overwriting our impulses
The value of meditation and mindfulness to calm the body
The importance of exercise and nourishing the body
How exercise and meditation complement each other
The power of assertiveness when facing the challenge of change
Self discipline is about giving yourself freedom from being controlled
His work creating binaural beats and the effects of the vibrational sounds

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Cory Allen, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Cultivating Mindfulness with Cory Allen (2020)

Transformative Mindfulness with Shauna Shapiro

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0:00.0	Exercising self-control is not keeping yourself from giving you what you deserve,
0:04.6	but it's removing the power of the want of those things and the feeling of entitlement to those
0:10.0	things so it's you're free from being controlled by external objects and ultimately the delusion
0:15.4	that something outside of you is what you need to complete you.
0:18.4	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:28.4	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:33.0	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us
0:40.0	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:47.5	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our
0:52.9	spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent,
0:59.1	and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep
1:04.4	themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
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