Cultivating a Mindful Media Practice with Melissa McLaughlin
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
To quote this week's guest, yoga teacher and social scientist Melissa McLaughlin, "How we engage with our phones is changing our minds." In other words, we are on our phones being constantly bombarded by information. How do we navigate this reality and maintain our sanity? How do we cope with the rush of adrenaline that comes when we see a strongly-worded opinion that we disagree with? Perhaps most importantly, how do we continue to stay engaged as citizens of the world and not allow our devices to lead us into cynicism/shutting down/complete burnout?
The answer is simple although not easy -- it starts with mindfulness practice.
Melissa shares many insights with us including:
- How to be a more conscious consumer of social media—especially observing the feelings that arise before you reshare
- What to do when you feel overwhelmed by something happening in the world or something that you see in the media
- Tips for having tough conversations about media with friends and family members with differing viewpoints
- What yoga philosophy has to say about living in a world that feels chaotic
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 259 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.8 | Today, my guest is yoga teacher Melissa McLaughlin. Melissa lives in teaches yoga in Marin County, California. |
| 0:15.8 | I have known Melissa for several years from back when she did one of Jason's in-person trainings in San Francisco at Love Story Yoga. |
| 0:24.8 | And we've been in touch ever since. |
| 0:28.1 | During COVID-19, Melissa went back and completed an interdisciplinary social sciences |
| 0:34.9 | master's degree in globalization. And she and I have just been in touch and we decided to do this |
| 0:40.7 | episode focusing on something that is near and dear to her heart, which is cultivating a mindful |
| 0:46.9 | media practice. When we initially talked about doing this episode, I was really interested in hearing |
| 0:53.5 | more about her thesis, which she focused on extreme conspiracy theory in the wellness space |
| 0:59.8 | during the pandemic. And I find this topic really fascinating. But I felt we had several |
| 1:07.8 | discussions and I felt that the podcast conspiratuality does a much better job of deeply exploring |
| 1:15.1 | this particular topic over several episodes. And I didn't see a way that Melissa and I could do |
| 1:21.6 | it justice without having that breadth, right, without having five to six to ten episodes about it. |
| 1:28.7 | So if you're interested in this topic, the extreme conspiracy theory in the wellness space, |
| 1:35.2 | go over to the conspiratuality pod. We decided to focus more on kind of the outcome of social media |
| 1:46.4 | during the pandemic, during the last, you know, five to six years, which is that it's becoming |
| 1:53.2 | increasingly noisy, increasingly polarizing and increasingly confusing to figure out |
| 2:01.6 | what is news, what is opinion, what is personality and charisma. And then as an engaged conscious |
| 2:09.0 | person in the world, how do you handle it? How do you cope with it? How do you maintain your own |
| 2:16.0 | sense of inner equilibrium so that you can continue to act the way that you feel is aligned with |
| 2:23.6 | your true purpose in the world. And you can continue to act and not become apathetic or completely |
| 2:30.6 | shut down, right, without completely shutting out social media and the media. So this is what we |
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