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

David Kundtz on The Art of Stopping

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

David Kundtz is a former director and presenter of Inside Track seminars and a former clergyman turned author. David has sold more than 113,000 books in English, Spanish, and Japanese and has also established a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, CA. Eric and David discuss his book, The Art of Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going In this episode, Eric and David talk about what it means to practice “stopping” in life, including the three components and the many benefits of stopping. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, David Kundtz and I Discuss the Art of Stopping and… His book, The Art of Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going Stopping is doing nothing as much as possible in order to wake up, remember who you are and what you want. Stopping allows you to be still in order to access the wisdom within us The “mountain of too much”  How stopping allows us to make a distinction between what is important and not important. The numbness of moving through life and not experiencing it How slowing down helps you to remember True relaxation is one of the gifts of stopping The 3 components of stopping Stillpoints are opportunities to stop, breathe, and remember Using your creativity to bring meaning to your still points Making triggers to help you remember your still points Stopping is a form of meditation How spending time in nature is compatible with stopping  David Kundtz Links: David’s Website Twitter Facebook Best Fiends: Engage your brain and play a game of puzzles with Best Fiends. Download for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play.    If you enjoyed this conversation with David Kundtz on the Art of Stopping, you might also enjoy these other episodes: A Big History of Everything with David Christian Being Heart Minded with Sarah Blondin Gregg Krech See 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

If you are quiet enough and still enough, you will know what's important to you and what you want,

0:07.3

and you'll know what you don't want. And very often what you don't want is the thing the culture tells you you do.

0:22.2

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:24.3

Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

0:34.4

And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.

0:43.4

We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:49.7

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:58.0

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

1:04.8

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1:31.2

Dean Reed died. Come with me, Ramona Reed, to learn more about the extraordinary life and mysterious death of revolutionary.

1:39.1

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1:46.5

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1:57.8

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2:08.3

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2:18.6

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is David Kunz, a former director and presenter of Inside Track Seminars and a former

2:26.7

clergyman, turned author. David has sold more than 113,000 books in English, Spanish and Japanese and established a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, California.

2:37.8

Today David and Eric discuss his book The Art of Stopping. How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going.

2:44.4

Hi David, welcome to the show. Thank you. Great to be here.

2:47.9

It's a pleasure to have you on. We are going to be talking about your book The Art of Stopping. How to be still when you have to keep going.

2:55.7

But before we do that, let's start like we always do with a parable. There's a grandfather who's talking with his granddaughter and he says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always a battle.

3:05.8

What is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love. And the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

3:15.9

And the granddaughter stops and she thinks about it for a second and she looks up at her grandfather and she says, well, grandfather, which one wins?

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