Dealing with Uncertainty Podcast # 685
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Todd and Cathy discuss Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul, specifically what it means to manage our “thorns” or inner pain that we react to our do our best to avoid. They discuss the paradoxical nature of life and uncertainty, and how our goal is to manage discomfort, not runaway or avoid. They share some of their mindfulness tools and a new definition of enlightenment.
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10:00 Thorns
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41:35 Not going for a ride with your thoughts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:04.9 | Here we go. |
| 0:05.5 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.0 | And this is Gabi. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:10.2 | This is podcast number 685, which is a lot. |
| 0:16.7 | Isn't it, sweetie? |
| 0:17.8 | It is. |
| 0:18.4 | 685. |
| 0:19.6 | Why listen to Zen Parenting radio because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:22.5 | And I always remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's well-being, |
| 0:26.2 | is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:28.2 | We're recording this on Monday, November 21st, three or four days before Thanksgiving. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.1 | Gobble, gobble, yes. |
| 0:35.7 | Thanksgiving. |
| 0:36.5 | Where does Thanksgiving rank in your holidays, sweetie? |
| 0:39.7 | Trying to get my microphone straight here. I really like Thanksgiving. I feel like, |
| 0:45.1 | as I say every year, that there's just this big hill from Halloween through to January 1st, where I'm just, we're going down the hill so fast |
| 0:57.5 | that it all kind of blends. There's ways that we can break it up, you know, like we don't do |
| 1:03.7 | our holiday or our Christmas decorations until we get home from Thanksgiving because we go to |
| 1:10.2 | Seattle for Thanksgiving. |
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