Dean Sluyter on Fearing Less
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In This Interview, Dean Sluyter and I Discuss…
- His book, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
- Right View and how it relates to having less fear in your life
- How right view is always liberating
- Asking, “does it help?”
- “One mustn’t assume burdens that God doesn’t lay upon us. The state of worry is not itself meritorious.” CS Lewis
- The problem with trying to control your mind
- Transcendental Meditation
- Hanging out in tasklessness
- The open space of awareness
- How thought doesn’t have to go away in order to meditate
- Relax your grip, and relax back into yourself
- It doesn’t grip you, it has no power to do that. You grip it.
- What it means to relax at the moment of contact
- Relax into it, stop the resistance of it
- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
- suffering = pain x resistance
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| 0:00.0 | Any effort to create a non-agitated state of mind is itself a form of agitation. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:16.8 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:21.4 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:25.8 | ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:31.2 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, |
| 0:37.3 | instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:42.4 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, |
| 0:47.5 | and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep |
| 0:52.8 | themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:43.6 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dean Slider, an award-winning author who has |
| 1:48.6 | taught meditation and awakenings since 1970. Dean leads workshops, talks, and retreats throughout |
| 1:54.6 | the US and beyond, and has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, in style, New York magazine, |
| 2:01.9 | O, the Oprah Magazine, and many others. He is also on the faculty of the West Coast Riders |
| 2:07.3 | conferences. On this episode, Eric and Dean discuss his book Fear Less, Living Beyond Fear, |
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