Does a cluttered house mean a cluttered mind? (with The Urban Monk)

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In a world of endless distractions and consumerism, can minimalism and mindfulness offer a pathway to deeper fulfillment? Join us as Dawn of The Minimal Mom and Dr. Pedram Shojai of The Urban Monk reveal how simplifying our surroundings and connecting with our inner selves can lead to a life of purpose, clarity, and peace."IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 About Dr. Pedram Shojai 4:26 - Where do we begin? 9:03 - What is it like to become a monk? 12:30 - What work comes from? 17:20 - How can we regain focus? 24:04 - How did you look at things differently after returning from the monastery 28:37 - But what about the guilt of decluttering good things? 33:06 - How do you navigate technology with kids? ABOUT Dr. PEDRAM SHOJAI Pedram Shojai is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and New York Times Bestselling Author of The Urban Monk and The Art of Stopping Time. As an acclaimed Qigong Master, Taoist Abbot, husband and dad, he uses Eastern thinking and practices to help himself and others overcome the Westernized challenges of everyday life LINKS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpedramshojai/ Website: https://theurbanmonk.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-urban-monk-podcast-with-dr-pedram-shojai/id1031707838?ign-mpt=uo%3D4&mt=2 Has written several books including Focus, The Urban Monk, and The Art Of Stopping Time. My jewelry is from Trades of Hope (Shop to help women out of poverty!): https://tradesofhope.com/minimalmom Mother's Necklace on Etsy: https://cli.re/mom-necklace (I have the gold in 18") Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	I'd say on a high level, the clutter you see around you is a reflection of the mental clutter
0:05.6	and the priorities in your own consciousness.
0:08.8	Adding more things into your life has been the trick, the ploy, the marketing genius that
0:15.8	has got us finding places where we don't feel well, full, fully secure, and thinking that that thing
0:22.7	is going to fill that.
0:24.0	Yeah.
0:24.7	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast.
0:27.2	Today, Dawn is joined by Dr. Petram Shoja, also known as the Urban Monk, the doctor of
0:32.2	Oriental medicine and New York Times bestselling author of The Urban Monk and the art of stopping
0:37.4	time. He is a husband and father who uses his experience with Eastern and New York Times bestselling author of The Urban Monk and the Art of Stopping Time.
0:38.2	He is a husband and father who uses his experience with Eastern thinking and practices
0:42.6	to help himself and others overcome the westernized challenges of everyday life.
0:47.6	He is passionate about teaching the skills that he's learned over the years,
0:51.4	helping people wake up and live their lives fully.
0:54.0	Well, Pedro, tell us a little bit how you got from studying biology at UCLA to writing
1:00.8	the book called The Urban Monk.
1:02.2	Interesting journey because, look, I was on track.
1:05.7	You live in a declarative culture here in the West, which is like, you know, when you're
1:09.6	17, 18 years old,
1:16.0	you tell the world what you're going to be for the rest of your life. You don't know, right? And so we guess. And so I was heading off to be a doctor. I started interning with all these fancy doctors
1:20.6	at UCLA. And I was like, wow, this is miserable. I don't want this life. And, you know, just we were putting people on morphine, not fixing problems, but masking problems.
1:30.6	And, you know, here I am, you know, top of my class going into, you know, top university, thinking I'm here to change the world.
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