Ep. 262 – The Liberated Heart: Shifting From Trauma to Loving Awareness with Thomas Hübl, PhD
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Discover how to shift from trauma to loving awareness through mindfulness, conscious healing, and compassionate activism with Jack Kornfield and Thomas Hübl, PhD.
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“Who you are is so much more than your trauma, you are consciousness itself.” – Jack Kornfield
In Part 2 of this episode originally airing for The Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:
- Developing the skills to heal our trauma
- Jack’s time with meditation master, Maha Ghosananda
- The powerful connection between activism and spirituality
- Avoiding burnout, finding balance
- Transforming from skeptical to mystical
- Navigating the traumas in the Middle East
- Digesting our traumas
- Waking up from auto-pilot
- Expanding your window of tolerance
- How to face racism, war, economic disparity, the environment, etc
- Mindfulness, consciousness, and loving awareness
“The whole notion that spiritual practice doesn’t have anything to do with activism is a fiction.” – Jack Kornfield
“Every breath you take is the breath of the starlings and the breath of the earthworms and the soil. We’re all inter-breathing it together. That’s how it works, that’s what life is.” – Jack Kornfield
About Thomas Hübl, PhD:
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.
He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. For more info, books, podcast, and upcoming offerings, please visit thomashuebl.com
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| 0:00.0 | This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. |
| 0:04.8 | This time of year is all about gratitude. |
| 0:08.7 | Take a moment to open your heart and give thanks to all the people in your life, |
| 0:13.6 | from your loved ones and family to your friends and coworkers. |
| 0:17.4 | And don't forget yourself. |
| 0:20.1 | Therapy is a great way to cultivate some extra gratitude during this season of giving thanks. |
| 0:25.6 | It can help increase self-esteem, improve communication skills, build stronger relationships, and more. |
| 0:33.6 | If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. |
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| 1:06.5 | Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. |
| 1:14.3 | This is the ancient and eternal law. |
| 1:18.0 | A quote from the Buddha, echoed by Jack Cornfield in this wonderful episode of Heart Wisdom, 262, The Liberated Heart, Shifting from Trauma to Loving Awareness with Dr. Thomas |
| 1:33.6 | Hubel. |
| 1:34.9 | This is the second part of last week's episode, all about the collective and individual healing |
| 1:42.3 | of trauma. |
| 1:44.1 | Jack falls into quite a flow in this one, sharing some amazing stories of his time with the |
| 1:50.6 | Cambodian meditation master Mahagosananda, sharing how we can use meditation to help wake |
| 1:57.1 | us from the autopilot that we generally find ourselves in in our daily life, |
| 2:02.7 | and how we can stop identifying with our traumas and begin identifying with mindful, loving |
| 2:10.2 | awareness. |
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