Ep. 43 - Habits with Hugh Byrne

Synchronicity with Noah Lampert

Noah Lampert

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is meditation teacher and pleasant fellow, Hugh Byrne.

Hugh Byrne teaches meditation and works with people to cultivate mindfulness in daily life. His approach is deeply informed by family and culture, human rights and social justice—and the good fortune of encountering Buddhist teachings 30 years ago.

Hugh came to meditation when his decades-long career spent remedying human injustice revealed the root cause of conflict that he'd failed to tackle. Hugh came to understand—and know personally—that the anger and fear within us engender harmful behavior. Thus he began the transformational practice and study of Buddhist insight meditation.

Topics Discussed

The Evolution of Habits
How to build effective habits
Lizards Brain vs Thinking Brain
Khaneman's System 1 and System 2
4 Types of Dissatisfaction
Buddhist Psychology and Modern Life
Starting with Yourself
Mindful Politics
Social Activism and Mindfulness

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0:00.0	Once we do something often enough, it gets shifted to a different brain process.
0:10.0	This is synchronicity.
0:12.0	This is synchronicity.
0:15.0	This is synchronicity.
0:17.0	This is synchronicity.
0:19.0	This is synchronicity.
0:23.6	This is synchronicity.
0:24.6	Welcome to episode 43 of Synchronicity.
0:40.5	My guest today is Hugh Byrne.
0:44.2	This is actually, this makes two Englishmen in a row.
0:49.1	You know the song by Sting Englishman in New York?
0:52.2	I don't.
0:53.2	It's just a total tangent.
0:58.1	There's no real relationship to anything to do with this episode, but I really like that song. I once saw a nature documentary where Pierce Brosnan narrated over that song with dolphins swimming
1:05.6	in the water.
1:06.9	I think it might have been a planet Earth.
1:08.4	Don't know.
1:08.9	No, because Sigourney Weaver narrated those.
1:11.3	Anyway, it was very cool.
1:13.5	That's how you digress in the beginning part of an episode.
1:16.9	Before I get to Hugh and on to the episode, I wanted to share some updates.
1:21.9	Congratulations to Avery, who won this week's book giveaway, which was Rombom's Ladder by Julie Solomon.
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