Episode 13: Boundless Vitality for the New Year
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, Mindfulness Plussers! To help power your next trip around the sun, Thomas guides a meditation to help you tap into the boundless vitality that animates each and every living thing. In this episode you'll get familiar with mindful awareness of the body, working with thoughts and emotions, as well as entering into transcendent qualities through the causal body, or pure awareness. Flip the on switch to life NOW.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Thomas Mekonki and I'm your host. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, I'd like to wish you a happy new year. |
| 0:16.0 | This is our first Mindfulness Plus episode of the year 2017. And I want to start off the new year proper |
| 0:25.6 | I want to talk about vitality this fundamental quality that animates all of life |
| 0:34.1 | and it animates our human lives as we go about passionately engaging in the world |
| 0:41.3 | in our own unique way and giving ourselves to the causes that we care most about. |
| 0:48.3 | So how do we plug in to this boundless vitality that's available to us all? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, before we do that in meditation, I want to give you a little bit of a framework. |
| 1:02.0 | So I've mentioned on the show before that mindfulness plus is not just a catchy name, |
| 1:08.0 | although I think it's quite a catchy name. The plus and mindfulness plus |
| 1:13.2 | refers to the insights that we draw from the field of adult development. Right. And adult |
| 1:21.0 | development, really, it's not just adult. It's looking at how human beings develop. And when we get insight into how human |
| 1:30.0 | beings develop, it can inform our mindfulness practice, our awareness practice, so that we can |
| 1:37.8 | optimize the way we're practicing. We can focus on different aspects of our lives we can focus on developing specific qualities |
| 1:47.0 | that we're most interested in developing right so the show today the sponsor of 2017 is vitality |
| 1:57.2 | so how do we tap into that well Well, in the field of developmental psychology, we sometimes talk about the human being as having three distinct bodies. |
| 2:10.6 | And so as to not take all the credit, it's not just the field of developmental psychology that does this, but for literally thousands of years, world cultures and civilization, |
| 2:23.3 | specifically the wisdom tradition such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and in their own right, Judaism, Christianity. |
| 2:31.3 | They have ways of talking about these different bodies. It's particularly a |
| 2:36.4 | developed language within Hinduism and Buddhism. But what I want to share about this is that in |
| 2:43.1 | plain terms, we can think about the three bodies as the physical body, something we're all |
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