Episode 137 Being well with Lauren
SLEEP MEDITATION with Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
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🗓️ 2 October 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Episode 137 Being well with Lauren
How to find balance in the mayhem course Day two
Today we explore the relationship between choice and stress. The more we want, wish, and desire the less we feel balance. Now where is my cup of tea....
Resources:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/21/choice-stressing-us-out-dating-partners-monopolies
Barry Schwartz in his book The Paradox of Choice.
Increased choice can bring us sadness because choice often brings regret, remorse, resentment, self-blame and the possibility of missing possible opportunities. Increased choice also increases desire, wanting searching and longing.
What is choice?
How does having choice affect your life?
What does choice mean to you?
What areas of your life feel cluttered due to choice?
Do you think that having choices add to meaning in your life?
What are some areas of your selections you can simplify?
Do you find yourself using words such as wish, should, and want?
Do these terms help you think happy thoughts?
How does a state of wishing bring you balance or more importantly happiness?
What does desire mean to you?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Lauren here and it is day two in our series, How to Find Balance in the Mayhem of Our |
| 0:10.3 | Daily Life and it is blustering outside. It is so windy and you can hear my friendly tree |
| 0:17.5 | scraping against the windows. So I will continue and you're going to hear the winds outside. Let's see them as the winds of change. Day two. |
| 0:31.0 | In day one we talked about our Western culture and what our Western culture teaches us |
| 0:37.8 | about balance. That is that life is supposed to be lived at a fast rate, |
| 0:44.0 | consuming goods, consuming information at a |
| 0:48.0 | hell-bent pace. |
| 0:50.0 | We questioned, is that actually bringing us balance and is that actually the right |
| 0:56.3 | approach for us. |
| 0:58.3 | We looked at the Western style of living and how it affects your sense of self, my sense of self. |
| 1:04.3 | We looked at do we really have to be part of the Mading crowd. |
| 1:08.1 | Do we have to be like everyone else? |
| 1:10.5 | We looked at our values, we defined what balance is, and we looked at what a balanced life means for you. |
| 1:18.0 | Today we're going to look at choice. I love looking at choice. Well actually I love |
| 1:28.4 | what I've learned about choice because it's changed my life so much. Do you have a cup of tea with you? |
| 1:35.8 | Mine has got a little bit cold because I got a little bit excited by reading a couple of quotes from Barry Schwartz. If you haven't read his book, The Paradox of Choice, |
| 1:48.0 | it's a really good one to read. It's on my bookshelves and I really enjoyed it because it talks about how choice and he focuses on consumer choice but means generic choice. |
| 2:02.0 | How choice brings us unhappiness. Now we have so much |
| 2:06.9 | research to evidence that choice brings us stress. That's right, my friends, our choice, in jewelry, in lingerie, in cars, brings us |
| 2:20.3 | unhappiness. The more choice we have, the more we have to resent when we made |
| 2:27.4 | possibly the wrong decision. The more choice we have, the more we have to regret. Oh, we've made the wrong decision. |
| 2:36.2 | The more choice we have, the more we want, we wish for, we desire. Choice brings those emotions that bring overthinking, over-ruminating. |
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