Episode 38: Money, Sex, Fame, Power
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This episode opens up a series on how to bring mindful awareness to those areas in our lives that tend to pull us down and compromise our higher values. If we want to grow up, we’ve got to grow down. In order to express our most profound gifts and capacities as human beings, we have to pay special attention to our foundations; get back to the basics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm your host Thomas McConkey and delighted to be here with you today. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm going to talk about actually one of my favorite topics in all of mindfulness practice |
| 0:22.9 | and all of the theory, the research around adult development. |
| 0:29.1 | You will have noticed that the episode is provocatively named money, sex, fame, power. |
| 0:41.3 | What do all of these words point to? |
| 0:47.3 | First, I want to give you a little experience of this. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm gonna run that by you one more time. |
| 0:53.3 | I want you to just pay attention to your |
| 0:55.0 | response when I say money, what you notice. Thoughts, images, sensations. When you think of the word money. |
| 1:16.6 | Sex. |
| 1:24.6 | What comes up in the body, in the mind. |
| 1:30.3 | Fame. Fame What response do you have to fame? |
| 1:52.0 | What response do you have to fame? and power |
| 2:09.9 | what does power mean |
| 2:16.1 | how does it feel to you? |
| 2:18.8 | What do you think of? |
| 2:20.6 | What do you associate with it? |
| 2:42.6 | And of all of these categories, these experiences, these realities, which do you gravitate towards the most if you could have unlimited money, unlimited sex, pleasure, unlimited fame and esteem from others. |
| 3:12.3 | Unlimited power over others, over circumstance, which is most attractive to you. |
| 3:29.0 | So you can just feel into that. |
| 3:34.0 | Everybody listening will have really different responses |
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