Episode 39: Security, Pleasure, Esteem, Power
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Thomas deepens the conversation on Energy Centers by describing the theory behind them as well as pointing them out in a very practical and personal way. You will gain insight during this episode into the areas of your life that call for more awareness and compassion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Thomas Mconke. Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:12.0 | So if you weren't here with us last week for the beginning of this conversation, I recommend you listen to last week's episode. |
| 0:20.0 | I introduced a new topic, a new area of practice, |
| 0:24.7 | which has really made a tremendous difference in my life. And I'm really excited to get to share |
| 0:31.2 | this content with you. I was sparing on the actual theory of what we're talking about here last week. |
| 0:39.7 | And I kind of invoked a couple of metaphors to drive home this understanding |
| 0:45.2 | that if we want to really grow up in life and we want to flourish and really express our most beautiful human capacities, |
| 0:55.4 | we not only need to, quote, grow up, |
| 0:58.5 | but we need to grow down |
| 1:00.5 | and really address the most instinctual aspects of our nature |
| 1:06.8 | because it's often our, we could say, our base, our primal, our animal instincts that can |
| 1:15.6 | militate against the expression of our higher capacities that can silence the angels of our better nature, if you will. |
| 1:26.6 | So in this episode I want to talk a little bit more the angels of our better nature, if you will. |
| 1:35.5 | So in this episode, I want to talk a little bit more about the theory side of this territory. |
| 1:41.5 | And I keep calling it territory somewhat generically, because I haven't wanted to thrown in too many new terms into the conversation, but starting with the pioneering positive psychologist Abraham Maslow, which many of you may have heard of, he refers to this, quote, territory as a hierarchy of needs. |
| 1:58.8 | So in human biology, we have certain needs that have to be met first food, |
| 2:05.7 | safety, security, etc., shelter, those kinds of things. And unless that basic need of safety, |
| 2:13.7 | security is met, we can't go on to meet higher needs. This is Maslow's genius in really |
| 2:21.5 | formulating this simple diagram of human psychology and development. And from there, you have other |
| 2:30.1 | thinkers. One of my favorite teachers on this subject is Father Thomas Keating, |
| 2:35.9 | who is a Catholic monk who did a lot to revive meditation, contemplation in the Catholic tradition |
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