How to Feel Lighter with Yung Pueblo
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Diego Perez is a meditator and New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 2.7 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves.
In this episode, Eric and Yung Pueblo discuss his latest book, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future
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Yung Pueblo and I Discuss How to Feel Lighter and …
- His book, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future
- Human Habit vs. Human Nature
- What it means to live from compassion and self-awareness
- The anxiety and sadness that grew in him, starting in his childhood in poverty
- The life-changing moment that caused him to turn everything around
- That your initial reaction is usually your past trying to work its way into your present
- How he has gone about burning away the patterns that cause him misery
- His motto of “if this is helping you heal yourself, do it”
- Repetition in the positive sense
- The impact of gambling with his life in order to avoid his emotions
- What to do and not do when you find yourself in a low mood
- The power of first letting whatever is happening to just be
- Why it’s important to notice when a goal is slipping into a craving
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| 0:00.0 | There are just millions and millions of people who are actively healing themselves, whether |
| 0:04.1 | it's through Eastern modalities, Western modalities, Indigenous modalities. |
| 0:08.8 | Healing has become this massive, massive thing. |
| 0:12.9 | Not only is that going to benefit your personal life, but it will ripple outward. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:27.4 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:32.0 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:37.5 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:41.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:46.4 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:49.3 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:52.8 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:54.8 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:56.2 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:01.1 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
| 1:05.5 | they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:31.1 | It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure. |
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