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The Mindvalley Podcast with Vishen

How To Find Inner Peace During The Pandemic - Srikumar Rao

The Mindvalley Podcast with Vishen

Mindvalley

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

‘This is a time to practise radical acceptance.’

In today’s Mindvalley Podcast, Vishen will be conversing with a very special individual in the world of philosophy, business and personal growth...whom he refers to as his personal Yoda - Professor Srikumar Rao. And he has some revolutionary ideas about how to be your happiest self and how to really tackle this anxiety-producing COVID-19 pandemic.

Listen out for:

  • Srikumar’s logical and emotional approach if you’re feeling scared right now.
  • The story of the Russian pilgrim and how it can help you find wellbeing despite world-wide suffering.
  • The concept of being ‘Radiantly Alive’ and how to embody it.
  • How you can use your awareness as a flashlight to focus on serving those around you.
  • The power of gratitude to change your pandemic perspective.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Mental Chatter is fake news.

0:04.0

Let me repeat that.

0:06.0

Mental Chatter is fake news.

0:09.0

We construct these elaborate scenarios of all of the things that are going to happen, then we react to the

0:16.0

scenarios that we have constructed and then we feel fear, sometimes overwhelming fear, panic and so on.

0:24.0

I am Vichinlakiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

0:28.4

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

0:32.1

and thought leaders on the planet

0:34.0

to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

0:40.0

Hi everyone and welcome to the Mind Valley Podcast so I trust most of you are stuck at home just as I am.

0:47.0

I just completed my first, let's say 10 days of home quarantine.

0:52.6

And to be honest, it's kind of weird.

0:54.1

I was thinking that this time was going to suck

0:58.1

because I'm not in my office.

1:00.3

I love working with my team

1:01.8

because I'm such a hands-on type person and my kids are out of school.

1:05.9

But what I realize is somehow there's this beautiful thing about what I've been experiencing. I found creativity has been on a rise, I've been

1:17.0

ultra-productive. There's something so beautiful about having your kids running around,

1:22.1

as you're at home on your computer.

1:24.7

My daughter occasionally, she's six years old,

1:26.7

she occasionally bursts into the room

1:28.2

as I'm recording a podcast

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