How to Get Unstuck in Life — Lessons on Love from Sharon Salzberg, Meditation Pioneer

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindfulness, Mindset, Finding Mastery, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self Help, Sport Psychology, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

What if the greatest gift you could offer this season isn’t something you buy—but rather the way you choose to meet yourself and others—with kindness?

As we pause new releases over the holidays, the Finding Mastery team is taking time to rest, reflect, and be with our loved ones — because we believe relationships are part of the practice of mastery itself.

So today, we’re re-releasing a powerful, audio-only episode from the Finding Mastery Vault: a conversation with THE Sharon Salzberg, one of the world’s leading teachers of wisdom, mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation.

Sharon shares how love can be trained as an ability, why discernment and gratitude sharpen performance, and how to meet fear without hardening. She also walks us through a simple loving-kindness meditation you can use right away. Her lessons are as relevant now as they were when we first shared this conversation — maybe even more so in a world that could use a little more gentleness right now.

So, Happy Holidays from all of us here at Finding Mastery and with that, enjoy this week’s From The Vault conversation with Sharon Salzberg.

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1:24.4	What if the greatest gift you could offer this season isn't something you buy, rather the way you choose to meet yourself and others with kindness?
1:33.3	Welcome back.
1:34.3	We're welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast where we dive into the minds of the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
1:39.9	I'm your host, Dr. Michael Jervais, by trade and training, a high-performance psychologist.
1:45.3	The idea behind these conversations is simple.
1:47.9	It's to sit with the extraordinaries and to learn, to really learn how they work from the inside out.
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