How to Practice Self Compassion with Dr. Shauna Shapiro
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- Why your attitude and how you pay attention is so important when it comes to mindfulness
- Understanding the 3 important pillars of mindfulness: intention, attention, attitude
- How have a mindfulness practice prepares the mind for learning
- Why shame stifles our ability to learn and grow
- How we can learn to remember to practice mindfulness by developing daily habits
- The question you can ask yourself in the morning to prime your mind to look for the good throughout the day
- Distinguishing between self-improvement vs self-liberation
- How our intention is a direction, not a destination
- Understanding that perfection is not possible, but transformation is
- The 5% principle and the benefit of taking very small action
- How to practically implement intentions
- The wide range and many benefits of having a regular meditation practice
- Her practice of “Good Morning, I Love You”
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
| 0:04.0 | you may not realize we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archive. |
| 0:09.0 | We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to hand pick one of our favorites that |
| 0:13.6 | maybe new to you, but if not, it's definitely worth another lesson. We hope you'll enjoy this episode |
| 0:19.2 | with Shawna Shapiro. When we shame ourselves, the centers of the brain that I have to do with learning |
| 0:26.3 | shut down. So we literally paralyze ourselves. We keep ourselves stuck in the very habits we want to change. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the |
| 0:46.4 | thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet |
| 0:53.9 | for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, |
| 1:00.4 | jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us |
| 1:06.4 | back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, |
| 1:13.1 | consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 1:18.9 | keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:37.2 | I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most |
| 1:41.7 | incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Ha, Lewis Hamilton, |
| 1:48.0 | and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real life stories behind their journeys |
| 1:53.2 | and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their lives |
| 1:57.5 | so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart |
| 2:02.3 | Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon. |
| 2:07.6 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Shana Shapiro, a professor, author, and |
| 2:13.8 | internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and compassion. Shana has published over 150 |
| 2:19.7 | journal articles and three critically acclaimed books translated into 16 languages. |
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