Jeff Warren on How to Meditate with a Busy Brain

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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Jeff Warren is a former journalist and more recently is a researcher, writer, and teacher of meditation and personal growth practices. His most recent book, written with Dan Harris, is called, Meditation for Fidgitty Skeptics: A 10% Happier How to Book. Jeff is a likable, relatable guy who carries a lot of practical wisdom in his conversational style of communicating. If you've ever felt like you're not good at meditating or that meditation just isn't for you because your brain never turns off, this interview is for you because that's how Jeff would describe himself, particularly at the beginning of his practice years ago. We all know that meditation is good for us but for many, it just feels inaccessible and out of reach. If that is how you feel, what Jeff has to share in this interview will make that gap shrink in size so much so that you can hop right over it and try again.

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In This Interview, Jeff Warren and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
His book with Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgitty Skeptics: A 10% Happier How to Book
The role of meditation in living with depression
The voice in our heads
Not identifying with the voices in our heads
Coming out of the conversation in our heads
The idea of "I can't meditate"
Thinking we're supposed to stop thinking when we meditate
Changing the relationship with your thoughts
Focusing on an anchor, getting lost in thought, realizing you're lost in thought and coming back to your anchor = mediation
How quick we are to conclude that meditation isn't for us
That meditation is a practice
Celebrating the coming back from thought in meditation
Training affability during meditation
Finding enjoyment and curiosity during meditation
Asking "What's the attitude in my mind right now?" during meditation
That attitude is what you're training during meditation
Looking at the world with interest
Equanimity = a lack of pushing and pulling on experience
Opening to experience so that there's no friction
When everything has permission to express its self fully

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0:00.0	You don't need to stop the thoughts. You just need to change the relationship to them.
0:11.5	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:16.7	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:23.7	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:29.7	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that
0:36.4	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
0:42.9	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:48.8	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:08.7	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jeff Warren. Jeff used to be a journalist
1:14.1	for CBC's Radios, The Current, and Ideas. He's a researcher, a writer, and teacher of different
1:21.5	meditation and personal growth practices. His new book, Written with Dan Harris, is called Meditation
1:27.8	for Figuity Skeptics. I mentioned last week that we're releasing our first online course,
1:33.4	and it's finally here, and I'm excited to share it with you. It's a method that I have used for
1:38.8	years to help me hold down a full-time job while building a solar company, while building this
1:44.8	podcast, while raising kids, basically dealing with all the madness that all of you do also.
1:52.0	It's a five-step approach to managing stress, increasing productivity, and being present in day-to-day life.
1:59.6	The course is for you, if your mind's always racing, if you're always thinking about things
2:04.3	that need to be done, and you need actual concrete strategies and smart tips to eliminate the
2:10.9	overwhelm in your life. As I said, this method has served me so well over the years. Basically,
2:16.9	it's a simple and effective way to reduce stress and get things done, and I'm very excited that I'm
2:22.4	now able to share it with you. It's at 1ufeed.net slash stress. Again, that's 1ufeed.net slash stress.
2:32.0	I hope that you'll check it out, and I sincerely hope that it's a benefit to you in your life. Thanks.
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