Jeffrey Rubin
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on the integration of meditation and psychotherapy. In his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed Psychotherapy & Buddhism: Towards an Integration, Dr. Rubin forged his own unique synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. He illuminated each discipline’s strengths and weaknesses and the ways in which they could enrich each other. Dr. Rubin deepens and broadens his exploration of how a judicious blending of the best of the Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions offers us unmatched tools for living with greater awareness and freedom, wisdom and compassion. He is also the author of The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity, and Spirituality
In his recent writing and workshops on The Art of Flourishing, Dr. Rubin is especially interested in illuminating both those forces in the world that are driving us crazy and those personal and collective resources we can draw on to not only stay sane, but to flourish in challenging times.
In This Interview Jeffrey and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
How our character is built by our habits.
How what we focus on grows.
How outrage and anger can be useful.
The danger of demonizing negative emotions.
How western psychology and eastern meditative complement each other.
The blind spots of western psychology and meditation.
The three steps of meditative psychotherapy.
A great story with the legendary yoga teacher TKV Desikachar.
The different ways to meditate and how one size doesn't fit all.
The importance of appreciating beauty.
The three types of beauty.
Broadening our conceptions of beauty.
Learning to appreciate the world around us.
Expanding inner space.
How self care is the foundation for intimacy.
"Cotton candy self care"
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin Links
Jeffrey Rubin Homepage
Jeffrey Rubin on Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | If we're really honest with ourselves what I think we sometimes discover is that we often learn more when we fail |
| 0:05.9 | because challenging experiences often lead to growth. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:19.3 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:23.9 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:28.3 | ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:41.3 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:46.8 | Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:53.1 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:57.5 | how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:14.3 | Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. |
| 1:19.1 | I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life. |
| 1:24.1 | We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, |
| 1:28.3 | success, failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this |
| 1:32.7 | business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick. |
| 1:36.7 | And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 1:42.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:46.5 | Thanks for joining us. Today we are going to go psycho on you. And I don't mean |
| 1:51.8 | psychopathic. I'm talking about psychotherapy. Our guest today is Dr. Jeffrey Rubin, |
| 1:57.6 | a private practice psychotherapist and author. |
| 2:00.7 | Jeffrey is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on the integration of medicine |
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