Kelly McGonigal: Cultivating Positive Change

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a renowned lecturer at Stanford University, bestselling author, and longtime researcher into the mind-body connection. With Sounds True, she has recently published the unique audio journey 40 Days to Positive Change: Daily Support to Create a New Habit. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Kelly about the often-overlooked components of the change process that are essential to cementing a habit in daily life. They discuss why you need to begin the change process from a place of curiosity rather than self-criticism, as well as how you can induce positive feeling states. Kelly explains why it helps to regard the change process as a "gift to your future self" and the importance of properly celebrating your accomplishments. Finally, Tami and Kelly talk about the relationship between personal and collective change, segueing into a discussion of how pets (particularly cats) can help us regulate our nervous system responses. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name's Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds
0:07.1	True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. The
0:13.4	Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have
0:25.6	access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion,
0:34.6	regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges. The Sounds True Foundation is a
0:41.3	nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk
0:49.1	youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries. If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:07.4	You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Kelly McGonigal.
1:13.5	Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and award-winning lecturer at Stanford University.
1:19.6	She's a leading expert on the mind-body relationship, and her work integrates the latest findings of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine with contemplative practices of mindfulness and compassion from the traditions of Buddhism and yoga.
1:37.4	With Sounds True, Kelly McGonagall has created a new audio journey, 10 minutes a day, for 40 days.
1:46.7	And it's called 40 Days to Positive Change, Daily Support to Create a New Habit.
1:53.7	I loved talking to Kelly McGonigal about what she knows, both from her research, her own personal experience, and her work
2:02.9	teaching thousands of people creates lasting habit change.
2:08.8	Interestingly, she starts with having a straw for fuel on emotional states that she calls
2:16.8	bigger than self emotions, things like gratitude,
2:22.6	joy, compassion, appreciation. And when these emotions fuel the change process, we become
2:32.6	unstoppable. Here's my conversation with Kelly McGonigal.
2:38.2	Kelly, sounds true approached you with this idea of creating a 40-day-to-positive change program,
2:47.9	a progressive journey to help people create new positive habits. We approached you because
2:55.4	this is the area that you're an expert in. And what I would love to know right at the beginning
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