Kevin Griffin

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Kevin Griffin.Kevin Griffin is a Buddhist author, teacher, and innovator in the field of addiction treatment. The insight and intimacy of his teaching have made him a leader in the mindful recovery movement.He is the author of the classic, One Breath at a Time, which is one of the first books about blending mindfulness and 12 step recovery. He recently released a workbook based on those teachings . His most recent book, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and The Path of Recovery, deals with the concept of a higher power through a Buddhist lens.In This Interview Kevin and I discuss...The One You Feed parable.How what we think about becomes who we are.If you want to be loving think loving thoughts.How the Buddha applied a penetrating intellect.What the 5 Precepts are and how they apply in our lives.Why spirituality is not anti-intellectual.How recovery is a behavioral approach and meditation is a more cognitive approach.A passable definition of spiritualityHow we all know that happiness doesn't come from thingsHow we don't live according to our beliefs.What the root of mindfulness is.Limiting beliefs.Cause and Effect.Kevin Griffin LinksKevin Griffin HomepageOne Breath at a TimeBuddhism and the Twelve Steps: A Recovery Workbook for Individuals and GroupsA Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of RecoveryKevin's musical album: Laughing BuddhaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody knows that happiness doesn't come from things.
0:04.1	Except the people who have the bumper sticker that says the person who dies with the most stuff wins.
0:16.7	Welcome to The One You Feed.
0:18.7	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:23.2	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:27.6	Ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:33.1	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:37.8	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:40.7	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:44.2	But it's not just about thinking.
0:46.2	Our actions matter.
0:47.6	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.4	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:56.8	how they feed their good wolf.
1:03.2	Hi, it's Elvis Durand on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Durand.
1:08.1	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:13.1	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio,
1:16.4	like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:19.2	But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:23.2	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:25.8	Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app,
1:30.2	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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