Martha Beck on The Path to Your True Self

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine nonfiction books and one novel, and has been a longtime contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine. Her most recent book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

Eric and Martha discuss how to live in integrity and find the path to your true self.

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Martha Beck and I Discuss The Path to Your True Self and …

Her book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self\
How what we often want is influenced by our culture
Asking ourselves what we yearn for as opposed to what you want
The repetitive cycle of thoughts that cause fear
How our culture reinforces the fear
Learning to move from fear to curiosity
How humor and using your senses can turn down our fear
The dilemma of when our nature conflicts with our culture
Psychological suffering comes from the thoughts we choose to believe
Why suffering is needed to make us pay attention and can actually be our ally
Understanding that we have different “internal parts” that make up our whole self (Ref. to Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems
Her New Year’s resolution to not lie for a year and the healing that she found
Navigating her way out of the Mormon religion
How switching our identity to a material self to a limitless state of being brings joy
Learning to imagine the good that will come from facing our discomfort
The power of small, incremental, and repetitive actions to change your life

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0:00.0	When our nature goes one direction and our culture goes another,
0:04.8	almost all of us will just sell out our nature hard and go after the culture.
0:10.2	So now we're not one thing. Integrity were two things, duplicity.
0:13.7	There's what's true for us at a very deep level and then there's what we're trying to adapt to.
0:25.7	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:27.8	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:32.4	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:38.0	And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:42.2	We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:46.9	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:49.8	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:53.4	But it's not just about thinking.
0:55.2	Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:01.5	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:05.9	How they feed their good wolf.
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