Meaningful Engagement with Life || Eric Zimmer
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome Eric Zimmer to the podcast. Eric works as a behavior coach and has done so for the past 20 years. He has coached hundreds of people from around the world on how to make significant life changes that serve them well in achieving the goals they’ve set for themselves. He also hosts the award-winning podcast, The One You Feed. With over 30 million downloads, the show features conversations with experts across many fields of study about how to create a life that has less suffering and more fulfillment and meaning. His story and his work have been featured in the media including TedX, Mind Body Green, Elephant Journal, the BBC and Brain Pickings.
In this episode, I talk to Eric Zimmer about how to have a meaningful engagement with life. When we feel connected to what matters, it becomes easier to create an action plan that gets us moving in the right direction. At times, our emotions can get in the way but Eric believes that focusing on behavior changes can help us re-train our thoughts while leading us to our desired outcomes. Eric combines principles from religion, philosophy, and psychology to give us tips on how we can live out our values more mindfully day by day. We also touch on the topics of spirituality, agency, self-love, addiction, and emotions.
Website: oneyoufeed.net
Twitter: @oneyoufeed
Topics
02:35 Eric’s background and expertise
06:25 Behavioral activation
11:47 Be on your own side
17:54 Recovering from addiction
21:15 Spirituality is connection
26:02 Victimhood and agency
33:43 The Middle Way
40:00 The emotional storm model
45:06 Creating feels spiritual
49:00 Kenshō awakening
51:44 Spiritual direction
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| 0:00.0 | The word spirituality and soul is going to mean lots of different things to lots of different people, and I think that's okay |
| 0:06.4 | But I think we we all know the direction at points those words point to something |
| 0:13.3 | greater than our ordinary worries and concerns at least you know, I often think spirituality is just about connection |
| 0:21.4 | Hello, and welcome to the psychology podcast. Today, we welcome Eric Zimmer to the show |
| 0:31.0 | Eric works as a behavior coach and has done so for the past 20 years |
| 0:35.2 | He has coached hundreds of people from around the world on how to make significant life changes that serve them well and |
| 0:41.1 | Achieving the goals they've set for themselves |
| 0:42.9 | He also hosts the award-winning podcast the one you feed with over 30 million downloads |
| 0:48.1 | The show features conversations with experts across many fields of study about how to create a life that is less |
| 0:53.6 | Soffering and more fulfillment and meaning his story and his work has been featured in the media including TEDx mind-body green |
| 1:00.7 | Elf and journal the BBC and brain pickings in this episode |
| 1:04.7 | I talked to Eric Zimmer about how to have a meaningful engagement with life when we feel connected to what matters |
| 1:11.3 | It becomes easier to create an action plan that gets us moving in the right direction |
| 1:15.5 | At times our emotions can get in the way, but Eric believes that focusing on behavior changes |
| 1:20.8 | Could help us retrain our thoughts while leading us to our desired outcomes |
| 1:25.0 | Eric combines principles from religion, philosophy and psychology to give us tips on how we can live out our values more |
| 1:31.6 | Mindfully day by day. We also touch on the topics of spirituality, agency, self-love, addiction and emotions |
| 1:40.2 | I really enjoyed chatting with Eric. He's such a thoughtful, deep, spiritual, emotional, authentic human being |
| 1:48.7 | Those are the words that immediately come to my mind when I think about my chat with Eric |
| 1:52.3 | It was a real pleasure to chat with him. I really recommend listening to this episode and also having a listen to his own podcast |
| 1:58.1 | Which is really great. So that further ado, I bring you Eric Zimmer |
| 2:02.2 | Eric Zimmer! Thanks for appearing on the psychology podcast |
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