Meditation, Kindness, and Compassion: The Secret To Your Life and Financial Abundance with Daniel Goleman

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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You may have heard about emotional intelligence, but have you really ever paused to think about where you fall on the spectrum, and how it’s influencing your relationships and place in the world? It actually impacts everything, from our family lives to our leadership abilities and careers. But it’s something we’re never taught in school and often pressured to ignore when it comes to “being professional.” Luckily, emotional intelligence is something we can work on and grow like many other parts of our lives—you probably won’t be surprised that meditation is one way to do just that. Personally, I have noticed that when I’m staying current with my meditation practice, I’m less easily triggered and more emotionally resilient, which allows me to be more present for my family and my work. This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Dan Goleman to talk about cultivating emotional intelligence through meditation, and why it matters more than you might think. Daniel is best known for his worldwide bestseller, “Emotional Intelligence,” and most recently co-authored the book, “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body.” Goleman has been ranked among the 25 most influential business leaders by several business publications including TIME and The Wall Street Journal. Apart from his writing on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, eco-literacy, and the ecological crisis.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.2	Every best kind of meditation is the one you will do.
0:11.4	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. This is Dr. Mark Heim and that's pharmacy with an FARMACY,
0:17.2	a place for conversations that matter. And I think you're going to believe this conversation
0:21.5	matters a lot because it's about a topic that matters to all of us, which is our emotional intelligence.
0:27.9	And our guest is none other than the creator and founder and author of the book, Emotional Intelligence,
0:36.3	which has been an iconic book in the world for the last decade since he wrote it because it speaks
0:42.8	to something that we all need more of, not more smarts, but more emotional smarts, which is what
0:48.2	actually makes you happy and successful. And that is what Daniel Goldman has spent his life focused
0:54.3	on. He's the author of Emotional Intelligence. He wrote a book with Richard Davidson called
0:59.1	Alter Traits, The Science Reveals, How Meditation Changes Your Mind and Brain and Body.
1:06.0	This is a really hardcore scientific book about the power meditation to change the structure and
1:10.8	the function of your brain. And if nothing else, it will force you to meditate. And I just recently
1:16.1	went over to visit Daniel at his house. And he says, after I wrote this book, I got so excited about
1:21.0	that I started meditating all day. I spent my, I spent my morning's meditation. He's at a home
1:25.3	meditation room at his house. It's fantastic. And this is a guy who's not been new to this subject in
1:30.0	any way. He's a frequent speaker around the world. He has examined how social and emotional
1:36.0	compencies impact the bottom line of businesses. He's written for the Harvard Business Review.
1:41.4	He's actually written for the New York Times for years. He's been named one of the 25 most
1:47.6	influential influential business leaders by several business publications of the Time magazine,
1:52.3	The Wall Street Journal. He writes on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency,
1:58.4	meditation, social and emotional learning, eco literacy and the ecological crisis. Okay. He's
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