Michael Taft: Meditation and Mindfulness for Geeks

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week we talk to Michael Taft about better mediation Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including The Mindful Geek, and Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. He has taught at Google and worked on curriculum development for SIYLI. Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, a site for exploring what evolution, neuroscience, biology, psychology, archeology, and technology can tell us about the human condition, and was editorial director of Sounds True. Our Sponsor this Week is Spirituality and Health Magazine. Click here for your free trial issue and special offer. In This Interview Michael and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable How it takes awareness to know what wolf we are feeding Learning to meditate on emotional states Defining meditation The difference between meditation and mindfulness Making the unconscious conscious The misconceptions of meditation How meditation does not mean having no thoughts The Teletubbies That meditation is not always supposed to be blissful How there are more ways to meditate than just following the breath His teacher Shinzen Young The pillars of concentration, acceptance and sensory clarity Meditation and the Flow state For more show notes visit our website

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0:00.0	The goal of meditation is not to turn you into a talitubby.
0:03.7	If it was, I would do it a lot more.
0:14.2	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:16.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:20.8	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think.
0:25.2	Ring true.
0:26.4	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:30.7	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:35.4	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.3	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:41.6	But it's not just about thinking.
0:43.7	Our actions matter.
0:45.2	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:54.4	How they feed their good wolf.
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