Mini Episode: On and On it Goes (Coronavirus Update)

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

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Spiritual Habits Group Program – Find Solid Ground In Shaky Times: Join Eric in this virtual, live group program to learn powerful Spiritual Habits to help you access your own deep wisdom and calm steadiness – even when the world feels upside down. Click here to learn more and sign up. Enrollment ends on Sunday, July 19th, 2020 In this mini-episode, Eric discusses the importance of having a spiritual practice so that you can have a strong foundation from which to build upon in your life. This has never been more important than right now as we face the seemingly unending coronavirus crisis we are currently in. The realization in his recovery that he didn't have anything sustainable or grounding in his life Discovering a spiritual life when you don't believe in God in the traditional sense Finding spiritual principles such as acceptance, mindfulness, generosity, kindness, and love as a way to orient his life. Learning to make these principles the center of your life Liminal space as waiting space Using this space as a fertile ground where transformation can happen Learning to engage with what is here, right now. Using this time as an opportunity to let go and surrender to a greater potential Choose growth over stagnation Choose thriving or surviving Learning the key spiritual principles and changing our habits to incorporate these key principles in our daily lives. If you like these mini-episodes donate to our Patreon campaign and get an extra mini-episode per month. See 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	Move, move, move.
0:24.2	Hello everyone, just a brief reminder that the Spiritual Habits Group Course will
0:32.0	close its registration this Sunday, which is July 19th. So Sunday, July 19th,
0:39.5	registration will close for the Group Spiritual Habits Course. You've probably
0:43.4	gotten emails about it. You can go to group.spiritualhabits.net to learn more.
0:49.8	So what I wanted to talk about in this short mini episode is sort of the ongoing
0:56.1	nature of our coronavirus crisis that seems to just keep going on. I think there
1:02.2	was a moment there that a lot of us thought, okay, we're emerging from this and
1:07.8	life will start to be a little bit more normal and it's not looking like that's
1:11.1	working. And I think there's a second wave that's hitting some people of
1:15.6	feeling really tired of this. I know I have my moments of feeling really tired
1:21.8	of this. So I wanted to talk a little bit about some strategies that we might
1:26.1	use to help us navigate as this continues to go on and on. But first I'll
1:33.8	start with a little story that will lead me into the first point I'd like to
1:37.8	make. Some of you might have heard some version of this and somewhere the
1:41.5	other. This is the slightly longer version. But when I got sober at the age of
1:45.0	24 from heroin addiction, I came into 12-step programs and was told I needed to
1:51.1	believe in God in order to get better. And I was in an area that was
1:56.8	predominantly Christian. So that idea of God was at least the idea of this God
2:02.2	that's out there and he's intervening in our lives and making things better.
2:06.0	And I didn't really believe that, but I kept forcing myself to believe it. And it
2:11.7	worked. I stayed sober. But then several years into sobriety I got married. I had a
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