Overcoming Fear & Befriending Ourselves - Sharon Salzberg - 334

Relationship Coaching School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Are you aware of all the benefits meditation provides—both for yourself and for your relationships?

This week, I talk with meditation teacher and author Sharon Salzberg about all the impacts of being with, loving, and being aware of yourself.

With 47 years of study and experience, Sharon shares from her wealth of knowledge with me, and it’s very enlightening. You’ll want to hear what she has to say.

Shownotes

0:00 Introduction
10:00 Launching her own meditation trainings
14:32 Learning to be with oneself
19:55 What’s the purpose of meditation?
28:25 Learning about self-love
32:20 Is it necessary to love yourself before getting into a relationship?
35:45 When meditation can help and when it’s necessary to get external help
41:05 Recognizing and dealing with stress and self-judgment
46:15 The importance of your commitment to meditation

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0:00.0	You know, we exercise that muscle, letting go and coming back or letting go and starting over.
0:04.6	That's really what resilience is.
0:06.3	And we exercise it in meditation, not to become a great meditator, but to have a different quality of life. Greetings and welcome back to another episode of the
0:34.9	Relationship Schools podcast. I'm your host Jason Gatis, grateful to be here with
0:38.8	you. It's another day here in the life of a relational nerd and gosh am I excited for this guest who is a woman who can help us be with our experience.
0:55.8	Most of you know that if you can't be with your experience,
1:00.2	like your inner experience, your inner discomfort, discomfort,
1:03.0	very long, your relationship success is limited.
1:09.0	And often you never learned how to be with that experience, right?
1:14.0	Because maybe you grew up in a certain kind of family where it was like,
1:18.0	shut up, be quiet, don't cry, etc.
1:20.0	So, you know, we don't learn how to be with ourselves.
1:22.0	Anyway, this guest is amazing. so we don't learn how to be with ourselves.
1:23.3	Anyway, this guest is amazing.
1:25.8	I've been a fan of this woman for a long time.
1:28.9	And if you're new, welcome to the show
1:31.1	we're going to help you get better at relationships here.
1:34.3	If you're returning, hopefully you've already experienced that you're getting better, especially
1:38.5	if you've listened to a lot of these and actually applied yourself in the action steps.
1:43.0	And you're not just a two and a half speed listener, right,
1:46.0	while you're driving and doing something else
1:48.0	and multitasking.
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