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Doritos, Walker's Max and What's It's Crunchy. Welcome to Untangle the podcast from Meditation Studio. I'm

Patricia Carpice. Today as we head into 2018, I wanted to share some of my favorite takeaways from this

year's interview.

I'm so grateful to our guests for their inspiration and wisdom, and I also want to thank

our listeners for joining us each week.

We love having you with us. Here are a few of the things that

I've learned this year. Number one, one of the gifts of a meditation practice is that

it can help to open your heart. And while this means your heart may break more in the face

of sadness and suffering, you also have the capacity for more

tenderness, empathy, and compassion.

This, according to meditation teacher Tracy Cochran, has the power to connect us more

to one another and ultimately to a deeper sense of humanity.

Number two, negative self-talk, that darn inner critic, is, well, just exhausting.

Mark Coleman, author of Make Peace with Your Mind, shared a number of ways we can shake the inner

critic for good. Mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion practices, along with a healthy

sense of humor, he says, can help

us untangle the negative stories we tell ourselves and see the bigger picture.

Number three, it is possible to stand still while your hair is on fire.

Jerry Colonna, former venture capitalists and now executive coach, says that meditation

helps us with the all-important ability to pause and assess what's going on when things get

really crazy so we can respond more thoughtfully. We're also, he shares, more skillful in listening

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