How can we expect our meditation practice to bear fruit if we're ignoring one of the most primary

things about us in our meditation? Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have

recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are

what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what

we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,

our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

how they feed their good wolf.

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Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on

this episode is Ralph De La Rosa, a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.

Ralph specializes in helping people resolve their childhood traumas, anxiety, depression,

and intimacy issues. His work has been featured in CNN, GQ, self, women's health, and many other

publications and podcasts. He was named among Sonema's next generation of meditation teachers.

His new book is The Monkey is the Messenger, Meditation and what your busy mind is trying to tell you.

Hi Ralph, welcome to the show. Ah, thank you. It's great to be here.

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