Rewire How You Talk To Yourself | Ofosu Jones-Quartey
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Buddhist strategies for taming that nagging voice in your head.
Ofosu Jones-Quartey, a meditation teacher, author, and musician hailing from the Washington DC area brings over 17 years of experience in sharing mindfulness, meditation and self-compassion practices with the world. Holding a bachelor’s degree from American University and certified by the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, Ofosu is a graduate of the Teleos Coaching Institute and is the male voice on the Balance meditation app, reaching over 10 million subscribers.
Ofosu leads meditation classes and retreats nationwide, having taught and led retreats at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, The Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, Brooklyn Zen Center, Cleveland Insight, Inward Bound Mindfulness and more.
As an accomplished hip hop artist under the name “Born I,” Ofosu released the mindfulness-themed album “In This Moment” in 2021. His most recent album is “AMIDA”, a spiritual, Lo-Fi Hip Hop album exploring life, death and his Buddhist faith.
Beyond music, Ofosu is an author, releasing his self-published children’s book “You Are Enough” in 2020 and “Love Your Amazing Self” via Storey Publishing in 2022. He lives in Rockville, Maryland, with his wife and four children.
In this episode we talk about:
- The relationship between self-compassion and a successful meditation practice
- All the reasons people resist self-compassion, and his rebuttals
- Whether self-compassion is selfish
- How to do self-compassion off the cushion, including practices like journaling, written reminders, establishing accountability partners, and simple questions you can drop into your mind when all else fails
- How to do self-compassion on the cushion, including practices like body scans, metta, and a check-in practice you can use at the very start of your sits
- And how to teach self-compassion to children
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. I am not the first person to make this observation and it's actually probably |
| 0:25.1 | not the first time I'm making this observation on this very show but it does bear |
| 0:29.6 | repeating. If anybody else talked to me the way I talked to myself I would likely punch that other person in the face. |
| 0:38.0 | This is super common, a harsh inner dialogue. |
| 0:41.0 | It's been described as a kind of addiction, a habit that we believe on some level |
| 0:45.2 | keeps us safe. But it doesn't. It actually degrades our resilience, it burns us out and it can mess |
| 0:51.0 | up our relationships with other people. |
| 0:53.0 | Today we're going to talk about some Buddhist strategies for rewiring your inner talk track |
| 0:58.0 | and my guest is Afosu Jones Quartet, who is a great Darma teacher. |
| 1:02.0 | We talk about the relationship between self-compassion and a successful |
| 1:06.0 | meditation practice. All the reasons people resist self-compassion and his rebuttals, |
| 1:11.6 | whether self-compassion is selfish, how to do self-compassion off the cushion, |
| 1:16.0 | including practices such as journaling, written reminders, and establishing accountability partners, |
| 1:22.0 | how to do self-compassion on the cushion, including practices such |
| 1:25.4 | as body scans, meta, and check-in practice that you can do at the start of your sits, and finally we also talk about how to teach self-compassion to |
| 1:34.8 | children. I should say this is the second in a two-part series we're doing |
| 1:38.9 | this week on self-compassion. If you missed it go back and check out Monday's |
| 1:42.2 | episode with Dr. |
| 1:43.7 | Serena Chen, who's been researching the benefits of self-compassion. |
| 1:48.5 | Just a little bit more about Afosu Jones-Korte, before we dive in, he is the male voice on the balance meditation app he's also an |
| 1:55.5 | author and he's a hip-hop artist who records under the name Born I |
| 2:01.5 | Afosu Jones-e, coming up. |
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