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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Rhonda Magee: We Are Embodied and Embedded: Bringing Mindfulness to Our Current Place and Position

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Rhonda Magee is a law professor at the University of San Francisco, a longtime mindfulness teacher, and a fellow of the Mind & Life Institute. Rhonda is a featured presenter in Sounds True's Waking Up in the World—a 10-day online event showcasing prominent voices who embody the meeting between social action and spiritual exploration. This special episode of Insights at the Edge is drawn from a previous presentation given by Rhonda as part of our Mindfulness Monthly subscription program. Here she explores how mindfulness practice can be used to uncover our biases and help us understand any privilege we carry in our interactions with others. Rhonda encourages us to fully consider how aspects such as race, gender, and economic background have come to shape our perception of the world. Finally, Rhonda leads us in a guided meditation to inquire deeply into how our environments have guided us to this moment in our lives. (63 minutes) Tami's Takeaway We often hear how mindfulness can help us discover our common humanity. Here, law professor Rhonda Magee helps us embrace what is unique about each of us: our embodied experience as a particular person with a specific human inheritance, residing in a particular place, with a particular position, skin color, gender, and sexual orientation. We are applying mindfulness to what makes us different. And what a critical skill this is if we are going to learn to take a different person's position and work together to bring mindfulness to what Rhonda calls "the cutting edge of mindfulness"—shifting our institutions and social structures to reflect our deepest values.

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.

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At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, guest is Rhonda McGee.

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Rhonda McGee is a law professor at the University of San Francisco.

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She teaches mindfulness-based interventions and is a facilitator of mindful and compassionate

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communication.

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A fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, she serves as an advisor to institutions, ranging from the University

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of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness to the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.

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Which sounds true,

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Ronda McGee is a featured presenter

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in our new Waking Up in the World Online Event Series.

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This is a free 10-day online event with 30 of today's most inspiring

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spiritual teachers and visionaries, people who look at the intersection of social action and the

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spiritual journey. Presenters such as Eve Ensler, Van Jones, Glenin-D Doyle, Parker Palmer, Joanna Macy, and many more.

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This is a free 10-day online series that begins on September 24th and goes through October 3rd, and I invite

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you to join us. You can learn more at sounds true.com. This episode of Insights at the Edge

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is a special episode that features a presentation by Rhonda McGee

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that was originally broadcast as part of a mindfulness subscription that sounds true

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hosts.

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