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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Roger Housden

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Get more information on The One You Feed Coaching Program. Enrollment open until November 22nd Please Support The Show With a Donation   This week we talk to Roger Housden about dropping the struggle Roger Housden founded and ran The Open Gate, a conference and workshop center in England that introduced the work of Ram Dass, Thich Nath Hanh, and many others into Europe. His work has been featured many times in The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. His first book was published in the U.K. in 1990, and as of 2014, he has published twenty two books, including four travel books, a novella, Chasing Love and Revelation, and the best-selling Ten Poems series, which began in 2001 with Ten Poems to Change Your Life and ended with the publication in 2012 of Ten Poems to Say Goodbye. His latest book is called Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have  In This Interview, Roger Housden and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable His new book, Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have The power of poetry to reach deeper than the rational mind That struggle is not the same thing as effort That struggle is not the same thing as work That struggle is an extra push that really originates in fear, adding a note of desperation, that rarely ever works For more show notes visit our websiteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Something is not working when we're struggling and usually what is not working is not the other person.

0:13.5

Welcome to the one you feed.

0:15.5

Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

0:20.2

Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.

0:25.8

And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:30.0

We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy or fear.

0:34.8

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:37.6

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:41.1

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.

0:44.6

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

0:49.4

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

0:53.8

How they feed their good walls.

1:07.6

Hey everybody are you ready for a brand new podcast that you had no idea existed.

1:11.8

I'm Roy Scovol and I'm Daniel van Kirk and it's the Penn Pals podcast.

1:15.2

Maybe you've had a pen pal before.

1:16.7

Well, you have two of them right now.

1:18.5

You send us your letters about anything going on in your life.

1:21.4

Got a mean grandma need a new haircut, whatever it is.

1:23.9

Send it to us and we have guests like Will Ferrell, Andy Sandberg, Rose Byrne, Brett Goldstein and Mandy Moore.

1:29.7

Listen to the Penn Pals podcast on Will Ferrell's big money players network on the I Heart Radio app.

1:34.5

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1:39.4

Thanks for joining us.

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