Ruth King on Healing Racism
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ruth King is an emotional wisdom author, coach, and consultant. She's a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and she's on the teacher's council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In addition, she's the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC. She has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and is the author of several publications including her new book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. In this stirring, thoughtful and wise conversation, she touches on the heart of racism and teaches how we can move to heal this heart disease.
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In This Interview, Ruth King and I Discuss...
- Her book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out
- The value of being curious about the good and bad wolves inside of us
- Racism being a heart disease that is curable
- Her open heart surgery at the age of 27
- Rage being an exit route
- Rage being energy moving through the body
- Habitual patterns of racism being a layer on top of the real issue that we can't tolerate - they are defense mechanisms
- Racial affinity groups
- 6 hindrances
- The structure of racism
- Racism vs Prejudice
- Racist vs Racism
- Understanding our own experience with racism and talking about it
- What it's like to be "membered"
- Individual vs group identity
- Diversity within the body of color
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| 0:00.0 | I work with the bad wolf so to speak in a way that is not making it wrong because the |
| 0:06.2 | minute I make it wrong, it has to act out more to get my attention. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:20.8 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:25.4 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:30.9 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:35.1 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:39.8 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:42.7 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:46.2 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:49.6 | It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:54.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:58.9 | how they feed their good wolf. |
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