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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Ruth King: Race, Rage, and the Healing Power of Mindfulness

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ruth King is a life coach and insight meditation teacher of the dedicated practitioner program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She's the author of the book Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge hosted by Sounds True producer Kriste Peoples, Ruth explains the difference between anger and rage, as well as how examining the patterns of our rage can help us both understand its source and channel its animating energy. They talk about how rage covers over our soft spots and how the experience of it can lead into fruitful lovingkindness practice. Finally, Kriste and Ruth speak on how a deep understanding of these concepts can help craft healing conversations around racial difference and injustice. (69 minutes)

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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

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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, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today is a special broadcast hosted by

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Sounds True producer Christie Peoples featuring Insight Meditation Teacher and Life Coach

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Ruth King. Ruth King is a core teacher in the dedicated practitioner program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center and she's the author of the book Healing Rage, Women Making Inner Peace Possible,

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as well as a forthcoming book from Sounds True, called Mindful of Race, Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm.

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Ruth King is also a featured teacher in Sounds True's Year of Mindfulness Program, an ongoing digital subscription, in which

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Ruth offers a mindfulness of race online training. If you're interested in learning more about a year of mindfulness and joining

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this online program, please visit us at sounds true.com. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Christie and Ruth spoke about the value of paying homage to rage and its instruction.

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They also talked about identifying the impact of generational rage,

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its legacy and tolls on our bodies, lives, and our world.

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How to bring the practice of mindfulness

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to the investigation of racial tension?

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And finally, recognizing discomfort as a core competency when discussing grace.

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And now here's a special edition of Insights at the Edge with Ruth King hosted thank you so much for agreeing to this conversation tonight.

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I'm so excited to talk to you.

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And I'd like to open it up just by talking about how this work came about.

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How did you become an expert in healing rage?

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