Sharon Salzberg || Real Love

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sharon Salzberg is a NYT best-selling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. She also cofounded the Insight Meditation Society and is the author of 9 books, the most recent being Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection. In this episode of The Psychology Podcast, we get to learn about why Sharon has devoted her life to these ideas, how meditation has impacted her consciousness, what characterizes "real love", what differences exist between the modern-scientific notions of attachment and Buddhist notions of nonattachment, what Loving Kindness practice is, how you can love someone even if you don't like them (and why you should), how to extend compassion to people who are already self-satisfied, why an important component of self-love is accountability, empathy burnout, how stories play a role in love, why love isn't a state, why excitement vs. familiarity in romantic relationships is perhaps a false paradox, and how mindfulness can help you reframe even the most emotionally difficult situations. Sharon also takes us through her RAIN model for mindfulness: R -recognize A - acknowledge I - investigate N - nonidentification Enjoy! Links: Buy Sharon's new book Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection Follow Sharon on Twitter Find Sharon's meditations on: The Insight Timer meditation app (iOS and Android) [Book] Eric Fromm's Art of Loving (mentioned) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:08.0	Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.4	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.6	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. guest. Now I'm really excited to introduce Sharon Salzburg on the show today.
0:42.0	Sharon is a New York Times best-selling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West.
0:47.0	In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barry, Massachusetts, with Jack Jack Cornfield and Joseph Goldstein.
0:55.0	She's the author of nine books including her latest book, Real Love, The Art of Mindful Connection.
1:01.0	Thank you so much for chatting with me today Sharon.
1:03.6	Well, thank you for having me.
1:05.6	What a real treat to be able to talk to you and so a little surreal I have to admit
1:10.5	considering I listen to you when I meditate every day on Insight Timer.
1:16.0	So to actually have like a, to interact with the whole person behind that voice, it's pretty exciting.
1:21.7	I thought we could talk a little bit about why you have been devoting your life to this and from what I can read and what you've written about this is that you've experienced some considerable turmoil as a child that made you realize early on the power of meditation to overcome
1:35.2	personal suffering is that right? Yes I mean it wasn't so much that I maybe that I
1:39.7	realized the power of meditation but I had some kind of blazing intuition that if I could
1:44.9	learn how to meditate I would be happier and so I went to India when I was a
1:49.8	junior in college it was through a university program kind of like your junior year
1:54.0	abroad I created an independent study project I said I want to go to India and
1:57.8	learn how to meditate and they accepted that so so off I went that was a 1970 there was in 1970 and you were I have a
2:07.0	court here you're driven by an intuition that the methods of meditation would bring
2:10.7	some clarity and peace and see you had a hunch that that would be the case
2:14.1	yeah? Well I did I had no way of you know verifying that until actually did it.
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