Shauna Shapiro: Good Morning, I Love You

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Shauna Shapiro, PhD, is a teacher, public speaker, and author whose published works include The Art and Science of Mindfulness and Mindful Discipline. With Sounds True, she has published Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Shauna about the neurology of self-image and why conscious acts of self-compassion greatly enhance our well-being. Shauna comments on practicing mindfulness with warmth and open affection, as well as how this gradually cultivates empathy. Tami and Shauna also talk about "trusting the good heart" and the possibility of changing our baseline levels of happiness. Finally, they discuss why changing ingrained habits is so difficult and the subtle power of the daily self-affirmation, "Good morning. I love you."(55 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.8	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:07.0	Today, my guest is Dr. Shauna Shapiro.
1:14.2	Shauna is a professor, author, and internationally recognized expert
1:18.9	in mindfulness and compassion.
1:21.2	Nearly one million people have watched her TED Talk called The Power of Mindfulness,
1:27.0	rated one of the top ten talks on mindfulness.
1:30.0	With sounds true, she has written a new book called Good Morning, I Love You.
1:36.0	Mindfulness and self-compassion practices to rewire your brain,
1:41.0	calm, clarity, and joy, where she brings alive the brain science behind why we feel
1:47.8	the way we do, about ourselves, each other, and the world, and she explains how we get stuck in thinking that just
1:56.1	doesn't serve us. What I loved about talking with Shauna Shapiro is that here she is a scientific researcher PhD clinical psychologist and she
2:09.8	helps us understand the brain science behind how a very simple act, an act any of us can do each
2:18.6	morning and say to ourselves, good morning, I love you, might be one of the most powerful acts we can take
2:28.0	on a regular basis. What we practice grows stronger.
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