Stop Your Scrolling Addiction, Reclaim Your Time with Light Watkins | Master Meditation w/ Dr. G | Heal Thy Self with Dr. G Episode # 230

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes deep into the importance of meditation, and the science behind how it supports our body and our overall health. Intro to Meditation History of Meditation Prayer vs Meditation Physical benefits of Meditation Self-referential center Brain training Starting Meditating Anxiety and Depression Guest Segment: Light Watkins has been a meditation and spiritual teacher for more than 20 years. His philosophy on "spiritual minimism" can help guide you to quiet your mind, reduce anxiety, and create space between triggers and your emotional reaction, for a more balanced and serene lifestyle. Light explains how anxiety and depression are manifestations your mind living outside of the present moment, and how we distract ourselves with scrolling or other coping mechanisms, and waste away precious time. Introducing Light Watkins Why is being present our greatest resource? How we end up wasting our time Cultivating presence Practices in presence Living in hypnotic mode How do we create space to break out of the hypnotic mode Establishing a new habit, and breaking an old habit Spiritual minimalism Making Intentional Pauses How do we bring more acceptance to our meditation practice? Learning the new skill of meditation Transcending the busy mind Moments of phase transition and loss of awareness Resistance or celebration Does surrendering in meditation lead to surrendering The Relaxation response Length of Meditation and benefits Frequency of Meditation 7 Principles of Spiritual Minimalism How do we start making decisions from the heart? How the heart speaks to men What does curiosity feel like in our heart? The fear of other people’s opinions Success through curiosity Internal GPS Having Faith in the process Where to find Light Watkins ELM Curious about Emotional Release? Get bi-weekly emotional healing insights and ways to connect with the community on the ELM newsletter! Join here: https://www.elm.health/newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the thing, you could have all the free time in the world, but if you're not present,
0:06.4	essentially you're squandering the time. You can have time, but you're regretful about something
0:11.3	that just happened, or you're worried about something that hasn't happened yet. And that's how
0:15.2	people spend a lot of their time. And it's so painful to be in that space that oftentimes we need
0:21.3	to distract ourselves. So then we'll start, you know, scrolling, and that's how we end up wasting
0:26.9	our time.
0:34.5	All right, I want to welcome to Heal Myself. We have a very, very special show with you.
0:39.1	You heard a meditation. You heard about the benefits. I'm going to talk a little bit about it.
0:42.4	We have America's top expert on meditation, light walkins. He's a teacher of probably a lot
0:48.5	of the teachers that you've heard of. And he's really so articulate in putting the words
0:56.4	into the most important aspects of our lives. Now, how many of you are so addicted to your phone,
1:03.2	so addicted to scrolling? When you realize how much of a role not being present plays in anxiety
1:10.8	and in depression, and really those two things leading to a lot of our physical diseases, our
1:16.7	physical discomfort, we learn how important presence is. He might have heard or read the book
1:21.9	Power of Now, all about presence. There's a reason why it became a top seller because it brings us
1:26.5	back to a very important moment where a lot of our health and healing begins. It's very hard to be
1:32.0	healthy and heal if you're always in the future and anxiety and the past and depression. Now,
1:36.7	light walkins has came up with his own strategies, his own steps for us to start breaking away from
1:42.6	all the distraction. This is the show about distraction and coming back to a present moment,
1:48.0	how to live your life more presently, how to be with your children more presently, with your
1:51.6	partner more presently. This is fundamental, fundamental to deep connection, this fundamental
1:57.3	to our health. We've got to find out in this world of distraction how to come back to being present
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