Stretch Your Heart and Say What You Mean

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Join Sounds True’s Tami Simon in conversation with author and teacher Oren Jay Sofer, as he shares his innovative method for productive discourse and authentic connection. In “Stretch Your Heart and Say What You Mean,” Tami and Oren explore how contemplative practice is an essential ingredient for healthy conversations and relationships, and vice versa; three foundations for mindful communication; the practice of pausing a conversation; the art of the “do-over”; the power of intention in conversation; curiosity, humility, and kindness; how focusing on what matters transforms reactivity and allows us to speak our truth; the shift from projecting blame to identifying and expressing our needs; the heart of compassion and nonviolence—seeing one another in a deeper way; three layers of needs—physical, relational, and spiritual; freeing our hearts from animosity and hostility, and becoming a force for loving unification; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.7	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Orrin J. Sofer.
0:48.2	Orrin teaches mindfulness meditation and non-violent communication in both secular and Buddhist
0:54.5	contexts.
0:56.2	And he's the first author to integrate mindfulness and somatics with the tools and principles
1:03.7	of non-violent communication.
1:06.2	He's the author of the book, Say What You Mean, and with SoundsTrue, he's created a new
1:12.3	audio learning series, it's called Speak Your Truth with Love and Listen Deeply, a
1:19.4	training in mindfulness-based non-violent communication.
1:24.2	At a time when we find our society so divided, where useful and productive discourse with
1:31.9	people who hold different opinions, it often seems so hard to come by.
1:39.1	Enter Orrin J. Sofer, offering to teach us the skills of mindful communication, skills
1:47.1	that ask us to stretch our heart, to identify our own needs at a very deep level, and also
1:55.6	to see and respect the needs of others.
1:59.1	His teaching is, I believe, a huge part of the medicine we need right now.
2:05.7	Here's my conversation with Orrin J. Sofer.
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