The "Death Cafe"

Radio Headspace

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Aging can bring on a lot of fears. Today, Sam shares how she stopped resisting the aging process and even went to an event that celebrates death. Sam has taught mindfulness and social emotional learning to teens, families and adults all over the world for more than 12 years. She obtained her master’s degrees in clinical and educational psychology from Columbia University, and an M.S. in emotion science from Mid-Sweden University. You can reach out to Sam on Instagram here! Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Sam here.
0:15.9	Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday.
0:20.2	So today I want to talk about aging and the feelings and thoughts that emerge as we
0:24.9	get older.
0:26.5	My 40th birthday is coming up next year and for me that means that I've been facing
0:30.9	my own fears about aging.
0:33.3	I think about what the number means to others, how I'll be viewed differently as a 40-year-old,
0:38.2	and what it means for my body.
0:40.2	And for some reason I've also started to imagine myself at 70 and think about some worst-case
0:45.6	scenarios like losing my faculties and physical abilities, uplifting stuff, right?
0:52.2	So I've been sharing my fears with my husband and he recently responded in a way that put
0:56.2	things into perspective for me.
0:58.6	When I said that I'm afraid of turning 71 day, he said, hopefully you will.
1:03.8	And this reminded me to feel grateful for just being alive right now.
1:10.3	So this topic got me thinking about the Buddhist perspective on acknowledging some hard truths
1:15.1	about living a human life.
1:17.8	Many of these are captured in the foreign noble truths, which are at the root of Buddhist
1:22.3	teachings.
1:23.7	The foreign noble truths basically say that there is suffering in every human life.
1:28.6	There are certain things that we know cause it.
1:31.3	There's a possibility to end the suffering, and there's a path to get there.
1:37.1	The first noble truth in Buddhism says that the pain of sickness, old age, and death is unavoidable.
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