The Japanese Art of Self Reflection with Gregg Krech
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Krech, founder of the To-Do Institute joins us to discuss the Japanese art of self reflection
Highlights
- Learning to put yourself in someone else’s shoes
- How emotions color our perceptions
- Reflecting without our emotional coloring
- Interpersonal skills that are an important part of character education
- Three questions to ask about people in your lives
- Co-existing with your internal experiences and feelings
- Incorporating a self-reflective practice into life
Quotes
Evil is in the inability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes
What we don’t see is many people setting aside a weekly practice of self reflection
If we look at mental health as a skill that can be learned, we can get out of the model that it’s something that’s part of us.
Gregg Krech has served as the Executive Director of the ToDo Institute since 1992. Gregg is one of the leading authorities on Japanese psychology in the United States and the author of several books including the award-winning book, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection (Stone Bridge Press). His work has been featured on public TV and radio, and in books, professional journals, and magazines such as Body & Soul, Utne Reader, Cosmopolitan, SELF, Tricycle, and Counseling Today. He is the Editor of Thirty Thousand Days: A Journal of Purposeful Living and frequently conducts programs for audiences ranging from Zen Center students to mental health professionals.
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| 0:00.0 | In most cases when we are having some kind of encounter with another person or even an animal in some cases, |
| 0:10.0 | but when we're encountering life in the world it's almost always colored by this |
| 0:14.6 | emotional coloration that goes with it. For example the same action let's say that |
| 0:21.0 | my wife makes me some coffee in the morning, right? |
| 0:25.0 | And I may experience that action completely different depending on whether we read poetry just before that the night before or made love or whether |
| 0:38.8 | we had an argument that morning or the night before. |
| 0:41.7 | In other words, the context provides |
| 0:44.6 | this emotional coloring in terms of how |
| 0:47.3 | I experience her making coffee. |
| 0:49.9 | And when we do this kind of reflection, |
| 0:51.9 | what we're really trying to do is to set aside that emotional coloring. |
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