Thomas Sterner

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Thomas Sterner Thomas Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. He is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. He has been featured in top media outlets such as NPR and Fox News. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind. His latest book is called Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life In This Interview, Thomas Sterner and I Discuss... His newest book, Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life How you can't change anything that you're not aware of That most of us spend our day as someone in their thoughts as opposed to someone who is having thoughts Meditation being the vehicle for growing in self-awareness Learning to recognize the truth that "I am not my thoughts, I am the one who has thoughts" The strengths of being observer oriented rather than in a state of reactivity That people who think they've had a "bad meditation" have actually had a very good meditation That meditation is never a done task The value of thinking of meditation like you do exercising The innate sense in us that is misinterpreted That the desire to expand is built into our DNA The power of the question, 'And then what?" That real perfection is the ability to expand infinitely It's the interpretation of the experience that makes it feel the way it does Making decisions about how to handle a "road block" beforehand How we can control our emotions and doing so is a skill The difference between a feeling and the truth The importance of setting goals with accurate information How you have to be in a situation to learn how to function in that situation That struggle is a sign that we are expanding and learning and up against our threshold Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to extract the most from a situation that you interpret as struggling,
0:05.5	you have to be in the situation.
0:15.6	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.7	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:22.3	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
0:26.7	ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:32.1	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have,
0:38.1	instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:43.2	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent,
0:48.4	and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep
0:53.7	themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:24.6	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Thomas M. Sterner, founder and CEO of the
1:48.4	Practicing Mind Institute. Thomas is considered an expert in present moment functioning.
1:54.2	He's a popular in-demand speaker who works with high performance individuals, including athletes,
1:59.7	industry groups, and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within the high-stress
2:04.3	situations so that they can break through to new level semestary. He has been featured in top media
2:10.0	outlets such as NPR, Fox News, and he is the author of the best seller at the practicing mind.
2:16.3	His latest book is called Fully Engaged, using the practicing mind in daily life.
2:47.2	We really need your help to make the show sustainable and long-lasting. Again, that's one
2:52.4	youfeed.net slash support. Thank you in advance for your help.
2:58.5	And here's the interview with Thomas M. Sterner.
3:01.8	Hi, Tom. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here.
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