What does “Be Present” mean anyway?
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Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss what it means to be present, and how this knowledge can be turned into daily practice. They also discuss their differences when it comes to filling up a Saturday, why it’s important to dance with our fear, and why the Humans of New York Facebook page wakes us up to the world.
The entry from Humans of New York that Todd read-
“Imagine that every time you have a lapse in judgment, it gets printed in newspapers around the world: every time you lose patience with your children, every time you scream at someone in traffic, every time you drink too much and do something you regret. Each time you slip up, everyone hears about it. The world is never notified about the 99.99% of the time that you are a completely normal, productive, law-abiding citizen. The world only learns about you when things go wrong. Now imagine what the world would think of you.
It’s not that terrorism, patriarchy, and violence aren’t real problems in Pakistan. They exist and the country is battling these issues every single day. Pakistanis are very much aware of the extremism in their midst. The problem is that so many people seem to only be aware of that extremism. Because just as in the hypothetical example above—the other 99.99% of life just doesn’t make the news. When there’s only room in the newspaper for a single column about Pakistan, it’s going to be filled with the most compelling story. And unfortunately, that tends to be the most violent story.
And those are important stories. Those are the types of stories that expose corruption, stop genocide, and alert the world to emerging threats. It’s right for those stories to be told. But when those stories are all that we hear, it’s so easy to imagine a world that’s far scarier than it really is. You lose sight of the 99.99% of the world that’s not scary at all. And living in fear can be a dangerous thing. Because if we’re afraid of each other, we’ll never be able to work together to solve our common problems.”
They also discuss an exercise from their Tony Robbins weekend regarding fear…
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do here we go my name is Todd Adams this is Kathy Adams |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio. This is episode number 254 |
| 0:13.2 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio, sweetie? I'll tell you why because you'll feel outstanding |
| 0:18.7 | And who doesn't want to feel outstanding? |
| 0:21.7 | You know why else? |
| 0:22.1 | Why? |
| 0:34.4 | This week we got this email from somebody and they said you are on a top seven list of best podcasts, best parenting podcasts on, what was it called? |
| 0:35.4 | Business Insider. Business Insider. |
| 0:36.4 | That was nice. |
| 0:37.2 | You know what was cool about it? |
| 0:38.5 | Tell me. |
| 0:38.9 | There were seven podcasts there and I can't remember them all off the top of my head, but they're all really, some of them are NPR and one of them is Slate and one of them is Adam Carolla's wife. |
| 0:46.8 | And they're kind of like, you know. |
| 0:48.9 | The real deal. |
| 0:49.6 | They're the real deal. |
| 0:50.3 | And we're in a basement. It's kind of like when I used to wrestle in high school. Uh-huh. And, uh, you know, you'd like make it from regionals to sectionals and like, you know, |
| 0:59.1 | the talent increases when you go from regional to sectionals. And, you know, if I was lucky enough to |
| 1:03.9 | make it to sectionals that year, I'd be like, oh my God, all these people are good. And then you don't think like, I'm good. I'm here for a reason. |
| 1:11.9 | So are we at sectionals? We are at sectionals. We're not at state yet, though. Maybe one day |
| 1:16.0 | we'll make it to state, sweetie. Always remember that the best predictor of a child's well-being |
| 1:22.3 | is a parent's self-understanding. So today we're going to talk about presence. Is that the deal? |
| 1:28.3 | Presence. And we're going to talk, Deepak. It comes from Deepak, right? Yeah, but you know what? It's not so much Deepak that I want to talk about. |
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