mindfulness has become, you know, very much in the popular culture over the last x number of years. After spending some time with contemporary mindfulness teachers, a dispiriting realization began to take shape. It's not just about always eccepting toxic relationships, toxic work environments. There is a very important role for acceptiance. And acceptance should be probably the first thing we practise but it should not be the only thing we practise.
Josh Korda is the guiding teacher of Dharma Punx in NYC and a fully empowered Buddhist teacher in the Against the Stream lineage. He has led numerous online and residential retreats and is also widely known for his podcast and as an author. His new book is called Unsubscribe: Opt Out of Delusion, Tune in to Truth. In this conversation with Eric, he talks about how to make changes in your life and he bases much of what he has to say on this topic on his Buddhist principals and own life experience. It's a comprehensive look at how we as humans can experience the impermanence of life. Since we all face this impermanence, it's a pretty important thing to grow more skillful in the way we interact with it.
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In This Interview, Josh Korda and I Discuss...
- His book, Unsubscribe: Opt Out of Delusion, Tune in to Truth
- How he deals with his depression
- Western mindfulness practice
- How it's not about always accepting or settling for toxic circumstances
- How it's not about always running away from healthy yet difficult circumstances
- The wisdom to know what to do with difficulty in the moment
- How to make significant life changes (based on his experience doing just that)
- Being willing to set boundaries
- Making change by talking harshly oneself only creates stress and you then associate the stress with the goal itself and you begin to procrastinate
- How our inner critic makes us want to avoid the very things we want to grow into
- Thought arrives after feeling and impulses
- Ways to change behavior without relying on thought
- "Corrective emotional response"
- The importance of an empathetic, safe therapist in effective therapy
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