Ryan Oelke on Awakening in Life
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Intro
This chapter emphasizes the critical role of thoughts and actions in personal development, pointing out the challenges posed by negative thinking. It discusses strategies to promote positivity and the importance of staying focused on one’s goals for meaningful life changes.
Ryan Oelke is the co-founder of Buddhist Geeks and is the founder of Awakening In Life. Ryan is a meditation teacher with an MS.Ed. in Counseling Psychology and has 18 years of experience in meditation. He is also a certified teacher in Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process. In this episode, Ryan and Eric discuss using Radical Curiosity and embodying our experiences to Awaken In Life.
If you are interested in learning more about how to integrate and embody spiritual principles into the moments of your daily life, Eric teaches people how to do just that in his 1-on-1 Spiritual Habits Program. Click here to learn more.
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In This Interview, Ryan Oelke and I discuss Awakening in Life and…
- Practicing Radical Curiosity
- Coming home to yourself as you are in this moment
- Being radically open to what is happening to fully see it
- How nothing collapses consciousness faster than judgment
- How being curious implies being engaged with the subject matter
- Awakening in Life
- Life as the opportunity to awaken
- Ways to integrate spiritual principles into the moments of our life
- Cultivating capacity through formal practice
- How to use the little moments that might otherwise be “thrown away” during the day
- That focusing on embodying our experience enables it to become more deeply our own
- How awakening in life is a responsive, integral path
- A prescriptive path/model vs. a responsive path/model
- Having a deep trust in your own experience
- Metta Dharma
- That the entire point of waking up in life could be to have an appropriate response.
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