Dr. Sarah Schnitker and Dr. Kate Sweeny, researchers on patience and coping with uncertainty, team up with meditation legend Sharon Salzberg. They discuss how patience can be nurtured through practices like meditation and cognitive strategies. The trio dives into the emotional challenges of waiting during stressful times and explores the role of mindfulness in fostering emotional well-being. They also touch on the balance between optimism and a healthy dose of pessimism, emphasizing that patience is a skill that can be developed, not merely an innate trait.
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Boosting Patience with WAIT
Boost patience with the WAIT acronym: Importance, Awareness, Regulation, and Transcendence.
Identify why patience matters, become aware of your emotions, find regulation strategies, and connect to a larger purpose.
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Patience as a Virtue
Patience is a character strength and virtue, not just a personality trait.
Cultivate patience through habits and practices, not as a one-time achievement.
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Cheats for Patience
Kate Sweeny's research focuses on "cheats" for patience in challenging situations.
These include flow activities, awe-inspiring experiences, and other coping mechanisms.
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This book is a complete guide to meditation, beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques. It is based on three key skills: concentration, mindfulness, and lovingkindness. The 28-day program includes exercises, journal prompts, and guided meditations available for download. It aims to transform lives by bringing greater resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance. The book also addresses common concerns of beginners through an extensive FAQ section and provides practical advice on maintaining a daily meditation practice[1][3][5].
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The Art of Mindful Connection
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In 'Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection,' Sharon Salzberg uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to help readers redefine and experience love in a more profound way. The book provides a creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises, meditation techniques, and interactive applications to strip away layers of negative habits and find a truer meaning of love. It is divided into sections addressing love for the self, love for another individual, love for all beings, and love for life itself, guiding readers to cultivate real love by being more present and engaged with their current experiences.
This pandemic is a colossal test of our patience - from dealing with family to interminably long wait times on calls with the unemployment office to just wanting this whole nightmare to evaporate so we can go back to the movies. We've got a special, two-part episode this week. In the first part, we bring on a pair of researchers who study patience. The good news: they have found that patience is a quality we can train and develop through meditation and other strategies, including cognitive reappraisal, transcendence, or just learning how to fake it until you make it. (Side note: we also fall into an interesting chat about the benefits of defensive pessimism versus strategic optimism.) After the researchers, we bring on legendary meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for a deeper dive into how to use meditation to increase our patience, especially when it comes to interpersonal stuff (which, let's be honest, includes other people and ourselves). Our patience experts are Dr. Sarah Schnitker from the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Baylor University, and Dr. Kate Sweeny from the Psychology department at the University of California, Riverside. Where to find our guests online: Dr. Kate Sweeny / http://www.katesweeny.com/ Dr Sarah A. Schnitker / https://www.baylor.edu/psychologyneuroscience/index.php?id=950614 Sharon Salzberg / https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/ Other Resources Mentioned: Wendy Wood University of Southern California (Habits Research) / https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/wendy-wood Richie Davidson Research on Pain and meditation / https://news.wisc.edu/meditation-expertise-changes-experience-of-pain/ Walter Mischel Marshmellow Test / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment Additional Resources: Ten Percent Happier Live: https://tenpercent.com/live Coronavirus Sanity Guide: https://www.tenpercent.com/coronavirussanityguide Free App Access for Teachers, Healthcare, Grocery and Food Delivery, and Warehouse Workers: https://tenpercent.com/care Get more focus and clarity by bringing mindfulness to your company with a team subscription to Ten Percent Happier! Visit tenpercent.com/work to learn more. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/patience-246
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