The Plant Yourself Podcast

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Justin Luria now lives what he calls a "muggle" life, managing on online bookshop. Before that, he trained as an energy healing and shamanic practitioner, and immersed himself in many of the spiritual practices of the "New Age," and learned from many contemporary spiritual teachers: Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, and others.He also actively pursued the goals of the self-help movement as modeled and taught by folks like Tony Robbins and others.And somewhere along the way, he realized that the bulk of self-help and spirituality was little more than our grasping consumer society wrapped in finer threads. Rather than being a cure or counterweight to modern life, mainstream spiritual and self-help culture intensifies our feelings of inadequacy and need, and often takes advantage of the vulnerable state in which that inadequacy leaves us.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.If you've adopted a new good habit today, you're probably very excited and motivated.What about tomorrow? Will you be motivated then as well? Fingers crossed...Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.In this episode, I share a personal coaching session that I conducted with Ian Lawton, host of the Workshed Podcast.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.When I was in 11th grade, I came in 3rd in the New Jersey Science League Chemistry II competition.Which was odd.I wasn't one of the best chemistry students in the state, by far. I wasn't even close to being the best chemistry student in my high school. Hell, I wasn't close to be the best chemistry student in my chemistry class.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Aaron Spitz, MD, is the director of male reproductive and sexual medicine at Orange County Urology Associates. He's served as president of the California Urological Association, was the lead urology delegate to the American Medical Association, and has been an assistant clinical professor at UC Irvine's Department of Urology for the past decade and a half.Impressive, no doubt. But cinematically compelling? You might not think...In one of the final parts of the documentary filmed before submitting it to Sundance, Dr Spitz performs an experiment with three male college athletes. They eat a meat-filled burrito for dinner one day, and a plant-based version of the same burrito the next. Both nights, the guys are hooked up to devices that measure the size and duration of their erections.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.There's a logic puzzle, well-known to those of us who never dated in high school, about an island that's inhabited by two tribes - the Liars and the Truthtellers. As you might guess, the Liars always lie, and the Truthtellers always tell the truth.It's impossible to tell them apart by looks.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Colleen Patrick Goudreau is author, most recently, of The Joyful Vegan.It's a book about joy, yes, but joy as a strategic imperative in a world that is relentless in trying to undermine our resolve about living compassionate and brave lives.While steadfastness and willpower and outrage can provide bursts of energy for our journey, Goudreau asserts, it's joy that gives us the long-burning, clean fuel that allows us to come from love and compassion and understanding in all our interactions.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.After the third consecutive night of no sleep, I was starting to lose it.Our newborn daughter, who had looked so sweet and angelic in the moments right after her birth (9 on the APGAR - you go, girl!) had morphed into a demonic nighttime presence.She needed less sleep than any human I had ever encountered. And when she did snooze, she did so with hair-trigger sensitivity to the environmental cues to full alertness: an adult cranium touching a pillow, an eyelid closing and not reopening within a tenth of a second.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Brad Stulberg returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book, The Passion Paradox, co-written with Steve Magness.They wrote the book mostly for themselves, which is how a lot of great self-help books begin. Basically, they had learned a lot of weird and contradictory lessons about passion and how to harness and incorporate it into their lives.On the one hand, we're supposed to "follow our passion."On the other hand, we're supposed to lead a "balanced life."Well, guess what? You can have a passionate life, or a balanced life. So which do you choose?Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.I'll never forget my daughter's first birthday party. On a chilly February afternoon, a bunch of friends and relatives gathered at our house to share the joy of the event. We had decorations, presents, singing, and of course birthday cake.Everything went well, until the cake.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show