Centered in the City1 Jun 2023

Episode 155: Heart Hangs and Deep Listening

Today on the podcast, my good friend (since my Buenos Aires days), Karina Martinez-Carter joins us. Karina shares her favorite practice that helps her slow down throughout the day and highlights why "slow" has a negative connotation. Karina and I share our curiosities around deep listening-- what it is and why we want to practice it in our lives. Deep listening offers us an opportunity to step out of autopilot and the conditioning of "doing." Karina shares how deep listening offers her a chance to "play" and let go of there needing to be a "right" decision or choice. Karina and I also share the difference between Vedic meditation and Mindfulness Based Meditation (or Insight Meditation). Take a listen to this thought provoking and heart opening episode.

If you like this episode, check out my solo episode on Healing Hurry Sickness ,

Paying Attention to Pace Part 1, Episode 118: Following Your Pleasure, and Episode 127 Slow Down to Savor.

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Karina is a writer, a Vedic meditator, a former travel journalist and, currently, a Program Manager at Google. She currently lives near the beach in Los Angeles after some years in NYC and Buenos Aires, and she enjoys biking around, doing Pilates, dancing and just appreciating the ocean and mountains, all in one place. She writes about reflections from meditation, life and playfulness on her site, kmartinezcarter.com.

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