Hope Is a Skill | George Mumford
Spring is here. Vaccines are entering arms. But for many of us, hope can feel slippery and fleeting. Even with the pandemic seeming to abate, there's still a lot of uncertainty and suffering. That's w...
12 Apr 202152min
Three Mindfulness Strategies from Joseph Goldstein (2020)
To inject a little sunshine, perspective, and wisdom, we thought it might make sense to repost one of our favorite conversations of the last year. This is a straight up meat-and-potatoes meditation ta...
7 Apr 202155min
How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Today's guest is at the forefront of understanding human emotions: what they are, why humans evolved to have them, how they're different from feelings, and what science says about how to manage them (...
5 Apr 20211h 13min
A Pressure Cooker for Insight | Bart van Melik
The great meditation teacher Ram Dass once said, "If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family." My guest today comes with tools to help you keep your cool when interacting with f...
31 Mar 20211h 5min
Three Lessons from Happiness Research | Emma Seppälä
People in the mindfulness meditation world often note that what we're teaching is not a breathing exercise; the goal is to just feel the breath as it naturally occurs (if you've chosen the breath as t...
29 Mar 202157min
The Self-Interested Case for Examining Your Biases | John Biewen
Too often, the process of looking at your biases can be presented like eating your vegetables. But one of the most fascinating and rewarding things I have attempted to do in recent years is to take a ...
24 Mar 20211h 2min
The Profound Upside of Self-Diminishment | George Saunders
There is a powerful scene in a novel called Lincoln In the Bardo, where President Abraham Lincoln has come to the cemetery where his young son, Willie, is soon to be buried. Willie had passed away at ...
22 Mar 20211h 8min
How to Understand Oneness | Roshi Norma Wong
Today we're diving into a concept that is simultaneously one of the oldest contemplative cliches and one of the most profound head scratchers — oneness. Can *you* be one with everything if *you* don't...
17 Mar 202157min
