Podcast Benomtad

In the previous week we’d decided to try Well-Being Therapy and now we talk about our experiences.  We got some surprising connection and increase in mood!  
 
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https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bri78-17dbacc
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

From Richard Davidson’s The Emotional Life of your Brain, we get the idea to try this therapy to increase what he calls the Outlook dimension of the brain, which is basically how positive or negative a mood you generally have.  We introduce the therapy here: (1) 3x a day, write one positive trait about someone and yourself (2) Express gratitude regularly  (3) Compliment others regularly.  Keep a record of when you felt a genuine connection.
 
For the full episode: 
 
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bri78-17dbacc
For more in this podcast, please go to:
 
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

I reflect a bit on the lack of free will and meditation practices.  Letting go of concepts and paying attention to the present.  
 
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
For more in this podcast, please go to:
 
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

My friend LL talks about her previous experience dream journaling and lucid dreaming to help her gain control over her mind and its contents.  She also used it to gain insight into her own psychology.  
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

We might think of self-development as adding, but one can think of it in an opposite way – of losing what holds you back.  I think this is actually superior for well-being and being good to others (although skill- and other development is crucial too).  Meditation as a way of subtracting what you don’t want, like reactivity and rumination, and not about control.  
 
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
For more in this podcast, please go to:
 
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

We read a passage from Richard Davidson’s The Emotional Life of your Brain about Well-Being Therapy, which he cites as a way to increase your Outlook emotional dimension, which is how positively you generally feel and think about your future.  For a week we agree to: write 3x/day one positive characteristic of yourself and a person in your life; genuinely compliment people; genuinely thank people.  We will get back next week with the results.  We also discussed the Four Agreements again by Ruiz, especially Always do your Best.  It was a practical podcast about doing better, feeling better and helping others feel better and connected.
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

From Rousseau’s Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar, in Emile, we talk of the connection to the divine as a personal helper.  Alternatively, one might imagine the divine as nature, a system of laws, a beautiful order.  And how do you worship such a god? We link this to landscape painting.  
 
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

From Rousseau’s Emile, we discuss the Savoyard Vicar’s unusual and dispassionate faith which is also engaged and full of awe.  
 
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

I relate some of this part of Rousseau’s Emile.  Rousseau presents a character who loves the natural world and deep and scientific knowledge of it, and who lives in a religiously dogmatic world, and who also wants to do genuine good for his parishioners.  He seems to try and thread the needle between: that dominant dogmatism and intolerance as well as burgeoning scientistic and atheistic worldviews.  
 
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

John Vervaeke talks about different ways of knowing that, besides the dominant propositional way of knowing things, contribute deeply to meaning.  Deemphasizing beliefs in the search for meaning.  Less in our heads constructing concepts and arguing over those.
 
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For the full episode: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-y3vc6-17c84a4
 
For more in this podcast, please go to:
 
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube: 
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.