Join us in the next episode of the Our Daily Magic Podcast(LIVE from the Facebook Group  and Youtube) as "I am Magickai" aka Kaí and Dell Henderson aka "The True Essence Connector" will be interviewing Amy Edelstein.

Amy Edelstein is an educator, author, and nonprofit leader. She is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, Amy founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 17,000 inner-city teens in mindfulness and systems thinking. 

Amy began her own mindfulness practice in 1978 and has been an avid practitioner, researcher, teacher, and author of transformative tools and practices.  She received a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her organization’s work in Violence Reduction. 

Amy is a Cornell University College Scholar, cofounder of the learning platform Emergence Education, and author of six books including the award-winning, bestseller The Conscious Classroom.

*****The episode started with Amy sharing her "daily magic"  in life (4:36). Dell points out the profoundness of her philosophies (6:49) and adds that people tend to create changes based from the mind and not from the heart. Amy agrees (7:25 ) and adds that there are a lot of good people out there but are manipulated by the world where it makes them see the worst of another. 

When Amy mentions that she stayed in India for four years (17:43), Dell was curious of the mystical events she experienced (18:54), as he knows India is a place full of mystical events. She shares some of what she went through but says that India is a different place now compared to 40 years ago. 

Kai opens up the topic on violence (24:02), where she asks on how she cultivates a violence reduction mindset. Amy says that her first priority is gun ban, as this is usually the start of violence in the country.  She then shares about her experience with a young woman (26:59). Dell was amazed by the story, and says that we all should be like the girl. 

Kai then shifts the conversation, asking about her daily practices for herself (30:37) where Amy opens up about doing a meditation called open awareness. She then gave a sample meditation for the couple and for the listeners as well. 

Dell opens up about the recent school shooting and how he felt fear as a parent (36:19) and asks Amy's message with regards to the grievance of of losing a child.  

Dell then shifts the conversation to Amy's adventures in the Himalayas (47:06) in her four-year stay in India and how it lead her to write the book, Adventure in Zanskar. Kai was then curious on what made her decide that she's ready to come home (52:26). 

Amy proceeds to encourage everyone that if the spirit of adventuring (54:35) is knocking, it's better to open the door and give in. She shares that one of the most important lessons she learned is that it will get us out from the tracks we believe we are on.

Listen to the whole episode as our hosts take us to an adventure in the valleys of Tibet and how it allows us to reflect on what's inside us. 

Stay Magical! 

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