Back in the Circle

The 28-Day Action Plan That Built This Show with Theresa Elliott In April I was a movie set carpenter who had barely touched a computer. Theresa Elliott's 28-Day Action Plan is how I taught myself, and it's how Back in the Circle went from an idea to the show you're listening to right now. Theresa tells us how the plan started on a whiteboard while she was going to Georgetown, working full time, and caring for her mom. We also get into her traumatic brain injury, how painting and a meditation practice she built on her own helped her heal, and why the way we see the world shapes what comes back to us.

This episode's guidepost: Desiderata by Max Ehrmann. A lot of old posters say it was written in 1692, but Ehrmann actually wrote it in 1927.

Read the full poem here: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html Connect with Theresa Elliott AI Foundry: https://elliottaifoundry.com/ The 28-Day Action Plan on Skool: https://www.skool.com/28-day-action-plan-6088

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Who is ‘them’? In this episode I look at how fast we split the world into us and them, from a simple experiment with schoolboys to the oldest stories in scripture. I also share how I caught myself doing it while putting this episode together. Along the way we hear from the Hsin-Hsin Ming and the Good Samaritan, and look at why it takes so little to make an ‘us.’ Pull up a chair and test it for yourself: the next time you say ‘they,’ ask who you really mean.

Meet Ben Miller, the third voice in the Circle. Ben, as well as Brian (episode 2) will both be recurring voices in the circling questions that Back in the Circle sits with. Ben is meditation teacher of the Dharma Moon Lineage. A friend of more than twenty years that I have explored the existential questions that led to creating Back in the Circle. My personal Sangha.

Back in the Circle's first guest. Meet Brian Porter, The friend behind the shows name. Brian and Joshua discuss mindfulness and how it has shaped their lives for the better. Through lived experience and testing the practice of mindfulness itself for the last fifteen years, you will hear insights of what has worked. Listen to them pinpoint when and where the inside joke of' "Back in the Circle" started. Guests are invited to join along to test mindfulness practices for themselves and Join the Circle to share their experiences. There's always an open seat. Pull up a chair.

We arrive in this world with nothing but awareness. Then somewhere around the time we first recognize ourselves in a mirror, a new thing is born: the I. In this short episode, we trace that I back to where it started and ask a strange question, is it even real? Because almost every problem you have ever had has that same I sitting right at the center of it. Pull up a chair, test the truth for yourself, and let's see what happens when we get to the root of who or what that I really is.

Episode 1

Join me in this episode to hear my story of my journey into conscious awareness and why creating Back in the Circle is important. Hear how a childhood test on wishes turned into a 27 year career in the film industry. Next what lies ahead and why Back in the Circle is important now more than ever. Discover and test how applied mindfulness can shape and change our reality, and how you can be part of shaping the change that is so needed in today's culture and help create a New Earth.

Join The Circle. Test the Truth. Change your Life.