Handful of Leaves | Mindfulness & Buddhism in Everyday Life

Ep 9: Near Death Experience Ft Amy Edelstein- #1 Amazon Bestselling Author)

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About Amy Edelstein: 

  • IPPY-award winner and #1 Amazon bestselling author 
  • Begun her own meditation practice in 1978, spent four decades practicing, studying, researching, writing about
  • Founder of Inner Strength Education, which brings mindfulness, systems thinking, and social-emotional tools to under-resourced schools, training more than 17,000 teens in Philadelphia public high schools. 
  • Created a trauma-informed free mindfulness app for teens Inner Strength VIBE, available on GooglePlay and App Stores. 
  • Awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her organisation’s work in Violence Reduction. 
  • She is a Cornell University College scholar and the author of six books, including The Conscious Classroom.


    • Transcript: here


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    (02:46): Amy and why she spent her 21st in the Himalayas

    (09:04): What is wisdom?

    (12:19): Learnings & experience in Zanskar

    (19:06): Do you need to go to the mountains to experience inner awakening?

    (22:41): Tapping into love amidst rising gun violence in the neighbourhood

    (26:44): Increasing our capacity to love ourselves

    (30:02): Severe Car Crash and mindfulness to rise above anxiety

    (36:13): Making meditation possible even if we're busy

    (40:12): How to choose your spiritual teacher to guide you

    (43:40): Where to find Amy's work and her new book


    More from Amy:

    Book: Adventure to Zanskar - A young woman’s solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights

    Book: The conscious classroom - The Inner Strength System(TM) for Transforming the Teenage Mind

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/AmyEdelstein.Educator 

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/innerstrengtheducation/

    Insight Timer Guided meditation 


    Special Thanks to:

    August Lum for creating the new sound track for our podcast: His work here 

    Sopisa for editing the transcript for this episode

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