How well do you know your own mind? Do you have a good awareness of how your mind works and what helps it to function at its best? And how much do you love your mind as it is, with its thoughts, ideas, dreams, and imaginations? Or do you find yourself wishing that your mind was more like someone else's?

We’re often at war with our own minds. We speak of ‘not being in our right minds.’ We ask ourselves, ‘What were you thinking?’ We get ‘out of our minds’, our minds can ‘spin out’ and we can ‘overthink’ things. We all have times when we wish our minds would work ‘better’ but we seldom define for ourselves what ‘better’ means. 

But unless we love our minds we cannot function at our best and we cannot love ourselves.

In this episode, we’re exploring our minds—how to understand them and love them. And we’ll talk about how learning to embrace your mind’s unique way of processing, synthesising and interpreting data is an important and life-giving spiritual practice. 

The study in Science mentioned in this podcast is this one by Wilson, T. D. et al. Science 345, 75-77 (2014).

The Sam Harris quotes are from his book 'Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality without Religion'

You can find the transcript of this episode on the EvoFaith blog.

And you can access this podcast in video format on our YouTube channel.

And you can find more content and resources to help you to show up fully, authentically, and courageously on the EvoFaith website.

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