Men Talking Mindfulness

What would make meditation and mindfulness more "palatable" to most men?  What language should we be using?  What IS masculinity?  Will and Jon discuss that with Dr. Clark Chilson on this special bonus episode of Men Talking Mindfulness.  

01:00 Further Discussions on Masculinity with Dr. Clark Chilson

02:00 Quote from “Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture“ by Jeff Wilson

04:30 How will MTM make mindfulness attractive and available to more men?

14:30 Language is important

20:30 Toxic habits make for confined masculinity

24:30 Are you strong enough to be “weak?”

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Have you ever heard this?  "Mindfulness conflicts with my religious beliefs" or "Meditation is Buddhist" or "Christians don't meditate."  Well, Will and I are interviewing Dr. Clark Chilson, from the University of Pittsburgh about this.  Listen to learn more!

Who is Dr. Chilson, well... Before joining the faculty at Pitt in 2006, Clark Chilson lived in England for three years and in Japan for over thirteen years. In Japan he studied cultural anthropology, did fieldwork at a Zen temple and among secretive Buddhists, and for five years was the associate editor of Asian Folklore Studies and the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. He also supplemented his income in Japan by doing jobs as diverse as interpreting for an F1 racecar driver, working on a documentary for the Japanese Broadcasting Company (NHK), and translating medical texts.  

Let's do this!  

01:00 Mindfulness and Religion with Dr. Clark Chilson

04:00 Introducing Dr. Clark Chilson

06:00 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice (~3.5 min)

10:00 Mindfulness Moments now available on the Podcast!

10:30 How Will and Clark met

13:00 Clark did not like Will

16:30 How Dr. Chilson got his start

19:30 Is meditation religious?

21:30 Defining religion and meditation

27:30 Context and purpose is everything

30:00 Buddhism is a religion?

37:30 Spiritual but not religious? Religious but not spiritual?

40:00 Can a person partake in a spiritual experience outside their religion?

43:00 The history of meditation and the potential dangers of modern practice

47:30 Community is hard, but necessary and ultimately beneficial

54:00 Micro-dose your Meditation

55:00 Company-endorsed Mindfulness

1:03:30 Will leads Closing Grounding Practice (~3.5 min)

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A little taste of tomorrow's upcoming episode!  

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It can be a crazy world and a crazy life - we can find peace, love, and joy in the chaos - and even share that with others!  This meditation is designed to help find that peace, love, and joy - and then share it!

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Dr. Uma Naidoo has been described as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.  

Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.  She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.  Dr. Naidoo is also the national best selling author of This Is Your Brain On Food.  

In her book, she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others.  

Follow Dr. Naidoo on Instagram here: @drumanaidoo

Learn more about her, her book, and her online class here:  https://umanaidoomd.com

01:00 This is Your Brain on Food with Guest Dr. Uma Naidoo 

03:00 Introducing Dr. Uma Naidoo 

04:30 Will leads Opening Grounding Practice (~3 minutes) 

07:00 Dr. Naidoo’s journey to Nutritional Psychology 

11:00 The Neuroscience of the Mind/Gut Connection 

15:00 The Western Diet is S.A.D. 

17:00 What is a microbiome and why you should care 

21:30 Diet as a solution to illness and disease 

25:00 Caffeine - Friend or Foe? 

26:30 Calculating Alcohol Consumption, or why you needed math class 

29:00 Hang-xiety = Hangover + Anxiety 

32:00 Proactive vs Reactive ways to deal with Anxiety 

35:00 When sugar isn’t sugar 

37:00 Processed foods are depressing in so many ways 

39:30 Food Fog is Real 

42:30 Micronutrients as medicine 

45:30 Omega-3s are super brain fuel 

50:00 One thing you can do today 

52:00 Add a little spice to your life 

56:30 Jon leads Closing Grounding Practice (~2 minutes)  

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Wow... just wow!  We were so honored to be joined by Dr. Uma Naidoo, author of This is Your Brain on Food, An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More.  Here's a quick preview of the show that's available NOW on our YouTube channel right here: https://youtu.be/owRX8_1eKRs

And will be available here tomorrow, in podcast form.  

Please give it a listen or watch it... and please share it far and wide!  We appreciate YOU!

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Join Will and Jon along with special guest host, Dr. Seth Hickerson, as they unpack the science behind mindfulness and meditation.    

What's actually happening when we meditate?  

Why does meditation do that?  How?  What are the benefits and much more!   

01:00 The Science of Mindfulness with Guest Host Seth Hickerson

04:30 Jon leads Opening Grounding Practice (~5 minutes)

11:00 RIP Thich Naht Hanh

12:00 East vs West - The Mindfulness Difference

20:00 Meditation: The Mysticism and The Science

21:00 Your Brain on Meditation

34:00 Your Emotions on Meditation

50:00 Your Body on Breath

55:00 Practice becomes Reality

1:05:00 Seth leads the Closing Grounding Practice (~1 minute)

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Jon and Will (along with a surprise guest host!) have always discussed the science of mindfulness - in parts and pieces throughout the show.  Today, we unpack it all - why and how your body, mind, and nervous system respond to mindfulness.  The show is up on YouTube now and will be out here on podcast form tomorrow (1 Feb 2022).

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