Proactive Mindfulness: Redefining Personal Growth

Explore why embodied presence improves mindful engagement in everyday life and how to cultivate it.

We discuss how transference in the context of trauma therapy. Eric shares an experience that illustrates how this can lead to healing.

We delve into the importance of recognizing power dynamics and how they affect mindful living and spiritual growth.

In this video, people reflect on their inner experience when they have difficulty engaging compared to when they can engage more.

Steve Hayes is a developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Here, we talk about going beyond the specifics of any given therapy

Brenda Shoshanna and I are having a conversation informed by Zen, being present with our experience, as we discuss authority.

The Feldenkrais method teaches people to be aware of how they move so that they can change ineffective habits. Here, we're using these tools to put the method into practice, live.

Ven. Losang Gendun tells the story of a Buddhist monk who had been put in jail and tortured. The point of the story was how he responded to the situation.

Jeff Warren has an iconoclastic approach to meditation and what it's like to be human. Here, we discuss coming into the present, practicing what we preach.

Owen Flanagan is an expert in the philosophy of mind and ethics. For many years, he was also an addict. Here, we talk about addiction from both perspectives.