Kristof Morrow is an author and award-winning journalist. Second Sun Insights is the title of this episode. Kristof taught himself to write while serving in the military and later won two awards from Texas Press Associations. His debut book is called The Second Sun: Volumes I & II, and he contends the work is not only epic fantasy but also literature, seeking to uncover or elaborate on truths long felt and long considered. Kristof believes in Steinbeck's philosophy that ‘my whole mission as a writer is to help people understand one another.’






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John Steinbeck, Author
Effect On Emotions







Mindfulness is an important intermediary between action and forgiveness.







Thoughts On Breathing
This makes me think of meditation. I grew up in the South, so we used to hear people make fun of people who meditate all the time. So I came into it with a prejudice. But I did try it and it really works. Meditation is one of those things that you have to do every day like once a day; you can't just do it once.






 






Bullying Story


















Well,  I was bullied pretty relentlessly, even in school, because I have a pretty severe case I think, of ADHD.  So that did not enable me to make friends my own age. And so when I was in school, I had a lot of difficulty cooperating with kids my own age.
So maturing was very deliberate because otherwise my life was filled with horror and terror and poverty. We were really poor for the first half of my life.


















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Mindfulness is the starting point for emotional intelligence. Life is 10% about what happens and 90% about how you respond. Once you become aware of how you're feeling, you can control how you respond.











Thoughts On Breathing


Some of my favorite meditations are breathwork meditations. I feel like it's very calming and relaxing to do this breathwork.


It centers you and brings you back to the present moment. It's really a gift.


It makes me feel so grateful for this breath. I'm grateful for every single breath that I get to experience.


Bullying Story





















In reference to bullying, kids can be very harsh and cut-throat. I was bullied quite a bit as a kid.
I think more education and awareness around the fact that we all struggle with feelings of worthiness is necessary.
A lot of times, bullying comes from the simple fact that we can tear someone else down to feel better about ourselves.





















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Kelly James Clark is the author of Raging Fire of Love. He is an American philosopher noted for his work in the philosophy of religion, science, and the cognitive science of religion. Kelly James Clark, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. Kelly has held previous positions at Grand Valley State University, Calvin University, and Gordon College and visiting appointments at Oxford University, the University of St. Andrews, Peking University, and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author, editor, or co-author of more than thirty books including Raging Fire of Love: What I’ve Learned from Jesus, the Jews, and the Prophet, Strangers, Neighbors, Friends: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace. He writes broadly and speaks widely on compassion, tolerance, and peace.






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My Muslim friend Enis Oko
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My mindfulness practices have transformed my thoughts in my heart mind. That includes thoughts and emotions. This is the raging fire of love thing. I think we need to cultivate love for people who are different from us.
That means moving our emotions in a favorable way towards people who are different. And it means giving up our fear and learning to overcome our fear with love.











Thoughts On Breathing


I do not have any thoughts to share on breathing. I am too ADD. I have tried it. I know it's good for me, and I do it for a while, but then I'm off into something else.


Bullying Story





















One of my first good friends in the Islamic community is a well-known philosopher who is on television a lot. In Turkey, religion gets on television a lot. It's involved in a lot of conversations that they have. Sometimes it's just religion, or sometimes it's on other topics, and they want a religious perspective on it. He has become a major media figure and has millions of followers.
I thought it was opportune for me to become acquainted with him as I was trying to build bridges between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
Then I went to a conference one time. I flew a long way to get there to give a talk. He didn't come to my talk. He had given a talk the previous day and got mad at some people. He came at the end, and he gave a speech at the end that had nothing to do with my talk. He just denounced all the people he was mad at from the day before.
I turned to my best Muslim friend there and asked what he was doing. He said he was getting back at people from the day before then. I just looked around, and there were hundreds of people there. I was probably the only non-Muslim, the only non-Turk. There were hundreds of people there. I could see people rolling their eyes. I talked to a few more people, and I just figured out, because there were other clues, that he was a bully.





















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My mindfulness goes back to prayer. When I sit down and I meditate or pray, I am struggling for the most part.


When I take the time to sit down, close my eyes and pray, that's where I feel my stress alleviated and I can start getting everything under control.












Thoughts On Breathing

Getting into the cold shower is still uncomfortable, but I'm a little bit more used to it now. When I first got in, with the cold in the dead of winter here in Utah, the water was really cold.
It was long, deep breaths, very frantic at the beginning. I recognized that I was getting better. Those frantic breaths gradually became a little bit slower, slower, slower.

Bullying Story






















I was blessed growing up. I got along with pretty much everyone as a kid, didn't matter your race, your religion, or your orientation. I can get along with pretty much anyone.


I do want to share a story with someone I call my brother these days.


His name is Dawson. We went to middle school together. I met him in my 6th-grade year. Dawson was a weird kid. His dad was a lot older than the rest of our parents. Dawson grew up just like his dad. He grew up fishing and going boating, doing outdoorsy activities. I like all those things, but he took them to an extreme. That's all he could talk about.


He would run around during recess and act like he was driving a boat. Dawson was an interesting guy. Dawson was the odd one out. He sometimes felt like he didn't have anyone to turn to.


At the time, in Middle School, you do not want to be best friends with the guy everyone thinks is weird. I was always nice to him. But I was never, like Dawson eat lunch with us or hang out with us.


Then one day I saw Dawson and his dad sitting right behind me at my church. Today he's one of my best friends. He lives in Idaho now, but I talk to him every single week.
 
 























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Mindfulness enabled me to be open to look at what is called shadow emotions including shame or anxiety. I was then able to work through them and not run away.


One of the hardest emotions to feel is shame. I've carried my own shame and it's by being able to descend mindfully with presence into the dark that we are able to discover our sacred spark.


Mindfulness is really the ability to go In and be open and be curious to these negative emotions.












Thoughts On Breathing

Breathing is one of the important things that help us connect to our life force. We feel our life force in two physiological ways. One is breath, and the other one is the heartbeat.
If you look at many meditative practices, it's following the breath. It's calming and centering.
There is an underlying principle: what is spirit? The word spirit in Latin comes from the root, the animating breath of Life.

Bullying Story





















Regarding bullying, there are both sides. There is the bully, and then there is the victim of the bully.
The bully is probably bullying because they don't know how to be skillful in order to get what they need. They also have a sense of shame or weakness underneath them that they are trying to cover.
If they were more mindful, knew what was really motivating them, and addressed this inherent weakness that they're trying to cover up by being overly aggressive, then that would prevent them from bullying.





















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Matt Zemon
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Emotions are a funny thing. We all have ebbs and flows. I definitely have my highs and lows still. I think mindfulness has made me more aware of when I'm having a low or when I'm having overwhelming thoughts or even depression.


My mindfulness practice has helped me recognize that and get me into a better mindset more quickly instead of dwelling on it for days and weeks.












Thoughts On Breathing

I really enjoy box breathing. I almost modified it to be more of a triangle breathing. The idea is that I will breathe in for a count of 4, hold it for a count of 4, and exhale for a count of 4.
Just doing that for a repetition of 20 times can be a form of meditation.

Bullying Story






















Bullying is a huge problem in schools, and it always has been, probably even back when I was a kid. I think mindfulness can help with bullying. I can't speak out of experience, but I think it can help with emotional regulation.


If you get bullied, you may have a fight-or-flight reactive response. However, how you react could make the situation better or worse through emotional regulation.


With mindfulness you also are a little bit more self-regulated. You're more aware of your surroundings and aware of your situations.


This situational awareness can keep you out of situations where you could get bullied.






















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