Stimulus & Response

Stimulus & Response

By Damon Valentino and Jeremy N. SmithAlternative HealthHealth & FitnessReligion & SpiritualityEducationSelf-ImprovementSpirituality
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Stimulus & Response episodes

  • 28. Nailing the Ending (with guest writer, editor, and personal mythmaker Nirmala Nataraj)
    Endings—and beginnings. The many connotations of “Where are you from?” Model minority. Inside an outsider. Myth, liberation, and mental illness. Childhood vigilance -> lucid dreaming. “Intimate relationship with my inner life.” The tension between self-protection and connection. Collective creative work. Stargazing as a moral and spiritual compass. Integration + intention = good endings. Learning what you’re taught. Rites of passage. Sobriety. Rest -> renew.
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    Nirmala: https://nirmalanataraj.com
    Foreign Bodies: https://foreignbodies.net
    Marion Woodman, “Leaving My Father’s House”: https://www.shambhala.com/leaving-my-father-s-house.html
    George Smoot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot
    1 hr
  • 10. Alone Together
    Unit of self. Are we separate from everyone and everything else, or are we all connected? Fingers on a hand. Forced isolation = famine. Catch. Keith Sawyer on group flow. Us-vs.-them-ism. Tonglen meditation. Comparing chickadees. “A human being is having this feeling.” The best—and worst—I can do. Wall of wins. We’re all in this together. Being with. (Original air date: 8/3/2020)
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    “The Social Brain and Its Superpowers” (Matthew Lieberman TedX talk): https://youtu.be/NNhk3owF7RQ
    “What Mel Brooks Can Teach Us about ‘Group Flow’” by Keith Sawyer: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_mel_brooks_can_teach_us_about_group_flow/
    Jeremy’s book on community farming, “Growing a Garden City”: http://jeremynsmith.com/growing-a-garden-city.html
    “How to Practice Tonglen” by Pema Chödrön: https://www.lionsroar.com/how-to-practice-tonglen/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x95ltQP8qQ
    Quote Jeremy attributed to his sister attributing to Maya Angelou: “The best a person can do, I can do. And the worst a person can do, I can do.”
    “Cosmic Eye”(Google scales of the universe) video: https://youtu.be/8Are9dDbW24
    “You Would Rather Endure Electric Shocks Than Sit Alone With Your Thoughts, Study Finds”: https://time.com/2950919/alone-with-thoughts/
    Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of Understanding,” on “interbeing”: “If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. If we look even more deeply, we can see the sunshine, the logger who cut the tree, the wheat that became his bread, and the logger’s father and mother. Without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist. In fact, we cannot point to one thing that is not here—time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat, the mind. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. So we can say that the cloud and the paper ‘inter-are.’ We cannot just be by ourselves alone; we have to inter-be with every other thing.”
    41 min
  • 8. Feelings Management
    Anger—and every other feeling—management. Feelings as information and alarm bells. “Name it to tame it” and the "description prescription.” Emotional ID and body scan -> create space. Meeting conflict hack: “That’s a big statement. I’m going to need a moment to process that.” Triple loop learning. Personal philosophy and daily intentions = roots. A user manual for yourself. The practice zone and the performance zone. The video camera test. Chattering teeth. The blow hole. I am this feeling -> This feeling is happening to me -> This feeling is happening. (Original air date: 7/20/2020)
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    “Triple Loop Learning”: https://medium.com/vertical-learning/triple-loop-learning-c2193dba794f & https://educationtechnologysolutions.com/2017/03/triple-loop-learning/
    Adam Bryant and Adam Grant on creating your own “user manual”: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/business/questbacks-lead-strategist-on-his-user-manual.html & https://www.adamgrant.net/wondering-archives (scroll down)
    Michael Gervais on “Living in Alignment with Your Personal Philosophy”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/living-alignment-your-personal-philosophy-michael-gervais/
    Google study on the #1 metric for high-performing teams: psychological safety: https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-spent-years-studying-effective-teams-this-single-quality-contributed-most-to-their-success.html
    56 min
  • 6. Secret Garden
    Cover story and secret garden. Potluck introductions. Silicon Valley TedTalk squirt gun fight. Our multiple avatars. Secret garden examples. Autotelic flow consciousness state. Persistence, curiosity, low ego, and collaboration. Exploration world vs. productivity world. “Yes and” mentality. Being present vs. being in control. “The stories we follow follow us.” Choosing or being chosen? Social media. What does it mean to be productive? Suck! Can you make your secret garden your cover story? Can your mindset be your secret garden? (Original air date: 6/29/2020)
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    Matt Mullins/Black Rooster Productions: https://vimeo.com/mattmullins
    “Suck at Something” by Karen Rinaldi: https://bookshop.org/books/it-s-great-to-suck-at-something-the-unexpected-joy-of-wiping-out-and-what-it-can-teach-us-about-patience-resilience-and-the-stuff-that-really-matte-9781508266785/9781501195761
    “How to embrace the suck and develop mental toughness”: https://medium.com/superhuman-by-science/how-to-embrace-the-suck-and-develop-mental-toughness-68305776d6d1
    Jason’s cover story: “I’m trying to live a low-stress lifestyle.”
    40 min
  • 11. Deep Time
    Pandemic time. “I’m doing the wrong thing. I’m doing it wrong. And I’m way behind.” Yesterday and tomorrow. Engagement and graduation. My grandmother, the one-year-old. Flying cars—and back to fire. Geologic time scale. Why zebras don’t get ulcers. Simultaneity. The miracle—and trauma—of being born. The book of everything that ever will have happened. Do you need to be remembered? Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond. What’s left in the pot. Playing with my daughter. “When things feel big, go small.” (Original air date: 8/10/2020)
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    Geologic time scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
    “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky: https://bookshop.org/books/why-zebras-don-t-get-ulcers-revised-and-updated/9780805073690
    Heart sutra (Prajñāpāramitā) mantra: http://visiblemantra.org/heart.html & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vNbEjdfJCI
    52 min
  • Brief Announcement
    In the weeks ahead, we're doing some behind-the-scenes stuff for the show, but we wanted to keep the feed coming, so we're going to offer a mix of previous episodes and new guided meditations.
    We hope you enjoy. Please keep spreading the word and sharing your feedback.
    Thanks!
    1 min
  • BONUS: Relax to Sleep Guided Hypnosis
    Relax to Sleep Guided Hypnosis by Dr. Leanne Lawrence, with vocal talent Laura Lockwood. ****DO NOT LISTEN where a driver or a person operating machinery might hear it.****
    Leanne Lawrence “Mind Manual Meditation & Hypnosis” YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxd6unhqrMA8GHfpP96UrQ
    21 min
  • 27. Help from Hypnosis (with guest medical doctor and hypnotist Leanne Lawrence)
    “A leaflet blew into my hand.” Stress and snoring—solved! Hypnosis patient to practitioner. Hypnosis for PTSD, high blood pressure, and kidney failure. Positive relaxation. Hypnosis = guided meditation. The seasick surfer. “I like to think of it as going into the settings on your phone.” Performance + deep recovery. Hypnosis in politics and advertising. Hypnothoughts in Vegas. 97% of daily actions are not choices. Paving neural highways. How to try hypnosis.
    Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
    Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
    Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
    Leanne Lawrence “Mind Manual Meditation & Hypnosis” YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxd6unhqrMA8GHfpP96UrQ
    “Psychology Today” on Hypnosis: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/hypnosis
    Hypnothoughts Conference: https://htlive.net
    John Moyer YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCplENmIrdL3QtCb7cO-Qp7w
    Michael Sealey YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelSealey
    41 min

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Part public therapy session, part idea and story exchange, on the best parts and best ways of being human and being alive. Hosted by high performance coach Damon Valentino and journalist and author…