The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

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October 20, 2015097: Mike Peters of the Alarm
This week we talk to Mike Peters
Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. Between 2011 and 2013, Peters was the vocalist for Big Country as well as The Alarm.
A two time cancer survivor he founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The Foundation has found close to 1000 potentially life saving bone marrow donor matches; built the first ever children’s cancer center in Tanzania; supported the Bhaktapur Cancer Center in Nepal with life saving equipment and registered over 60,000 donors through it’s ‘Get On the List’ program.
Eric caught up with Mike in Akron on his tour supporting the 30th anniversary of the classic Strength album.

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In This Interview Mike and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
Feeding the positive side of our personality
Treating people the way we want to be treated
Seeing both sides of the story
Seeing The Clash and The Sex Pistols in 1977
Meeting Johnny Rotten and Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer teaching Mike to be positive
Creating an empowering message for the audience
What the song Strength means to him 30 years later
His 20 year battle with cancer
The Love Hope Strength Foundation
His approach to handling cancer
The power of music
Where he turns when he is struggling internally
The meaning of the song Blaze of Glory
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40 min
October 13, 2015 Michael Taft: Meditation and Mindfulness for Geeks
This week we talk to Michael Taft about better mediation Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including The Mindful Geek, and Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. He has taught at Google and worked on curriculum development for SIYLI. Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, a site for exploring what evolution, neuroscience, biology, psychology, archeology, and technology can tell us about the human condition, and was editorial director of Sounds True. Our Sponsor this Week is Spirituality and Health Magazine. Click here for your free trial issue and special offer. In This Interview Michael and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable How it takes awareness to know what wolf we are feeding Learning to meditate on emotional states Defining meditation The difference between meditation and mindfulness Making the unconscious conscious The misconceptions of meditation How meditation does not mean having no thoughts The Teletubbies That meditation is not always supposed to be blissful How there are more ways to meditate than just following the breath His teacher Shinzen Young The pillars of concentration, acceptance and sensory clarity Meditation and the Flow state For more show notes visit our website
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49 min
October 13, 2015 97: Michael Taft: Meditation and Mindfulness for Geeks
This week we talk to Michael Taft about better mediation Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including The Mindful Geek, and Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. He has taught at Google and worked on curriculum development for SIYLI. Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, a site for exploring what evolution, neuroscience, biology, psychology, archeology, and technology can tell us about the human condition, and was editorial director of Sounds True. Our Sponsor this Week is Spirituality and Health Magazine. Click here for your free trial issue and special offer. In This Interview Michael and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable How it takes awareness to know what wolf we are feeding Learning to meditate on emotional states Defining meditation The difference between meditation and mindfulness Making the unconscious conscious The misconceptions of meditation How meditation does not mean having no thoughts The Teletubbies That meditation is not always supposed to be blissful How there are more ways to meditate than just following the breath His teacher Shinzen Young The pillars of concentration, acceptance and sensory clarity Meditation and the Flow state For more show notes visit our website
43 min
October 13, 2015097: Michael Taft: Meditation and Mindfulness for Geeks
This week we talk to Michael Taft about better mediation
Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including The Mindful Geek, and Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.

He has taught at Google and worked on curriculum development for SIYLI. Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, a site for exploring what evolution, neuroscience, biology, psychology, archeology, and technology can tell us about the human condition, and was editorial director of Sounds True.

Our Sponsor this Week is Spirituality and Health Magazine. Click here for your free trial issue and special offer. In This Interview Michael and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable

How it takes awareness to know what wolf we are feeding

Learning to meditate on emotional states

Defining meditation

The difference between meditation and mindfulness

Making the unconscious conscious

The misconceptions of meditation

How meditation does not mean having no thoughts

The Teletubbies

That meditation is not always supposed to be blissful

How there are more ways to meditate than just following the breath

His teacher Shinzen Young

The pillars of concentration, acceptance and sensory clarity

Meditation and the Flow state

For more show notes visit our website
45 min
October 07, 2015 Casey Schwartz
This week we talk to Casey Schwartz about the science of neuropsychoanalysis

CASEY SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Brown University and has a Masters Degree in psychodynamic neuroscience from University College London. She has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. She lives in New York City.
Her first book is called In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis

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In This Interview Casey and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
What neuropsychanalysis is
Battling self doubt
The importance of asking others for help
The Don Draper approach to creativity
Taking a "mind bath"
The divide between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Freud's Boldest Idea: Transference
Mapping transference in the brain
The resurgence of the unconscious in current neuroscience research
Avoiding the temptation to boil us down to chemicals
Honoring the mystery of human life and behavior
Reductionism vs holism in science
The fantasy of the easy answer
The oversimplification of the role of the amygdala
The dangers of extrapolating animal studies to humans
Psychoanalysis on patients who have had brain damage
The uneven pathway of recovery
Starving neural pathways that separate thought from feeling

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39 min
October 07, 2015 96: Casey Schwartz
This week we talk to Casey Schwartz about the science of neuropsychoanalysis
CASEY SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Brown University and has a Masters Degree in psychodynamic neuroscience from University College London. She has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. She lives in New York City.
Her first book is called In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis

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In This Interview Casey and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
What neuropsychanalysis is
Battling self doubt
The importance of asking others for help
The Don Draper approach to creativity
Taking a "mind bath"
The divide between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Freud's Boldest Idea: Transference
Mapping transference in the brain
The resurgence of the unconscious in current neuroscience research
Avoiding the temptation to boil us down to chemicals
Honoring the mystery of human life and behavior
Reductionism vs holism in science
The fantasy of the easy answer
The oversimplification of the role of the amygdala
The dangers of extrapolating animal studies to humans
Psychoanalysis on patients who have had brain damage
The uneven pathway of recovery
Starving neural pathways that separate thought from feeling
For more show notes visit our website
32 min
October 07, 2015096: Casey Schwartz
This week we talk to Casey Schwartz about the science of neuropsychoanalysis
CASEY SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Brown University and has a Masters Degree in psychodynamic neuroscience from University College London. She has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. She lives in New York City.
Her first book is called In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis

Our Sponsor this Week is Athletic Greens
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In This Interview Casey and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
What neuropsychanalysis is
Battling self doubt
The importance of asking others for help
The Don Draper approach to creativity
Taking a "mind bath"
The divide between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Freud's Boldest Idea: Transference
Mapping transference in the brain
The resurgence of the unconscious in current neuroscience research
Avoiding the temptation to boil us down to chemicals
Honoring the mystery of human life and behavior
Reductionism vs holism in science
The fantasy of the easy answer
The oversimplification of the role of the amygdala
The dangers of extrapolating animal studies to humans
Psychoanalysis on patients who have had brain damage
The uneven pathway of recovery
Starving neural pathways that separate thought from feeling
For more show notes visit our website
35 min
September 29, 2015 Amy Banks
Amy Banks, M.D., has devoted her career to understanding the neurobiology of relationships. In addition to her work at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), she was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the first person to bring relational-cultural theory together with neuroscience and is the foremost expert in the combined field.
Amy is the creator of the C.A.R.E. Program, an easy to use, practical guide that helps clinicians and laypeople assess the quality of their relationships and strengthen their neural pathways for connection. Amy also has a private practice in Lexington, MA, that specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection. Most recently, Amy has joined the core group of Harville Hendrix’s Relationships First, a small group of prestigious scientists and cultural leaders who promote the idea that “healthy relationships are non-negotiable in a healthy society.”
Her latest book is: Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships
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In This Interview Amy and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
How feeding neurons means stimulating them
How culture can feed our bad wolf
The power of isolation & how it can lead to more sickness
How humans work best in healthy connection & interdependence with one another
The importance of identifying and building healthy relationships
The "5 good things" that exist in a healthy relationship
How boundaries in relationships are overrated
The 1 sign that you are at a 340% higher risk of premature death
The 4 neural pathways that function in the relationship realm

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56 min
September 29, 2015 95: Amy Banks
Amy Banks, M.D., has devoted her career to understanding the neurobiology of relationships. In addition to her work at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), she was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the first person to bring relational-cultural theory together with neuroscience and is the foremost expert in the combined field.
Amy is the creator of the C.A.R.E. Program, an easy to use, practical guide that helps clinicians and laypeople assess the quality of their relationships and strengthen their neural pathways for connection. Amy also has a private practice in Lexington, MA, that specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection. Most recently, Amy has joined the core group of Harville Hendrix’s Relationships First, a small group of prestigious scientists and cultural leaders who promote the idea that “healthy relationships are non-negotiable in a healthy society.”
Her latest book is: Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships
Our Sponsor this Week is Casper Matresses
Visit casper.com/feed and use the promo code "feed" to get $50 off!!
In This Interview Amy and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
How feeding neurons means stimulating them
How culture can feed our bad wolf
The power of isolation & how it can lead to more sickness
How humans work best in healthy connection & interdependence with one another
The importance of identifying and building healthy relationships
The "5 good things" that exist in a healthy relationship
How boundaries in relationships are overrated
The 1 sign that you are at a 340% higher risk of premature death
The 4 neural pathways that function in the relationship realm
For more show notes visit our website
48 min
September 29, 2015095: Amy Banks
Amy Banks, M.D., has devoted her career to understanding the neurobiology of relationships. In addition to her work at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), she was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the first person to bring relational-cultural theory together with neuroscience and is the foremost expert in the combined field.
Amy is the creator of the C.A.R.E. Program, an easy to use, practical guide that helps clinicians and laypeople assess the quality of their relationships and strengthen their neural pathways for connection. Amy also has a private practice in Lexington, MA, that specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection. Most recently, Amy has joined the core group of Harville Hendrix’s Relationships First, a small group of prestigious scientists and cultural leaders who promote the idea that “healthy relationships are non-negotiable in a healthy society.”
Her latest book is: Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships
Our Sponsor this Week is Casper Matresses
Visit casper.com/feed and use the promo code "feed" to get $50 off!!
In This Interview Amy and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
How feeding neurons means stimulating them
How culture can feed our bad wolf
The power of isolation & how it can lead to more sickness
How humans work best in healthy connection & interdependence with one another
The importance of identifying and building healthy relationships
The "5 good things" that exist in a healthy relationship
How boundaries in relationships are overrated
The 1 sign that you are at a 340% higher risk of premature death
The 4 neural pathways that function in the relationship realm
For more show notes visit our website
51 min

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