Master meditation teacher Robert Beatty walks us through: the basics of meditation, how to start a meditation practice, principles of mindfulness, understating the roots of suffering, how concentrating on the breath can lead to insight, and healthy vs unhealthy coping.
Guest Bio: Robert Beatty is co-author of Mindfulness for a Happy Life as well as founder and guiding teacher of the Portland Insight Meditation Community. He has worked with thousands of students and, as a practicing therapist, has created a unique synthesis of Buddhist methods of awakening and healing and those of western psychotherapy.
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We discuss:
Why Cultural Context Matters | Patient care and clinician burnout
Kicking The Can Down The Road | How to break up with deciding not to decide
How to Create a Team in 10 Seconds | Why time is not linear and every second not worth the same
Thinking Outside Your Retirement Account | working harder vs creating value
Phantasia Kataleptike | The secret skill of Stoicism
Making the trade | How to know when it's time to change careers
Default Mode Network vs. Task Positive Network | How our brains balance mind wandering and focused attention
Moral Injury | The crossroads of conscience
117. From Chaos to Control | Taming the tempest of task saturation
116. Resistance | How to crack inertia
115. Zero Warning | Scott Weingart on frameworks for no-notice critical patients
114. An Insider’s Guide to Medical Malpractice | Why the US system is so peculiar and how to navigate the morass
113. Understanding Healthy (and Unhealthy) Relationship Dynamics
112. Pizza doesn’t work | An evidence-based intervention that reduced physician burnout and increased job satisfaction
111. Does Private Equity Belong in Medicine?
110. A Strategy Mid-Shift Overwhelm | Conquer the deluge and get home on time
109. Is Your Identity Holding You Back?
108. How To Not Argue With Reality | The paradox of accepting the present moment, even when seems really sh*tty
107. The Power of Lightly Held Beliefs | Bitcoin enemas, cold exposure, and the law of speedy gains
106. The Drama Triangle | Rewriting the script for conflict and broken communication
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