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A More Relaxed Way to Meditate | Alexis Santos
Episode 377
A common problem among type-A people is trying to win at meditation. But the practice doesn't work like that. If you over-effort, if you try to make …
4 years, 6 months ago
Letting Go of Perfectionism | La Sarmiento
Episode 376
In this episode, we're talking about the difference between kindness and what our guest, La Sarmiento, calls "radical kindness," how to muster the st…
4 years, 6 months ago
Reversing the Golden Rule | Jamil Zaki
Episode 375
In this episode we're talking about how what you believe— about yourself, or about the world — can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So if you belie…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Evolutionary Case for Kindness | Dacher Keltner
Episode 374
Here's a question: Is there an evolutionary advantage to being kind? Our guest today is Dacher Keltner, an eminent scientist who will make the case …
4 years, 6 months ago
Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola
Episode 373
Stress – which many of us despise and try to avoid – does not actually have to be a bad thing. Rather, it's our relationship to stress, our mindset a…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin Dunbar
Episode 372
Friendship might not necessarily be something you've considered to be an urgent psychological and physiological issue. On this show, we spend a lot o…
4 years, 7 months ago
Improving Your Relationships - Buddhist Style | Martine Batchelor
This great deep-Dharma episode is all about using an ancient, fascinating, and readily-accessible Buddhist concept as a way to improve your interacti…
4 years, 7 months ago
Help, Work Sucks | Cal Newport
Episode 371
A lot of us right now would probably agree that the technologies meant to make our jobs easier are actually stressing us out. (Think: the email and S…
4 years, 7 months ago
How Do You Love Without Being Attached? | Kevin Griffin
Episode 370
In this episode we're tackling some thorny dharma questions. For example: How do you love someone without attachment? How do you love yourself when t…
4 years, 7 months ago
How To End The War With Your Body | Sonya Renee Taylor
Episode 369
It is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies -- trying to live up to the people we see in the mov…
4 years, 7 months ago