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November 13, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Choosing The Roles We Play in Life
If you’re the kind of person who listens to mental health podcasts, you’re more likely than average to get pulled into an impromptu “helping role” with your family and friends. Sometimes we seek out these roles, but they can also be uncomfortable or one-sided. And sometimes we get stuck playing a role for someone else that we never wanted in the first place.
On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and Dr. Rick use this situation as a way in to exploring...
November 10, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace Guided Meditation
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 50-minute talk about Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace Guided Meditation with guest teacher Stephen Snyder.
Stephen Snyder began daily meditation and retreat practice in 1976. He was authorized to teach in 2007, and he is the author of Demystifying Awakening, Buddha’s Heart, and co-author of Practicing the Jhanas. His teaching schedule can be located at AwakeningDharma.org.
I hope you find it...
November 6, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Authentically Developing Self-Worth
It’s one thing to feel good about what we do, and another to feel truly worthy from the inside out. When we increase our self-worth it allows us to take our needs more seriously, get on our own side, and change our lives for the better.
On this episode of Being Well, Rick and Forrest explore how we can develop a more durable sense of self-worth. They talk about self-worth vs. self-esteem, what causes people to lack self-worth, Rick’s personal story of...
November 4, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 28-minute meditation and a 44-minute talk and discussion about Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships Talk: Four Ways to Help Yourself ...October 31, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Deepening Practice, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo
Diego Perez, widely known by his pen name Yung Pueblo, joins Forrest to explore how we can enrich our personal practice, refine the mind, break old patterns, relax the self, and feel lighter than we were before.
This was one of my absolute favorite conversations I’ve had on the podcast, and being with Diego was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
About our Guest: Diego Perez is a poet, meditator, and New York Times bestselling author...
October 27, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk and discussion about Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships Talk: Letting Go of Problematic B...October 25, 2022
Lower the Pressure
Is it truly urgent?
The Practice:
Lower the pressure.
Why?
Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days. Phones ring, texts buzz, emails pile up, new balls have to be juggled, work days lengthen and move into evenings and weekends, traffic gets denser, financial demands feel like a knife at the neck, ads and news clamor for attention, push push push PUSH.
On top of these external pressures, we deal with internal ones as well. These include all the inner “shoulds,” “mu...
October 23, 2022
Being Well Podcast: How to Forgive Yourself
We all make mistakes in life. When we do it’s important to take appropriate responsibility, feel the “wince,” and make amends as we can. But after we’ve done that…then what? Many people find it easier to forgive others than they do to truly forgive themselves, and it’s not uncommon to be burdened by excessive shame and guilt that has outlived its expiration date.
On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest explore forgiveness, including how we can forgive our...
October 21, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation and a 43-minute talk and discussion about Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your RelationshipsTalk: Skillful and Unskillful Pati...
October 18, 2022
Lived By Love
What’s carrying you?
The Practice:
Lived by love.
Why?
Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love.
Explicitly, this means coming from love in a broad sense, from compassion, good intentions, self-control, warmth, finding what to like, caring, connecting, and kindness.
Implicitly and more fundamentally, this practice means a relaxed opening into the love – in a very, very broad sense – that is the actual nature of everything. Moment by moment, ...
