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October 20, 2023
Meditation + Talk: The Power of Love in Turbulent Times
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 45-minute talk about The Power of Love in Turbulent Times.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – which are open to everyone!
Meditation: The Power of Love in Turbulent Times Talk: The Power of Love in Turbulent Times ...
October 16, 2023
Being Well Podcast: How to Become Self-Confident
In today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how we can improve our self-confidence, which helps us become psychologically flexible and create healthy boundaries with other people.
They explain why becoming better at something doesn’t always make us more confident, the two paths of gaining confidence and releasing insecurity, and how we can release insecurity over time. They then talk about the differences between confide...
October 13, 2023
Meditation + Talk: Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Events
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 45-minute talk about Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Events.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – which are open to everyone!
Meditation: Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Events Talk: Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Even...Meditation + Talk: Bringing Wisdom to our Reactions to World Events
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 45-minute talk about Bringing Wisdom to our Reactions to World Events.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – which are open to everyone!
Meditation: Bringing Wisdom to our Reactions to World Events Talk: Bringing Wisdom to our Reactions to World Even...October 9, 2023
Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Perspective
How we view ourselves, other people, and the world around us has a huge impact on the emotions we feel, the choices we make, and the quality of the lives we lead. These are our perspectives, and they’re the foundation our lives are built on…which is why changing them is so freakin’ hard.
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Rick explore what perspectives are, what a healthy perspective looks like in practice, and how we can deliberat...
October 6, 2023
Meditation + Talk: Two Fundamental Realities – 1. We Will All Die; 2. We Know Not When
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation, a 53-minute talk, and a discussion on Two Fundamental Realities – 1. We Will All Die; 2. We Know Not When.
Daniel Ellenberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, leadership coach, and the founder of Strength with Heart men’s groups and workshops. He is a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA) division on men and masculinities and the founder/director of the Men and Boys Compassion Initiative through the Global...
Meditation + Talk: Two Fundamental Realities – 1 We Will All Die, 2 We Know Not When
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation, a 53-minute talk, and a discussion on Two Fundamental Realities – 1 We Will All Die, 2 We Know Not When.
Daniel Ellenberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist, leadership coach, and the founder of Strength with Heart men’s groups and workshops. He is a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA) division on men and masculinities and the founder/director of the Men and Boys Compassion Initiative through the Global C...
October 3, 2023
Come to Center
To what is your mind given?
The Practice:
Come to center.
Why?
I’m old enough to remember a time when people usually answered “good” when you asked them the standard, “How are you?” (often said “harya?”). These days the answer is commonly “busy.”
I know what it feels like to get very busy and start to feel dispersed: juggling a dozen priorities at any moment, attention skittering from one thing to another, body revved up, feeling stretched thin and spread out like being squished betw...
October 2, 2023
Being Well Podcast: Creating a Healthy Relationship (With Yourself) with Najwa Zebian
“The mistake most of us make is building our homes in other people. When we do that, we give them the power to make us homeless.” Poet, activist, and author Najwa Zebian joins Forrest on this episode of the Being Well Podcast for a conversation focused on discovering what truly matters to us.
They use Najwa’s personal story as a way to explore how we can break out of the roles others place us in, create healthy boundaries, and feel worthy from the insi...
September 29, 2023
Meditation + Talk: How Mindful Awareness of Emotional Pleasure and Pain Can Break the Chain of Suffering
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 48-minute talk about How Mindful Awareness of Emotional Pleasure and Pain Can Break the Chain of Suffering.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – which are open to everyone!
Meditation: How Mindful Awareness of Emotional Pleasure and Pain Can Break the Chain of Suffering
