Dave Evans
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2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I can make it more available.
And anytime I'm in flow, I'm in the present moment.
And that's a good place to be.
Yes, as it turns out, transactional thinking and the transactional world that we spend a lot of our time in almost invariably is future-oriented about the outcome that is yet to be realized.
And so one of the reasons flow is an antidote to transactionality is I have to be – as soon as I start thinking about the other thing, I fall out of flow.
Yes, so when we talk about this reframing of there's really two worlds out there.
In fact, we actually know from neurological research, especially the research done by Lisa Miller at Columbia, that these two halves of your brain are fundamentally wired differently.
There's what she calls the achieving brain, and there's the awakened brain, and they're quite different.
The achieving brain is always working in a system, has always got a closed-end outcome, and it's going for those results.
And the achieving brain is getting an awful lot of stimulation these days.
The awakened brain is present to that present moment.
And so the mindfulness movement, you know, these various practices, one of the things we're...
Reminding people is don't turn those into transactions too.
We watch a lot of people turn their practice into yet another transaction.
I had a really good sit this morning.
I nailed my yoga practice.
I had a personal best in yoga today.
Okay, you just turned a practice into a performance.
As opposed to realizing while you're walking along, yes, you can have a walking meditation.
You can have a chopping meditation.
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