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Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

the meditation practice and i have an app with all my guided meditations on it so called jkz meditations in the app store people can download these kinds of things and but the real thing is like easy to download something not so easy to actually do it every morning and wake up and actually first thing after you brush your teeth is brush your mind and just purify so to speak or recognize the original purity of your own mind so you don't have to do anything but

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

The formal meditation practice and the formal yoga practice, which also follows that for me every day, it's like tuning the instrument before you take it out on the road to play. And even the greatest musicians in orchestras with the greatest instruments and playing the greatest music in the world, they all tune their instruments before they play.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

The formal meditation practice and the formal yoga practice, which also follows that for me every day, it's like tuning the instrument before you take it out on the road to play. And even the greatest musicians in orchestras with the greatest instruments and playing the greatest music in the world, they all tune their instruments before they play.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

The formal meditation practice and the formal yoga practice, which also follows that for me every day, it's like tuning the instrument before you take it out on the road to play. And even the greatest musicians in orchestras with the greatest instruments and playing the greatest music in the world, they all tune their instruments before they play.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And they tune to their own ear, and then they tune to each other's instruments. And that's what formal meditation practice is. And then when you get off your ass, off your cushion or chair or lying down doing body scan and your yoga, you take that into the world so that it's not like an hour or two of meditation. It's no life is the real meditation practice. Life is the real curriculum.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And they tune to their own ear, and then they tune to each other's instruments. And that's what formal meditation practice is. And then when you get off your ass, off your cushion or chair or lying down doing body scan and your yoga, you take that into the world so that it's not like an hour or two of meditation. It's no life is the real meditation practice. Life is the real curriculum.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And they tune to their own ear, and then they tune to each other's instruments. And that's what formal meditation practice is. And then when you get off your ass, off your cushion or chair or lying down doing body scan and your yoga, you take that into the world so that it's not like an hour or two of meditation. It's no life is the real meditation practice. Life is the real curriculum.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And then every body movement is yoga. Everything you do, sitting down, standing up, hugging your children, whatever it is, it's like, are you here for it or not? If you're here for it, it's yoga, it's meditation. And it's also in that moment, which is the only moment we're ever alive, it's liberating.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And then every body movement is yoga. Everything you do, sitting down, standing up, hugging your children, whatever it is, it's like, are you here for it or not? If you're here for it, it's yoga, it's meditation. And it's also in that moment, which is the only moment we're ever alive, it's liberating.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

And then every body movement is yoga. Everything you do, sitting down, standing up, hugging your children, whatever it is, it's like, are you here for it or not? If you're here for it, it's yoga, it's meditation. And it's also in that moment, which is the only moment we're ever alive, it's liberating.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

Well, the radical way is to just look at it deeply. Most people don't want to look at their suffering. Get me out of here. I'll go to the movies. Anything to distract me from the suffering. So mindfulness is a kind of, as I said, a radical act of sanity and love.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

Well, the radical way is to just look at it deeply. Most people don't want to look at their suffering. Get me out of here. I'll go to the movies. Anything to distract me from the suffering. So mindfulness is a kind of, as I said, a radical act of sanity and love.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

Well, the radical way is to just look at it deeply. Most people don't want to look at their suffering. Get me out of here. I'll go to the movies. Anything to distract me from the suffering. So mindfulness is a kind of, as I said, a radical act of sanity and love.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

But part of the radical nature of it, and you'll know this from your work with the Navy SEALs, is you turn towards and move into what you most want to just run from. Yes. Okay. But you do it in a way that's actually loving. It's not trying to get a result. It's realizing that we're too attached to our narratives around results. And so let's just do it to investigate.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

But part of the radical nature of it, and you'll know this from your work with the Navy SEALs, is you turn towards and move into what you most want to just run from. Yes. Okay. But you do it in a way that's actually loving. It's not trying to get a result. It's realizing that we're too attached to our narratives around results. And so let's just do it to investigate.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

But part of the radical nature of it, and you'll know this from your work with the Navy SEALs, is you turn towards and move into what you most want to just run from. Yes. Okay. But you do it in a way that's actually loving. It's not trying to get a result. It's realizing that we're too attached to our narratives around results. And so let's just do it to investigate.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

What is this stuff that's driving me crazy? And then you can ask very elementary questions. Is my awareness of my anger, for instance, if anger is the big thing in the moment, and you catch it right in the middle of some murderous impulse in your family, is my awareness of my anger angry? It's never angry. The awareness is never angry.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

What is this stuff that's driving me crazy? And then you can ask very elementary questions. Is my awareness of my anger, for instance, if anger is the big thing in the moment, and you catch it right in the middle of some murderous impulse in your family, is my awareness of my anger angry? It's never angry. The awareness is never angry.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

What is this stuff that's driving me crazy? And then you can ask very elementary questions. Is my awareness of my anger, for instance, if anger is the big thing in the moment, and you catch it right in the middle of some murderous impulse in your family, is my awareness of my anger angry? It's never angry. The awareness is never angry.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jon Kabat-Zinn on Why You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Feel | EP 619

Well, why am I choosing to go with the anger rather than the awareness? Take another example is anxiety because, and even if you scratch the surface of anger, what you're really gonna find underneath is fear. It's always fear. So let's put the welcome medal for our fear or anxiety and just invite it into the present moment. How's it feel in your body? Where is it in your body? Is it in your jaw?