4/11/2024 0 Comments Synergy wellness leonard leinowAnd kind of two reasons I wrote the book. We all need not just the external resources, but the internal resources. ![]() If we’re awake and if we’re feeling, it’s challenging, it’s painful, it’s scary. There’s a saying for a reason, “ignorance is bliss.” It’s a lot easier to go through the world in some ways with our eyes closed and our heart shut. I feel like it’s really hard to be alive and conscious on the planet today. It’s difficult to be a human being in many ways in 2023.Ĭhris Kresser: Tell me a little bit about the genesis of this book and what inspired you to write it. Just the converging challenges of the economic and ecological crisis, as we just mentioned, (AI), social media, technology. And I do feel like there’s something that’s uniquely true about that in our time. And I imagine that at various times in history, if we’re students of history, we know this is true, that people often remark that their own time is the craziest time and things are changing too fast. The polarization that we see in social media, the rancor and bitterness of dialogue around all kinds of topics, the global ecological economic crises that we’re facing, inflation, people looking at their bill when they leave the grocery store in disbelief how much it costs just to feed your family. Thanks for having me here.Ĭhris Kresser: I was really excited to see your latest book come out because we’re living in a time where most of the people I know feel like proverbial frogs in the boiling water, where it just seems like everything is intensifying. Let’s dive in.Ĭhris Kresser: Oren, my friend, been a long time. So I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. More specifically, we’re going to talk about his ecumenical approach to cultivating healthy mental and emotional qualities and connections to social change, including the health benefits of reducing stress and anxiety, engaging with burnout, and an overall orientation to health and well-being as a tangible and realistic goal in this pretty hectic world that we’re living in today. And that’s going to be the subject of our conversation in this episode. ![]() He has a new book out called Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity & Love, which I think is an extremely relevant title and concept for the world that we’re living in today. One of his best-known titles is Say What You Mean A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, which we talked about a couple of years back on the show. He teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and communication internationally, holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University, is a certified trainer of nonviolent communication, and a somatic experiencing practitioner for healing of trauma. I’ve known him for many years, and we used to work together in various capacities. This week, I’m joined by Oren Jay Sofer, who is a good friend of mine. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. Get 15% off your order at /Chris with the code KRESSER15.Get your free LMNT Recharge Sample Pack when you purchase any LMNT product at /lmnt.Follow Chris on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.If you’d like to ask a question for Chris to answer in a future episode, submit it here.Follow Oren Jay Sofer on Instagram Learn more about the Adapt Naturals Core Plus bundle or take our quiz to see which individual products best suit your needs.Say What You Mean: a Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer.Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity & Love by Oren Jay Sofer.How becoming a parent has affected Oren’s work and outlook on life.The three key principles for trauma-informed practice and why they are important.The relationship between individual action and social change, and the role of contemplative practice in collective transformation.How to define contemplative practice and its relevance to challenges we’re facing in our world today. ![]() Why attention is so important and some of the challenges around cultivating it.Qualities that are essential to personal and social transformation-like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy.What inspired Oren to write a book on this topic.
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