Name: Debbie Millman: Fail Safe by brainpicker in Brainpicker
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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This meditation is based on the Mindful-Self Compassion program developed by Dr. Kristen Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer. To learn more about their program, please visit their websites: www.self-compassion.org and www.mindfulselfcompassion.org

Self-Compassion Break

Recorded at the Books at Noon program at The New York Public Library. Details and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/19/eve-ensler-nypl/

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Eve Ensler on how trauma makes us disconnect from ourselves

Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman about courage, anxiety, change, creative integrity,  how to dance with the fear, and more. Background and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/20/seth-godin-debbie-millman-interview/

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Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman

This is a brief variation on the Compassionate Self Imagery practice recorded during a training by Dr.  Dennis Tirch. Any mild background noise is just a part of the nature of this "field recording." With metta, DT

Compassionate Self - 12 Minute Variation

Candida is a hot word in the health community and hundreds of thousands of people are being diagnosed with it every year. Yet it is severely misunderstood and this lack of understanding is wreaking havoc on our health. Tune in with Anthony William today to learn the real truth about candida.

The Truth About Candida

The inner child is a vital part of you that should be nurtured and treasured. We explain exactly what the inner child is, how it can impact your adult life choices and potential, and simple steps to work with and heal your inner child.

With practical emotional and spiritual advice and tips from ordained Taoist master and experienced inner child therapist, David James Lees. 

In EPISODE #18 of our Walk the Wu Wei series, we demystify the inner child. You’ll learn how unresolved inner child issues can impact your physical and emotional wellbeing, and how to work with your inner child for greater health and happiness. 

You’ll discover: 

~  the powerful Taoist spiritual teaching on the inner child

~ why the inner child is NOT your enemy or separate from you 

~ how childhood events can block, stagnate and ‘lock in’ the energy of your inner child, and how this can still profoundly affect you as an adult

~ how to spot when your blocked inner child is affecting your thoughts, actions and emotions

~ why doing inner child work is vital to your emotional and spiritual development 

~ how to communicate with, guide and heal your inner child so that together you can become a formidable team

~ tips for practising compassionate self-discipline to help you educate and mature your inner child

Ordained Taoist master and therapist, David James Lees, and life-coach, Alexandra Lees, share their inspirational Wu Wei Wisdom on the real-life challenges faced by their clients and community members in their Walk the Wu Wei series.

We welcome your comments and questions about your own life experience and challenges.

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The Inner Child Explained - Walk The Wu Wei #018

Exploring difficult emotions and experiences may be the key to loosening their hold over us. Try this 10-minute mindfulness practice from Patricia Rockman, MD.

Tame Feelings of Shame with this 10-Minute Practice

Short 3 stage breathing space with Josephine Lynch.   A gentle practice that can be easily incorporated into the every day.

Josephine Lynch Breathing Space (6 Mins)

Become available for healing, forgiveness and a deeper connection with others.

This 15 minute guided meditation asks you to smile! This may seem an unusual practice however it is a rather beautiful way to open a connection to your heart which is the centre for healing and forgiveness. The intention of this meditation is to open your heart which allows you to connect more deeply to your own truth and to open lines of communication with others.

Open Heart Meditation

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/helen-fagin-walt-whitman/

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101-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Fagin reads Walt Whitman

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/18/tolstoy-reading-rare-1909-recording/

The fascinating story of A Calendar of Wisdom, with selected highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/15/a-calendar-of-wisdom-tolstoy/

Leo Tolstoy reads from "A Calendar of Wisdom," 1909

Excerpt from Orwell's fantastic 1946 essay outlining his 11 "golden" rules of tea perfection: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/14/george-orwell-a-nice-cup-of-tea/

George Orwell on how to make the perfect cup of tea

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

This is the fourth and final talk in a series titled “The Mind, Mindfulness, & Me”.
Here we examine the spiritual paradigm which should be foundational to how we live in and interact with the world.  

You are an eternal spiritual being, the seer, the inhabitant of the body.  Your presence makes it so that your body exhibits symptoms of life.  When you leave the body, the true nature of the body manifests as dead matter. But you also have another covering, a subtle body, comprised of the mind, the intelligence, and the false ego or false concept of the ‘self’.

We all possess a wonderful higher faculty, the intelligence or Buddhi.  This faculty empowers us to be able to step back from the mind, even at times when the mind is overwhelmed by heightened emotions, and effectively control the mind.  Mindfulness means to use this faculty to control the mind rather than having the mind control me. When this happens (being controlled by the mind) the soul is considered lost. The Bhagavat Purana says:

“This uncontrolled mind is the greatest enemy of the living entity. If one neglects it or gives it a chance, it will grow more and more powerful and will become victorious. Although it is not factual, it is very strong. It covers the constitutional position of the self/atma.”  BP 5.11.17

A wonderful verse from the Katha Upanisad paints the big picture:

"The individual is the passenger in the chariot of the material body, and intelligence is the driver. Mind is the driving instrument, and the senses are the horses. The self is thus the enjoyer or sufferer in the association of the mind and senses. So it is understood by great thinkers."   Katha Upanisad 1.3.3-4

4 The Body Is A Chariot

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

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