Trusting Life: A Spiritual Journey With Heart and Mind
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Release Date: 09/09/2021
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence With Heart And Mind
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence with both our hearts and our mind’s intellectual capacities reveals unexpected, powerful, and compelling ideas, as detailed in this episode.
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Reassessing Social Media With Heart and Mind
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Show Notes for Episode 27 Our social media engagement adds value to our lives, at least that’s what it’s supposed to do. This episode explores some of the hidden aspects of social media that affect our experience and our children’s encounters. Exercises: Ways to think about the ideas developed in the episode: 1) The episode reviews several ways screens capture our attention, including the power in the machines themselves and the ways advertisers and creators use bells, whistles, and notifications to keep us engaged. a) How do you...
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Reversing physician burnout with heart and mind
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Physician burnout is a widespread problem, and it can be reversed. This episode shows how thinking with heart and mind opens the door. Reversing physician burnout is vitally important to each of us. We are all patients. Exercises for interested physicians based on the episode: 1) What would you like your patients to say about your medical practice? How close are you to being that physician? What would you have to change? 2) Should thinking with the heart play a role in medicine? How much of a role does heart-based thinking play in your practice? 3) Do you think there is value in preparing for...
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Mental well-being with heart and mind (Part 2 of 2)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Show Notes for Episode 25 Mental well-being partially depends on how we feel about ourselves independent of our actions. This episode offers ways to strengthen this aspect of our mental well-being. Exercises based on the episode: 1) Appreciate the idea that you are lovable and deserving of love, independent of anyone’s words or actions. 2) How differently you would feel if you knew you were loved for who you are? 3) How many different ways could you open to love?4) What using love as a tool mean to you. How could you change your life using this tool? Note: Click .
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Mental well-being with heart and mind (Part 1 0f 2)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Show Notes for Episode 24 Mental well-being partially depends on how we feel about our relationships and our handling of the practical details of life. This episode offers ways to strengthen this aspect of our mental well-being. Exercises based on the episode: 1) Think about your life’s practical affairs. Do you often feel personal failure when outer events don’t go your way? a) If this is a pattern, imagine letting go of this way of responding to your life’s challenges. b) If you see value in making this change, work at implementing this and at healing old scars. Change...
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Navigating political differences with heart and mind
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Is it possible to maintain differing viewpoints and, at the same time, not lose our human connection? This episode says it’s not only possible, it’s important and provides insights into maintaining these bonds. Exercises for Episode 23 1) Remember a time when you interacted with a group of people without knowing their political views. Chose a positive experience. This could be a memory of a vacation, a work experience, or it could be from childhood. a) Split this group into two and arbitrarily assign each to opposing political parties. Would it be harder to play as enjoyably with this...
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Thinking through relationships with heart and mind (Part 3 of 3)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Show Notes for Episode 22 When we use heart and mind to think through our relationships with our partners, spouses, children, and parents we can create richer and deeper connections. We are fully ourselves. It’s the art of living well. An exercise: review the key points in the episode Partners and spouses: • Remember that we chose to live together to enhance our lives. • Consider regular meetings to discuss the specific challenges of living together. Spouses: • Trusting each other with your hearts Children: • Raising them to be strong in themselves and...
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Thinking through relationships with heart and mind (part 2 of 3)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
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Thinking through relationships with heart and mind (part 1 of 3)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
Show Notes Episode 20: Thinking through relationships with heart and mind (part 1 0f 3) The following story typifies one aspect of thinking through relationships with heart and mind. It also sets the stage for the next two episodes: Yesterday a third-year medical student came to my office to work with me. The first two years of medical school are in the classroom. Students learn about the body, in health and disease. They spend the second two years with patients, learning to apply what they’d learned. Pediatrics was his first clinical rotation, and this was his first day. “Do you...
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Working through emotions and feelings with heart and mind (Part 2 of 2)
On Being Happier: Thinking with Heart and Mind
We can have better, fuller, and richer relationships by using what we learned about about working through our emotions and feelings and applying it to our relationships. Exercises based on the episode’s content: Exercise 1: Remember a time when you were criticized without your asking for negative comments. How did it feel? Were the comments helpful? Did they make you feel closer to the person who criticized you? Why? / Why not? Exercise 2: Remember a time when you were given advice you didn’t ask...
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Episode 16: Trusting life: A spiritual journey
with heart and mind
Exercises for reviewing the episode’s content
Exercise 1: Love is transcendent. The love one feels for a child, for example, crosses culture and time. That’s how it is with love from the heart, the love associated with compassion. Does this make sense to you?
Exercise 2: We are containers for love. If love lives within us and passes through us, we are connected to the transcendent aspect of love. Do these statements make sense to you?
Exercise 3: Wisdom is another name for love. If we love a pet, we treat it with a love that’s thoughtful and caring, a love that’s wise. How has wisdom guided you in your most loving relationships?
Exercise 4: As you look back at your life, do you see times where love and wisdom were at work? If you see love and wisdom behind the scenes in one setting, then love / wisdom has to be present in all settings and circumstances. Could it be otherwise?
Exercise 5: I should be able to drop worry if love is always with me, not because everything works out well, but because I’m not alone. Does this make sense?
Exercise 6: Life is about growth. Have you ever grown through difficult circumstances? Did difficulties ever bring out the best and most human in you? Can you see the possibility for wisdom in challenges and difficulties?
Exercise 7: If we know that wisdom and love are present in the events in our lives — even in our most difficult ones — we can face each setting and situation with calm, presence, and focus. We can be ourselves. Does this make sense?
Exercise 8: We can test the idea that our lives are filled with wisdom and love by taking the leap and living and acting as if the idea were true. If the idea holds, we should feel stronger, more competent, more loving — more fully ourselves. Do the ideas in this episode make sense to you? If so, what’s stopping you from taking the leap and testing them in this way?