How to Stay Present in Difficult Times? - a podcast by Richard Grannon

from 2020-09-29T00:00

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The world is crumbling all around you?

Everything seems to be falling apart?

Can we achieve meditative states in all of that?

And, without meditation frustrations?

(00:15) Don't Fetishize Meditation

(02:01) How a Moral Philosophy Will Improve Your Life and Meditation

(05:28) What to Do if You Find Meditation Distressing?

(08:49) Visualization vs Meditation & How Social Media Relay on Content

(13:19) Association vs. Dissociation

(15:00) How We Are Reliant on 'The Voice-over'

(20:34) What You Want is to Come Back to Reality

(23:34) The Media Spiking Your Adrenaline and Traumatizing You

(27:47) Take Action in This Reality

(30:27) We're Worshiping the Idols Themselves

(35:23) The Normalized Narcissism and Dissociative Identity in Our Culture

(38:26) People Trapped in Materialism

(40:28) Recommending the Cure for All of That

(45:17) When You Want to Be Kinder to Others

//Q&A Section//

(47:35) "Reducing the suffering in the world as much as you can"

(49:17) "Why do I feel like I'm wasting time if I'm doing nothing?"

(50:33) "Can you speak more to your definition of entitlement?"

(55:03) "Sometimes being seen is the least/most anyone ever wanted"

(57:51) "Is everything in society made to reduce us to our base instincts, so we become more compliant?"

(1:01:28) We Haven't Lost Religion, We Reverted to Fetishism

(1:04:20) We Just Need to Come Back to Ourselves

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