PMR #219: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics—Talking with Meditation Coach Jeff Warren

On this week’s episode, we welcome Jeff Warren, meditation teacher and co-author of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. Being human takes practice, as someone wise once said. We all know that life isn’t easy, and sometimes just existing doesn’t come as naturally to us as we would like it to. But the truth is we could all use a little help when it comes to practicing being human, and meditation is a tool that is becoming more and more useful for people from all walks of life. But let’s say you’re like Jeff was before he got into meditation and think it’s all a bit hippy-woo-woo, or you just simply struggle to do it. Well, Jeff is here to show us that meditation doesn’t have to be someone sitting and staring at a candle for two hours. In this episode, Jeff offers honest and accessible advice about mindfulness and meditation and shows us how to incorporate these deliberate practices into our daily lives.

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Key Points From This Episode:

Jeff shares his journey from fidgety journalist to meditation teacher. The insights that teaching has given Jeff into the experience of others. How overcoming challenges inspire us to pay it forward and help others. How meditation can be applied to the lives of people from all walks of life. Determining how to incorporate meditation specific to someone else’s life. Applying meditation practices to your everyday life, schedule, and activities. Why meditation doesn’t have to look at all like sitting on a cushion for two hours. Movement meditations and the value of stillness meditations. Jeff’s thoughts of moving between different types of meditation practices. How deepening your practice lines up mind, body, and world.  Discover how Jeff incorporates meditation into his own life. Why you need to know that it’s okay to have bad mindfulness days. Recognizing that you are only human and will want to be a dickhead sometimes. Find out more about the Consciousness Explorers Club in Toronto. Ancestral sleep patterns: Why waking up in the night might just be good for you. Carbs are suffering: How changing his diet changed Jeff’s life and cravings. Jeff’s advice for anyone who wants to meditate but doesn’t know where to start. And much more!

Tweetables:

“The key to understanding practice is just practicing how you want to exist.” — @jeffwarren [0:17:40.1]

“That is what we’re building in a practice, you’re building habits of how to be in the world.” — @jeffwarren [0:19:50.1]

“Your life always has to be the litmus test; it’s never the practice.” — @jeffwarren [0:29:13.1]

“Life is a practice, and either you can be deliberate about it or you can be unconscious about it.” — @jeffwarren [0:29:43.1]

“I also of course react against the goody-two-shoes part of being a meditation teacher.” — @jeffwarren [0:38:23.1]

“Sometimes I want to be a dickhead. I want to go smoke cigarettes and get in a fight at a bar. I am just a regular person.” — @jeffwarren [0:38:33.1]

“Don’t make a big deal of it. It is not a big deal. It’s just existing a little bit more deliberately for a few moments.” — @jeffwarren [0:52:43.1]

Links Mentioned in This Episode: 

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics – http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/541555/

Dan Harris – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Harris_(journalist)

Jeff Warren – http://jeffwarren.org/

Jeff Warren on Facebook– https://web.facebook.com/jeffwarren.org/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Head Trip – https://www.amazon.com/Head-Trip-Adventures-Wheel-Consciousness/dp/1400064848/ 

Consciousness Explorers Club – http://cecmeditate.com/

James Maskalyk – http://www.jamesmaskalyk.com/

Meditate Celebrate Activate – http://jeffwarren.org/event/cecretreat/

Meditate Celebrate Activate on Facebook– https://web.facebook.com/events/984478551694408/

Retreat for Fidgety Skeptics Cosmic Edition – http://jeffwarren.org/event/fidgety-skeptics-retreat/

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