Cheri Huber On the Impact of Our Mind on Our Direct Experience

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Cheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode. Visit Bombas www.bombas.com/wolf and enter offer WOLF at checkout for 20% off the most comfortable socks in the world

In This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable

Her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it

How the process IS the outcome

That now is the only moment there is

How the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention

Everything comes into being, together

She doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T God

Our dualistic thinking

All of the ways to refer to the ego

The unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than life

The ego is a survival system

Believing we are not connected to life

Everything is a verb! A gerund

The illusion of being separate from life

My ego is the no to life's yes

Always asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universe

How we are deeply conditioned for negativity

Awareness being able to watch the conditioned mind

I hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I am

Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it

Recording and Listening

Make recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I love

Hearing what's true for you in your own voice

Talking ourselves into a life that's true

How we direct our attention is the be all and end all in life

We have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negative

We transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist it

The key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are saying

The habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerful

If we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attention

Hear Cheri Huber talk about her book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about it

Cheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcome

Cheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"

Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?

Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying it

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention

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