What we are listening to this week at Nilbon
The Ten Percent Happier podcast is a podcast by the meditation app that is available under the same name.
I have been listening to their podcast for a few years now and I have got to know about numerous psychologists, meditation teachers, activists, social workers, and experts from the interviews that Dan Harris conducts for the podcast.
This week, Ten Percent Happier’s podcast guest was Dr. Radhule Weininger, who is a buddhist psychologist and meditation teacher. In this episode, Dr. Weininger talks about her new book, Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at Last. She argues that We all have “long-standing painful patterns of behaviour” or inner storylines that can cause us to react disproportionately or inappropriately to everyday events. She refers to these long-standing painful patterns of behaviour as LRPPs.
In her book and on the podcast, Dr. Weininger suggests that we can change our LRPPS by following these twelve steps:
(1) Recognising Your LRPP, (2) Being Mindful of Body, Thoughts, and Feelings, (3) Seeing a LRPP with Self-Compassion, (4) Healing Complex Suffering with Compassion for All, (5) Creating Mindfully: Setting Clear Intention and Dedicated Motivation, (6) When Triggered, Time to Pause, (7) Learning to Stay with Your Suffering, (8) Breathing Through to Let Be and Let Go, (9) Forgiveness, (10) Loosening the Grip of Identification, (11) Letting in the Mystery, and (12) Mindfulness of Breathing from the Place of Awareness.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Weininger and Dan Harris also talk about:
How to recognise a problematic pattern or when you’ve been “lrpp-ed”
Why Dr. Weininger believes that Buddhism and western psychology, when practiced together, can help us deal with these recurring patterns
Unpacking the word trauma
The psychological term “mismatch” and how it relates to childhood trauma or hurt
And how to practice meditation in order to tolerate discomfort
You can listen to this podcast episode by clicking here.
You can watch an interview with Dr. Weininger about her new book on YouTube by clicking here.