With & For / Dr. Pam King

A Practice: Dr. Richard Davidson on Gaining Insight

Episode Summary

Dr. Davidson leads a brief meditation on gaining insight into a struggle present in your life. Envision how things might be different with a different set of beliefs and expectations about the situation.

Episode Notes

• Find posture, check in with your body, and take several deep, calming breaths.
• Be intentional about your motivation and find a place in us to understand that practices to cultivate our own wellbeing can also help others.
• This is a radical act of generosity
• Bring into your mind a situation that has been challenging in some way in the recent past - whether work, family, etc.. not too difficult, but something challenging.  Identify what it is.
• Reflect on your own beliefs and expectations about that situation. What beliefs and expectations are we bringing to that situation?
• Envision how things might be different if we came to the situation with a different set of beliefs and expectations.
• Would it be different with the different beliefs and expectations?
• End practice by dedicating whatever insight we may have gleaned to the benefit of others.

Listen to the Full Episode - S1: E3 Cultivating a Healthy Mind: The Neuroscience of Awareness, Connection, Insight, & Purpose with Dr. Richie Davidson.  Here Dr. Davidson guides you in a practice to gain insight into your life.