Ep. 262 – The Liberated Heart: Shifting From Trauma to Loving Awareness with Thomas Hübl, PhD

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

Discover how to shift from trauma to loving awareness through mindfulness, conscious healing, and compassionate activism with Jack Kornfield and Thomas Hübl, PhD.

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“Who you are is so much more than your trauma, you are consciousness itself.” – Jack Kornfield

In Part 2 of this episode originally airing for The Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, Jack and Thomas mindfully explore:

  • Developing the skills to heal our trauma
  • Jack’s time with meditation master, Maha Ghosananda
  • The powerful connection between activism and spirituality
  • Avoiding burnout, finding balance
  • Transforming from skeptical to mystical
  • Navigating the traumas in the Middle East
  • Digesting our traumas
  • Waking up from auto-pilot
  • Expanding your window of tolerance
  • How to face racism, war, economic disparity, the environment, etc
  • Mindfulness, consciousness, and loving awareness

“The whole notion that spiritual practice doesn’t have anything to do with activism is a fiction.” – Jack Kornfield

“Every breath you take is the breath of the starlings and the breath of the earthworms and the soil. We’re all inter-breathing it together. That’s how it works, that’s what life is.” – Jack Kornfield

About Thomas Hübl, PhD:

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.

He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. For more info, books, podcast, and upcoming offerings, please visit thomashuebl.com

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