Live and Dare Podcast: Meditation, Consciousness & Nonduality Wisdom

Giovanni Dienstmann: Meditation Blogger, Consciousness Hacker, Spirituality Geek
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Live and Dare Podcast: Meditation, Consciousness & Nonduality Wisdom Podcast

The quality of your mind is the quality of your life. This free podcast covers the topics of Meditation, Mindfulness, Consciousness and Spirituality in Daily Life. Interviews with teachers from different paths, both traditional and modern, sharing insights on the practice of meditation and its integration in modern life and in society. There are also some episodes with guided meditation. Brought to you by LiveAndDare.com blog. Follow me on twitter @gio_self.

  1. 04/10/2021

    Interview with Roy Baumeister, PhD — One of the world's leading experts on Willpower

    In this podcast episode I have the pleasure to interview Roy Baumeister, PhD, one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists and author of the book "Willpower: Rediscovering The Greatest Human Strength", a New York Times bestseller. Questions and topics covered: - What is willpower? - The relationship between willpower and self control - How self control can predict success - Why are we not paying more attention to willpower - Is willpower a limited supply? - Is willpower always necessary? - Is there a correlation between self esteem and willpower? - The influence of today's technology on willpower - What is The Ego Depletion model - The relationship between willpower and the body's glucose levels - Can willpower be trained? - Willpower and Decision Fatigue - What's next on Roy's career

    1h 19m

  2. 24/12/2019

    Interview with Miten—Music and Mantras for Spiritual Growth

    In this podcast episode I have the pleasure to interview Miten who, together with his partner Deva Premal, have greatly inspired me through their music, songs and mantras. Topics Covered: - His transformation from Andy Desmond (the rock musician) to Miten (the creator of spiritually-themed songs) - What he learned from his master Osho, and his time in the ashram - The need for being egoless when chanting mantras - The meaning of holding silence at the end of the concerts (instead of clapping) - The difference between singing mantras, chanting mantras and Kirtan - How he comes up with the songs, and selects the mantras - His meditation journey and current practice - How his music retreats work - What is next for him in life and music - The importance of finding your mantra, and committing to the practice

    1h 2m

  3. 19/09/2018

    Dr. Rick Hanson Interview on Mindful Relationships

    In this episode I interview Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD and bestselling author of "Hardwiring Happiness" and "Buddhas Brain". We talk about how his own journey into meditation started, how to heal from trauma so we can show up in our relationships more authentically, the key elements to mindful relating, and the neuropsychological foundation for lasting love.

    60 min

  4. 17/11/2015

    Interview with Self-Realized master Shivarudra Balayogi

    I’m interviewing a very special guest, an enlightened yogi called Shivarudra Balayogi (official site), henceforth referred to as Babaji. This is a podcast about the spiritual path of devotion and meditation, the traditional guru-disciple relationship, and the intense spiritual practice called Tapas, that culminates in complete and permanent Liberation.

    1h 4m

  5. 15/09/2015

    Yogic Breathing for Health and Well-Being

    In this episode we talk about pranayama, or yogic breathing. This is a huge topic, and we have barely scratched the surface here. This interview serves as an introduction. I'm talking with Puneet Nanda (aka Gurunanda), who is an entrepreneur turned Yogi, and a proponent of Pranayama breathing techniques. GuruNanda was having a 16-hour workday life, filled with stress, which culminated into an emergency trip to the hospital with chest pains during what turned out to be a severe anxiety attack. This prompted him to rediscover the yoga he loved as a child growing up in India. He healed himself with Yoga and Ayurveda, sold his business, and is now committed to sharing with the world the power of breathing and meditation.

    27 min

  6. 18/08/2015

    Your Brain on Meditation (Ariel Garten)

    As brain sensing technologies advance, we will be able to have more and more insight on what is going on in our brain during meditation, and whether we are going in the right direction in our meditation. In this episode I'm interviewing Ariel Garten. Ariel is a Psychotherapist, Neuroscientist, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, and the CEO of Interaxon, the company behind Muse, which is a brain sensing headband that helps people meditate - a clinical grade EEG in your pocket. We talk about: - Ariel's personal journey into meditation; - How Muse works, and what type of meditation is best suited for; - How therapists and other health professionals are using Muse to help their clients/patients; - Where brain technology is moving towards in the near future - The challenges with brain modulation tech

    29 min

  7. 21/07/2015

    Movement Meditation

    Several spiritual traditions work initially with the body for grounding attention, in support for going deeper into ourselves, to subtler states of consciousness. If your body and breath are not calm and harmonious, your mind will likely be bogged down, and won't be able to sustain itself in higher states of meditation. In this episode I interview Peter Petersen, a qigong and meditation practitioner and teacher, and a wellness coach. We talk about: - Movement meditation, and what it can do to your emotions and body - The benefits of doing qigong before meditation - The power and importance of loving-kindness meditation, and how to practice it - Peter's experience in a 7 days Vipassana retreat - Realizing that we are the observer of thoughts and emotion, and can, thus, "step back" - How the environment, people, and stuff we read/watch influences our thoughts and feelings - Neuroplasticity and how we change our brain by repeatedly thinking in a certain way the need to slow down

    38 min

  8. 24/06/2015

    Hacking the Mind

    Your mind in meditation is a reflection of your mind in daily life, and vice-versa.  So another way to deepen your meditation practice is to actually make sure that you don't have a thousand threads of unresolved tasks and unprocessed information hanging around your brain. In order words, psychic decluttering is important. In this episode we discuss this and other related subjects. I'm interviewing Sir John Hargrave, who is the CEO of Media Shower, the world's premiere content marketing company. This interview covers principles and tools ("Mind Games") that John wrote about in his new book Mind Hacking, about how to reprogram your mind and change your life. He is quite geeky, so you'll hear him speak how our mind is like a personal computer, or a smartphone, among other modern metaphors.

    36 min
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The quality of your mind is the quality of your life. This free podcast covers the topics of Meditation, Mindfulness, Consciousness and Spirituality in Daily Life. Interviews with teachers from different paths, both traditional and modern, sharing insights on the practice of meditation and its integration in modern life and in society. There are also some episodes with guided meditation. Brought to you by LiveAndDare.com blog. Follow me on twitter @gio_self.

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