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Simon Timm: The Road to Nirvana Mindful Warrior Radio
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On episode thirty of Mindful Warrior Radio, we welcome Simon Timm. Simon is a mindfulness and meditation teacher and the author of the book An Introduction to the Self Salutation: How to Resolve Negative Emotions Through Mindfulness Meditation.
Simon spent most of his college years battling depression. Unwilling to spend the rest of his life on Prozac, he searched for another way of living with himself. What he found was meditation. After college, Simon moved into a Hindu ashram and spent sixteen years as monk.
When Simon left the monastic life in 2011, he recognized the need for a meditation practice to help resolve the negative feelings within him—rather than just help lift himself above them. This prompted Simon to explore different modalities of personal transformation and ultimately to develop the Self Salutation.
Simon has a master’s in religion from Yale. He currently lives with his spouse, Allyson, in the Washington, DC metro area.
Simon joined me for an authentic and deep conversation about meditation and the experience of nirvana.
When asking Simon what compelled him to stay throughout his early days at the ashram he says, “Sitting in meditation for a couple of hours at a time was intense. It would feel like sometimes I was going crazy. But at other times it worked. And I lifted myself up and I experienced nirvana. It was like a state of freedom from my mind and from my psyche. I experienced a place of joy and happiness, and I would come back down into myself, but that taste of the potential was enough to keep me going.”
When asked to share about his experience with meditation Simon shares, “The experiences I had in meditation are not so rare for people to have. It's not so difficult and it doesn't have to be a lot. I think a lot of people experience meditation and suddenly, it’s quiet and the mind becomes quiet. It might be just for a moment. But in that moment, you experience what that freedom can be like.”
To learn more about Mindful Warrior and Mindful Warrior Radio please follow us on Instagram @therealmindfulwarrior and check out our website at www.mindfulwarrior.com
On episode thirty of Mindful Warrior Radio, we welcome Simon Timm. Simon is a mindfulness and meditation teacher and the author of the book An Introduction to the Self Salutation: How to Resolve Negative Emotions Through Mindfulness Meditation.
Simon spent most of his college years battling depression. Unwilling to spend the rest of his life on Prozac, he searched for another way of living with himself. What he found was meditation. After college, Simon moved into a Hindu ashram and spent sixteen years as monk.
When Simon left the monastic life in 2011, he recognized the need for a meditation practice to help resolve the negative feelings within him—rather than just help lift himself above them. This prompted Simon to explore different modalities of personal transformation and ultimately to develop the Self Salutation.
Simon has a master’s in religion from Yale. He currently lives with his spouse, Allyson, in the Washington, DC metro area.
Simon joined me for an authentic and deep conversation about meditation and the experience of nirvana.
When asking Simon what compelled him to stay throughout his early days at the ashram he says, “Sitting in meditation for a couple of hours at a time was intense. It would feel like sometimes I was going crazy. But at other times it worked. And I lifted myself up and I experienced nirvana. It was like a state of freedom from my mind and from my psyche. I experienced a place of joy and happiness, and I would come back down into myself, but that taste of the potential was enough to keep me going.”
When asked to share about his experience with meditation Simon shares, “The experiences I had in meditation are not so rare for people to have. It's not so difficult and it doesn't have to be a lot. I think a lot of people experience meditation and suddenly, it’s quiet and the mind becomes quiet. It might be just for a moment. But in that moment, you experience what that freedom can be like.”
To learn more about Mindful Warrior and Mindful Warrior Radio please follow us on Instagram @therealmindfulwarrior and check out our website at www.mindfulwarrior.com
1 hr 10 min