This week, I sat down to chat with Ricky Derisz, author of Mindsets for Mindfulness: Awakening From Crisis To Higher Consciousness and creator of MindThatEgo, a new paradigm for mental illness, spirituality, creativity, consciousness, and human potential. In this episode, he shares his insights into meditation, intrinsic motivation, ikigai, intentionality, intuition, interdependence, and intimacy.
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube.
Time stamps:
00:44 The enchanted worldview, meditation, perception, & the nature of reality
04:05 Mind-body connection, interconnected consciousness, metaphysics
07:22 Models of depression: chemical imbalance, root-cause analysis, biological vs spiritual, ego dissolution, psychedelics
14:51 Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) label, esoteric vs exoteric, spiritual narcissism
19:05 Self-compassion and self-criticism, suffering and empathy, self-awareness
24:15 Intrinsic motivation, permissionless leverage, creativity
29:19 Westernization of ikigai, meaning and purpose, non-attachment to ideas
32:56 Paradox of intentionality, specialists vs generalists, experimentation, shiny object syndrome
36:50 Committing to creative endeavors, self-honesty, intuition, sunk cost fallacy
40:13 Throwaway culture, paradox of choice, satisficers vs maximizers, healthy expectations
45:30 Effective communication vs protest behavior, ask vs guess culture, emotional reactivity
51:25 Equanimity, autonomy vs interdependence, attachment styles
53:49 Codependency, interabled relationships, gender roles, social conditioning
59:44 Emotional dependency vs intimacy, stability and security, mutual support
01:02:34 Understanding, empaths and sensitivity, responsibility, curiosity mindset
01:08:47 Growing through adversity, challenges, and forgiveness
01:11:02 Bearing witness, holding space, being present to diffuse emotional reactivity
You can follow Ricky on Instagram, Facebook, and Medium and stream his podcast on YouTube! If you enjoyed this episode, you can support the show. Thanks for listening!
The show’s theme music, “New Beginnings” by Joshua Kaye, was provided courtesy of Syfonix. This episode was recording using Riverside and edited using Descript. Some links are affiliate and help support my mission to share actionable self-development insights with the general public at no additional cost to you.
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