How to Feel Like You Belong in This World | Henry Shukman

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  It's very healthy to turn on our mindful awareness.

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  It sort of dials down stress response.

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  It allows us to see what the stress response actually consists of, the sensations in the body, the racing in the mind, and physical tensions there may be in certain musculature, and just be aware of that without reacting to it.

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  And as the nervous system dials down, if that happens on a regular basis, that's terrific.

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  And I think the more well regulated human nervous systems there are walking around on the planet, the better, because, you know, we have this really dangerous wiring as well that can flash into aggression and ill will, hate and violence very easily.

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  And to be learning how to downregulate from that, I think, is a critical thing.

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  So many folks were taught from a very young age about this concept of original sin, the idea that we enter this world inherently flawed or wrongly constituted in some way.

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  But what if the opposite was actually true?

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  What if our most fundamental nature is one of lovingness, of wholeness and undeniable belonging, even if we don't feel that about ourselves or the world around us?

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  And what if we could access that deep sense of belonging and connection to everything around us pretty much on demand?

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  What if we could feel a profound sense of unity, like you're loved and at peace?

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  Or what my guest today calls original love.

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  This is the radical proposition put forth by Henry Schuchman in his new book, Original Love, the four ends on the path of Awakening.

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  So Henry is the founder of the original Love Meditation program, former spiritual director at Mountain Cloud Zen center.

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  He's also an award winning author and co founder of the Way Meditation app.

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  And he has degrees from Cambridge, St.

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  Andrew's, teaching experiences at places like Google, Harvard Business School, and Oxford, and artistic works featured in everywhere from the New Yorker and New York Times to elsewhere.

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  But more importantly, he speaks from decades of dedicated, grounded, practical spiritual practice and firsthand experience.

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  So in our conversation, we talk about this concept of original love, and then we start to get granular, and we talk about the how.

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  How do we actually experience this?

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