Bucovery

Join Tyler Woods today as she shares about grieving the living, which experts say is more painful than grieving the dead. She talks about how grieving the living offers no closure that is needed to create a profound shift in perspective. She talks about how she went to a Buddhist temple to seek advice and discovered how to create a profound shift in perspective. Tyler offers suggestions to create...

Join Tyler Woods, about not forgetting to meditate and why. Most of us know that meditation can change our behavior and give us peace and calm, but what happenes when we forget? Learn how important meditation is, and don't forget if you are short on time, you can microtate AKA micro-meditation. Give this show a listen to today and learn the values of meditation and why we should not forget.

Join Tyler Woods, and after taking a year off due to a series of family deaths, Tyler is back talking about staying sober through Buddhism. She has been sober for 36 years because she understood that at the heart of Buddhism is the understanding that suffering is a fundamental part of human life, and a Buddhist outlook can provide valuable insights.

Join Tyler Woods, PhD as she talks about trying to stop seeking the answers outside of ourselves and realizing that we have everything right there in front of our faces. She shares the story of a Buddhist Rinpoche she met with, who told her that we do not see right in front of our faces and we tend to look beyond what is right in front of us. Listen to the rest of the story of seeing what is right...

Join Tyler Woods Ph. D. as she talks about the book Training the Mind and Cultivating Love and Kindness. She shares how training the mind is to allow yourself to let go of your suffering and be kind to all. She believes that training the mind is about commitment and purpose. She believes setting intentions is about how we navigate our daily lives and cultivating a mindset that will guide our actio...

Join Tyler Woods as she tackles a question: Why did she leave Christianity for Buddhism? She talks about running into Buddhism while she was in college and shares how she wanted to grow spiritually rather than feel religiously trapped. She shares how we should let go of past hurts and feel inner peace. She shares how mindfulness and equanimity help us foster forgiveness and let go of our past.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how fear is a product of ego. She recently visited fear for a while and learned that fear is a protective reaction of the ego which wants s to hold, to have, and not to let go. She explains that the ego looks for fearful situations and helps protect us by keeping it active. It looks to seek out. Join her as she talks about ways to defeat fear so ego cannot...

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about loving people as is unconditional love. Love is a spiritual practice and a spiritual freedom. In Buddhism, Lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity are classic teachings of love. Today Tyler will focus on when you love someone as is, you are showing you are okay with who they are because you are okay with who you are.

Join Tyler Woods today as she begins to start talking about ego. She realizes people get upset when we talk about ego, and no one wants to talk about it. Woods believes that it is important to realize in Buddhist psychology that the ego doesn't need to go completely away rather, we need to take the time and recognize what it does to us and begin to change by exploring it and gaining an underst...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about having the joy and sadness of being with a friend who's life is ending. Tyler talks about how death is undeniable and inescapable and with that said, she believes it is about understanding how important life and death really is from a Buddhist psychology aspect. Join her today as she talks about death, impermanence and acceptance.

Tyler Woods believes Buddhism teaches that true patience being in the very moment and the willingness to accept things as they are. Things happens, and a compassionate response the suffering of impatience would be to have an act of compassion toward ourselves. But how do we learn patience? Listen to today's episode.

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about Buddhism, addictions and recovery. She has been sober for over 33 years. She started off in AA and the path was not spiritual rather more on the Christian side. She began to learn more about the truth of her suffering through Buddhism and remains sober today. If you are new to recovery, try a little bit of both worlds, traditional AA as well as Buddhist reco...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how people need some sort of conflict it seems in their lives. Conflict seems like the spice of life. After all, what is fiction without great conflict? In Buddhism, conflicts arise when we lack real insight. Buddha usually tried to bring peace in situations of conflict and Buddhism teaches us some general rules about conflict, mainly loving-kindness and a posit...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about letting go of anger. Buddhist teachings is to let go of the anger. It is about releasing the knots that bind us to the anger. Releasing anger and choosing not to suffer only sets you free and makes you a kinder, gentle person who is filled with growth, integrity, and joy. So, what’s in your anger and are you willing to work through it?

Join Tyler Woods today as she shares about a friend that is dying and impermanence. There is a saying that says “whatever is will be was.” It is that simple really. Impermanence is inescapable and it is a painful fact of life and if we examined the nature of reality she believes that we would all discover that things are constantly changing.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about equanimity. She believes it is the grounds for wisdom and the protector of compassion. Research psychologists have begun to focus on the benefits of equanimity, a form of mental stability that can be enhanced through mindfulness and is recommended as an aid to a mood regulation practice and peace of mind.

Join Tyler Woods as she continues dysfunctional families in part 2. How does a practicing Buddhist deal with it? Remember, talking to them will not change them. When we change what’s in our hearts, we can change our own reactions and outward behavior.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about a Buddhist approach to dysfunction family. In part one she talks about he Eightfold Path to dysfunctional family and how it can be very helpful to you. She feels it can be a check list to keep you living a peaceful and mindful path with yourself and with any relationship.

Today Tyler Woods will take you on a ten day journey into patience and peace. She will offer you ten days of ways to remind you to practice patience in hopes is it might help and aid others in times of needing patience. The Buddha considered patience to be the supreme peace, and act of self compassion. With that said welcome to the ten-day journey of patience. It is her hope that it will help moti...

Tyler Woods has recently on social media, not been liked by some people because they think she is too positive. She is not alarmed by this at all rather filled with gratitude that she has positive energy. She thanks her Buddhist practice and teachers and has a deep gratitude to be living a positive life. She wishes people knew and understood that for Buddha, the path to happiness starts from an un...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about aging with grace and spirituality. She talks about how the Buddha said everything changes and as we age those changes can mean a decline, however, we still have a strong life force and declining and aging go hand in hand. She believes by following Buddhist teaching, aging can be a new beginning and you can see aging as a fully blossomed senior with grace.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about changes as we age. She talks about how the Buddha says all conditioned things are impermanent and that includes age. Tyler shares that whenever we cling to resistance to change, we will suffer with inner conflict and will not be at peace. She shares how the solution is to recognize that nothing can be permanently satisfying and that everything is always changing...

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how you can make changes because you were angry. She talks about part how part of being positive is to allow yourself to feel emotions like anger when it is appropriate. She stated that in Buddhism it is said that within our consciousness there are blocks of pain, anger and frustration called internal formations. They are also called knots because they tie...

Join Tyler Woods PhD today as she talk about what the Buddha said about hate. The Buddha's message is that you deserve a life where you can move on and find happiness by letting go of hate. Letting go of hate means to educate ourselves on our fears.  Sadly, what people do not understand is that that on the other side of every fear is freedom. Freedom to understand and not hate. Hate comes from...

Join Tyler Woods as she explains how religion and spirituality differ. She tries to clear one thing up, while religion is an aspect of spirituality, spirituality is not an aspect of religion. So many people think spirituality is religion, but that is not the case at all. Tyler talks about the difference between the two. She feels that spirituality is for those who recognize that life brings to the...