In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes

What is the difference between loneliness and solitude? How can we be alone and feel well and happy in ourselves? This is what I discuss in today's podcast. 

In this final instalment on relating differently to our suffering differently, I discuss the role that wisdom and insight has in enabling us to take mastery of our lives. 

Sometimes when we are suffering, it is all we can think about. However, through working with our minds differently, we can alleviate some of this suffering. I n today's podcast, with the example of some New Zealand rabbits, I show you how.

There is often an imbalance in our minds. As humans, we tend to focus on struggles and difficulties without naturally giving as much attention to what is working. By facing the world slightly differently, we can dramatically shift how we manage the times when we are suffering. 

What if the very thing you're holding onto is the thing that's keeping you stuck? In this episode, I explore why letting go feels so terrifying—and why it's one of the most liberating skills we can ever learn. You'll hear how fear-based attachment keeps us gripping tightly to relationships, careers, identities, and even objects that no longer serve us. I talk about the courage it takes to release...

Many of us are struggling. We still can't see an end in sight to the pandemic. Is there a way to manage this suffering differently? This is what I discuss in today's podcast. 

Within our friendships, trust can be complicated. We want to have friends, and people we can talk with however trusting new people in our lives is not always straightforward. In today's podcast, I answer a question from one of my students about the issue of trust and friendships. 

Slowing down is hard. There are so many ways we can distract ourselves, ways that for many of us didn't exist when we were growing up. There is no doubt that we are becoming more and more disconnected from the ability to be with ourselves. Today I discuss this and suggest a strategy for turning this around. 

Each day that we do this work, we are looking at different ways to address everyday issues. This takes courage and determination. And sometimes, it requires finding different ways of seeing things around those we love. 

How do we know that we are making progress on this path? What can we expect to see? In today's podcast, I discuss what progress looks like and what changes you will start to see in yourself.

When someone hurts us, we can often find it hard to let go of that hurt. This is understandable. However, it also blocks us from living in the best version of ourselves. 

What does it mean when I teach you to become a surfer of your mind? In today's podcast, I discuss how easy it is for us to become overwhelmed by our thoughts and emotions and why working with our mind is the key to letting go of this stress. 

How can we find contentment? How do we reconcile content within the realms of also wanting to better ourselves? In today's podcast, I address some crucial questions around contentment. 

One of the fastest ways to increase our happiness levels is to perform an act of kindness for someone else. What does kindness look like? Sometimes kindness is more subtle than we think. 

Our meditation practice is also how we can aspire to be in our everyday life. In today's podcast, I answer a student's question about how to work with her posture.     

What do we do when we have experienced difficulties in our younger life? Do we need to heal our inner child? In today's podcast, I answer a question around this from one of my students. 

What do we do when people let us down? How do we regain trust when someone has hurt us? My reply is perhaps not a traditional approach to trust, and I hope you'll find it helpful.

How do we cope when someone we love passes away? In this time of Covid, it can be hard to come to terms with what seems to be the senseless loss of those we care for. In today's podcast, I answer a question from a student whose father has just passed from Covid.    As we get older, we lose old friends faster than we make new ones. So what do we do when we need to make new friends? This is what I w...

It's easy for us to be unaware of how sticky our minds are. However, this is something we need to become aware of in order to have a happier life.  

Today I answer a question about meditation and working with our thoughts that will clarify what the gap is that we are looking for and why why it is important.  

There is a ritual from one of the religious traditions that I find extremely powerful and profound. In today's podcast, I contemplate how to bring this tradition into our own daily lives.  

How can we share what is going on for us and find the balance between vulnerability and being negative? In today's podcast, I answer a question from one of my students about sharing what she feels with her friends.

We have become very good at taking care of our physical hygiene over these months of this pandemic. However, one thing we are not as skilled at is taking care of our emotional hygiene. It's not difficult to see how irritation leads to anger and how unhealthy these destructive emotions are for us. In today's podcast, I discuss why taking care of your emotional hygiene is so important.  

These times demand us to ask important and powerful questions of ourselves. In today's podcast, I challenge you to ask those questions. 

Are there ever times in your life when you struggle to make a choice? Is it that more than one option feels appealing and you fear that you might miss out if you choose the wrong one? In today's podcast, I give you a series of tips on how you can manage choice paralysis.