Inner Skilled

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Perhaps trust is a mixture of things. Maybe we see someone, hear something, and get inspired, and then we try it out for ourselves. There's maybe a conviction to do it, to see that it's possible for someone else, or we just have this feeling, just kind of an intuition, inner knowing that, you know, why not? Why not trust this? I don't see any reason not to. And I'm gonna give it a go, not blindly,...

Another tendency we have is just to check out drift. Who cares? Not pay attention. Be heedless. Not give a crap about anything, be apathetic. But what does this lead to? What's the alternative? How do we uplift and brighten the mind, encourage heedfulness, and not fall into drift, apathy, spacing out, blanking out, annihilationism, bad attitudes. How do we uplift and brighten, bring energy, be hee...

We're often seeking and grabbing -- seeking things of happiness and grabbing onto them, then seeking something else, grabbing, seeking, grabbing. And we go within and look at the mind. This is the mind's habitual tendency a lot of the times: to seek, grab, seek, grab, seek, grab. Seek out a thought object. Seek out an emotion. . . . Want to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message...

In this Feb 14 live Insight Timer live event I list quite a bit of (meditative) states both "positive", "negative" and otherwise -- along with a broader (perhaps at times experimental) exploration of right effort to help dig in to some more specifics on eradicating and preventing unskillful, unwholesome, unhelpful states while maintaining and creating skillful, wholesome, and helpful states Want t...

[See also "Part 1" on https://integratingpresence.com https://youtube.com/@integratingpresence "Progressing Contact Beyond The Human Realm: Sutta Study With Randi Green — At Gaia Head (AN 8.64)" https://youtu.be/ruzgkLe6Xyg (which is actually a stand-alone and not really related)] Join Randi and I Saturday August 30th 2025 for "Multidimensional Contemplation with Meditation Exercise" in two sectio...

This Aug 15, 2024 live Thought Process Thursday openly explores some thought processes on weirdness in order to unwind and aide healing. What is weird and what isn't? Why do some insist on weirdness while others shun it at all costs? What are the pros and cons of weirdness? What does this have to do mindfulness, meditation and wellness? What is the impact of this on (my) life? Want to be a guest o...

This brief live event from Sept 18, 2024 aims to gently challenge you to challenge your attitude towards challenges. What's your definition of a challenge? How do challenges differ from problems? How do you view comfort zones, change and challenges? What are (your) biggest, most significant hindrances, holdbacks and stressors when facing challenges? How do you see these and hold these now and how...

Jan 27, 2025 live event Oops. I booked my "Thought Process Thursday" I guess too close to a long overseas flight and apparently got thrown off on dates and times and for that I'm sorry to any and all who had put aside time to join. Now it is an opportunity to explore apologies. When do we need to apologize and when is it meaningless, hollow and automatic? How can we know/tell about this? This also...

Here’s a little part of what’s recently been happening in work / life / practice, etc for the past roughly two month here at the end of December 2024 https://kwanumzen.org https://musangsa.org/international/kyol-che Want to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/innerskilled Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Ai assisted show notes:   In this episode recorded Sept 27, 2024 innerskilled.com welcomes Bob Martin, an expert in Daoism, a former mob lawyer, and a meditation teacher. Bob shares his fascinating life story, from working with organized crime to rediscovering purpose through Daoist teachings. He discusses his journey into spirituality, integrating Daoism with Christian beliefs, and how medit...

Guest Natalie Bedard, a meditation and breath practitioner who goes by "Nat Nat" and I have a wide ranging chat in Sept 2024 on quite a few meditation, spiritual and healing topics. (With the assistance of ai writing this,) key highlights include: NatNat's Journey with Meditation : Natalie shares her story about facing serious health issues, including lesions in her brain stem and cerebellum, whic...

[AI assisted show notes:] On Sept 17th 2024 I talk with Belldon Colme , a scientist who transitioned from a career in home building to studying the relationship between food and the body. Belldon shares his personal journey of overcoming heart disease, diabetes, and obesity by understanding how food interacts with the body's chemistry. He offers insights into how specific food choices can heal the...

Dr Sally Hare and I talk the journey to eldership and parallels to Kindergarten, "elder" being conflation with old age, aging, living with authenticity and integrity, the power and responsibility of story, meaning, Sally also reads selections from her book The ElderGarten: A Field Guide for the Journey of a Lifetime, learning, reflecting, creating meaning, unlearning, teaching, holding space, inte...

Brief note mentioning just what the title says about upcoming offline retreat time and auto-scheduled podcasts to publish during that time Want to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/innerskilled Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[Ai assisted notes:] In early October 2024 I speak again with Dean Graves to explore the concept of consciousness and its relationship to spiritual growth. Dean takes listeners on a journey through the Enigma of Consciousness , explaining how we perceive thoughts and emotions, and how these influence our spiritual path toward enlightenment while getting into the mechanics of self-awareness and our...

Oct 3, 2024 Insight Timer and Youtube live Thought Process Thursday mainly about placing aside covetousness and grief for the world as a preparation for meditation Want to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/innerskilled Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(Again, with AI assisting with this description,) this episode, recorded in late Sept 2024 welcomes Kirk Beck a civic and mathematics teacher and legal enthusiast. Kirk recounts his personal journey in understanding the U.S. legal system, particularly the use of affidavits and the differences between statutory and common law. Kirk shares his unique insights from decades of experience in both teach...

AI implemented summary: Greg Peterson joined me on Sept 16, 2024 to discuss his work in permaculture and regenerative farming. Greg began his journey in food sustainability as a teenager, eventually discovering permaculture, which he describes as the art and science of working with nature. He emphasizes the importance of growing your own food and understanding its sources, noting that many current...

This Sept 2024 conversation with Duncan Bhaskaran Brown gets into shifting focus from alcohol to connections, how to find alternatives in social situations, importance of having a plan beyond quitting drinking, (re)gaining focus and energy, various misconceptions and impacts of alcohol in society like cancer, media budgets, product placements, glamor, deception, anxiety, creativity, social setting...

On August 23, 2024 Founder of Power Soul Healing, Light Empowerment Coach, Light Language Healer, and author of the book BE-com-ing Authentically Me Birgitta Visser and I talked healing trauma by understanding and embracing our experiences; setting boundaries as an act of self-love; seeing life from higher levels by shifting perspectives; her work with channeling, past-life, akashic records, and "...

In conversation with trained mechanical engineer Daniel Packard on Aug 11, 2024 we talked the inefficiency of chasing joy; from managing 'the funky five' -- anxiety, people pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination and low confidence -- to being free of them; the limitations of traditional approaches; importances of results and measurements; challenging legacy thinking and innovating solutions; fea...

[AI assisted summary:] On August 9, 2024, Dr. David Bilstrom, a physician specializing in autoimmune diseases, and I began by explaining that autoimmune diseases involve the immune system attacking the body’s own tissues, and he highlighted that immune system disruption is a factor in nearly all chronic diseases, including conditions such as autism, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative d...

In July of 2024 Rich Lewis and I touch on the topics of the impact of fear and regret, the Centering Prayer, silence, morning routine, asking for help and giving help, interconnectivity, mutuality, masterminds, gratitude, various power dynamics like abundance, collaboration, and competition. We also chat about (some other) tools of affirmation, aspiration, visualization, checks and balances, and j...

This was today's Insight Timer live event with the description: Let's openly explore some thought processes in order to unwind in the evening and aide healing like perhaps the importance of inner healing and reconciliation and (if there is rebirth) why so much mass amnesia Want to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview...