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This week we talk to Benjamin Shalva
Benjamin Shalva is the nationally renowned author of Ambition Addiction: How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within and Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song and has been published in the Washington Post, Elephant Journal, and Spirituality & Health magazine. A rabbi, writer, meditation teacher, and yoga instructor, he leads spiritual seminars and workshops around the world.
In This Interview, Benjamin Shalva and I Discuss…
- The One You Feed parable
- His new book, Ambition Addiction: How to go slow, give thanks and discover the Joy Within
- That ambition can be healthy and it can also cross the line to being destructive
- The casualties ambition can leave behind
- The mirage of “any day now”
- The signs and symptoms of ambition addiction
- That addictive behavior is something we do often and it’s counterproductive
- The helpfulness of the question: Is my goal an all or nothing goal?
- That the road to hell is not paved with good intentions, it’s paved with unexamined intentions
- Recovering from ambition addiction
- The technique of breath, word and deed
- The key step of slowing down
- The key step of giving thanks
- The key step of donating time
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