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Rebellion, Mindfulness, and Prayer-as-Conversation with Argos Gonzalez

Episode Summary

Argos Gonzales is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey, including rebellious teenage years, prayer-as-a-conversation, the power of meditation, and social justice work.

Episode Notes

Argos Gonzales is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey. We discuss:

• Parenthood, teenage rebellion, and the powerful vision his own father had before he was born
• The transformational power of a near-drowning experience
• Argos' journey in the Lucumi tradition, shamanism, and meditation
• Rigidity, fluidity, and finding balance
• How to develop your intuition
• Why meditation might feel like it “makes things worse” and how to sit with and through that
• Prayer as ritual and prayer as a conversation
• Mindfulness as a secular practice
• The inclusivity of mindfulness
• Agency and mindfulness within radical social justice work
• What to do with anger
• Modeling mindfulness and making it fun for children

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