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The Urban Monk podcast with Dr. Pedram Shojai

The Urban Monk podcast with Dr. Pedram Shojai

著者： Pedram Shojai
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 Join Dr. Pedram Shojai, New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed filmmaker, for deep conversations about living with balance and purpose in our chaotic modern world. As "The Urban Monk," Dr. Shojai brings a unique perspective as a former Taoist monk, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Qigong Master, and creator of multiple documentary series including "Interconnected," "Gateway to Health," and "Trauma." Each week, he explores the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science with leading experts, sharing practical tools for stress management, energy optimization, and conscious living. Whether you're a busy executive, overwhelmed parent, or anyone seeking more meaning and less chaos, this podcast provides actionable insights for transforming your daily life. Dr. Shojai is the author of bestselling books including "The Urban Monk," "Inner Alchemy," "The Art of Stopping Time," and "Focus." His no-nonsense approach combines Eastern philosophy with Western practicality, making ancient wisdom accessible for modern living. Perfect for listeners interested in mindfulness, wellness, productivity, and personal development. New episodes every week. 🎧 Featured Topics: Stress Management, Energy Healing, Mindfulness, Productivity, Ancient Wisdom, Modern Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Conscious Living 📚 Books: The Urban Monk, Inner Alchemy, The Art of Stopping Time, Focus 🎬 Documentaries: Interconnected, Gateway to Health, Trauma, Conscious Parenting 🌐 Website: theurbanmonk.com© 2025 Urban Monk Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. スピリチュアリティ 代替医療・補完医療 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Interoception: The 8 Dimensions of Body Awareness

    Interoception: The 8 Dimensions of Body Awareness
    2026/01/30
    🎙️ In this Lights On course coaching session, Dr. Pedram Shojai guides students through week three: interoceptive awareness training. Most people have been trained their entire lives to ignore their bodies—overriding tiredness with caffeine, hunger with schedules, and pain with pills. This disconnection means missing early warning signs before they become injuries or burnout, and struggling with emotional regulation. Dr. Shojai breaks down the eight dimensions of internal awareness and explains that emotions are your brain's interpretation of body states—when you can sense your heart racing and chest tightening, you can regulate the physiology instead of spiraling into panic. 🎯 What You'll Learn: The 8 Dimensions of Internal Awareness: cardiac (feel heartbeat?), respiratory (sense breath moving?), gastric (true hunger vs boredom?), elimination (sense fullness without ignoring?), muscular (holding tension?), vascular (sense blood flow?), temperature (feel internal heat/coolness?), pain/inflammation (read discomfort?)Why emotional regulation requires interoception: Antonio Damasio's research shows emotions are your brain's interpretation of body states—anxiety is rapid heartbeat + shallow breathing + chest tightness + shoulder tension + stomach churning + cold handsThe Four Common Blocks: dissociation (trauma-based nervous system disconnect), alexithymia (difficulty identifying emotions—trainable as adult), chronic stress (stuck in fight-or-flight), Western "mind over matter" conditioningThe Two Dimensions of Interoceptive Skill: accuracy (correctly perceive what's happening) and sensitivity (appropriate attention without overwhelm)—goal is high accuracy with appropriate sensitivity 🔑 Key Insights: "We treat bodies like separate vehicles we're driving rather than integrated systems. The cost: missing early warning signs, inability to regulate emotions, poor decision-making—gut feelings are interoceptive signals." "If you can't feel emotions in your body, they just happen to you. When you can sense 'chest is tight, heart is racing,' you can identify emotions accurately, regulate by shifting physiology, and respond instead of react. This is the core of emotional intelligence." "Interoception is trainable—it's a life skill that develops with practice. Some days clear, some days foggy (perfectly normal). Practice isn't about perfection—it's about repeatedly turning awareness inward." 💡 Action Steps: Practice mini check-ins throughout the day: morning body scan before touching phone, check hunger level 1-10 before eating, notice fullness after eating, ask 3x daily "Where am I at? What am I feeling physically?", evening body scan before bedUse the 8-dimension body scan: systematically scan cardiac, respiratory, gastric, elimination, muscular, vascular, temperature, and pain/inflammation awarenessTry heartbeat detection meditation for cardiac awareness training—build the skill of feeling your heartbeat in chest, not just neck or fingertips 🎧 Perfect for: Anyone who overrides body signals with caffeine or schedules, people struggling with emotional regulation or identifying what they're feeling, those who miss early warning signs (aches become injuries, stress becomes burnout), trauma survivors experiencing dissociation, or anyone who can't distinguish hunger from boredom or fatigue from depression. 📚 Mentioned Resources: Lights On Course (Week 3: Interoception module)Antonio Damasio's research on emotions as body state interpretations3-2-1 Reset meditationInner landscape practice audioHeartbeat detection meditationEating awareness audio 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shojai: Website: theurbanmonk.comBooks: The Urban Monk, Inner Alchemy, The Art of Stopping Time, FocusDocumentaries: Interconnected, Gateway to Health, Trauma, Conscious Parenting #Interoception #BodyAwareness #EmotionalIntelligence #MindBodyConnection #InteroceptiveAwareness #NervousSystemRegulation #MeditationPractice #FunctionalMedicine #EmotionalRegulation #TraumaHealing #Mindfulness #Consciousness #UrbanMonk #Wellness
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    25 分
  • How Your Environment Is Hijacking Your Brain: The Science of Spatial Awareness

    How Your Environment Is Hijacking Your Brain: The Science of Spatial Awareness
    2026/01/23
    🎙️ Dr. Pedram Shojai explores how your physical environment is actively shaping your mental and emotional state every single moment. He breaks down the neuroscience behind environmental influences on your nervous system, explaining how clutter increases cortisol by 25%, how specific colors affect mood, and why silence has become medicine in modern life. He guides listeners through a comprehensive environmental audit covering visual chaos, acoustic pollution, olfactory triggers, spatial dynamics, and energetic residue, offering practical strategies to optimize your space for mental clarity and peace. 🎯 What You'll Learn: The Five Environmental Influences hijacking your brain: visual clutter (increases cortisol 25%, reduces focus 40%), acoustic pollution (unpredictable sounds activate amygdala), olfactory triggers (directly connect to limbic system), spatial dynamics (ceiling height affects thinking type), energetic residue (spaces hold stress/joy)The neuroscience of neuroception: your brain constantly scanning "Am I safe? Can I rest? Is this stimulating or depleting?" unconsciously, constantly, and powerfullyLight regulation and circadian rhythm: morning bright/blue light for alertness (10,000+ lux), indoor lighting rarely exceeds 500 lux, evening dim/warm light for melatonin, blue light suppresses melatonin and disrupts sleepThe Environmental Assessment Exercise: visual scan (does gaze have place to rest?), acoustic scan (sounds soothing or agitating?), smell check (fresh or chemical?), spatial feel (cramped or spacious?), energy quality (nourishing or depleted?) 🔑 Key Insights: "We spend thousands on supplements and courses but meditate in cluttered rooms, work in harsh lighting, and live in visual chaos. Like trying to grow a garden in toxic soil." "Silence is medicine—rare in modern life. Traffic noise increases stress hormones, open offices reduce productivity by 66%, and nature sounds reduce sympathetic activation." "Your olfactory system is our oldest, most primitive sensory system. It directly connects to the limbic system, bypassing the rational brain entirely. Lavender reduces anxiety, peppermint increases alertness, rosemary enhances memory." 💡 Action Steps: Complete the environmental assessment right now: Rate your current space on visual, sound, spatial, and energetic factors—fix the room you're in firstAudit your bedroom next (where you spend most time): Clear clutter daily, train yourself and family to maintain order, everything out of sorts creates subtle anxietyOptimize circadian lighting: Use bright/blue light in morning (10,000 lux or natural sunlight), dim/warm light in evening (no blue light 2-3 hours before bed) 🎧 Perfect for: Anyone working in cluttered or harsh lighting environments, people with environmental sensitivities or chemical triggers, those struggling to focus or experiencing background stress, anyone spending thousands on health interventions without optimizing their physical space, or practitioners wanting to enhance meditation and consciousness work. 📚 Mentioned Resources: Lights On: Advanced Urban Monk Mastery course (Module 2 and Module 3 releasing Thursday)3-2-1 Meditation (10, 5, and 2-minute versions)Sanctuary courseFull spectrum lights for upper/lower climesProtocol for pineal gland decalcification (coming in future modules) 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shojai: Website: theurbanmonk.comBooks: The Urban Monk, Inner Alchemy, The Art of Stopping Time, FocusDocumentaries: Interconnected, Gateway to Health, Trauma, Conscious Parenting #SpatialAwareness #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuroscience #Neuroception #CircadianRhythm #ClutterFree #MindfulLiving #SensoryIntegration #HolisticHealth #ConsciousLiving #UrbanMonk #Wellness
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    38 分
  • Pain as a Teacher: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You

    Pain as a Teacher: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You
    2026/01/19
    🎙️ Most people respond to pain with one goal: make it stop. But Dr. Pedram Shojai reveals that pain isn't a mistake—it's a message your body is desperately trying to send you. Drawing from decades of treating patients and studying traditional medicine, he teaches you how to separate pain (the raw sensation) from suffering (the story you tell yourself), and decode the specific signals different pain locations are sending about what's breaking down in your system. Through a guided practice using witness consciousness, you'll learn to read your body's language with precision, track patterns like a detective, and finally understand what your pain is actually trying to tell you. 🎯 What You'll Learn: The crucial difference between pain (raw sensation, the data) and suffering (psychological reaction—fear, story, catastrophizing)The Six Types of Pain requiring different responses: acute warning, inflammatory healing, chronic pattern-related, referred (problem elsewhere), neuropathic (nerve damage), and emotional (stored trauma)The Body's Pain Map decoded: frontal headaches (digestive stress, blood sugar), neck pain patterns (thyroid vs. posture), shoulder blade pain (heart, breathing, emotional holding), low back (hip dysfunction, kidney/adrenal stress)The Five-Step Detective Approach: locate precisely with anatomical landmarks, describe quality (sharp, dull, burning, aching), track patterns and intensity, connect to other systems, investigate emotional context 🔑 Key Insights: "Pain is a message, not a mistake. Where pain shows up, how it feels, when it appears—all specific signals. We never learned to read that language." "Responding to all pain the same way is like turning off the fire alarm. Pain has multiple functions requiring different responses." "You are not the sensation, you are the awareness observing it. Precision creates objectivity and reveals what your body is trying to tell you." 💡 Action Steps: Practice the 3-minute morning body scan before getting out of bed: locate, describe quality, notice patternsUse the pause-and-adjust practice during the day: three breaths, activate witness consciousness, adjust behavior based on the message (example: back pain while standing—engage core, adjust posture)Track patterns in a journal: when pain appears, what makes it worse/better, connections to digestion/sleep/energy, emotional context 🎧 Perfect for: Anyone dealing with chronic pain that doctors can't fully explain, people who've lost interoceptive precision and can only say "my back hurts" vaguely, those responding to all pain by trying to make it stop without investigating the message, or anyone ready to become literate in their own body's language. 📚 Mentioned Resources: New Course: "Lights On" - 52-week consciousness program (launching next week)Previous Weekly Call: Witness Consciousness practiceAnalog Pain Scales for categorizing pain 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shojai: Website: theurbanmonk.comBooks: The Urban Monk, Inner Alchemy, The Art of Stopping Time, FocusDocumentaries: Interconnected, Gateway to Health, Trauma, Conscious Parenting #PainAsTeacher #InteroceptiveAwareness #ChronicPain #PainManagement #MindBodyConnection #WitnessConsciousness #BodyAwareness #HolisticHealth #PainRelief #FunctionalMedicine #UrbanMonk #Wellness
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    29 分
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