In a chaotic world full of distractions and noise, can we find a state of inner peace and enhanced creativity? According to psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, we can increase our wellbeing, creativity, and productivity by entering a state of flow. And we can use mindfulness to help us get there.

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Spirituality

A Mindful Moment

283 Mindfulness and the State of Flow

This episode is brought to you by <a href="http://paleovalley.com/hyman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paleovalley</a>, <a href="http://drinkag1.com/HYMAN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AG1</a>, and <a href="http://magbreakthrough.com/hymanfree" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bioptimizers</a>.  Difficult times and experiences happen to all of us. They can often leave us not feeling good enough, not feeling worthy of love, not being able to trust others, and more. And it can be easy to put self-care on the back burner, even when we know we need to face our struggles. Yet, when we make the time to be radically honest with ourselves, sit with our discomforts, and take action to change our state, we open up the door to healing. In today’s episode, I talk with Mel Robbins, Yung Pueblo, and Lewis Howes about how small actions we make every day can be the key to big changes that transform our lives. A New York Times bestselling author and self-publishing phenom, Mel Robbins’ work includes The High 5 Habit, The 5 Second Rule, and the number one-ranking The Mel Robbins Podcast. Her female-led media company produces provocative, life-changing content, with millions of books sold, billions of video views, six bestselling audiobooks, and one of the most viewed TEDx talks in the world. Her work has been translated into 41 languages and has changed the lives of millions of people worldwide. Diego Perez—who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks by his pen name, Yung Pueblo—is a meditator and New York Times bestselling author. He has an online audience of nearly 3 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His books include Inward, Clarity & Connection, and his most recent, Lighter, which was an instant New York Times bestseller. Lewis Howes is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, and industry-leading show host. Lewis is a two-sport All-American athlete, former professional football player, and member of the US men’s national handball team. His show The School of Greatness is one of the top podcasts in the world, with over 500 million downloads. He was recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30. This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, AG1, and Bioptimizers.  Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off your entire first order. Just go to <a href="http://paleovalley.com/hyman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paleovalley.com/hyman</a>. Right now, AG1 is offering 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting <a href="http://drinkag1.com/HYMAN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">drinkAG1.com/HYMAN</a>. This month only you can get a FREE bottle of Magnesium Breakthrough. Just go to <a href="http://magbreakthrough.com/hymanfree" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">magbreakthrough.com/hymanfree</a> and enter coupon code hyman10. Full-length episodes of these interviews (and links to all the references mentioned) can be found here:<a href="https://drhyman.com/blog/2023/03/29/podcast-ep696/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mel Robbins</a><a href="https://drhyman.com/blog/2023/02/08/podcast-ep672/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yung Pueblo</a><a href="https://drhyman.com/blog/2023/03/08/podcast-ep686/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Howes</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Relationships

The Dr. Hyman Show

Simple Actions To Transform Your Life And Heal Your Relationship With Yourself

Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about the secret world of fungi, hidden beneath our feet. They are joined by biologist Merlin Sheldrake and mycologist Katie Field. They hear about the hidden life of fungi, including their hundreds of mating types, predatory behaviour and crucial role in life beginning on Earth. Katie shares how mycologists like her are using fungi to come up with creative solutions to climate change.

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Producer: Caroline Steel
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Science

The Infinite Monkey Cage

The Magic of Mushrooms

In the Empty Chair series, the Sugars discuss early childhood death, an absence that can be ever-present. In Part 1, they read letters from siblings who live in the the shadow of their parents’ grief. This episode was originally released on November 4th, 2017.

Dear Sugars

Encore: The Empty Chair, Part 1

The editors of the Book Review revisit some of the most popular and most acclaimed books of 2023 so far, including "Birnam Wood," "The Wager" and "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."

Arts

The Book Review

Great Books from The First Half of 2023

At a tree ring conference in the relatively treeless city of Tucson, Arizona, three scientists walk into a bar. The trio gets to talking, trying to explain a mysterious set of core samples from the Florida Keys. At some point, they come up with a harebrained idea: put the tree rings next to a seemingly unrelated dataset. Once they do, they notice something that no one has ever noticed before, a force of nature that helped shape modern human history and that is eerily similar to what’s happening on our planet right now. With help from pirates, astronomers and an 80-year-old bartender, this episode will change the way you look at the sun. (Warning: Do not look at the sun.) 
Special thanks to Scott St George, Nathaniel Millett, Michael Charles Stambaugh, Justin Maxwell, Clay Tucker, Willem Klooster, Kevin Anchukaitis
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Books: 
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Radiolab

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

History

Fresh Air

The History Of The Crack Era From People Who Lived Through It

Meg Wolitzer presents two stories with surprises the characters didn’t anticipate.  A smart Mom defies expectations in “Agouti,” by Brenda Williams, performed by Laurine Towler.  And a smart house has unexpected features in a classic by sci-fi master Ray Bradbury.  Stephen Colbert reads “The Veldt.”

Prose

Selected Shorts

Didn’t See It Coming

Dave and Chris open up with an observation about the true meaning of the phrase “excuse me,” before moving on to an exploration of the journey of American drinking culture and the way alcohol preferences change with age. Along the way, the two establish the “Hefeweizen Principle” (a way to point out minor degrees of cultural snobbery), before the discussion (and journey) culminates in the one drink that signifies true bar order enlightenment.
Host: Dave Chang and Chris Ying
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Culture

The Dave Chang Show

What “Excuse Me” Really Means, the Hefeweizen Principle, and the Bar Order Apotheosis

Humans have always created. But historian Samuel W. Franklin argues that "creativity" didn't become a social value until the Cold War. Today, we're at another inflection point for humanity, technology, and national identity. The meaning of originality is blurring; there are legal disputes about what constitutes original art; and AI can write a song like your favorite artist in seconds. So what does it mean to put creativity on a pedestal? And what would it look like to tear it down? On this episode, we talk with Franklin, author of "The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History," about original thinking, AI, and how the human drive to create gets branded, packaged, and sold.

Education

Throughline

No Bad Ideas?

Whaling was, in the words of one scholar, “early capitalism unleashed on the high seas.” How did the U.S. come to dominate the whale market? Why did whale hunting die out here — and continue to grow elsewhere? And is that whale vomit in your perfume? (Part 1 of “Everything You Never Knew About Whaling.”)

Freakonomics Radio

549. The First Great American Industry

<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/884827691/planet-money-summer-school">Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here</a>. Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... for everyone! For Season 4 of Summer School, we are taking you to business school. It's time to get your MBA, the easy way! In this first class: Everyone has a million dollar business idea (e.g., "Shazam but for movies"), but not everyone has what it takes to be an entrepreneur. We have two stories about founders who learned the hard way what goes into starting a small business, and getting it up and running. First, a <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/03/13/392862778/episode-610-the-prisoners-solution">story about Frederick Hutson</a>, who learned about pain points and unique value propositions when he founded a company to help inmates and their families share photos. Then, we take a trip to Columbia, Maryland <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955697672/entrepreneurship-on-the-rise">with chefs RaeShawn and LaShone Middleton</a>. Their steamed crab delivery service taught them the challenges of "bootstrapping" to grow their business. And throughout the episode, Columbia Business School professor <a href="https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/awl2108">Angela Lee</a> explains why entrepreneurship can be really difficult, but also incredibly rewarding, if you have the stomach for it. (And, we should say, we are open to investors for "Shazam but for movies." Just sayin'.) Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ <a href="http://n.pr/PM-digital">in Apple Podcasts</a> or at <a href="https://n.pr/3HlREPz">plus.npr.org/planetmoney</a>.

Business

Planet Money

Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school

25 years ago, a neuroscientist and a philosopher made a bet that by now, science and philosophy would understand what makes and defines human consciousness. Want to guess who won? Christof Koch and David Chalmers join Meghna Chakrabarti.

On Point | Podcast

A 25 year-old bet on human consciousness gets settled

Sam Birch, an assistant professor at Brown University, explores what we know about the alluvial rivers of Earth, Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan.

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan

If you had the chance to talk to hundreds of business leaders at the top of their game, what habits and patterns would you learn? Adam Bryant has done just that. He's the senior managing director of the ExCo Group and founded the “Corner Office” interview series at The New York Times. Along the way, he has identified the mindset and attributes that the world's best leaders have acquired to truly influence and change their organizations. He shares what they are and how to develop them in your own career. Bryant wrote the HBR article “The Leap to Leader” as well as the book The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership.

HBR IdeaCast

What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

Roy Dekel, CEO and Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.setschedule.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SetSchedule</a>, recounts how his time as an officer in the Israeli secret services translated to the business world and what this former warrior considers to be his kryptonite, explains his mission to put solopreneurs on a level playing field with the big boys, and tackles topics like joy vs amusement, decision fatigue, the existential wisdom of Shakespeare, and why the biggest successes often only come after the biggest failures.

The Action Catalyst

The Life In Between, with Roy Dekel (Tech, Military, Entrepreneurship, Business)

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MYSTICAL RAIN: Music for Sleep, Meditation & Relaxation

Ocean waves create a natural rhythm that is soothing and can put anyone to sleep. That's why ocean white noise is the perfect sound if your baby is colicky or struggling to get some much-needed shut-eye. White noise for babies is used by millions of parents worldwide when it's time for bed.  Next time you need to put down your little one, try playing this 8-hour calming water sound.   While playing white noise for babies, it’s important to keep tabs on the volume, because any white noise machine, smartphone, or computer can put out levels that are too loud for your child. It's recommended to play the sound at least a few feet from where your infant is sleeping and to keep the volume no louder than the sound of a soft shower.  Parents can download an app to turn their smartphone into a sound level meter. One good, free, option is the sound level meter app created by the U.S. National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) available on the app store as the NIOSH SLM app. Here are some great products to help you sleep! Relaxing White Noise receives a small commission (at no additional cost to you) on purchases made through affiliate links. Thanks for supporting the podcast! <a href="https://balooliving.xayxet.net/c/2939231/751289/10944">Baloo Living Weighted Blankets</a> (Use code 'relaxingwhitenoise10' for 10% off) At Relaxing White Noise, our goal is to help you sleep well. This episode is eight hours long with no advertisements in the middle, so you can use it as a sleeping sound throughout the night. Listening to our white noise sounds via the podcast gives you the freedom to lock your phone at night, keeping your bedroom dark as you fall asleep. It also allows you to switch between apps while studying or working with no interruption in the ambient sound. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOEdY8cF2jo">Check out the 12-Hour version on YouTube</a> <a href="https://www.relaxingwhitenoise.com/p/partner-with-us/">Contact Us for Partnership Inquiries</a> Relaxing White Noise is the number one destination on YouTube for white noise and nature sounds to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. With more than a billion views across YouTube and other platforms, we are excited to now share our popular ambient tracks on the Relaxing White Noise podcast. People use white noise for sleeping, focus, sound masking or relaxation. We couldn't be happier to help folks live better lives! DISCLAIMER: Remember that loud sounds can potentially damage your hearing. When playing one of our ambiences, if you cannot have a conversation over the sound without raising your voice, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Please do not place speakers right next to a baby’s ears. If you have difficulty hearing or hear ringing in your ears, please immediately discontinue listening to the white noise sounds and consult an audiologist or your physician. The sounds provided by Relaxing White Noise are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. If you have significant difficulty sleeping on a regular basis, experience fitful/restless sleep, or feel tired during the day, please consult your physician. <a href="https://www.relaxingwhitenoise.com/p/privacy-policy/">Relaxing White Noise Privacy Policy</a> © Relaxing White Noise LLC, 2022. All rights reserved. Any reproduction or republication of all or part of this text/visual/audio is prohibited.

Waves

White noise

60+ min

Sound only

Relaxing White Noise

Baby Sleeps To Sound of Waves 8 Hours | Water White Noise for Restless Infant

Listen to an hour of a fast moving creek. Recorded while camping on Lake Chelan, WA near First Creek. Great to drift off to sleep, as background ambience, or to relax. #sleep #asmr #relax #water #pinknoise #nature

Pink noise

Green noise

Simply ASMR and Sleep

PINK NOISE: Fast-moving Creek

Close your eyes and get comfortable as you fall into a deep sleep while listening to this sound machine sleep noise episode. Presented by Sound Therapy.

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