Eric Zimmer 3 – Spiritual Habits

Eric Zimmer 3 is a behavior coach, podcast host, and author. He is endlessly inspired by the quest for a greater understanding of how our minds work and how to intentionally create the lives we want to live. At the age of 24, Eric was homeless, addicted to heroin and facing long jail sentences. In the years since he has found a way to recover from addiction and build a life worth living for himself.    Eric works as a behavior coach and has done so for the past 20 years. He has coached hundreds of people from around the world on how to make significant life changes and create habits that serve them well in achieving the goals they’ve set for themselves.  In addition to his work as a behavior coach, he currently hosts the award-winning podcast, The One You Feed, based on an old parable about two wolves at battle within us. With over 300 episodes and over 13 million downloads, the show features conversations with experts across many fields of study about how to create a life that has less suffering and more fulfillment and meaning.  Guests on the show include scientists, authors, researchers, teachers, thought leaders, spiritual gurus, and public figures and all offer practical, actionable wisdom that listeners can readily apply to their daily lives in order to act their way into a better experience of living.  His story and his work have been featured in the media including TedX, Mind Body Green, Elephant Journal, the BBC and Brain Pickings. Eric Zimmer 3 Vroom Vroom Veer Stories Principles that make it easy to build any habit; includes start small and linking triggers to events that already happen daily; when I get out of bed, I take a walkWhat are the two surprising elements that drive all spiritual transformation? 1) Intention: What do you want to happen? What do you want to do? 2) Attention: Where is your attention? Are you attending to the person or the TV show?What is resistance? Pain * resistance = suffering. I'm flying to Japan that is a 6 level of pain. My resistance is screaming in my head; I just want to be in bed now but I have more hours of traveling on the ground in front of me. You can reduce the pain score by getting a hotel after the airport; you can also accept that traveling is hard and reduce your resistance by telling yourself that you are ok...tired but ok.Permanent: nothing lasts forever. Personal: Most pain/resistance is not personal; it just is part of being human; Perfect --nothing is perfect; humans are flawed and messy and that's ok The Middle path says theirs is a way between extremes; it's not always the center line; but there is a way to think be in between all and nothing. Portal 2 is a great example of the middle way...you play with a partner and you need each other to 1) solve the puzzle 2) execute the solution; Jeff died fast and often and learned by doing; his partner analyzed the puzzle without killing his robot--two extremes created the middle way. Connections Podcast Website Spiritual Habits Program Learn the no.1 daily spiritual habit to help you feel more peace in your life… Eric Zimmer #1 - Deals with Eric's journey through addiction and recovery Eric Zimmer #2 - Shorter episode with Vroom Veer Stories