LeoBunny: Where Spirit Meets Science, Gently, from Japan

When something of yours mysteriously vanishes — your keys, a favorite pen, that travel mug you always leave by the coffee machine — what's the very first thought that flashes through your mind? For most of us, it's a quiet, automatic suspicion: who took it?This episode begins with a viral story from Japan — a cheap plastic umbrella that somehow traveled hundreds of miles from a Tokyo hotel to a small inn in Aomori — and uses it to explore why our brains insist on finding a culprit, and what happens when we gently refuse that reflex.Through the lenses of spirituality, neuroscience, and psychology, we look at how "frequency" maps onto the brain's reticular activating system, why Dr. Barbara Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build theory makes a good mood a structural defense rather than naive optimism, and what Leo Bunny means when she talks about stepping off the "trouble timeline."The goal isn't to convince you of anything. It's to offer one quieter question to carry into your day: what timeline am I about to authorize?Leo Bunny — Where spirit meets science, gently, from Japan. 🐰---Best paired with: 5 Step Workbook #2 - Staying in a good mood: a practical defensehttps://global.leobunny.net/b/krBs8━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📘 Companion Workbook for This Episode━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A 30-minute, 5-step workbook to sit with the ideas from today's episode.Pricing:▸ Newest episode's workbook: Pay-what-you-want (even $0)▸ Past episodes' workbooks: $3 each→ https://global.leobunny.net---LeoBunny Linktree: https://linktr.ee/leobunny_global#LeoBunny, #WhereSpiritMeetsScience, #Podcast, #NewEpisode, #BroadenAndBuild, #BarbaraFredrickson, #PositivePsychology, #ReticularActivatingSystem, #Neuroscience, #MetaCognition, #GoodMood, #ToxicPositivity, #TimelineJumping, #Spirituality, #InnerWork, #SelfAwareness, #JapaneseSpirituality, #JapanFromAbroad, #SpiritualPodcast, #PhilosophyPodcast

Have you ever looked at someone you've known for years and, just for a moment, felt like you were looking at a complete stranger?In this first episode, we explore a perspective from Leo Bunny — a spiritual practitioner from Japan — that quietly upends the way we think about human identity. A person, she suggests, isn't a single fixed consciousness, but more like an internal board of directors: a team of frequencies sharing one physical vessel.From the mysterious Shakoki-dogu clay figures to the phenomenon of "Walk-ins," we explore how ancient Japanese traditions map onto modern neuroscience and Western philosophy — from David Hume's Bundle Theory to the Ship of Theseus.The goal isn't to convince you of anything. Just to offer a richer, more curious way of interpreting reality.By the end, you'll have a new question to carry into your next conversation: Who is in the room right now?LeoBunny — Where spirit meets science, gently, from Japan. 🐰---Best paired with: 5 Step Workbook #1 - Meet Your Internal Board of Directorshttps://global.leobunny.net/b/btx1E━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📘 Companion Workbook for This Episode━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A 30-minute, 5-step workbook to sit with the ideas from today's episode.Pricing:▸ Newest episode's workbook: Pay-what-you-want (even $0)▸ Past episodes' workbooks: $3 each→ https://global.leobunny.net---LeoBunny Linktree: https://linktr.ee/leobunny_global#LeoBunny,#Consciousness, #Spirituality, #Philosophy,#MetaCognition,#Neuroscience,#SelfAwareness,#InnerWork,#MindfulLiving,#WalkIns

Hello, and welcome. I'm LeoBunny — thank you so much for being here with me.I want to start this very first episode by simply saying hello, and telling you a little bit about what this show is, and how it's made.I'm a spiritual practitioner based in Japan, and I only speak Japanese. I've been sharing my work for a while now on my original Japanese-language podcast, exploring the places where metacognition, neuroscience, and Japanese spiritual traditions quietly meet. This English show is my way of opening a door — so that these ideas can reach you, even across the language barrier.Here's how it actually works. Each episode you'll hear is adapted from my Japanese podcast, and presented in English using Google NotebookLM's AI audio generation. I use AI throughout my creative process to bring this work to you.And one last thing. because of the nature of AI, you may occasionally hear what are called "hallucinations" — small interpretations or expressions that drift from the facts. I'd love for you to hold this show lightly, as one of many possible AI-shaped perspectives on my work, rather than a perfect transcription of it.Thank you for listening. I'm really glad you're here.---LeoBunny Linktree: https://linktr.ee/leobunny_global