Doug Kraft - Exploring Consciousness & Deep Awareness
Doug Kraft discusses the deepest states of meditation and awareness in The FitMind Podcast episode 94.
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Episode Overview
How does the mind shape our reality? What happens when the conceptual mind turns off?
The answers might be found in the depths of meditation.
Doug Kraft has delved into the complexities of the mind from various perspectives: as a psychotherapist, writer, minister, meditation teacher, and through the lenses of bio-energetics and neuroscience.
In this episode, we discuss consciousness and the mind's role in constructing our reality. We explore how to train our brains to achieve lasting contentment.
P.S. — If you’re serious about starting or deepening your meditation practice, check out the FitMind meditation app.
Doug Kraft Bio
Doug Kraft is a meditation teacher, retired Unitarian Universalist Minister, psychotherapist, and the author of several books, including his most recent book Deepening. He has trained in expressive and humanist psychotherapies with a special focus on body-oriented Bioenergetics. He’s studied with many great meditation teachers and works one-on-one providing counseling and spiritual mentoring.
Show Notes
0:00 | Introduction to Doug Kraft
1:20 | Home Retreat Experience
8:15 | Dependent Origination
14:23 | What is Consciousness?
23:31 | How the Mind Constructs Reality
36:24 | The Man Who Lost $100,000
45:04 | Exercise for Glimpsing Deep Awareness
47:48 | Practice Insight - Redirecting Attention