Rebellion, Mindfulness, and Prayer-as-Conversation with Argos Gonzalez
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 2
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Episode description
Argos Gonzales is a mindfulness instructor for both educators and students, and in this episode he shares his personal spiritual journey. We discuss:
- Parenthood, teenage rebellion, and the powerful vision his own father had before he was born
- The transformational power of a near-drowning experience
- Argos' journey in the Lucumi tradition, shamanism, and meditation
- Rigidity, fluidity, and finding balance
- How to develop your intuition
- Why meditation might feel like it “makes things worse” and how to sit with and through that
- Prayer as ritual and prayer as a conversation
- Mindfulness as a secular practice
- The inclusivity of mindfulness
- Agency and mindfulness within radical social justice work
- What to do with anger
- Modeling mindfulness and making it fun for children
“Can mindfulness bring greater clarity and greater intimacy into what your spiritual practice is?”
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