Unconditional Healing with Jeff Rubin

Can a person embrace immense adversity in their life to not only cope, but to thrive and discover their most authentic self?

As a teacher of Buddhist meditation and psychology for four decades, and someone "blessed" with a chronic illness for two of those decades, Jeff Rubin has been obsessed with answering this question. This obsession led him to develop a program called Unconditional Healing, a new model of health that has helped countless people transform their relationship to pain, adversity, and illness, and unlock their own storehouse of confidence and resilience.

In this podcast, Jeff explores the principles of Unconditional Healing with talks, healing practices, and interviews with those who have discovered how to thrive in the face of adversity. He also features guests who are experts or thought leaders in a particular aspect of health and well-being. If you are dealing with an acute or chronic illness, the loss of a loved one or your livelihood, the dissolution of a relationship, or any other adverse circumstance that has you feeling anxious and confused, then this podcast is definitely for you. Especially if you’re looking for a more nuanced, more spiritual way to work with life's inevitable difficulties.

Please note the podcast is currently on hiatus, but all episodes remain available on all the major podcast platforms.

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Episodes

Interview with Nikol Rogers- On Discovering Unstoppable Confidence

This episode is a deep dive into one woman’s reinvention of herself along the Unconditional Healing path. Nikol Rogers was an aspiring actor/dancer from a very young age and hit success in New York City right out of the gate. But along the way, in the span of only one year, her entire world fell completely apart - her marriage, her career, and even her sense of who she was. I met Niki at a Healing Circle at this lowest point in her life, and we both share a laugh as she almost left that first me...

Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 9

What a Pandemic Can Teach Us

This episode is a talk entitled “What a Pandemic Can Teach Us”, which I gave to a virtual Healing Circle in March 2020 (at the very onset of the pandemic). Unfortunately, it is still quite relevant and timely as the virus rages and worsens globally in December 2020. While being frightening and horrific, a pandemic also provides an opportunity to take a look at ourselves, how we live, and what we’re avoiding or ignoring in our lives. On the societal level, the virus, being wild, untamed, and unre...

Dec 05, 2020•31 min•Ep. 8

Interview with Dan Cayer - On Relaxing with Adversity

This episode is my first time hosting a guest on this podcast. It’s my intention to engage with people who have undergone hardship and adversity in their life, and used it to discover a renewed sense of purpose and intention dedicated to inspiring and helping others. The first guest that came to mind was my good friend and colleague, Mr. Dan Cayer, who was a participant at my initial Unconditional Healing retreat 14 years ago. As a young man in his 20’s, Dan sustained a crippling ailment that de...

Nov 21, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 7

Pain is Inevitable - Suffering is Not

As human beings, our mindset of ”maximize pleasure and avoid pain” is deeply ingrained into our psyche and consistently reinforced by our culture. But this attitude, mainly based on fear, limits our experience of life as we try to deny, avoid, and even ignore those parts of ourselves that are hurting or wounded. In this episode, I differentiate pain from suffering, since they are often used interchangeably, and discuss the futility of pursuing a life of permanent happiness and fulfillment. Topic...

Nov 07, 2020•39 min•Ep. 6

Why We Meditate

Meditation practice is a core principle and activity of the Unconditional Healing path and lifestyle. While the reasons that we meditate are varied and personal, there is one important reason for practicing meditation with which many are not familiar. We’ll explore that reason in this episode, which I think you’ll find very interesting. I gave this talk to the virtual Healing Circle in June of 2020. Some of the topics covered include: · Meditation as the antidote to the habitual conditioning tha...

Oct 24, 2020•29 min•Ep. 5

Working with Difficult Emotions

We live in uber-stressful times where emotional distress is an almost everyday occurrence. We very much need simple practical ways to work with our emotions, and in this talk I gave at a virtual Healing Circle in August of 2020, that’s exactly what I tried to provide. The topics I covered include: · Using embodiment meditation as an antidote to “living in our head” · Tuning into the emotions directly as a “felt sense” · Emotions as vehicles for transcending logic and “figuring things out” · “Fee...

Oct 10, 2020•26 min•Ep. 4

Building a Resilient Mindset

Building a Resilient Mindset Confronting adversity with resiliency and a positive attitude is the topic for this episode. This was a talk I gave to the virtual Healing Circle in June of 2020. The topics that I covered included: · How “framing our experience” is critical to resiliency · The real meaning of “positive thinking” · Overcoming isolation and stigma · Using a checklist and scheduler to stay focused and in the NOW · The power of self-reflection...

Sep 28, 2020•32 min•Ep. 3

Unconditional Health: Fact or Fiction?

We have been led to believe by our culture that "good health" is equivalent to the absence of disease or any difficulties in our life. And yet that very conditional definition is exactly the cause of so much needless suffering, since achieving it is impossible and goes completely against the way things really are. It's very limited and completely ignores mental, emotional, and spiritual health as part of the equation. We'll explore the principles of unconditional health and the notion that strug...

Sep 14, 2020•30 min•Ep. 2

Welcome to Unconditional Healing

Episode 1 is an introduction to Unconditional Healing, an expansive model of health that includes mental, emotional, and spiritual health, as well as our physical situation. We'll discuss what it is, how it came to be, what to expect on future podcasts, and where you can learn more. Jeff will trace his own healing journey and how he came to develop the Unconditional Healing program and teachings altogether.

Sep 02, 2020•15 min•Ep. 1

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