{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Relating to Self","title":"How improv can improve your most important relationship {with Mary Lemmer}","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3097,"description":"Mary Lemmer brings joy to empowering people to improve themselves and the world around them. She believes that improvisation is a practice that can lead to a better relationship with yourself. \nMary is the founder of Improve, a company that improves people’s lives by using techniques inspired by improv comedy and behavioral research. \nIn this fascinating conversation, Joachim and Mary explore: \n\n The improv warm-up technique “Crazy Eights” \nHow to use rituals to prepare for podcasts or important events in our daily lives \nThe importance of letting go of thoughts and getting into our bodies \nHow Mary incorporates different breathing techniques like pranayama into her daily routine \nMary morning routine of meditation routine and “Morning Pages” the journaling technique popularized by Julia Cameron \nJoachim’s experiment with lucid dreaming and maintaining a dream journal \nThe inspiration and insight of dream interpretation \nHow the fundamental improv principle of “Yes, and…” directly impact your relationship with yourself \nMary’s belief that improv provides a psychologically safe space to practice new beliefs, behaviors and habits. \nHow improv not only helped Mary with honing her skills as a comedian, but also allowed her to deepen her perspective, self-inquiry and exploration. \nTalking to yourself (or your pet) as a technology for thinking \nJoachim’s experience as a professional musician and the idea “that there is nothing that engages the brain more than performing music.” \nThe difference between rote memorization and improvisation \nHow improvisation allows you be more fully in the present \n“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are” ― Anaïs Nin \nThe benefits of shadow work and Internal Family Systems \nThe improv technique first word last word \nTo learn more about Mary Lemmer and her work, visit: \n\n https://marylemmer.com/ \nWatch her debut comedy special “Living with my Parents” \nWatch her Ted Talk \"How Improv can Improve your leadership and life\"...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/18mIMfL6_iyyBvhO3CYb8yBSzT3tlKLSo29bnxE3L1c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM5OTg1LzE2Nzkz/MzQwMTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}