{"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” \n How to use rituals to prepare for podcasts or important events in our daily lives \n The importance of letting go of thoughts and getting into our bodies \n How Mary incorporates different breathing techniques like pranayama into her daily routine \n Mary morning routine of meditation routine and “Morning Pages” the journaling technique popularized by Julia Cameron \n Joachim’s experiment with lucid dreaming and maintaining a dream journal \n The inspiration and insight of dream interpretation \n How the fundamental improv principle of “Yes, and…” directly impact your relationship with yourself \n Mary’s belief that improv provides a psychologically safe space to practice new beliefs, behaviors and habits. \n How improv not only helped Mary with honing her skills as a comedian, but also allowed her to deepen her perspective, self-inquiry and exploration. \n Talking to yourself (or your pet) as a technology for thinking \n Joachim’s experience as a professional musician and the idea “that there is nothing that engages the brain more than performing music.” \n The difference between rote memorization and improvisation \n How 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 \n The benefits of shadow work and Internal Family Systems \n The improv technique first word last word \n\nTo learn more about Mary Lemmer and her work, visit: \n\n https://marylemmer.com/ \n Watch her debut comedy special “Living with my Parents” \n Watch her Ted Talk \"How Improv can...","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}