{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What is a Good Life?","title":"What is a Good Life? #37 - Exploring Before Psychology with Piers Thurston","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3491,"description":"On the 37th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to have Piers Thurston as our guest.\nPiers is the founder of Quality of Mind, where he explores profound realisations that precede psychology, leading to transformative shifts in psychology.\nIn this episode, Piers takes us on his journey, from exploring counselling, NLP, and other modalities to direct path non-duality.\nWe also discuss the challenges often faced in personal development rooted in self-identification, breaking free from our addiction to focussing on our psychology, transcending the confines of the mind while fully embracing our emotions, and ultimately, discovering a sense of oneness and ease that can be experienced in life when we let go of our attachment to the separate self.\nIf you’re frustrated with your personal development endeavours or you find yourself clinging too tightly to your self-identity, at the cost of more fully connecting with others and life itself, this episode offers plenty of food for thought.\nIt articulates or points to a oneness that you've perhaps long suspected, but resisted embracing, that can have a profound effect on how you perceive life.\nSubscribe for weekly episodes, every Tuesday, and check out my YouTube channel (link below) for shorter clips and reflections.\nContact me at mark@whatisagood.life to book a free 30 minute consultation for one-on-one coaching programs or to hear about corporate workshops I am offering around this question.\nRunning Order:\n02:14 What makes people tick?\n07:02 The space before psychology\n10:22 Realising there is something more\n14:19 Personal development is predicated on a self identification\n18:22 The pursuit of oneness through various modalities\n21:52 Getting over our attachment to our self\n24:36 Going beyond the mind\n30:39 Embracing emotions and the human experience\n36:39 Not taking conflict so personally\n42:36 Not resisting what is\n56:14 What is a good life for Piers?\nFor further content and information check out the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bmT8FMFAsdpL8YpCcl1-OrgjJf3IhVZ_KJftDu8Wgy8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3NDg2LzE2NzI4/MzUxMDgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}