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Finding Enlightenment with Shaka Senghor
Shaka Senghor is a New York Times best-selling author, a globally recognized leader in criminal justice reform, and an entrepreneur. Shaka joins us to discuss the path he took enlightenment while serving 19 years in prison, 7 of which were in solitary confinement. One of Oprah's Supersoul 100 alumni, Shaka's books 'Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison' and 'Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom' have helped shift societal narratives around incarceration and trauma. He shares his journey of transformation and emphasizes the importance of exploring one's internal world, the power of personal dignity, and the need to confront ugly truths to move forward.
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV...
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Moments to Consider:
1:42 Welcoming Shaka Senghor to Deeply Well
6:55 The flaws of the system, incarceration, and what it does to us, as an individual, and society.
15:15 The greater essence of how we are designed to come to enlightenment. The power of literacy.
23:23 Pimp, Malcom X, Mandela and Tupac; the radical hero.
32:32 New neuroscience, the pressure of trauma, the possibility to respond as superhuman.
34:50 What were some of your most powerful experiences with meditation?
37:24 Shaka speaks to his greatest fear, the fear of losing your mind.
42:42 Making it right with the community, where societally do we exact all this learning, knowing, and emotional depth to come from? The socialization of violence in prison.
49:13 How did you start your journey of cultivating joy?
54:34 Shaka's Soul Work for the week: Take a moment, and recognize that this moment is a sacred and divine moment, that we are fortunate and we are blessed to have the sensibilities and the physical and spiritual abilities to feel all the things and be all the things, and that we are only here in the moment that we are here.
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Connect with Shaka Senghor:
Website: shakasenghor.com
Books: shakasenghor.com/author-1
Instagram: instagram.com/shakasenghor
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Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
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Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #ShakaSenghor #DeeplyWell #WellBeing
Finding Enlightenment with Shaka Senghor
Shaka Senghor is a New York Times best-selling author, a globally recognized leader in criminal justice reform, and an entrepreneur. Shaka joins us to discuss the path he took enlightenment while serving 19 years in prison, 7 of which were in solitary confinement. One of Oprah's Supersoul 100 alumni, Shaka's books 'Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison' and 'Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom' have helped shift societal narratives around incarceration and trauma. He shares his journey of transformation and emphasizes the importance of exploring one's internal world, the power of personal dignity, and the need to confront ugly truths to move forward.
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV...
✺
Moments to Consider:
1:42 Welcoming Shaka Senghor to Deeply Well
6:55 The flaws of the system, incarceration, and what it does to us, as an individual, and society.
15:15 The greater essence of how we are designed to come to enlightenment. The power of literacy.
23:23 Pimp, Malcom X, Mandela and Tupac; the radical hero.
32:32 New neuroscience, the pressure of trauma, the possibility to respond as superhuman.
34:50 What were some of your most powerful experiences with meditation?
37:24 Shaka speaks to his greatest fear, the fear of losing your mind.
42:42 Making it right with the community, where societally do we exact all this learning, knowing, and emotional depth to come from? The socialization of violence in prison.
49:13 How did you start your journey of cultivating joy?
54:34 Shaka's Soul Work for the week: Take a moment, and recognize that this moment is a sacred and divine moment, that we are fortunate and we are blessed to have the sensibilities and the physical and spiritual abilities to feel all the things and be all the things, and that we are only here in the moment that we are here.
✺
Connect with Shaka Senghor:
Website: shakasenghor.com
Books: shakasenghor.com/author-1
Instagram: instagram.com/shakasenghor
✺
Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
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Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #ShakaSenghor #DeeplyWell #WellBeing
