{"id":2989,"date":"2013-04-25T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-04-25T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:00:04","slug":"polly-young-eisendrath-getting-free-of-self-importance-is-the-key-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mindfulnessmatters\/2013\/04\/polly-young-eisendrath-getting-free-of-self-importance-is-the-key-to-happiness.html","title":{"rendered":"Polly Young-Eisendrath: Getting Free Of Self-Importance Is The Key To Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/96\/2012\/05\/polly2008-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2386\" alt=\"polly2008-2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/96\/2012\/05\/polly2008-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My dharma friend and sister, Polly Young-Eisendrath presented at the TEDx Conference at Middlebury College. The theme of the conference was &#8220;The Road not Taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Polly is a world renown author, Jungian analyst, and integrator of Western psychology and Buddhist practice. You can learn more about Polly on her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/young-eisendrath.com\">young-eisendrath.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polly spoke on Getting Free of Self-Importance Is the Key to Happiness. She points out that we are very hard on ourselves and dissatisfied with ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>She defines happiness as the place where we don&#8217;t want things to be other than they are in the moment. It&#8217;s a place of presentness, acceptance, and selflessness. It seems that the key is the loss of selfing. When we let go of the preoccupation of &#8220;what does this mean for me&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t have what I want in this moment&#8221; happiness tends to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Polly&#8217;s talk to find out how to get free from the limiting effects of self-preoccupation.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dmX6Deiyyvk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dmX6Deiyyvk<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dharma friend and sister, Polly Young-Eisendrath presented at the TEDx Conference at Middlebury College. The theme of the conference was &#8220;The Road not Taken.&#8221; Polly is a world renown author, Jungian analyst, and integrator of Western psychology and Buddhist practice. You can learn more about Polly on her website, young-eisendrath.com. 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