Haloes and Shadows: The Human Side of History
by K3rnel
ScienceE · Explicit
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The Pebble in Your Shoe | Why Changing Your Mind Feels So Hard
The Pebble in Your Shoe | Why Changing Your Mind Feels So Hard
About this podcast
Haloes & Shadoes explores the full spectrum of the human mind through science, history and faith. Good or bad, "You Become What You Practice Quietly"
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The newest 20 of 73 episodes
- The Pebble in Your Shoe | Why Changing Your Mind Feels So Hard · 22 minYou’ve got a pebble in your shoe. You could stop and shake it out, or you could change the way you walk and hope you stop noticing. Your mind does exactly this with beliefs. This…
- Malcolm Little: The Hustler Who Rebuilt Himself in a Prison Library · 14 minBorn Malcolm Little. Known as Detroit Red, then Malcolm X, then el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. Four names in thirty-nine years, and each one was a belief about who he was. This is the…
- The Signpost You Stopped Reading | Why Familiar Ideas Feel True · 8 minThink of a signpost you walk past every day. You stopped reading it years ago, you just follow where it points. Your brain does the same thing with ideas. This episode breaks…
- Mary Magdalene: The Woman Who Stayed When Everyone Else Fled · 16 minFor nearly fifteen hundred years, the Western world called her a prostitute. She wasn't one. There is no line in any Gospel that says so. This is the story of a woman who…
- The Skin and the Coat | Why Some Beliefs You Can't Take Off · 21 minMost beliefs are like a coat, worn, useful, but separable from the person underneath. Then every so often, one stops being a coat and starts being skin. This episode breaks down…
- Simone Weil: Starved Herself in Solidarity With the Occupied · 14 minBorn the third of February nineteen oh nine in Paris. Died the twenty fourth of August nineteen forty three in Ashford, Kent, England — of tuberculosis, aged thirty four, having…
- The Walking Trail in Your Brain: How to Actually Change a Habit · 20 minYour brain doesn't track your intentions. It tracks your repetitions. Every habit you have, good or bad, is really just a trail worn into the ground by however many times you've…
- Augustine of Hippo: Lord, Make Me Pure, But Not Yet · 17 minBefore Augustine became one of the greatest minds in Western history, he spent 13 years with a mistress whose name he never gave us, 9 years inside a religion that told him his…
- The Space Between Old and New Routines · 7 minThere is a strange grief that comes with change. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind. The kind that arrives when you realise that something you used to do, something that once…
- Living Without Internal Conflict · 11 minThere is a kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with sleep. It is the tiredness of knowing one thing and doing another. Of carrying two versions of yourself, the one you are…
- Learning to Speak Less and Mean More · 6 minThere is a version of you that used to give itself away before you even opened your mouth. Your face said it first. Your body said it second. And by the time the words arrived…
- You Had More Time Than You Thought · 8 minThis episode is a letter to a younger self. Not a lecture. Not a list of regrets. Not a wish that things had been different. It is something quieter than that. It is an attempt…
- Finding Peace in the Unexpected · 11 minSome days unfold exactly as planned. Others seem to unravel one unexpected moment at a time. In this episode of Night Reflections, we explore disappointment, unmet expectations…
- Financially Responsible · 17 minWhat if becoming financially responsible wasn't about discipline, willpower, or a system that finally clicked, but about the slow, unglamorous repetition of small honest choices?…
- The Face Beneath the Mask · 7 minThere are versions of ourselves we learn to present to the world. The patient one. The strong one. The capable one. The one who knows what to say and how to respond. Over time…
- Everything You Have Been Building Has a Name · 18 minSometimes growth does not feel like growth. It feels like confusion. Like outgrowing a life that still works. Like succeeding at things that no longer feel meaningful. Like…
- The Chooser Has Arrived · 6 minThere comes a moment when change stops feeling theoretical. Not because life becomes perfect. Not because difficult emotions disappear. But because you begin to notice something…
- You Become What You Repeatedly Choose · 24 minConfidence is often misunderstood. Many people imagine it arrives after success, achievement, or certainty. But the deepest form of confidence is something quieter. It is the…
- When Change Stops Feeling Like Effort · 5 minSomething has been changing. Not all at once. Not dramatically. But quietly enough that you may only notice it when you look back. The pause that once required effort arrives on…
- What You Repeat Calmly Becomes Who You Are · 20 minWhy do some behaviors eventually feel effortless while others remain a constant struggle? Many people assume lasting change requires more discipline, more motivation, or more…
