A New Way of Being

Updated: 21 Apr 2025 • 396 episodes
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A New Way of Being is about finding flow and restoring balance. It's also about developing a different relationship with your thinking mind - you are not your thoughts, you are aware of your thoughts. This is a crucial distinction that can have a profound effect on your life. Life isn't something to be 'won', but is rather a continuous miracle to be experienced, and Simon Mundie and guests discuss ways to understand and embody this new way of being. Guests range from world renowned thinkers, philosophers, scientists and healers - to many of the most successful athletes of all time.

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Philosopher and consciousness researcher Bernardo Kastrup argues that reality isn’t made of matter — it’s made of mind. And that insight, if true, changes everything: how we relate to each other, how we handle grief, how we understand mental illness, and even how we live day to day. In this conversation, Simon and Bern

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“How you do anything is how you do everything.” That’s the core of Ryan Holiday’s message in this bitesize episode. The bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way shares why Stoicism — which he calls “the most practical of all philosophies” — is ultimately about action. Every moment is a chance to show up fully, to

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We’ve all said it — “there just aren’t enough hours in the day.” But Jasmin Paris proves otherwise. In 2019, she won the gruelling 268-mile Spine Race — not only becoming the first woman to win it, but beating the men’s course record by 12 hours. Alongside being an elite ultrarunner, Jasmin is a mum, a vet, and lives a

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Why do so many of us feel anxious, disconnected, or low — even when, on the surface, life looks fine? Psychologist and author Dr Margaret Paul believes the answer lies in self-abandonment — the subtle but powerful ways we disconnect from our feelings, judge ourselves, and hand responsibility for our emotional lives to

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Dr Emma Seppälä — psychologist, author of Sovereign, and faculty at Yale and Stanford — explains why you can’t think your way out of anxiety, and how the breath, body and nervous system hold the key to deep emotional healing. https://www.simonmundie.com/restore-balance-mini-course https://www.simonmundie.com/restore-ba

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‘I am the master of my stress mechanisms’ Wim Hof – aka the Iceman – says that our obsession with comfot comes at a great cost. What’s the answer? To go consciously into stressful situations, to change our relationship to it. https://www.simonmundie.com/restore-balance-mini-course https://www.simonmundie.com/restore-ba

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