Turning Within with Kelvin Chin, Part 2: Dissolving the Fear of Death
What Do You Believe About Death?
In Part 2, Producer Walker Vreeland’s conversation with meditation teacher Kelvin Chin continues. They discuss how to overcome the biggest fear of all: the fear of death, so that we can live happier, more productive, peaceful lives. The first step, Kelvin says, is identifying our belief system about death— regardless of what it is. The second step is meditation, which helps us get in touch with our true self, the one that lies beneath identification with external labels and obsessive thinking. Kelvin also talks about his corporate background and the mindset that set him up for success and fulfillment.
Click here to listen to Part 1: Creating Inner Strength and Flexibility in an Uncertain World
Meet This Episode's Guest
Kelvin Chin
Kelvin Chin is an internationally sought-after mediation teacher, Stress Management Expert and consultant. He is the Executive Director & Founder of Turning Within” Meditation Foundation and Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation. For over four decades, he’s been helping people worldwide with insights, knowledge, and practical tools to live happier, more productive, balanced lives, mentally-physically-emotionally, by teaching people worldwide “Turning Within” Meditation via Skype, phone and in-person.
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Kelvin has taught people of every age group and walk of life — professional athletes, retirees, teachers, students from elementary school to postdocs, construction workers, clergy, and CEOs. He has taught more than 5,000 people this easy-to-learn technique of naturally Turning Within — no concentration or religious affiliation are involved.
Kelvin was a test subject in the first medical studies on meditation — conducted by Boston cardiologist Herbert Benson, MD (published in Scientific American, 1972). Kelvin also taught the first meditation classes at West Point Military Academy in 1974, and in the U.S. Army on the DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) in Korea.
Through his nonprofit Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation, he has dedicated his efforts to helping people improve their quality of life through an approach that is based on understanding death more clearly and aligning that understanding more accurately with each of our respective belief systems — whatever they may be. By doing so, each person reduces or eliminates their fear of death — to free up otherwise wasted energy that can be refocused to better use in one’s daily life. He is the author of a 2016 bestselling book: “Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems.” (Click here to see Reader Reviews)
Working with audiences on death and dying issues since the 1980’s, Kelvin has taught numerous CLE and CEU seminars for the legal and healthcare industries, and was a state-certified Long Term Care Ombudsman for the California Department of Aging. In the early 1990’s, he also co-founded the Center For Medical Ethics and Mediation, which offered trainings and seminars to healthcare institutions on how to more effectively prevent and resolve conflict in a facilitative and mediative manner.
Kelvin has lived and worked in 7 countries, and has lectured in 30 of the 50 states in the U.S. He has delivered more than 2,000 presentations worldwide. While at Dartmouth College, he studied at the Université de Strasbourg, France. He is a graduate of Dartmouth, Yale Graduate School and Boston College Law School.
Kelvin lives in Los Angeles, California, but travels and teaches worldwide on the phone, videoconference, and in-person.
Find out more and connect with Kelvin:
https://www.turningwithin.org
https://www.overcomingthefearofdeath.org
https://www.kelvinchin.org