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What is mindfulness?

What is mindfulness? It’s not what you think it is! Interviewed by Heather Lee Chapman

Hi everyone! I don't share much but I should share what's happening in my business at least! Let me know if you want to see more, that might give me the push that I need I'd like to share this video-podcast where Heather Lee Chapman interviews me about my work with mindfulness, what I think about mindfulness and why it's so powerful and different than any other modalities. I talk about: what is mindfulness and what it is not, how mindfulness has helped me in my life, including one of my favorite quote! how mindfulness is a quality (embodiment) although it's taught as a practice, but it does start with practice mindfulness is "on-demand", that's one reason why it's so powerful and different from other forms...

Mindfulness, Full of Kindness on Radio Canada

Me and mindfulness are on Radio-Canada!

Last year, Alexandre Lamic from Radio-Canada contacted me to do a short video of me and my work teaching mindfulness to children and teens. I'm happy to share the final video :) it's very short, only 2 minutes, I have so much more to share! This is a start. It came out in July 2024, and it's already almost November. As you can tell I'm either busy or procrastinating, or both. I'm sorry. I'll try to do better. Here it is, in French. I'll do my best to share a translation soon. La pleine conscience, un moyen de réduire l’anxiété chez les jeunes https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2085865/pleine-conscience-meditation-sante-mentale...

Mindfulness as a secular practice

Mindfulness is about noticing what is happening right now. In practice, mindfulness looks like observing our breath without changing it, noticing how our emotions (anger, joy…) feel like in the body, the mind, the heart, and eating with the 5 senses. Mindfulness has its origins in traditions and religions like Buddhism, Taoism, and Stoicism, but the practice of mindfulness as stated above does not make it religious. Many things have origins in traditions and religious but that doesn’t make them religious, for instance the Gregorian calendar that we use in the West does not make us all religious. Mindfulness as it is taught in the West has proven to have many benefits in our lives, and that is why it is now taught even in...