Hello my dear astro lights. Welcome to the astro much.

Hey what's going on everybody? Hope you're having a great day, a great week, all that type of thing.

I've been in sort of a sabbatical. great week, all that type of thing.

I've been in sort of a sabbatical of sorts

just cranking away on my book.

I have a good chunk of it done

and have the whole thing outlined and a title and all that and I've just really, really been loving and enjoying the process.

You know, I read, I think it was Stephen King that said that writing is refined thinking and so it's been actually coming just very easy going deep

working on this as and just really be enjoyable like I said like putting these thoughts

having this outline this this linear flow of idea and narrative,

and then just refining that and making it more clear and articulate and all of that type of thing.

So a long ways off now, these things of course take a long time,

but a year from now or whatever.

I'll be looking forward to sharing that with you all but it's going well and I'll keep you up to date as I

Write thousands and thousands and thousands of words

Today my podcast is of He combines 20 years of his experience with mindfulness training and his scientific research. So he uses those things to kind of a symbiotic way to help inform each other.

He's the director of research at the Center for Mindfulness

and an associate professor of medicine

and psychiatry at UMass Medical School.

He's also adjunct faculty at Yale

and a research affiliate at MIT.

Perhaps the most qualified guest we have ever had

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