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Mindfulness Mode

461 Radical Responsibility Explained; Author Fleet W. Maull

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8541 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Fleet Maull is a meditation teacher, author, trainer, and coach who provides mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training to business leaders, managers, corrections professionals and prisoners, nonprofit leaders, professionals and clinicians, community activists and peacemakers around the world. He is also an acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist community, as well as a Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage and Zen Peacemaker Order of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He founded both Prison Mindfulness Institute and the National Prison Hospice Association while serving a 14-year sentence for drug trafficking in a federal prison. He is the author of Dharma in Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull and his most recent book; Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: FleetMaull.com Fleet's Book: https://www.radicalresponsibilitybook.com Most Influential Person Chögyam Trungpa Effect on Emotions It really allowed me to open up on my emotional life. I feel I'm so much more emotionally available. Thoughts on Breathing The breath is very tied in on our physiology Any moment in which we are consciously aware of even one breath is a good moment. Suggested Resources Book: Radical Responsibility Book: Mindfulness in Action – Chögyam Trungpa Book: Real-World Mindfulness – Brenda Salgado App: Insight Timer, Headspace, Breathe2Relax Bullying Story I was certainly bullied a bit in grade school. My name is Fleet, it's an unusual name and so when you're that age if you have anything different about you, you got to put up your dues. I did get beat up sometimes from bullying. Free Gift Get the brand new Awaken With Focus 12-Minute Guided Meditation by Bruce LangfordBe alert and focused after waking. Feel invigorated, fresh and dynamic. Let your vibrancy feed those around you. Be the energetic person you desire to be. Click here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/AwakenWithFocus

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0:00.0

Mindfulness Mode 461. So the good news was that going to prison did thoroughly wake me up and I stopped compartmentalizing my life.

0:11.7

Welcome to Mindfulness Mode. I'm Bruce, Bruce Langford, your host, and it's so great to have you with us today.

0:19.6

And I have something for you. It's called

0:21.8

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0:31.1

be grounded and feel invigorated and fresh and dynamic. And that's how you can feel after using this guided

0:39.7

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0:46.5

mindful tribe i am very very excited today because I have a man with me who is extremely active in teaching mindfulness in different forms.

1:04.0

He's written an amazing book called Radical Responsibility.

1:09.0

And he's just such a great example to the world about what a difference

1:13.5

you can make and how much you can help people. I have Fleet Mall with me today. Fleet, are you

1:19.2

in mindfulness mode right now? Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. I try to be as much as I can, but certainly

1:26.6

anytime I'm being interviewed

1:28.6

or doing any kind of presentation, I work a lot with mindfulness of body, mindfulness of

1:33.5

breath, and so forth. Well, I'd like to share a bit about you with our audience, with Mindful

1:38.6

Tribe. Fleet Mall is a meditation teacher, an author, trainer, and coach who provides mindfulness-based emotional

1:46.5

intelligence training to business leaders, managers, corrections professionals, and prisoners,

1:53.6

non-profit leaders, clinicians, community activists, and peacemakers around the world.

2:05.6

And he has done so much in this whole area that I could go on and on and on. He's founded both Prison Mindfulness Institute and the National Prison Hospice Association.

2:12.6

And his story is quite incredible, which we'll be getting to as we get into this episode,

2:20.7

into this interview. So let's start here. What does mindfulness mean to you, Fleet?

2:26.2

Well, basically it means being present, being awake, being present, being available to ourselves,

2:31.8

available to others. And that includes having somatic awareness,

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