Thank you for joining us for episode 485 of Live Happy Now.

Mindfulness is known for preventing depression and improving mental health, but how do you create a practice that really works for you?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week, Willem Kuyken, the Rit Blatt Professor of Mindfulness

and Psychological Science at the University of Oxford in the UK, is here to answer that question.

Willem's most recent book, Mindfulness for Life, offers three keys to living well through

mindfulness and explains how to develop and sustain a mindfulness practice that's designed just for you.

Let's have a listen.

Willem, thank you for joining me on Live Happy Now.

Really delighted to be here today, Paula.

You have a brand new book out, and we talk about mindfulness on the show, and you have this different approach to it. So I was really

excited to talk to you. I wanted to start by having you explain to us what you mean by

mindfulness for life. Yeah, I think a lot of people think about mindfulness as being something

that you do on a meditation cushion or on a yoga mat or something like that. And I think the kind

of basic idea of this book is that mindfulness is something that you can

weave into every moment of your day.

And in a way, it's not about doing anything differently or necessarily sitting on a meditation

mat, but it's about coming to every moment of our day with a sense of awareness and a sense

of kindness and friendliness.

Yeah, and I love the fact that you

have this different mindset for it because different practices appeal to different people.

And I was really taken by the way that you talk about how the current way mindfulness is being

taught really doesn't align with the reality of how we're

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