Do You Still Need Street Level Mindfulness?

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John brings mindfulness to street level. He explains what it is, how to do it, and why it's important to incorporate it into your everyday life.

Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.5	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:36.9	So at 8.23 a.m. this morning I'm driving up from my $9.00 pour over coffee that is with tip. It's very expensive but I think it's at least for me it's one of my nectors in life which which is a different conversation is filed on their self-care and
0:41.3	I really believe in the little things because I think the little things
0:45.6	were big like thread count and water pressure and underwear that makes you feel sexy and also in this case pour over coffee.
0:56.0	Anyway I'm coming up the hill and it's just a straight shot to my house. So I'm looking up and seeing the mountains and there's this like cloud, low cloud over the mountains and it looked like Hawaii,
1:19.2	it looked like a portrait, it looked like Japan. I've never been to Japan, but from the photos I've seen.
1:29.0	And I was thinking to myself, and I just, like, I was taken back by the landscape and this is just another day of getting coffee and
1:37.4	this is just you know another day of getting coffee and driving home right but I
1:41.1	noticed this majestic view and I took a second and I was like, man, that's
1:49.0	beautiful. And here's the revelation, and this is my point because I then thought would I even
1:57.3	have would I have even noticed this in my my 20s or even my early 30s and no I would not have I would have been driving up the hill from the
2:06.7	coffee shop mad that I paid nine dollars for my coffee stressed out about what I needed to get
2:12.4	done and how far I need to swim and all
2:15.5	that shit would have been in my head and I would have missed this amazing view of
2:20.9	mountains and clouds and I thought to myself, well this is proof that at least I've come some way, right?
2:31.6	At least I am different. at least my lenses are different. And the point of this story is I think the best way into mindfulness, and this is something that I've been practicing more and
2:45.3	more and I know that it could be a bumper sticker and I know everyone talks about
2:48.8	mindfulness and being present and yeah yeah yeah but how do you do it right and I'm always all about
2:56.2	simplifying I think there's potent I think the potency is in simplification and I think the more the more simple whether we're talking about dense concepts
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