And the Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.

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curious is there anybody who has not done

any kind of mindfulness type practice.

Okay. It's the mantra,

mindful, mindful, mindful.

So take a comfortable seat as comfortable as possible, but in a somewhat dignified posture, so you're

not kind of slumping over. But not being stiff or tense, just in a relaxed way, but in some posture that supports

the alertness.

I'd like to start in a slightly different way

than we usually do in teaching mindfulness practice.

Very often, very commonly, we start with attending to the breath,

and just settling into the natural breathing process.

But sometimes as people try to do that,

for some people, it can feel,

maybe there's a little forcing involved or just tension in that narrowing,

which does fall away.

It's very possible to be with a breath in a relaxed way.

What I found there's another starting place, which I found both for myself and in teaching many, many people,

gotten a lot of feedback that it's a very helpful way of beginning.

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