Episode 1: The Awareness You Are

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Mindfulness is all the buzz these days. But what is mindfulness? And how can mindfulness benefit you personally? Join Thomas McConkie in this inaugural podcast introducing the practice of mindfulness. Thomas shares how he got into the practice almost 20 years ago and how, by doing simple daily exercises, you can reap profound benefits from this age-old practice.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Mindfulness Plus.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Thomas Mconkey, and this is our inaugural show.
0:12.0	So right out of the gate, I want to talk about this word mindfulness that is the buzz of the world right now.
0:20.2	There are people in business contexts, in education
0:24.7	contexts, scientists talking about mindfulness, people talking about mindfulness being a revolution
0:31.4	in human health. So what is all this hype about? I want to address that question, but before I do that, I want to talk about how I came into the practice.
0:43.1	It started when I was 18 years old.
0:46.8	I was an insomniac.
0:48.7	I just moved out of my parents' home to start my freshman year of college. And I got to my first apartment and I
0:57.4	unpacked my bags and I sat on the floor and I realized that my life was a total mess. I didn't
1:04.1	know how to be on my own. And what's worse, I felt a lot of emotional turbulence and wasn't
1:10.3	able to sleep through the night.
1:11.8	So it was a really stressful time for me. And somehow I just kind of absorbed out of the ether,
1:19.2	this word meditation, mindfulness. And I started asking people about it. I'd never known a meditator.
1:25.6	I'd never sat with any group formally to practice meditation before, but something in me just started asking about how can I learn mindfulness.
1:34.3	I had this intuition that this would help me in my challenges.
1:39.3	So I get doing the practice. I learn my basics. I learn, you know, a posture that I can work with. I learn how to follow my breath. And I stick with it. I've been doing it about six months of this point. It's challenging, but I keep doing it because I have the sense this is really going to help. And it was at about the sixth month mark where I felt my whole life change.
2:05.6	And it changed in a very simple, subtle, but profound way.
2:11.7	I had gone from this anxious, destabilized teenager to feeling like I was really rooted in myself. I had a certain
2:23.4	centered awareness that I had never felt before. I didn't even know it was possible. And I knew
2:29.4	that this was the result of just having practiced mindfulness for a few months.
2:38.9	I think in a very concrete way, I could feel my breathing had changed.
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