Hello and welcome to another edition of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas Mconke. Thanks so much for downloading us today. Hi Phil, I owe you an apology. I meant to

send out an episode many months ago, but if you heard the end of season four, you'll know that I

went and had a baby with my wife. And we've just been kind of figuring it out ever since then.

And initially I wanted to get season five up and running this spring, but better late

than never.

Here we are, season five, episode one.

And I feel like I used to feel when I recorded Mindfulness Plus episodes, which is just a lot of excitement to share the content with you.

If you're new to the show, just briefly a little bit about me, I've been in this practice a little, almost 25 years now.

I kind of stumbled across it as a teenage boy lost in the world,

and I was blown away at what a little mindfulness did for my emotional life, for my mental

life, for my physical health, for my spiritual sense of vitality. So here I am sharing the practice with you,

and I'm grateful that I have the occasion to do so. For the last 10 years now, full time,

I've just been spreading the good word about this practice. I'll say a lot more about it this

season, and if you haven't heard previous seasons, I recommend you go back to number one season one the basic format of the show

is that I offer a little bit of a teaching expound a little bit on it but then

just invite you to do the practice so it's very applied it's not theoretical

conceptual or if it is it's in service of helping you do the practice. So it's very applied. It's not theoretical, conceptual.

Or if it is, it's in service of helping you do these techniques

and pay attention in a new way that will help change your life for the better.

That's been my experience with it.

It's still holding up.

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