Hello and welcome to Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey and would like to thank you for listening today.

The topic of the show today is the title of this podcast, Mindfulness Plus.

What's with the plus?

So I think it sounds good, mindfulness plus.

It's got a ring to it.

But there's actually a significant meaning behind the plus.

When I say mindfulness plus, I'm talking about bringing the field of adult

development together with mindfulness. So what's adult development? Let me talk about this for a

moment. This has been a fascinating area of learning and research for me the

past 10 years. And what we're finding is that our knowledge about adult development has significant

implications for how we practice mindfulness, how we derive benefit from a mindfulness practice.

So let me give you a bit of a crash course on adult development.

For most of human history, we have intuitively known that children develop.

From the moment they're born, they physically start to grow.

They learn to walk.

They learn to talk.

The changes that children undergo are dramatic, right?

If you've had a nephew or, you know, raised children of your own, you'll know that, you know,

day to day, week to week, they're making these major breakthroughs developmentally.

And you don't need a PhD in psychology to know that children are

growing.

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