Everyday Mindfulness, with Dr. Peggy Sheehan | E64

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mindfulness: The ability to stay grounded in the current moment, and simply be present with whatever is happening. So simple, yet so hard. What's easy? Getting swept away by distractions, thoughts, feelings, daydreams, and worries about things that might happen. When we live in our heads, which most of us do most of the time, we're not really here. And that's too bad, because the world is a beautiful place. Our ambient stress and future-focus is even more pronounced in the weeks leading up to the holiday season, so I thought that this would be a good time to revisit some simple mindfulness skills that will help you be able to slow down, breathe, and enjoy this special time of year. My guest on the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast today is Dr. Peggy Sheehan. She's a Denver-based physician who teaches John Kabat Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program through Kaiser Permanente, as well as a spiritual director of the Zen Center of Denver. She knows a lot about mindfulness: The benefits of the practice, and everyday practices that will help you to slow down, and be more peaceful and present with your life. Today, she's sharing her wisdom with you.

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're, Acoustic Meditation,
0:40.6	which I thought was appropriate because today we're talking all about mindfulness. And I am so
0:48.1	excited to be able to introduce somebody to you today. We are going to be talking with Dr. Peggy Sheehan. I'm really excited about this
0:56.6	because she's amazing and she knows so much about mindfulness and I'm just thrilled that she
1:02.0	agreed to meet with us today to share her insights on the benefits of mindfulness and also some
1:09.0	really practical strategies on how to incorporate it into your
1:12.3	everyday life, particularly because, as I know you know, we're coming up on a stressful time of
1:18.8	year. Holidays, everybody's crazy and frazzled and now is the time to be able to get centered,
1:26.6	stay calm and learn how to find peace in the present,
1:30.0	no matter what kind of zaniness is going on. And Dr. Sheehan is the person to teach us how.
1:36.5	So let me tell you a little bit about her, because she's pretty impressive, at least I think.
1:41.1	She is a doctor. She's a medical doctor. She actually practices at a pediatrician,
1:47.1	but she also has a longstanding interest in mind-body medicine. So in addition to going to,
1:54.0	you know, John Hopkins for medical school, she's also been practicing meditation for over 20 years.
1:59.4	And she is one of the three spiritual directors
2:03.3	of the zen center of Denver and in 2005 this is so exciting she participated in a tree
2:10.7	teacher training program at the university of massachusetts and was trained in john cabot zinn's mindfulness-based stress reduction program.
2:21.4	And so since then, she's been teaching that program for Kaiser Permanente for the past seven years.
2:27.1	So, oh, no, nine years at this point.
2:30.8	So anyway, she knows what she's talking about when it comes to meditation.
2:34.1	And I, again,
2:36.3	couldn't be more excited to share her insight and knowledge with you. So first of all, before we
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