How To Stick To Meditation; Jackson Kerchis

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jackson Kerchis teaches how to stick to meditation. He is a former operations leader, startup executive, and Zen monk. He's a co-founder and partner at Happiness Means Business and Warrior Leader Training Companies, where he helps business and military leaders solve their people problems. Notable clients include the Army National Guard and Young's Commercial (the largest produce hauler in the US). He created the world’s first major in happiness studies and taught the first course on happiness at the University of Alabama. He is the author of How to Stick to Meditation: The Science of Habit Meets the Art of Mindfulness. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.happinessmeansbusiness.com Podcast: Barbell Logic Book: How To Stick To Meditation: Make Your Mindfulness Practice a Lasting Habit by Jackson Kerchis Most Influential Person Mickey Singer, author of The Untethered Soul Effect on Emotions Awareness, awareness, awareness. Once you are aware of an emotion and label it as an emotion, you see it as an emotion. It's kind of like magic. All of a sudden it doesn't push and pull you around. The emotions then serve you rather than you serve them. Thoughts on Breathing I've come to think of breathing for me as a really powerful way to pull myself into a state of awareness. I often start my morning practice by breathing to a count of 4 seconds and then a slow and controlled exhalation. When you have a longer, more pronounced exhalation, it causes a down-regulating effect on the nervous system. In other words, it is a calming and centering sensation. I've leaned into doing more breath work and more focused breathing types of meditation practice. Suggested Resources Book: How To Stick To Meditation: Make Your Mindfulness Practice a Lasting Habit by Jackson Kerchis Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear App: The Sam Harris Meditation App Waking Up App: Insight Timer Related Episodes Muse For Meditation; Ariel Garten Women’s Meditation Network; Katie Krimitsos Use Meditation to Master Yourself; Ashley Williams

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0:00.0	Mindfulness Mode, episode 1,017.
0:03.0	Once you're aware of an emotion and just label it as, I see this as an emotion, it's kind of like magic.
0:08.0	Like all of a sudden it doesn't push and pull you around.
0:11.0	Hey, Mindful Tribe, welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Mode.
0:18.0	Today we're here with a man who has just been really immersed in the topic of
0:23.3	mindfulness and he's done a lot of things to really change the world in this area. He's a former
0:29.7	operations leader. He's a startup executive and he's a Zen monk. He's co-founder and partner at
0:37.3	Happiness Means Business and Warrior Leader Training Companies.
0:42.6	And I'm really looking forward to talking to my guest today.
0:46.4	My guest is Jackson, are you in mindfulness mode today?
0:52.1	Thank you, Bruce.
0:53.3	Well, you know, the one Zen Co-On says, every day is a good day, right?
0:58.0	So I try to be in mindfulness mode every day, but I think, you know, most often by two in the
1:05.0	afternoon, I fail at that goal.
1:08.0	Well, what does mindfulness mean to you, Jackson?
1:17.9	Well, I really, to me, I don't know who I should give credit to this for,
1:23.6	but the person I think comes to mind is a friend and mentor of mine, Hank Lazar, who's a poet and teacher.
1:31.1	And he says something in effect of, you know, slowly falling awake. And to me, there's a Zen term as well that you talk about intimacy, becoming intimate with the present moment. Like so often, you know,
1:40.8	we struggle with this idea of like learn to be where your feet are because your mind
1:46.3	is in your head a few days ahead of the emails you have to get to what you're going
1:50.4	to eat for dinner or you're remembering this thing that happened the other day.
1:53.8	And so be where your feet are is like let's become sort of intimate with just the actual
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