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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Mark Thornton: Meditation at Work

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mark Thornton has more than 20 years of experience in meditation, and has become one of the world’s leading executive meditation coaches, specializing in finding the best techniques for busy people. He’s the author of the Sounds True audio learning program and book Meditation in a New York Minute. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Mark and Tami Simon discuss his personal journey, which took him from being an investment banker to being a meditation coach. They consider the ways that Mark helps his clients find both a sense of purpose and a sense of meaningful connection with the people that matter most to them. Finally, Mark offers practices to create calm even in the midst of the chaos of our busy lives. (55 minutes)

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

0:14.3

At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

0:17.2

as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

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offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Mark Thornton.

0:44.0

Mark has over 20 years of experience in meditation and has become one of the world's

0:50.3

leading executive meditation coaches, specializing in finding the best techniques for busy people.

0:58.0

He's the author of the Sounds True Audio Learning Program and the book, Meditation in a New York minute.

1:04.0

Super calm for the super busy.

1:07.0

In this episode of Insights at The Edge,

1:10.0

Mark and I spoke about his personal journey, from being an investment banker to being a meditation coach,

1:17.0

and the ways that he helps his clients find both a sense of purpose and a sense of meaningful connection with the people that matter most

1:26.5

to them. Mark also offers several practices that could be used at any time of the day to create calm even in the midst of the

1:36.3

chaos of our busy lives.

1:39.1

Here's my insightful and calming conversation with Mark Thornton.

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Mark Thorton.

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Mark, I know many people who have reported to me that they've come back from meditation retreats,

1:57.0

back into the workplace, and they're able to maintain the kind of calm and composure they discovered during their meditation retreat for the first day, maybe the second day.

2:10.0

But then before you know it, they've snapped.

2:13.0

They're just back to how stressed out they were before they went on their meditation retreat.

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