We need everyone to pay attention. Let's meditate on it with John Cabinzine on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the internet,

believe it or not. The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest

predictor we have of long-term happiness. You have some factors in your control. They can promote

the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely

most important asset, which is your brain. And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things. We're all looking

for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day. Join us as we

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Now, this episode is a sciencey episode, and that's why we bring in Paula Phelps, among other reasons, but mostly because

it's a sciencey episode. We're talking with John Cabot-Zinn, an internationally known scientist,

writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine

and society, and Paula explore the importance of meditation and how it can positively impact the world, along with some tips on how to get started.

John, I'm really glad that you could join us here today.

You know, mindfulness is such an important topic, and I think right now it's probably even more important,

and a lot of people are wondering what it is and how they can practice it.

And so I wondered, since we do hear mindfulness, the word batted around a lot,

can you really tell us what it truly is?

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