Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about mindfulness meditation,

the fundamentals of setting up a mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is a term that's been used a lot in the last few decades and you've probably heard it in the popular culture

But what you probably don't really know is how to actually practice mindfulness effectively and also the profound effects it can have on your personal development and your

success and happiness levels in life.

So here what I want to do is I want to talk a little bit about what mindfulness actually is.

I'm going to define it for you.

I'm going to talk about the benefits of mindfulness to your personal development.

And I'm going to give you the 20% of the mindfulness theory that's going to produce 80% of all the results that you want from this practice.

All right, this is going to be a very how-to kind of guide, so let's get started. Basically mindfulness from what I've been

learning over the last couple of years all the different personal development

research that I've done I think mindfulness is the number one, maybe the number two,

most important skill that you can develop in your entire life, to be happy and to be very effective as a human being.

And what's really shameful is that we're not taught this skill at all

in school or in college.

Our parents don't know about it. Our friends don't know about it.

Nobody teaches this to us, but it's one of the most important skills of being a human being.

So very powerful, very important tool for self actualization work.

I want to give a credit here to Shinsen Young who's done decades of research and study and theory building putting together a very robust and complex and technical mindfulness system.

So some of the ideas in presenting to you here come directly from him and I'm using his

mindfulness system but I'm just taking the very basics that I think are the most important.

So we're going to whittle it down and I want to give a

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