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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Diana Winston.

Diana is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.

She's a well-known teacher called by the LA Times, one of the nation's best-known teachers of mindfulness.

She developed the evidence-based mindful awareness practices curriculum called Maps

and the training in mindfulness facilitation, which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide.

Which sounds true, Diana Winston has written the book, The Little Book of Being,

Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness.

And also, she's created a new audio teaching series.

It's called Glimpses of Being, a training course in expanding mindful awareness.

In our conversation, Diana introduces us, as she says this is a very experiential podcast.

She introduces us to what she calls the spectrum of awareness, moving from being very narrow in our awareness, to totally, absolutely, expansive, open, infinite.

Come take this ride with me. Here's my conversation with Diana Winston.

To begin, Diana, on a personal note, I wonder if you can share with our listeners how you first came to the practice of mindful awareness.

Well, I got started right after college when I was very lost and confused and depressed and not sure what I was doing with my life.

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