The Truth About Preparation

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Headspace Studios

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Sometimes, we may rely on the knowledge of books, calendars and notes to take on tasks. But today, Dora explains how we already have the tools to make progress in our lives and work. Dora Kamau holds a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Psychiatric Nursing. She is a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher and is working to complete her Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher training this fall. Before joining forces at Headspace, Dora worked as a psychiatric nurse in a women’s addictions facility and organized community events for BIPOC women in Vancouver, BC, Canada. You can reach out to Dora on Instagram here! Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome to Radiohead Space, to Wednesday and to this new moment, its Dora.
0:22.5	As some of you may know, I've been in the midst of becoming a qualified mindfulness-based
0:27.8	dress reduction teacher. A part of the learning pathway is to be mentored and supervised for
0:33.1	the duration of the eight week program I'm currently teaching. I have the absolute
0:37.9	privilege of being mentored by one of the founding directors of the program.
0:43.2	The other day we were in a mentoring session and I shared how I've been struggling with planning
0:47.2	for class and feeling prepared and I'm learning there's a fine line. There's the reading
0:52.7	and course review that we can do that helps us to plan for class and then there's the
0:57.3	preparation which is really 24-7. When it comes to teaching something like mindfulness,
1:05.1	our preparation comes by practicing and experiencing life. As the poet Rumi writes, these are two
1:12.2	kinds of intelligence. There's acquired intelligence meaning the knowledge that is attained through
1:18.3	skills, practices and competencies. The intelligence that is gathered through memorizing facts and
1:25.0	concepts that helps us rise in the world and then there's already completed intelligence,
1:32.0	which is a wisdom that already exists within. It's not acquired but remembered. It's a way of being.
1:39.9	These are things like empathy and compassion, qualities and characteristics that come with being
1:45.9	human. This already completed intelligence is often forgotten and undervalued, especially in a
1:52.7	world that places so much value on climbing the ladder and less self-improvement than biohacking.
1:59.4	Yet this type of intelligence is what helps us to be prepared no matter what life presents us.
2:05.6	Sometimes, as I'm learning, planning can only take us so far.
2:12.5	After that conversation, my mentor encouraged me to take a different approach when teaching my next class.
2:19.1	He advised me to tap into my acquired intelligence and spend a few minutes looking at the notes I
2:25.3	had for the upcoming class and reflecting on the needs of my students. From there, I was instructed to use
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