Every Wednesday evening - at 7:00 pm Mountain Time - I host a wonderful meditation group. It's free and you should check it out with the link below. We close each meeting with a short reading from The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh, and last night's reading - from page 111! - is so beautiful and important, I wanted to share it with you here. Hope you enjoy it!

To join our free group: https://www.meetup.com/learning-to-surf-talks-on-buddhism-meditation-mindfulness/

In today's episode, I discuss the importance of focusing on our own well-being in all of our relationships.

Next time, we'll discuss how this inner focus helps us to foster heathy boundaries, set and bolstered with Self-Compassion.

Today's episode is a follow-up to the last so I can mention one thing I forgot and also introduce another idea about the story in our minds and how it deepens the victim mentality. And the swimmer whose name I couldn't remember is Michael Phelps.

In today's episode, I discuss the connection between stress (Not only your own, but that of your parents and grandparents) and the victim mentality.

As social creatures - an aspect we share with all mammals on Earth - every micromoment is an opportunity to return to well being through relating to others. Any time, anywhere. Mindfulness practices develop the skills to do so.

In today's episode, I come back to the basics of stress and how it factors into the Body > Emotion > Thought cycle I talked about the other day.

Today's impromptu and totally unscripted episode was inspired by this fantastic new youtube channel I recently found:

https://youtu.be/vCkawZbba4Y

Today I talk about how mindfulness develops within us the skill of being aware of our moment-by-moment awareness and what that means for stress and happiness.

For many years I tried to learn to cook by finding amazing recipes and struggling to master them.

In the process, I experienced many smoke alarms and lots of rice stuck to the bottoms of many pots.

In today's episode, I talk about how it was during the pandemic, as I steamed broccoli, cooked rice, and scrambled eggs for my kids every day that I actually learned to cook the complex and exciting meals I now master with no smoke alarms.

Mindfulness practices are a lot like this, as well.

Have a listen and let me know what you think!

Here we are - back so soon with an impromptu episode!

Two reasons for this surprise recording:

First, my son provided me an excellent opportunity to practice mindful parenting yesterday and I thought someone might need to hear this story.

Second, I'm offering a 6-week course in mindful parenting that starts next week. If you're interested in learning more - including the ridiculously affordable tuition - click here or copy and paste into your browser:

https://artburnscoaching.podia.com/9ddcbf53-825f-40af-8b00-4c7b4973b885

Hope to see YOU there!