Minds and Mics

What Is Mindfulness, Really? with Daron Larson


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Nick and Daron discuss what mindfulness is exactly and how to incorporate more mindfulness into your own life (without sitting on a yoga mat repeating a mantra for hours).

Show Notes:

  • What is mindfulness?
  • The trappings of mindfulness
  • Mindfulness as exercise for your attention
  • Mindfulness vs mindfulness meditation
  • Formal vs ordinary mindfulness
  • Mindfulness as attention management
  • Giuseppe's Italian restaurant Columbus Ohio
  • Are mindfulness apps overrated?
  • Daron’s personal mindfulness practice
  • Shinzen Young
  • Daron's approach to attentional cross-training
  • Obstacles to starting a mindfulness practice
  • The two muscles of mindfulness
  • “Mindfulness is a no-lose game that feels like a no-win game.”
  • The spiritual aspects of mindfulness

You can follow Daron Larson here:

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  • Twitter


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