Today's episode is a little different. The show host Katie Austin will be talking about a topic close to her heart. This is an episode for anyone who has ever thought that their mind is just too busy to meditate.
In this episode you will learn:
- You don't have to clear your mind of all thoughts to be "good" at meditation.
- What Jon Kabat-Zinn's operational definition of mindfulness is and how that relates to have a busy mind during meditation.
- Why seeing our thoughts clearly and how our thoughts, emotions and body sensations can create different behaviours is so valuable.
- The importance of the attitudes we bring to our meditation practice such as non-striving.
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About the show host, Katie Austin...
I am mindfulness meditation teacher based in Cornwall in the UK and I am trained through Bangor University to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). This is an evidence-based 8 week mindfulness course that draws from the ancient wisdom of Buddhist meditation, modern psychology and neuroscience to support you to shift your relationship to stress in your life to reduce unnecessary struggle and experience greater peace and ease.
You can find out more about me and my offerings here: https://www.katieaustinmindfulness.co.uk
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Find a Mindfulness-Based Course Teacher in the UK (also lots of online teachers for those not in the UK), a great place to look is the BAMBA website: https://bamba.org.uk/ BAMBA stands for British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches.
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The podcast will drop every two weeks on a Friday! Happy listening, happy meditating.
