In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, and writer, interviews Ajani Charles, a mental health advocate that is here to discuss the benefits of mindfulness on life and individual wellness!
Episode Highlights:
- 1:20 – Ajani Charles introduces himself and his profession.
- 2:34 – What is Ajani’s definition of mindfulness?
- 3:08 – How has mindfulness helped Ajani along his life path?
- 5:10 – What mechanisms and toolsets help cultivate mindfulness?
- 8:47 – Jason talks about how he discovered meditation.
- 11:00 – How is limiting judgment at the moment beneficial?
- 13:30 – Jason and Ajani discuss the ability of meditation to increase one’s capacity to do more.
- 19:36 – Ajani discusses how people enter careers without knowing their motivations.
- 20:50 – How is the brain structure affected by mindfulness?
- 23:02 – What should people do to get started with mindfulness?
- 25:49 – Ajani talks about Operation Prefrontal Cortex.
- 31:02 Ajani dives into multiple mindfulness-promoting organizations that he works with now and in the past.
3 Key Points
- Before he started practicing mindfulness in 2014, Ajani felt unfulfilled about his relationships and was unhappy about his path.
- There exists a lot of self-judgment in those that are driven to perform highly, taking away from their present-moment awareness. Mindfulness can help them with that.
- Mindfulness and meditation can help bring to light things from our subconscious that are not usually available to us, such as motivations, suppressed feelings, etc.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “Mindfulness is a non-judgmental present-moment awareness.” – Ajani Charles
- “At the end of the day, we are all constantly our own ever-extending and ever-ongoing projects, right?” – Jason Pereira
- “Flow states are states of present-moment awareness that are cultivated through activities that are no so challenging that they paralyze on with anxiety but not so easy that they induce boredom.” – Ajani Charles
- “Our judgments of others are usually our judgments of ourselves expressed outwards.” – Ajani Charles
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