The Mindfulness Podcast with Lele and Pat

Today we go back to basic in a new style for our podcast with guest, comment, practices and answers to the most basic and wanted questions about mindfulness.

Nieta, Pat and Lele today interview Andy Lee asking him the following questions:
1. How do you define mindfulness, what it is and what it isn’t?
2. Aren’t we already aware? What’s the point with mindfulness?
3. How mindfulness makes us more aware, according to what process?
4. How different are you now that are practicing mindfulness for a long time?

Enjoy Andy answers and also the final body scan offered by him.

Something more about Andy Lee:
Andy Lee is a pioneer in bringing the benefits of mindfulness into the workplace. He brings a unique blend of business experience and mindfulness expertise to his work.​ He has been practicing mindfulness for over 20 years and has been teaching in organizations since 2011.
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Before founding Mindful Ethos, Andy was Chief Mindfulness Officer at Aetna where he and his team developed a range of programs to create a deeply rooted culture of mindfulness. These programs included in-person courses, webinars and digital resources. He also developed a network of internal mindfulness advocates and created a Mindfulness Center in Aetna’s home office.

Andy has an MA in organizational psychology and is a certified mindfulness teacher and executive coach.

This is the last episode of 2023 where Lele and Pat wish all the best to the mindfulness communities and focus on gratitude for the year ending and all the beautiful things that happened to us.
The podcast ends with a co-lead breathing practice.
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Today we talk to Zarin Suchi, IBMer, student of psychology and member of the Mindfulness@IBM community.
With Zarin we talk about mindfulness and its connection with the study of psychology. We talk about stress, stress resistance, about the good and bad moments of life and about acceptance and what acceptance has to do with mindfulness.
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Today we talk to Sean Harvey recurring guest of our podcast and recent author of the book Warrior Compassion written to help men discover the truth of who they are, learn to love the truth of who they are, unearth their inherent gifts, and realize the ways they are meant to contribute in the world.

In the podcast we talk about what it means to be a man in our time and why compassion is an important factor to open man to live better with themselves and the world. We talk about the role of mindfulness in it and why it leads to a more compassionate awareness.

We cover also some parts of the book and recent work of Sean.

For more about Sean check the website: https://warriorcompassion.com
or his linkedin profile: https://linkedin.com/in/seanharvey

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Today we bring another benefit of the mindfulness practice, peace of mind. So practicing mindfulness leads to getting more chances to pacify your mind.
And we talk about it with Ron Francis, IBMer and host of the podcast PeaceLoveMoto (https://www.peacelovemoto.com)
With Ron we touch his story into mindfulness and motorbiking, we talk about nature, we talk about our mind and how with the mindfulness practice it can be pacified.
Ron is also leading us into a beautiful practice at the end.
Thanks a lot for listening.

Today we talk to Fie Jeppesen (Global Culture Lead for Commercial Solution Areas at Microsoft) about mindfulness and in particular another of the benefits of mindfulness that is the ability to regulate stress to respond to stress wisely.
We also talk about Fie's experience with mindfulness, about self compassion and we end with a lovely practice.

Thanks for listening.

More about Fie https://www.linkedin.com/in/fie-jeppesen-6948982/