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Mindfulness- A Super Power: Q and A with Grandview Heights

I spent some time today with the staff from Grandview Heights City Schools exploring mindfulness practice.  In session one, we explored informal mindfulness practice (otherwise known as living mindfully in daily life).  In session two, we explored formal mindfulness practice (sometimes known as meditation).

We started out with a difficult prompt:

Have you ever done something because of an overwhelming emotion that you later came to regret?  What were the effects on you?  What were the effects on the people around you?

We then watched this excellent (and funny) short video “Why Mindfulness is a Super Power: An Animation” featuring the voice of ABC news correspondent and author of 10% happier.

 

 

In case you don’t know Dan Harris’s story of finding mindfulness, here is a five-minute video of his story.  In short, he had a panic attack on national television that prompted a reevaluation of his life, and he has become a self proclaimed “evangelist” for mindfulness practice since that time.

Here is the Q and A from the sessions:

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