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Don’t try to be mindful | Daron Larson | TEDxColumbus



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Mindful Awareness Trainer Daron Larson says although mindfulness has been shown to help decrease stress and increase contentment, many who try it give up convinced they’re doing it wrong. Drawing from his daily practice since 2002, he helps people break through common obstacles and devises ways to address attention-related challenges everyone faces. Daron compares mindfulness practice to physical fitness to help distinguish the benefits from the exercises required to experience them. Just as regular exercise can improve your physical well-being, he argues that training your attention can transform the way you navigate the challenges of everyday life.

Daron Larson helps people feel more at home in their lives by encouraging them to habitually notice ordinary experiences in liberating ways. He has been practicing mindfulness daily to disrupt his own default narrative mode since his first silent meditation retreat in October 2002. He teaches mindfulness practice as attention training, using the challenges and benefits of physical fitness to help navigate similar aspects of developing attentional skills.

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38 thoughts on “Don’t try to be mindful | Daron Larson | TEDxColumbus
  1. This is realistic. Yes. Life is messy but the way to encounter it by accepting it, and practice mindfulness not just to get rid of messiness of life but to improve life even if it's messy. Great message.

  2. Much of what he recommends as a counter to mindfulness, is in fact mindfulness. He sets up a dialectical bifurcation between mindfulness, and mindfulness, which is a logical absurdity. Or, in other words, he recommends being fully in the present, observing what is, as an alternative to mindfulness, which in fact is the very same thing. I guess this is one way to amuse oneself, during a TED talk …

  3. I wish that the title was different–it implies that you are against the mindfulness way of being. Actually, you are trying to correct misconceptions people have re what the mindfulness is, since it is actually "a way of being".

  4. being still in contemplation can be useful but sadly rather than sitting in meditation we really need to work together to change the toxic elements of the culture shaping and steering us all to more suffering than is needed

  5. we are naturally intelligent, compasive, concentrated, live the present and share it( where else could we live) experience happiness and suffering in ourselves and in others, fall down and get up. The thing is that we have to find in ourselves the will and courage to get up to think to concentrate to help ourselves and others without being lazy , wanting everything without trouble, accepting and desl with suffering thebest possible , accept process, and not be tempted by an easy ,tips full, quick reward , never happy life.

  6. This is exactly what it has been feeling i have am doing this ! But i have never been able to explain jt like you have ! Amazing !. That is it the secret. The noticing it is like stepping out of yourself each time or like you said waking up seejng and hearing !

  7. Time for work…time with friends and time for yourself…why do we have to complicate everything…always take time for yourself each day…adults have responsibilities….i think oeople get stressed because they simply don't like all the responsibilities..

  8. Aaaaaaaaaaahh, but how are you supposed to.. I know "enjoying" is not the right word, but how are you supposed to stand all these annoyances he talks about, other than 'being patient' and waiting for it to pass, trying to work it out in the meantime? Ha, basically, how do you solve the obstacles that are annoying your mind, and kind of ruining your existence? (sounds too tragic, but I mean, you can't enjoy the day if you're wondering why you feel like this and that) Easy, right? It's kind of stressful to try and solve everything and thinking too much into everything, hoping that it will solve it. Sometimes it happens, mostly you unlock a new meaning behind what you're going through, but what is wrong rarely becomes clear. Anyone feeling this same, very common way?

  9. Lousy talk. He doesn't really explain any of it well. I'm left not really knowing what the point is. "Focus on how much stuff sucks, and the universe will smile upon you"? Sounds like a bunch of Eastern woo.

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