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Mindful Run 🏃‍♂️

What activity do you do that you would like to bring mindfulness to it?

I love running outside and I don’t have much time in 24 hours to do everything that I like. I like to find strategies to mix and match! Fortunately, it is very simple to add many mindfulness practices to almost any daily activities.

Concentration Exercise.
Let me know if this type of Mindfulness Exercise interests you in comments👇
In this exercise, I invite you to select a visual sensory experience and to focus on it for a set time, from 1 minute to as long as you want!
Whenever you’re distracted by other sensory experiences such as sounds, feelings, thoughts, bring back your focus on the visual object you chose.
The longer you do this for, the more likely you are to be distracted. This is all good. You’re training your concentration muscle while constantly bringing back your focus.
Let me know if any questions or comments 👇

EAT Paperback has arrived!
I am so excited. I received the print edition of my new book EAT. It was such a great experience to write this book. I received so much help from so many awesome friends. I never thought writing a book would be a collective creative project. This transformed my understanding of creativity.

I am also flabbergasted by the print-on-demand technology! My book is available in every amazon throughout the world! I could see it priced in euros, dollars, rupees, sterling pounds... Incredible!

Do you enjoy folding clothes? Tell me what you do during this chore?
I sharpen my mindful awareness skills! Specifically my equanimity skill; the ability to not push (repress) and no pull (cling to) specific sensory experiences. Skill that I find quite useful in other moments of my life ... when not folding clothes! 😂🤣
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Mindful shaving! Let me know in comments what activity of the day you want me to explore with mindfulness!

What is your food craving?
Write it in the comments!

Play the mindful craving game and see if the idea of your craving is any different from the actual food item!

What is your food craving?
Write it in comments!

Play the mindful craving game and see if the idea of your craving is any different from the actual food item!

Eat with your mouth 👄! In this mindful eating exercise, I invite you to only pay attention to the texture and temperature of food that you feel inside your mouth! Let me know what is your experience!

Forget about practicing while eating! Here’s my best tip! When you think: “I keep forgetting”, that’s your cue! Just start a mindfulness exercise on a dime, at that moment. If you’re not eating, choose a Mindfulness practice of your choice!

Eat with your tongue 👅👅👅! Try to only pay attention to what you taste whether it’s subtle, strong, appearing or disappearing in your sensory experience! Let me know how that goes!

Mindful washing the dishes 🍽! Here is one exercise that will increase both your mindfulness skills and the cleanliness of the work! Bring all your focus on what you see.

Eat with your hands 🖐🏼🖖🤙🏾! Try to put all your focus in what you feel with your hands as you eat your meal or snack. Let me know your discoveries!

Eat with your nose 👃🏽👃👃🏿 ! I invite you to bring the sense of smell at the centre of your awareness while eating! Every other sensory experience is a distraction! Tell me what are the challenges or the insights that you discover.

Eat with your ears! 👂🏾👂🏻👂🏿
This is one of my favourite mindfulness exercises! Bring all the focus to what you hear as you eat a snack or your meal! Let me know your discoveries here! I’m eager to hear what you heard!

Eat with your eyes! Have you ever tried to only pay attention to what you see for a minute, two minutes, five or ten? Here is an exercise to develop a mindful awareness that I really enjoy!

Hey! This my introduction video! My name is Marc. I am a mindfulness teacher and a physician. I live in Alberta, Canada. I have four kids. I speak French, English a tiny bit of Spanish and I am learning Japanese with my son. I am excited to share preliminary results of a mindfulness study with mothers of premature babies at the hospital that showed decreased stress, anxiety and depression.