Hello ~
My name is Michael Taft, and I’d like to welcome you to The Mindful Geek. If you want to learn mindfulness or deepen your practice, you’re in the right place.
Mindfulness is a kind of meditation. Although the basics of mindfulness have been practiced for thousands of years, recently neuroscience has shown that the benefits of mindfulness are very real.
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Mindfulness means to be aware of your present moment experience very clearly and without resistance. It’s really that simple, but to learn to do it well takes some time and support.
Because mindfulness has long been associated with spiritual traditions (mainly Buddhism, but also others), people think that it has to be some sort of religious ritual. Many people are put off by what they see as the “Woo-woo” associated with mindfulness practice. But mindfulness as a practice doesn’t depend on any nonsense of any sort. It’s simply the practice of being aware of your present moment experience, and not resisting that. You don’t need to believe in reincarnation, karma, souls, “universal consciousness,” or anything else in order to practice mindfulness.
That’s the way that I, Michael Taft, approach mindfulness in my teaching and coaching. A completely secular, science-based, no-nonsense practice that you can use to get the results you want in your life.
I have a lot of materials to support you in your mindfulness practice. There are:
- Free classes in the Bay Area
- Free online classes (currently adhoc – check the Facebook page for updates)
- Free guided meditation audios here, and videos here
- A ton of free articles from me and other mindfulness experts on my blog Deconstructing Yourself
- The Forum on this website — you can ask me questions, but please read
- My book, The Mindful Geek, before you do, since that will answer a lot of them
- A special online course about mindfulness of emotions which you can check out here
- 1-on-1 coaching sessions
That should be enough to get you going.
But if that’s all too much, just read this chapter from my book. That will get you up to speed on what mindfulness is all about.
I look forward to connecting with you about your mindfulness practice.
~ Michael