Hunter Clarke-Fields
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1,144 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard Nov 2023
Hunter Clarke-Fields’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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cuckoo bananas distracted our brains are, first of all.
And we think, Boy, I can't do this meditation thing, especially if you think the idea is to stop your thoughts, which it's not.
We notice that our they even call it monkey mind, right?
That our minds are like monkeys jumping all around all over the place.
But as we practice, each time we notice our mind wandering, bringing it back to the
something in the present moment, whether it's the f the breath or sounds or our child, whatever it is.
That we build the ability to be more present.
And that has all these incredible benefits.
So, you know, there are
many well-regarded research facilities that have shown that it it reduces anxiety, reduces depression, increases health outcomes, all of these things.
But for importantly for parents, it helps us to be less reactive.
So what what I think of is it helps us to
You know, when we're with our kids, sometimes we just we just react, right?
We're just saying something.
It's off maybe something that has coming out of our parents' mouth.
We just react.
We're not necessarily pausing to kind of think about.
How we want to respond.
And mindfulness is like a practice that can really help us build that mental pause muscle.
It's that space between stimulus and response where you get to choose how you want to respond.
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