Mark Baxter

I'm injured now.

I've got like a...

knee thing and I've got a you know some other stuff so that's that's an interesting journey it's hard to balance it is yeah I'm a loner by nature and I spend a lot of time introspectively and I'm an introvert and stuff but if I don't get a good dose of people

I suffer.

So friends are really important, family, colleagues, all that kind of stuff.

Sometimes I've got to dose up on those medicines.

I need to make an effort to do that.

I can get sort of very in my own world.

Yeah, I've got to really keep making an effort there, which I'm pretty good at, but I have to work at that.

You mentioned mindfulness and meditation to me before.

I spent a lot of years meditating in things formerly like the sitting meditation, but I do less of that now.

I'm more a meditator as I'm just in the world.

I really bring that meditative practice and experience more and more to my day-to-day, moment-to-moment experience.

I find that when I do that, I'm able just to relax the tension in my body, my breath, my nervous system, my thinking.

The more I can remember to come into like the moment now and release some of this tension, it's so important.

I'm very orientated to moving forward.

I'm always like looking for a project and doing things.

I can get very obsessed about stuff.

Which is great, but there's a lot of tension involved in that, you know, in this kind of chasing, pursuing stuff.

And so for me to remember to do that is super important.