Mindfulness Made Simple | Andy Puddicombe | Talks at Google

In his early twenties, ANDY PUDDICOMBE left his Sports Science studies to become a Buddhist monk. When he returned to the UK, he had one goal in mind: to teach mindfulness to as many people as possible. Today, Andy is an expert on meditation & mindfulness and co-founder of Headspace.

He shares his journey—radically changing his life to become a Buddhist monk and later co-founding one of the most popular mindfulness apps today, which has more than 65 million users in more than 190 countries.

Moderated by David Feinberg.

[vaclavstandera]

The App Headspace is the best thing which came to my life. I'm meditating for 4 and a half years, and it is still super.

[susydyson]

Leading a mindful life ..! so blessed and interesting how one can help others deep listening and from that space one discovers does exist !

[gills.j.gilliganiii]

Thank you Andy for sharing and risking this great talk. I'm dyslexic and words are very important so thanks for keeping separate: Mind and Brain, Thinking and Thoughts. Putting down Should, Have to's and just allowing the Present to Be.
For me there is nothing to Fear, but that requires knowing that there is nothing to Hope for either, No opposites nor judgements nor desires.
Originally, Nothing was Everything until it became Something. So don't Make Anything. Enjoy, Gill.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha

[mariiamghazi]

I am really happy to get to know him, i gurantee that sleep is better a 100 times when i practice his meditation

[goamgoam]

#Mindfulness101

17:33 Mindfulness is different from Meditation.

Mindfulness is the ability to be present, free from distraction with an open, curious and kind mind.

Thank you, Andy!

[mihai_chindris]

great talk! Andy's such a cool and calm man 😄

[susydyson]

How marvelous that it’s being prescribed by doctors and paid for by NHS

[aikoyonamine]

I appreciate this story and I hope that one day I would have the opportunity to work at Headspace or at Google Health! <3

[nualanongpoythong]

Thank you for your sharing. I am a Thai, keep maintaining the Buddhism culture. Especially doing the middle way meditation. It help me a lots and also can be create the nice atmosphere around me as well . It can feel the real inner peace inside mind.

[ghhost]

City Park, streets, stadium and 'Run with headspace' tracks through the phones in Run Club App. All these inspire me for new run. And thank you 'Talks at Google' for invitation of coach.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

[Graghma]

If it takes years to add other languages to your program.... then you've setup your code wrong.
But on topic (hahaha) I loved the mindfulness discussion had here it was great ^_^

[michaelquintana]

Lets go and seek the depths of the human soul and exploit it for profit. And not be aware of how evil we are when we do this.