Psychologist Darshan Pindoria on ”Bringing Mindfulness and Meditation to Our Daily Lives”

<p>"Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken."</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Watch this interview on YouTube here: <a href='https://youtu.be/wpxogphAQqw'>https://youtu.be/wpxogphAQqw</a></p> <p>On today’s Episode #266 we will cover</p> <p>✔  Tips from Darshan Pindoria, who spent 9 months as a monk, for those beginning their meditation practice.</p> <p>✔ How open-minded meditation vs focused meditation can help us to become more creative and innovative in 2023.</p> <p>✔ How to "think like a monk" and ask questions of others, to learn and grow.</p> <p>✔ How to teach mindfulness, focus and meditation to our younger generations.</p> <p>✔ How to use our mind to change habits, and improve our levels of anxiety, happiness and emotional stability.</p> <p> </p> <p>Welcome back to <em>The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast</em> where we bridge the gap between theory and practice, with strategies, tools and ideas we can all use immediately, applied to the most current brain research to heighten productivity in our schools, ports environments and modern workplaces. I’m Andrea Samadi and launched this podcast to share how important an understanding of our brain is for our everyday life and results. </p> <p>For today’s episode #266, we will be speaking with Psychologist Darshan Pindoria<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>, who contacted me around the time I was working on PART 4 of The Silva Method<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> book review.  While writing this final part of this review, I mentioned that I had no idea just how deep the Silva Method would take me. This final part of Jose Silva’s book review sat opened on my computer, unfinished, for more than a week, as I knew there was a lot to this book that I was still learning myself. My hopes were that this review would help all of us to improve our meditation practice, and give us more capacity, especially around how we approach stress, problem solve, or use our mind for creativity and innovation in the New Year, and in Darshan’s introduction email, he let