Mindfulness Mode

Mark Van Buren is your go-to guide for all meditation and mindfulness-based training. With well over a decade of experience in the field, Mark instructs meditation workshops, lectures, professional development days, corporate wellness classes, and silent retreats in a practical, yet accessible way. He offers simple tools and practices that can reduce stress, help with anxiety and depression, manage pain, and transform the many difficult aspects of life. He holds a bachelor's degree in religious studies and in recent years has become a best-selling author.

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Contact Info

• Website: www.AuthorMarkVanBuren.com
• Book: A Fools Guide To Actual Happiness by Mark Van Buren
• Book: Your Life IS Meditation by Mark Van Buren

Most Influential Person

• Pema Chodron
• Jack Kornfield
• Ezra Bayda

Effect on Emotions

• The emotions are still the same; they come, they go. I am able to relate more skillfully and wholesomely to them most of the time. There's definitely more space, less identification with them. I can be with them [emotions] without getting swept away.

Thoughts on Breathing

• The breath and the body are great anchors. The breath is always right there. The body is always in the present moment. To feel yourself breathing, you are already connected to your life and to reality.

Suggested Resources

• Book: A Fools Guide To Actual Happiness by Mark Van Buren
• Book: Your Life IS Meditation by Mark Van Buren
• Book: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• App: Insight Timer

Bullying Story

• I've been in both positions [bullied and bullier]. As a result of being bullied, I can very easily shut myself off as a protection mechanism. That's something that I've had to work with.
• As soon as I get into an argument with somebody, I can shut off, so it doesn't matter what you say to me, it's not going to hurt. Then I can come back, [saying] you're not going to hurt me because I've cut myself off. I'm going to be the one who's going to hurt you. That's the way that I've grown up as a way to keep myself safe.
• For me, mindfulness is realizing that the other person is a person. When you're younger and you're making fun of somebody, I don't think you make that connection.

Related Episodes

• The Three Pillars of Meditation; Giovanni Dienstmann
• 410 Master of Mindfulness; Daniel Gutierrez
• 050 Movement, Meditation and Mindfulness with Courtney Townley

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