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Puddicombe: People Rarely Continue Meditating For The Same Reasons They Started
“The reality is, as I've seen over kind of a lifetime, is that very often the reason people start meditating isn't the reason they necessarily continue meditating, and that they might begin it because they want to be better on the football pitch, but over time …”
Puddicombe: Meditation does not alter external reality, only our relationship to it
“It's not going to fix anything. It's not going to change everything around us. But it will change our relationship with those things. So whether we're in work, or whether we've recently kind of lost, lost our job, whether we are in good health, whether we kind…”
Puddicombe: You can have peace of mind even with a busy mind
“You can actually have peace of mind with a very busy mind.”
Puddicombe's Monastic Training Entailed 16 Hours Of Daily Meditation
“So in Burma it was just meditation. So we were doing an So it's eight hours of sitting and eight hours of walking meditation, all in the same room. Plus in the two hours for eating at five in the morning and 11 you'd have lunch and then no eating after midday.…”
Puddicombe: Headspace anxiety and stress content engagement jumped roughly 1,000%
“I think that some of the media stars across anxiety and stress content were up sort of a thousand percent.”
Puddicombe: Headspace B2B inbound inquiries surged over 400% during lockdown
“The inbound from businesses, from organizations was up over 400%.”
Puddicombe Survived A Drunk Driving Crash That Killed Two, Injured 12
“And a drunk driver came down the road and crashed into, to the group of us, and I was just very lucky to be standing on the edge of the group, but it killed two people, and injured, sort of put in, sort of critical, like intensive care, like 12, 12 of the grou…”
Puddicombe Chose An Integrative London Clinic To Make Meditation Feel Mainstream
“I deliberately chose that clinic or that kind of approach because I didn't want it to be in a, an alternative kind of health clinic or something like, you know, I wanted it to feel really kind of mainstream.”
Puddicombe: An Ancient Sanskrit Brand Name Failed To Demystify Meditation
“Asunya means kind of bringing the making something real out of emptiness, and so, like, the sentiment of it was kind of right, in the sense that, kind of, I wanted to bring something into the world that kind of, you know, people hadn't necessarily experienced,…”
Puddicombe: Short-term problem solving fails as sustainable motivation for meditation
“If your motivation is to quickly solve a problem in your life, then once that problem is solved or sort of resolves itself in some way, you're unlikely to continue. So kind of set up a more of a kind of a, I'm going to do this for a long period of time.”
Puddicombe: Anchoring meditation to daily habits increases consistency
“Second one is tied to something that you already do. So most people just either forget about it or something else takes priority. So tie it to something like if you have a shower every morning, tie it to that. So it's shower and meditation or it's coffee and m…”
Puddicombe: People cannot mentally outrun trauma by physically getting away
“The idea, the sense of getting away in a physical way, kind of, we think that we're going to be able to outrun it mentally as well, and of course we never can.”
Puddicombe's Gig Teaching Russian Oil Execs Sparked Idea to Demystify Meditation
“And then one of the expats had invited me to go in and teach his execs at an oil company in, in Russia. And he said, look, you know, kind of, you can't come in dressed as a Buddhist monk, you know, it's an oil company, we're in Moscow. And that had got me thin…”
Puddicombe Saw 6-10 Daily Clients in London Clinics Before Headspace
“I was working full-time in the clinics, Seeing anything from six to 10 people a day. And I started at weekends. I started, I did a few workshops, but it only really changed to sort of much larger, larger groups after I met my now very good, good friend, Rich w…”