The Mindfulness Podcast

Join us on this 10th day of our 30-day mindfulness challenge, where we explore a simple yet profound practice: "Just Breathing" practice with Lele. In this episode, Lele guides us through a meditation on the breath, encouraging us to focus on the sensation of the breath moving in and out of the body. With Lele's gentle guidance, we'll learn to observe the breath without getting caught up in distra...

Join Nieta today on day 9 of our 30 days mindfulness challenge for a mindful movement practice that will help you tune into your body and practice deliberate movement of different areas of your body. This practice is designed to help you cultivate awareness, relaxation, and joy in your physical body. Take a few moments to breathe, move, and connect with your body. Enjoy!

The podcast today, as part of the 30-day mindfulness challenge, explores the practice of "mindful eating," encouraging listeners to pay attention to their sensory experiences while eating a bag of chips or similar small snack. Lele describes the process of visually examining the food, handling it gently, chewing slowly, and savoring the taste, texture, and sound of each chip. By practicing mindful...

Today, we invite you to approach difficulties with kindness and curiosity, rather than aversion or judgment. Join Patrick as he guides you through a practice that helps you shift your attention to the body, allowing the mind to disengage from sticky thoughts and explore new ways of responding to challenges. **In this episode, we'll explore:** * A guided meditation practice that focuses on approach...

Today, on Day 6 of our 30 days challenge we invite you to cultivate loving kindness and compassion towards yourself with Nieta's gentle and insightful practice, "Rewriting History". **In this episode, we'll explore:** * A guided meditation practice that focuses on rewriting past experiences and responses to treat yourself with kindness and compassion * Techniques for recognizing and challenging se...

Today, in day5 of our 30 days challenge we invite you to cultivate mindfulness and self-compassion with Kathy's gentle and soothing practice with handpans. In this episode, we'll explore: * A guided meditation practice that focuses on mindful breathing and self-compassion * Techniques for engaging the parasympathetic nervous system and calming the mind * A practice of self-compassion and kindness,...

Today, in Day 4 we invite you to cultivate a smile, not just on your face, but in your heart and mind. Join Lele as he guides you through a gentle and playful practice that will help you release tension and cultivate joy. In this episode, we'll explore: * A guided meditation practice that focuses on the smile, helping you to develop greater awareness and presence * Techniques for cultivating a smi...

Today, we invite you to embark on a journey of focused attention with Nieta, where you'll learn to cultivate a deeper connection with your breath and quiet the mind. In todays' practice: * A guided meditation practice that focuses on the breath, helping you to develop greater awareness and presence * Techniques for cultivating focused attention, including the use of anchor points and sensory explo...

Welcome to Day 2 of our 30-day mindfulness challenge! Today, we invite you to embark on a beautiful and transformative journey with Patrick, as he guides you through the "Lake of Loving Kindness Meditation". In this episode, Patrick will lead you through a gentle and imaginative practice that will help you cultivate a deeper sense of loving kindness, compassion, and understanding towards yourself...

**The 30 Days Mindfulness Challenge - Day 1** Welcome to Day 1 of our 30-day mindfulness challenge! Today, Lele will guide us through our first practice of the journey. **Beginner's Mind: Cultivating a Fresh Perspective** In this episode, Lele invites you to embody the spirit of the "beginner's mind," a fundamental concept in mindfulness. This attitude allows us to approach each moment with curios...

Today Nieta, Lele and Pat are sharing the latest news and introducing the mindfulness Challenge that will start on September 30th and for 30 days will share one practice a day with the community. And enjoy the practice at the end shared by Nieta.

Today Pat, Nieta and Lele are just sharing some news from the communities and Pat is leading a practice for everyone called the 3 steps breathing space. It's short and powerful enjoy it a fully!

Today we go back to basic in a new style for our podcast with guest, comment, practices and answers to the most basic and wanted questions about mindfulness. Nieta, Pat and Lele today interview Andy Lee asking him the following questions: 1. How do you define mindfulness, what it is and what it isn’t? 2. Aren’t we already aware? What’s the point with mindfulness? 3. How mindfulness makes us more a...

This is the last episode of 2023 where Lele and Pat wish all the best to the mindfulness communities and focus on gratitude for the year ending and all the beautiful things that happened to us. The podcast ends with a co-lead breathing practice. Thanks for listening

Today we talk to Zarin Suchi, IBMer, student of psychology and member of the Mindfulness@IBM community. With Zarin we talk about mindfulness and its connection with the study of psychology. We talk about stress, stress resistance, about the good and bad moments of life and about acceptance and what acceptance has to do with mindfulness. Thanks for listening.

Today we talk to Sean Harvey recurring guest of our podcast and recent author of the book Warrior Compassion written to help men discover the truth of who they are, learn to love the truth of who they are, unearth their inherent gifts, and realize the ways they are meant to contribute in the world. In the podcast we talk about what it means to be a man in our time and why compassion is an importan...

Today we bring another benefit of the mindfulness practice, peace of mind. So practicing mindfulness leads to getting more chances to pacify your mind. And we talk about it with Ron Francis, IBMer and host of the podcast PeaceLoveMoto (https://www.peacelovemoto.com) With Ron we touch his story into mindfulness and motorbiking, we talk about nature, we talk about our mind and how with the mindfulne...

Today we talk to Fie Jeppesen (Global Culture Lead for Commercial Solution Areas at Microsoft) about mindfulness and in particular another of the benefits of mindfulness that is the ability to regulate stress to respond to stress wisely. We also talk about Fie's experience with mindfulness, about self compassion and we end with a lovely practice. Thanks for listening. More about Fie https://www.li...

Today we talk to Alicja Zalewska-Choma, Senior Lead, Corporate Social Responsibility @Kyndryl that is bringing her knowledge to talk about sustainability and how to deal with the anxiety connected with the climate crisis we are experiencing these days. Mindfulness is in fact a practice that helps to deal better with anxiety and that's what we share in the podcast along with the RAIN practice. Enjo...

In this podcast episode, we talk to Akshata Nagesh (Program Lead, Global Delivery Transformation at Kyndryl) With Aks we discuss the benefits of practicing mindfulness in managing emotions to experience exuberant enjoyment of life.  She shares her personal experiences of being short-tempered in the past and how mindfulness helped her become aware of her emotions and gradually learn to control them...

Today we talk to Estela Quesada Zuheros, IBMer and author of the book "The Mindful Response: Lessons, stories and practices toward responsible leadership through mindfulness". In the podcast we talk about the book, about what's mindfulness for Estela and how she discovered it and what took her to deciding to start writing. A beautiful journey thanks for listening. You can find below the links abou...

Today we talk to Nat Lyckowski (Global Neurodiversity Advancement Leader@IBM) about Neurodiversity, about Neuroinclusion, about the April that is the Neurodiversity Advancement Month. There is a lot that the mindfulness practice can do for Neurodiversity and that's what we talk about today, about awareness, about acceptant and judgment. We talk about the proper language to use and how to approach...

Today we talk to Raymond, a program lead for projects and engagements in the Kyndryl Global Sustainability Team. Raymond Du Toit shares that he sees mindfulness as taking a step back, resetting purpose, and appreciating nature and the natural resources we rely on and take for granted. He believes that mindfulness can help recreate the connection that is missing with nature, like waking up early an...

Today we talk to Sri Muralidharan, Mindfulness@IBM Community member and program manager@IBM. We talk about mindfulness and it's role into relationships, with friends, with family and kids and customers by helping who's practicing to have a more open mindset to understand that each one has something to bring on the table. Because in that moment when the customer is yelling our "monkey mind" needs t...

Today we talk to Daniel Toohey, Data Scientist@IBM and proud member of the Mindfulness@IBM community that takes us through his experience into mindfulness starting with learning and experimenting a lot with Zen and Tibetan practices, going on retreats and then comparing that to the corporate world and finding the Mindfulness@IBM community. A nice rich story that we hope you enjoy. Thanks for liste...