He’s such an enormous gift to this world.

I loved listening to Andy's voice to fall asleep, if I can't sleep, i listen to this and I'm asleep in .minutes

I love his voice

So grateful for you, Andy.

I've been listen him even if he talks about rotten eggs. Fabulous voice!!!👌

I Love Andy Pudicombe

I just love listening to him!

5k views? This interview/session is a blessing, glad to see Andy’s message reach more people through other means. But for us 5000, this is an underrated opportunity to sort of feel like you’re there.

I felt suffocating during the exercise about taking the pain of a really hated one but I also felt really good after!

Thank you very much for this talk

Mindfulness is being recognised as a very useful tool, tapping into neuroplasticity and actually changing how brains function. See the work of Dan Siegel

Thank you. It helps to hear

What an interesting guy.

This is such a precious gift to society and to me as a person. Being grateful :) - thanx, Andy

This app saved my life. Thankyou Andy

pls also explain the sensations picked up by the mind during a body scan ... i study via utube from the northern tip of Peru and imagine that there are others in distant places doing this too! and thank you for your kind magnificent work !! i suffer amd. therefore being brief a must at the tender age of71

Nice

Mindfulness and Happiness: a different perspective from affective neuroscience. Being in the moment, or being mindful, has as its major entailment a state of rest, which affectively is a pleasant state. However, happiness, if defined empirically as a combination of pleasure and arousal, requires but a simple modification of mindfulness practice to elicit both affective states, and can easily be mapped to simple neurologic processes. Hypothesis and proof below. HYPOTHESIS: Dopaminergic activity will stimulate endogenous opioid systems when the latter are in a non-suppressed state. EXPLANATION AND ‘PROOF’: Activity that involves continuous positive act/outcome discrepancy or novelty (productive or meaningful behavior) while the covert musculature is inactive (a resting state) will result in heightened feeling of pleasure and arousal, or ‘eudaemonia’, ‘flow’, or ‘peak’ experience. This derives from the observation that neuro-muscular tension (or stress) inhibits endogenous opioid (pleasure) release, while relaxation accentuates it, the latter permitting opioid systems to be further stimulated by dopaminergic activity (arousal) elicited by meaningful behavior. The reason this explanation does not appear evident from general observation is that its counterpart as ‘flow’ or ‘peak’ experience is described through literary metaphor and not scientific language and obscures the independent and dependent measures that accurately describe it. The virtue of this explanation is that it is easily testable by anyone. Just get into a relaxed state (mindfulness protocols are the best way to do this) and then exclusively pursue or anticipate pursuing productive activity for periods of a half hour or so, and voila, you will have a flow or eudaemonic experience. It is that simple. I offer a more detailed explanation in pp. 47-52, and pp 82-86 of my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on dopamine, addiction, and motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site and his article on the neuroscience of happiness sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf also: Meditation and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation

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Monk??? yeah right!

Is it easy to live mindfully if you have a net worth of $100 million? I'm certain the teachings weren't to be used in this way. Why did you did-robe?