Mindfulness on the go: Podcast series

Mindfulness on the go: Podcast series

Podcast	Details
#1 What is mindfulness? (duration: 10:35) (Sept, 7, 2017)	Introduction by Gauri (0:00) Vinay's background (0:35) What is mindfulness? (3:55)
#2 Why "on the go" and why mindfulness? (duration: 10:44) (Sept 7, 2017)	Introduction by Gauri (0:00) What is "on the go"? (0:25) If I practice mindfulness, will I become stress-free or peaceful? (3:30) Is this connected with any God, religion or a guru? (7:00) Why should we learn mindfulness? (9:07)
#3 Tips from the movie Dangal (duration: 9:51) (Sept 10, 2017)	Intro & silence: (0:00) How are movies connected with mindfulness? (1:00) Can we take an example of a movie? (3:00) To achieve something, isn’t an ambition required? (5:15) What else do we learn from this movie? (6:53)
#4 Is there a problem right now? (duration: 8:29) (Sept 14, 2017)	Gauri shares her experiments on mindfulness Intro & silence: (0:00) Background and how she got started (1:10) Experiments with mindfulness (3:09) What is meant by paying attention to thoughts and reactions? (4:27) How do you decide whether a thought is wasteful? (5:43) What are the challenges you faced in the journey? (6:50)
#5 Am I aware that I am breathing? (duration: 11:39) (Oct 3, 2017)	What and how of present moment awareness Why is the present moment awareness important? (1:26) How do I become aware of the present moment? (2:36) What do we learn from this? (5:55) But don’t we know that everything is impermanent already? (7:32) What are the main challenges in this exercise? (9:02) We can ask a question- Am I aware that I am breathing? (11:02)
#6 Is this thought useful? (duration: 14:32) (Oct 22, 2017)	What and how of recognizing wasteful thinking Diwali pollution, is this a wasteful thought? How do we recognize a thought as wasteful? (3:30) What happens when you recognize a thought as wasteful? (5:25) How is this related to present moment awareness? (6:36) My guilt about overeating, is it wasteful? (7:58) Gauri's experiments in recognizing wasteful thinking (9:26) Can we control our thoughts and produce only useful thoughts? (12:23)
#7 Could I be wrong? (duration: 9:42) (Nov 6, 2017)	Can you give an example of a wasteful thought? (0:30) Nobody killed Arushi! (1:52) What do you think about Talwar couple’s acquittal? (2:45) What is a cognitive illusion? (4:44) What are the cognitive illusions in our day to day lives? (6:40) How do we start seeing the cognitive illusions as illusions? (8:00) Could I be wrong? (8:28)
#8 Will I get what I want? (duration: 6:55) (Jan 2, 2018)	Why is the question "Will I get what I want?" important? (1:00) What are the two parts of the question? (1:47) Which part is important? (3:02) Is expectation not meaningful? (3:38) Could the goal itself be not meaningful? (5:08)