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30 Seconds to Mindfulness: Phil Boissiere (Full Transcript)

Full text of psychotherapist Phil Boissiere’s talk: 30 seconds to mindfulness at TEDxNaperville conference. In this talk, Phil shares his simple technique to bring mindfulness to your busy life, any time, anywhere.

TRANSCRIPT:

Phil Boissiere – ADHD treatment expert

Mindfulness. It’s really become quite the buzzword in recent times even though mindfulness practices have been used for millennia.

Most of us agree that mindfulness practices are a positive thing and would benefit our life. There’s abundant research illustrating the positive effect that mindfulness practices have on quality of life, improved focus, and decreased stress.

From Fortune 500 companies to elementary schools, mindfulness practices are being used every day in practical application and controlled studies with wonderful outcomes.

Unfortunately, most of us tend to pump the brakes when we think about sequestering even a small amount of time or a quiet space to practice mindfulness.

You might think to yourself, “A quiet space? Ten minutes? What? Forget it. I don’t have time.”

Out of survival in the moment, we allow screaming children, occupational pressures, general life stress, and technological distractions to consume our precious minutes.

The result of brushing mindfulness practices aside is more stress and a decreased quality of life.

What if I told you that the benefits of mindfulness could be obtained in as little as 30 seconds in almost any setting?

You might think that I’m selling snake oil or, at a minimum, it’s too good to be true. The reality is it is true and is being done regularly by people that I’ve trained in the method that I’m about to share with you, ranging from elite athletes to doctors to parents.

I first developed the technique I call the 3×3 Method when my daughter was about one year old. For those of you with children, you know that parenting brings great joy but also an incredible amount of stress.

I found myself experiencing increased muscle tension, headaches, and anxiety as I rushed from home to work to home to the playground, to home to bed, to work to home to the playground, and on and on the carousel went.

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I became extremely uncomfortable, and so I set out to do something about it.

Now, as a psychotherapist working in the high-pressured environment of the Silicon Valley, I am inherently passionate about mindfulness techniques.