{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e1d1ee9ab5c3f6204bb97a9/5fa3132b7c25bb2de9ceebff?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Mindfulness with Ajani Charles | E037","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e1d1ee9ab5c3f6204bb97a9/1604950209474-1bbf11448fc13e40c90b197659167c16.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this episode of <em>Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners</em>, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, and writer, interviews Ajani Charles, a mental health advocate that is here to discuss the benefits of mindfulness on life and individual wellness!</p><p><br></p><p>Episode Highlights:</p><ul><li>1:20 – Ajani Charles introduces himself and his profession.</li><li>2:34 – What is Ajani’s definition of mindfulness?</li><li>3:08 – How has mindfulness helped Ajani along his life path?</li><li>5:10 – What mechanisms and toolsets help cultivate mindfulness?</li><li>8:47 – Jason talks about how he discovered meditation.</li><li>11:00 – How is limiting judgment at the moment beneficial?</li><li>13:30 – Jason and Ajani discuss the ability of meditation to increase one’s capacity to do more.</li><li>19:36 – Ajani discusses how people enter careers without knowing their motivations.</li><li>20:50 – How is the brain structure affected by mindfulness?</li><li>23:02 – What should people do to get started with mindfulness?</li><li>25:49 – Ajani talks about Operation Prefrontal Cortex.</li><li>31:02 Ajani dives into multiple mindfulness-promoting organizations that he works with now and in the past.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>3 Key Points</p><ol><li>Before he started practicing mindfulness in 2014, Ajani felt unfulfilled about his relationships and was unhappy about his path.</li><li>There exists a lot of self-judgment in those that are driven to perform highly, taking away from their present-moment awareness. Mindfulness can help them with that.</li><li>Mindfulness and meditation can help bring to light things from our subconscious that are not usually available to us, such as motivations, suppressed feelings, etc.</li></ol><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tweetable Quotes:</p><ul><li>“Mindfulness is a non-judgmental present-moment awareness.” – Ajani Charles</li><li>“At the end of the day, we are all constantly our own ever-extending and ever-ongoing projects, right?” – Jason Pereira</li><li>“Flow states are states of present-moment awareness that are cultivated through activities that are no so challenging that they paralyze on with anxiety but not so easy that they induce boredom.” – Ajani Charles</li><li>“Our judgments of others are usually our judgments of ourselves expressed outwards.” – Ajani Charles</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Resources Mentioned:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jason.pereira\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a> – Jason Pereira’s Facebook</li><li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereirajm?trk=org-employees_mini-profile_title\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn</li><li><a href=\"https://www.woodgate.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Woodgate.com</a> – Sponsor</li><li><a href=\"https://www.fintechimpact.co/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FintechImpact.co</a> – Website for Fintech Impact</li><li><a href=\"https://jasonpereira.ca/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">jasonpereira.ca</a> – Jason Pereira’s Website</li><li><a href=\"https://www.calm.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Calm App</a> – Website for the Calm App</li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/10-Happier-Self-Help-Actually-Works/dp/0062265431\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10% Happier</a> – Book by Dan Harris</li><li><a href=\"https://www.strategiccoach.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Strategic Coach</a> – Dan Sullivan’s Coaching Group</li><li><a href=\"http://op-pfc.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Op-pfc.com</a> – Website for Operation Prefrontal Cortex</li><li><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajanicharles?originalSubdomain=ca\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> – Ajani Charles’s LinkedIn</li><li><a href=\"http://www.ajani.ca\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.ajani.ca</a> – Ajani Charles’s Portfolio</li><li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ajaniphoto/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@ajaniphoto</a> – Ajani Charles’s Social Media Handle</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://jasonpereira.ca/all-content-jason-pereira-toronto/mindfulness-with-ajani-charles-e037\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Transcript</a></p>","author_name":"Jason Pereira"}