How To Use Mindfulness In Daily Life - Cory Allen - #413

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Cory Allen. He's an audio engineer, meditation coach and an author. Mindfulness meditation is great, but it's supposed to be in service of a mindful life, rather than simply being a way to spend 15 minutes of your day. I wanted to ask Cory about how he advises people to take their practice off the meditation cushion and into their daily life. Expect to learn how to use touch to bring yourself back to the present moment. Cory's favorite cues for reinforcing daily mindfulness. Why the clothes that you're wearing offer endlessly interesting sensations to meditate on. How to recognize when you've become lost in thought. How to reframe unwanted emotions and much more. Some very exciting news is that the Modern Wisdom annual review template is now live and it's free and you can go and get it. That's chriswillx.com/review. That's chriswillx.com/review. If you have been thinking that you want to do an end of year recap to learn the lessons that you've taken away from 2021 and to put a plan in place for how you can structure 2022, this is the exact process that I use. It's taken the best of every person. People like Chris Sparks, James Clear, David Perel have stolen tons of bits from all of their workflows and just put them into what I do. So this isn't an original piece of work, but it's some sort of love child of all of the best productivity guys that I follow, all put into one place. You can copy it into your notes direct from the PDF and then just fill it in. It'll take probably two sessions of three hours, I think it's about six hours in total, but it made such a huge difference to my 2021 Doing it at the end of last year, it was one of the most important parts to any success that I've seen over the last year. So go and do it, it'll make a huge difference. You've got time in between Christmas and New Year, you're gonna have some time off of work. I highly, highly recommend that you round out this year and that you get started with some goals, with some strategy, with some direction for 2022 chriswillx.com/review. In other news, this podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. There might be something which is interfering with your happiness or preventing you from achieving your goals. Perhaps you've got some challenges at work. Maybe you need to look at an issue in your relationship, or perhaps it's just something from your past that keeps on arising in your mind. BetterHelp will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist who you can start communicating with in under 48 hours. It's not a crisis line or self-help. It is professional counseling done securely over the internet. The therapists have a broad range of expertise, which may not be available in your area. The service is available worldwide. You can log in at any time and send a message to your counselor. Plus, you get timely and thoughtful responses and you can schedule weekly video or phone sessions so you don't even have to leave the house. It's easy and free to change counselors if needed. It's more affordable than traditional offline counseling and financial aid is available. We all know that if you work with a PT, your body is going to improve. This is precisely the same thing, but for your mind. So if you're looking at 2022, wanting to improve the texture of your own existence on a daily basis, this is the best place to start. I think that far more people than realise it would have huge benefits from counselling and BetterHelp is just the most convenient and cheapest way to do it. Head to betterhelp.com/modernwisdom, betterhelp.com/modernwisdom to get 10% off your first month and join over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Element. You do not need to have coffee first thing in the morning. You can get away with salt in water, which will mean your adrenal system's optimized. It also means you're going to reduce your caffeine throughout the day, so you will sleep better on a nighttime. And when you finally do have your first coffee, you're genuinely going to feel it. Also, you can get a free sample pack of all eight flavors from Element by going to drink lmn.com/modernwisdom. It's $5 shipping to the US or £3.84 to the UK. So you pay nothing for the pack. All that you do is cover the cost of the shipping. You'll get eight flavors so that you can do it for an entire week and a day and try it out. Especially if you're looking to start some new habits in 2022, one of them might be reducing your caffeine intake. This is a really, really good place to begin. Drink lmn.com/modernwisdom.