Changeability Podcast: Manage Your Mind - Change Your Life

Everywhere you go it seems people are talking about mindfulness. It seems to be the new ‘in-thing’.  Of course it’s been around a while, thousands of years in fact in its oldest forms, and more like 30 or more years in its present western form, but it’s come right into the mainstream now. Companies like Google have staff queuing up to participate in mindfulness courses they’ve instigated. Entrepreneurs are falling over themselves to let us know how many minutes they’ve been meditating on their newly discovered meditation apps. Celebrities are tweeting their love of mindfulness meditation. So there’s certainly a lot of it about. But what lies behind this media interest? That’s what we explore in Episode 43 of The Changeability Podcast.  Mindfulness – what is it and why you need it? “The Queen said, ‘The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.’ ‘It must come sometimes to jam today’, Alice objected. ‘No, it can't,’ said the Queen ‘It's jam every other day. Today isn't any other day, y