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Teacher Training Class 1
Good day to you friends, it's Mark Joseph here and welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. So this is the introductory video and just a little explanation of how this all came to be. Well, let's go to the beginning. My journey really started born out of anxiety, born out of panic attacks and my father unfortunately died of suicide when I was 21 years old. I was following a similar downward trajectory with my mental health after his death, and I decided not to go the chemical route, which is the route that he took, but rather to go the route of breathwork and mindfulness. As a young man, I started to explore that, and it was miraculous. I felt that I finally had control over my life, and I was wondering why did nobody else know these techniques? Why are they just prescribed medication when they could at least try and work on some of these mindful techniques—mindful movement, mindful breathing, mindful meditation, journaling, and so on? Why can we not try these first before we go on to the medication? So I practiced for a while, I went to India, I traveled throughout India, the Himalayas for one year, and then I lived in a monastery, in a temple actually, for three years—can you believe it? During that time, I was grappling with the idea of becoming a monk, but I eventually left the temple without becoming fully ordained, and I got married. But my passion for mindfulness carried on, and I realized it wasn't so much in a religious framework that I wanted to help people—it was more from a practical, scientific point of view. When I go into the ancient scriptures of mindfulness, I don't see the spirituality—I see the science. I see the ancient technology that we have at our disposal today, now validated by scientific research and neuroscientists. Throughout this program, you'll get to know all of them in their full range, supporting the growth of mindfulness. So yes, it's an incredible journey. The modules are amazing—they've been put together as my life's work that I'm sharing with you. In a way, it was an intuitive flow, but as I was going about it intuitively, I realized that I had so much research to back up what I felt inside. It's just been such an amazing process. I have taught thousands of people. I have a lot of students that are now my peers—they became their own mindfulness facilitators, gurus, whatever you call them. I don’t like to be called a guru, but it gives me the greatest joy—the greatest, greatest joy—to see people whom I've trained go on and incorporate this into their professions. Into dancing, into pottery, into their therapy, into their practice, into their physiotherapy, into everything. Into teaching children at school and stopping to do mindfulness exercises with them before the classrooms. I've seen it spread right across the world actually, through the programs that I run—corporate, professional, and so on. It’s just a remarkable time. We are in a mindful revolution, and I just couldn't be happier. So let's explore this series together. Let's have fun. Let's ask questions. Let's engage. I am at your disposal, and I am guiding you—you are leading, and I am just encouraging you. Let’s go forward into the most dynamic process that one can go through—truly life-changing. And I am not just saying that—I know it's a cliché, but whenever people do this training, that’s what I hear. Their lives just change. So welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. This is where you begin.
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Class 1: Part 1
04:55
Class 1: Part 2
05:29
Class 1: Part 3
06:07
Class 1: Part 4
04:26
Class 1: Part 5
05:49
Class 1: Part 6
06:32
Class 1: Part 7
03:38
Class 1: Part 8
09:18
Coffee Practice
02:49
Breath Meditation
Keeping a Journal
06:12
Starve your Distractions and Feed Your Focus Practice
05:34
Teacher Training Class 2
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Class 2: Intro
04:50
Class 2: Part 1
10:36
Class 2: Part 2
04:00
Class 2: Part 3
08:57
Class 2: Part 4
07:04
Class 2: Part 5
07:55
Class 2: Part 6
08:01
Class 2: Part 7
04:36
Class 2: Part 8
00:00
Pre Body Scan Practice
02:25
Body Scan Practice
12:14
Mindful Eating Practice
06:31
Teacher Training Class 3
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Class 3: Introduction
03:01
Class 3: Part 1
05:17
Class 3: Part 2
11:20
Class 3: Part 3
07:42
Class 3: Part 4
05:30
Labelling Practice
Ocean Mind Practice
08:57
Sky Like Mind Practice
00:00
Non-Striving Practice
08:45
Looking & Problem Solving Practice
06:54
Teacher Training Class 4
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Class 4: Part 1
06:01
Class 4: Part 2
08:30
Class 4: Part 3
07:59
Healing of the Inner Child Practice
09:11
The ‘Nice’ Self Compassion Practice
09:53
Teacher Training Class 5
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Class 5: Part 1
08:21
Class 5: Part 2
06:55
Class 5: Part 3
03:19
Class 5: Part 4
09:53
Class 5: Part 5
05:24
Class 5: Part 6
09:28
Are You OK? Checking In Practice
08:32
Loving Kindness, EQ Meditation Practice
09:17
Empathy for Forgiveness Practice
04:05
Feed Your Emotions a Cookie Practice
05:24
Teacher Training Class 6
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Class 6: Part 1
05:51
Class 6: Part 2
09:08
Class 6: Part 3
08:38
Class 6: Part 4
05:10
How To Remain Curious Practice
07:13
Finding Your Values Practice
14:10
Bonus Video: Self-Investigation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
02:08
Bonus Video: Teach Back Advice
13:45
Mindfulness 8-Week Course

OK, so this is the prophecy. I have a prophecy. And I’m telling you it’s going to come real.

Just watch. In the next ten years or so, maybe even less. And it’s going to go like this. We’ll never ever take a chance in job interviews ever again. You’ll never believe in anyone’s curriculum vitae ever again. And when you go on a date with your online partner that you’ve never met, that you’ve been exchanging messages with, but now you meet them on a date in a real-life situation, you’ll never ever make the mistake of choosing the wrong partner.

And this is how it’s going to happen. Imagine you set that date up, you arrange the restaurant, the time, and that gorgeous girl or that handsome guy arrives and they look really nice. They look really nice, but looks may be deceiving. So before you order the bottle of wine and the expensive meal, you just say to them, look, can you just put this hat on?

And it’s a special hat with lots of little wires and lights, and they put it on. Then you look at your phone, and you push a button—it’s linked to an app—and it scans their brain. The EEG machine hat registers their brain waves, it also does a little MRI and says:

Warning, warning, warning.

  • Prefrontal cortex is not as thick as it should be.
  • Temporal to insular pole also suffering badly, which means they are an emotional wreck.
  • Parietal region is underdeveloped, which means they cannot empathize with you, they have no training in empathy.
  • But the biggest one—the prefrontal cortex—means they have no focus, they’re going to be distracted, they’re probably struggling to keep their job.
  • Warning, warning. Amygdala at the back of the head, which is the fight, flight, or freeze center, is unusually large, which means that this person is always in a state of fight, flight, or freeze.

And the question that will come up on the app is: Do you really want to date this person?

I know it sounds crazy, I know, but it’s coming. It’s coming—watch, it’s coming—because it’s here now. Neuroscientists can literally go into the brain—MRI, fMRI, EEG—they can learn so much about you from the shape of your brain. It’s true. It’s true.

This is a remarkable, remarkable idea. I would love to just go on that date, and that person is looking great, and you scan their brain, and it says:

Oh, this brain is really sexy. This person is really nice. Order the wine, enjoy the meal.

Order the wine, enjoy the meal.

God Bless.

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