Mindfulness and the Military

The Military Lifestyle

Mindfulness is everywhere nowadays. Schools, companies, smartphone apps, even the military. Mindfulness has gone mainstream. For some it's a buzzword, big business, a product. If you strip away all the packaging, what exactly is it? And how can you apply it to military life?

Special Guest Patricia Galaczy is the Founder and Director of The Art of Dialogue, Associate Faculty with Royal Roads University, and Associate Faculty with the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Centre for Leadership. As a Leadership Educator specializing in Mindfulness and Organizational Effectiveness, and Associate Faculty with Royal Roads University, Patricia has accumulated over 20 years and 10,000 hours teaching People Leaders.

Highlights

• What exactly is mindfulness?
• Myths that exist
• What it means to be a mindfulness person
• 10:23 The value to the military community
• How to get started
• 15:15 Sandra Pinard offers a deeper military perspective
• 19:56 A short guided meditation by Patricia Galaczy

Quotes“When we can be more aware and compassionate of our own hearts and our own minds and our own bodies, we're able to offer that to others. Really importantly, mindfulness when we think about the military, we think about action, and taking strategic action taking wise action. When action comes from a place of calm when it comes from a place of non reactivity. That's when we're our smartest selves. So we're actually taking our most strategic actions when we're practicing mindfulness, the benefits are infinite." - Patricia Galaczy

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