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06 - Charles Morris - Meditation, neuroplasticity and their benefit at work and at home

I'm joined by Charles Morris for a very special episode focused on meditation and mindfulness.

Charles is a fellow Microsoftie and is currently Director, Global Learning & Development where he's helping to bring those concepts into Microsoft life. Charles is also a father himself so he's our first "two-fer" of expert and dad.

We cover a lot of ground on this one and jump around a bit so I edited the order of our discussion to lead off with a "what is meditation" discussion for any newbies. From there we cover common misconceptions of meditation, the science behind the practice, where meditation and religion overlap (or don't) and then into a discussion of Charles' personal history with meditation and Microsoft. He's bringing the two together through his Mindful Growth program (links to more info on that below).

Here are all the links to concepts we discussed:

Victor Frankel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

Google's "Search Inside Yourself" program + institute - https://siyli.org/

Other corporate mindfulness programs:

Charles' Proposal for the "Mindful Growth" program - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindful-growth-accelerating-microsofts-transformation-charles-morris/

The Mindfulness Studies masters program Charles mentioned - https://lesley.edu/academics/graduate/mindfulness-studies-masters

London cabbies - larger hippocampus due to having to memorize streets - https://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Meditation apps:

Insight Timer - https://insighttimer.com/
Headspace - https://www.headspace.com/
Calm - https://www.calm.com/
Digital Detox - http://digitaldetox.org/

Waldorf education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

Finally, I talked a bit about a product we love in our house called K+. K+ is an organic sports drink formulated specially for young athletes. It has the right amounts of the good stuff your kids need and none of the stuff they don’t. And it tastes great (I like it too!). You can buy it on their site - https://kplusorganics.com/, at select healthy grocery stores like PCC and on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Beverage-Vitamins-Replenish-Electrolytes/dp/B07H445K9H/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1551118084&sr=8-2&keywords=K+plus

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