Summary

(02:49) Why mindfulness and meditation have only started to gain momentum in the West

• ‘The world is smaller with the smartphone’

• Scott started his meditation practice when he was just 13 years old

• It’s mainstream that most people have at least tried meditation

(04:55) What drew Scott to meditation at such a young age

• He grew up in a religious household, but discovered spiritual contemplation practice from his brother, and it resonated with him much more

(06:56) What Scott practices

• He uses the mantra ‘hu’, like ‘ohm’

• These are ‘charged words’, which carries a certain energy to them

• Meditation is often passive

(09:57) The meaning of spirituality

• Rumi ‘ ‘Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it’

• Operationalised compassion

• Seeking and having your own mantra captures your own being

(15:16) The benefits of meditation and mindfulness

• ‘I am a better version of myself’

• Happiness is things that happen to you, whilst joy comes from within

(20:44) How much of the meditation practice is about letting go?

• It’s important to set your intentions for each of your practices

(24:16) What is mindfulness?

• Mindfulness is seeing things clearly

• We often focus on things that go wrong or that we need to be fixed ‘ but that is not the reality

(26:32) Bringing mindfulness to the workplace

• LinkedIn felt like a safe enough place for Scott to bring mindfulness and meditation to the workplace

• Scott volunteered to run meditation sessions at LinkedIn for several years

• It then turned into a full-time role ‘ Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn

• LinkedIn had 50 ‘ 60 regular meditation sessions around the world

• Scott’s focus now is operationalising compassion at work

• It’s the company’s responsibility to give their employees the space and tools for meditation and be mindful

• ‘We should be spending a hundred times on mental wellbeing as we are on physical wellbeing’

(34:02) Scott’s recent book ‘The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out’

• ‘We are responsible for our own joy’

• It’s a challenging truth

(36:48) The Four Step Action Plan

• Compassion is about being aware of others, having the mindset of wishing kindness, and having the courage to take action

• It is easy to understand but hard to put into regular practice

(40:05) Creating a sustainable meditation practice

• Be clear with your intentions and vision

• Associate the value to achieving it, e.g. what if you could eliminate 95% of your fears, etc ‘ what price would you pay for that?

• Build systems to create change

• Scott meditates outside, at the same place and time

(44:25) How can we cultivate stillness?

• Even if you are in a busy environment, simply take one deep breath and exhale

• ‘Learn to stand in the fire’

(47:46) Growth and self-expression

• The only way for the soul to express itself is through the human part ‘ the body

• Listen to the language that you use

• Notice when you feel most alive