Entrepreneur & Mindful Therapist

Integrating Mindfulness into your relationships

Often people think about mindfulness as they do about exercise. As something you do in the morning to keep your mind in shape before you go about your day.

While this is a major benefit of meditation, the real gem with mindfulness meditation is the change in perspective, insight and increase in effective decision making at work and at home.

Here’s how I realized this for myself:

“I was meditating there in my hut, during a period of deep concentration when I had a flash of profound insight. I could see how my meditation practice had utterly transformed who I was. I could see so clearly how each thought and action creates the people we become and the environment and relationships that surround us.

At that moment it felt like I was touching the very source of well-being which was ultimately, choice, while being connected to my most personal values. I felt as though I had discovered what I have always been looking for, that sense of satisfaction and alignment we are all looking for. I thought about all those in my life who I cared about, all those who would never leave their busy lives to become monks. I knew I needed to find a way to share this insight with them.”

In the years that followed, William created the SkillfulMeans approach to wellbeing combining traditional meditation training with modern science-backed approaches to mental, emotional, and physical health.