Introducing Smiling Mind with Co-founder James Tutton Video Lecture | Mindfulness: Find Peace and keep Healthy - Health & Fitness

hi my name's James tan I'm one of the
two founders of smiling mine with my
friend Jamie I attend no joke when they
say it came about for me through a
positive midlife crisis and that was
really an instance of I was getting on
with my career in a commercial sense
building apartment blocks and other
stuff which I do and then really got to
a point and thought I want to do more in
life and right at that point in time I
was looking for a taught teach my kids
casts and half a meditation and at that
point in time I started looking for a
resource to do that couldn't find
anything and is often the case when you
look for something and you find it's not
out there if you're an inquisitive mind
you sometimes end up trying to create
their thing and that's what happened
with Jane and I we went and found a
young psychologist who then wrote the
program and about three months later it
launched into this world
smiling mind is a not-for-profit which
teaches mindfulness meditation to young
people and also adults we operate
primarily on a digital platform so on an
app our website and then we have an in
schools and corporate workplace program
we're free so you can go to app store
and download the app one of the reasons
why we're free is we want to have no
boundaries in terms of people using us
so if you're in the city if you're in
the country if you're rich if you're
poor it's there for the taking and I
think it's fair saying we neither
January I expected that things would
actually grow the way they have grown
and I think it's probably a reflection
on Australian society and the fact that
we are all looking for a life which is
more meaningful and more positive
smiling mind our ostensibly is about
meditation but for me meditation is
really a pathway through to mindfulness
and that's the awareness of your
presence in a physical sense and you
know
since and just by bringing oneself into
the moment that flow and positive
impacts to all manner of aspects of your
life are really quite remarkable and
that's something which on the one hand
is supported by a whole bunch of
research but for me at a personal level
it's a reflection on what meditation and
hence mindfulness have brought to my
life I guess our vision longer term is
to have a culture in Australia where
young people are exposed to mindfulness
meditation at an early age and therefore
they have a tool which they can use
through our life which really enables
them to be more mindful and through it
being more mindful lower stress
increased resilience and in doing that
lower the incidence of mental health
issues in later life so that's a bit of
an intro to smiling mind hope you get to
enjoy it and have a great day
you