Notice you’re alive now—more than never.
Hey! I’m Daron.
My grandson calls me Grampy. My granddaughter is still in the blooming, buzzing confusion stage, so she hasn’t called me anything yet. My daughter calls me Dad. I've been married since it became legal, but Matt and I have acted like it since 1995. He calls me Daron.
I’m a mindfulness coach.
You can call me whatever you want, but I’m not a guru. I was never a monk, Buddhist, or vegetarian but have practiced mindfulness daily for twenty-two years. I’ve been on dozens of silent meditation retreats since 2002, from four days to three weeks, but mostly a little over a week at a time.
Practicing mindfulness has changed my life, but I try not to make a big deal about it, and I’m not a fan of how mindfulness is usually marketed. It’s a skill, not a commodity.
Exercise your attention with me.
Exercising your attention equips you to feel more alive and respond more effectively.
It’s easy to miss the experience of being alive. We tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the past and predicting the future. We unconsciously resist discomfort and choke the life out of pleasure.
Practicing mindfulness is a counter-instinctual way to disrupt these tendencies and learn to savor pleasant moments more, wrestle with unpleasant ones less, and feel more alive.
Subscribers to my free newsletter can read my field notes on sneaking mindful awareness exercises into real life.
For $5/ month or $50/year, paid subscribers get weekly attention exercises to try.
Each one includes:
an audio recording from my Mindful Midday Pause archive
circumstances conducive to learning the exercise
commentary about the underlying practice theme
Mindful awareness is so profoundly human that you don’t need anyone to teach you how to do it, but using it to develop empowering attention skills on your own can be tricky. It helps to have someone convince you such an odd-sounding pastime is worth exploring and that you’re not doing it wrong when you try.
You can hear more about my Attentional Fitness approach to mindfulness here:
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