Mindfulness+ with Thomas McConkie

We cannot wake up alone. We need each other. In this post-season bonus episode, Thomas and his wife, “Glo”, share some o... Read more

Welcome to season 3 of Mindfulness+! Thomas opens the new season in the afterglow of a soul-stirring gathering in Spring... Read more

John Kesler joins us in the studio to share insights into mindfulness, developmental psychology, and the art of living a... Read more

Once a month Thomas chooses a particular theme that has come up in discussions and offers a longer guided meditation aro... Read more

A continuation of the lessons on the Energy Centers, i.e. Money, Sex, Fame, Power. This week Thomas discusses extreme mo... Read more

It seems almost common sense to believe that our happiness depends on what kinds of experiences we’re having in life. “N... Read more

The present moment often seems rather dull and unremarkable to the ego. But when we learn to pay attention, to taste the... Read more

In this episode Thomas revisits a classic teaching–beginner’s mind–and adds a polarity spin: The more deeply you plunge ... Read more

The Gospel of Thomas is a surprisingly mind-jogging text that reads more like a collection of Zen koans than a book from... Read more

We tend to talk about addiction in our culture as though only some of us are “addicts.” Mindfulness practice reveals to ... Read more

Let’s face it–we are all creatures of habit. And although habit creates efficiencies in life and helps us get things don... Read more

When we understand how the attentional system of the mind works, it becomes much easier to train the skill of mindfulnes... Read more

It’s such a human thing to wait for the right conditions and suppose that once things are finally the way we like them, ... Read more

When it comes right down to it, we practice paying attention here at Mindfulness+ because we suffer. All human beings ar... Read more

William Blake wrote, “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite.” How ... Read more

Sir Ken Robinson, in a stirring and hilarious Ted Talk, jokes that university professors relate to their bodies as thoug... Read more

This week I talk to Diane Hamilton of Two Arrows Zen Center about her new book, The Zen of You and Me. Diane epitomizes ... Read more

This week we dive a bit deeper into practice by taking refuge in the presence of a being whom we deeply trust. When we c... Read more

Who are we really? And what ideas do we have about ourselves and others that keep us distant from them, keep us isolated... Read more

When we go chasing after extraordinary experience, we block the flow of grace that is always available. Paradoxically, r... Read more