112. What Skeptical Law Enforcement Officers Learned About Mindfulness, with Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scot Huntsberry

Scot Huntsberry, retired FBI supervisory special agent, shares today some revelations students had at the FBI's National Academy when introduced to mindfulness. All of us can benefit from increased self-awareness, more emotional intelligence, and finding the pause between the stimulus and our old responses of anger, frustration, resentment and aggression. Then I'll share how I'm taking a step to be more mindful daily!

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RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)

MINDFULNESS/MEDITATION

Scot Huntsberry, Retired FBI Agent

• Tara Brach Resources
  • Website
  • Free Guided Meditations from Tara Brach
  • Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach, PhD
  • Mindfulness Meditation (audiobook), Tara Brach, PhD
• Buddhist Monk (Honorable Ajahn Chah) Resource Provided by Scot
• FBI National Academy General Information

Herbert Benson, MD

• The Relaxation Response, Herbert Benson, MD
• The Mind-Body Effect: How to Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress, Herbert Benson, MD
• Benson-Henry Institute, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA

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