What is mindfulness and how can it improve our mental health and lives? Developing our ability to slow down, breathe, become aware and focus our mind & body is a skill, a skill developed through the practise of mindfulness. In this episode, host Wayne Schwass sits down with Marike Knight who owns and runs her Mindfulness business www.coolkarmacollected.com. Marike’s mission is simple, “to improve the lives of all Australians by teaching individuals and organisations to live with presence and have complete access to all the tools they need to achieve that through Mindfulness.” In this episode we discuss: • How mindfulness helped Marike deal with and ultimately work through the trauma of her father’s suicide • The difference between mindfulness & meditation • How mindfulness helps build our capacity to be present • Mindfulness helps us become comfortable with being uncomfortable • Why a wondering mind is useful when practising mindfulness • Mindfulness is a journey of self-discovery & you can do it without practise • Mindfulness is an absolute necessity for our mental health • Mindfulness isn’t going to make you happy • The positive affects mindfulness has on our physical and emotional health Contact Marike www.coolkarmacollected.com CoolKarmaCollected (Facebook) @cool.karma.collected (Instagram) @MarikeKnight (Twitter) PukaUp www.pukaup.com www.pukaup.com/help www.facebook.com/pukaup @pukaup (Instagram) @pukaup (Twitter) @wayneschwass (Instagram) @wayneschwass (Twitter)   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Support the show: http://pukaup.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.