Topics: Mindfulness Practice, What is Mindfulness, Anxiety Relief, How to Meditate

 

Your Mindfulness Practice is more than how to meditate

Learn how a mindfulness practice can transform our lives. This episode is for anyone struggling with anxiety, depression or their place in the world right now.

You don’t need a life overhaul to feel calm—you just need a few simple tools.

Aiko Smith—mindfulness teacher, TEDx speaker, and UCLA-trained coach—joins me to break down what is mindfulness beyond the buzzwords and how it can bring you real anxiety relief, even on your busiest days.

If you’ve ever thought meditation was about “emptying your mind” (and failed miserably at it), Aiko’s story will change the way you see how to meditate—and why it’s actually way simpler than you think.

From postpartum depression and body shame to teaching thousands how mindful minutes can shift everything, she shares the small, powerful practices that can flip stress into steadiness.

 

 

 

TIMESTAMPS

00:59 — What is Mindfulness?
06:06 — Anxiety Relief Tips
07:24 — How to Meditate (Myth Bust)
11:10 — 5-Minute Mindfulness Practice
20:50 — Mindfulness on the Move

 

Listen in and discover:

• Mindfulness Practice Made Simple: Tools you can use anywhere—even while folding laundry.
• Anxiety Relief That Lasts: How to interrupt the spiral before it takes over.
• How to Meditate (Without Pressure): A kinder approach that actually works.

 

🎧 Listen for tiny steps and the courage to give yourself a few mindful minutes.

 

 

ABOUT AIKO SMITH
As a mindfulness meditation facilitator, speaker, and educator trained through UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, Aiko helps individuals develop practical skills to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression associated with modern living.

Through The Mindfulness Mindset™, her mission is to make these life-changing mindfulness practice accessible to all.

 

CONNECT WITH AIKO SMITH

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiko.means.love/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aiko-smith-567108170/
Website: https://themindfulnessmindset.com/

 

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“Mindfulness is getting you off autopilot and putting you in life real time.”- Aiko Smith, Mindfulness Teacher

 

• What is Mindfulness Really About?
• Anxiety Relief Through Awareness
• How to Meditate Without Pressure
• Five-Minute Mindfulness Practice
• Mindfulness on the Move

 

 

Mindfulness Isn’t What You Think—And How It Can Change Everything

When was the last time you stopped moving long enough to check in with how you were really doing? Not your to-do list, not your responsibilities—you.

Most of us live on autopilot. We wake up, rush through routines, scroll between tasks, and collapse into bed wondering why we still feel so disconnected. The truth is, the answer we’re searching for isn’t in doing more. It’s in learning how to be.

That’s where mindfulness comes in. But before you roll your eyes at another “trend,” let’s ask the real question: what is mindfulness—and why does it matter for your life right now?

What Is Mindfulness Really About?

You’ve probably heard “be mindful” tossed around as casually as “drink more water.” But mindfulness isn’t a buzzword—it’s a way of shifting how you move through the world.

Mindfulness is, in the words of teacher and TEDx speaker Aiko Smith, “paying attention on purpose to our present moment experiences with kindness, curiosity, a willingness to be with what is without judgment.”

Read that again. No perfection required. No shutting down your thoughts. No empty-cushion spirituality. Just noticing life as it’s happening and relating to yourself differently.

When you ask yourself what is mindfulness, the truest answer is this: it’s about stepping off autopilot and actually showing up for your own life.

How Mindfulness Brings Anxiety Relief

Anxiety often feels like a runaway train—one thought sparks ten more until you’re spiraling into what-ifs you can’t control. You’re not just stressed in your head; your body is gearing up for battle too. Heart racing, chest tight, shoulders tense.

This is where mindfulness becomes medicine.

Instead of fighting your thoughts, mindfulness invites you to observe them. To label them as “worry,” “planning,” or “rushing,” and let them pass like clouds across the sky.

As Aiko shares, “Mindfulness isn’t about stopping your thoughts—it’s about seeing them like clouds passing in the sky instead of getting stuck in the storm.”

That tiny shift—from identifying with your thoughts to simply noticing them—changes everything. It down-regulates your nervous system, eases the stress response, and gives you back a sense of control. Real, embodied anxiety relief doesn’t come from ignoring your feelings. It comes from paying attention differently.

 

How to Meditate Without Pressure

Here’s one of the biggest barriers keeping people from starting a mindfulness practice: the myth that meditation means you must sit down, close your eyes, and think about nothing.

Aiko puts it bluntly: “Who the hell told you that’s how you meditate? Biggest misconception and roadblock to people getting onto their cushion and really practicing.”

The truth about how to meditate? You don’t have to erase your mind. Thoughts will come—and that’s fine. The practice is noticing them without judgment, then gently bringing your attention back to your breath, your body, or whatever you’re focusing on.

If you’ve ever tried meditation and felt like a failure because your brain wouldn’t shut off, you’ve been taught wrong. A compassionate approach is the key. And when compassion grows on the cushion, it extends to how you treat yourself—and others—off it.

So if you’ve wondered how to meditate, start simple: sit for a few minutes, breathe, notice. That’s it.

Small Steps That Make Mindfulness Practice Stick

A mindfulness practice doesn’t have to mean 30 minutes of chanting or an Instagram-worthy ritual. In fact, the most powerful practices are often the smallest ones.

As Aiko says, “If you won’t take five minutes in the morning, that five minutes is gonna bite you in your ass later in the day.”

Five minutes can reset your mood, calm your nervous system, and change how you respond to stress.

Can’t find five minutes to sit? Try mindfulness on the move. Pay attention while folding laundry, washing dishes, or walking. Instead of resenting the task, notice the sensations: the warmth of water on your hands, the rhythm of your feet on the ground, the texture of fabric as you fold.

Mindfulness doesn’t need a special setting—it needs your presence.

Why Everyday Awareness Changes Everything

We save mental energy by living on autopilot. It helps us get through the day, but it also keeps us repeating patterns we don’t want—stress eating, snapping at loved ones, numbing out.

As Aiko explains, “Mindfulness is getting you off autopilot and putting you in life real time.”

That’s the deeper shift. When you cultivate awareness in small moments, you don’t just feel calmer—you reclaim choice. You stop reacting the same old way and start responding with intention.

This isn’t about being perfect or zen 24/7. It’s about realizing you can pause, breathe, and choose a different response—even in the middle of the chaos.

That is the quiet power of mindfulness.

Bringing It Back to You

So let’s circle back:

• What is mindfulness? It’s paying attention with kindness.
• How does it create anxiety relief? By interrupting the spiral and calming the body.
• What’s the truth about how to meditate? You don’t need to clear your mind—you just need to show up.
• Why start a mindfulness practice? Because five mindful minutes can reshape an entire day.

 

You don’t need to be a monk. You don’t need a meditation retreat. You just need the courage to start—imperfectly, messily, with the life you already have. Because here’s the truth: when you choose presence over autopilot, you choose to live your life instead of rushing through it.

FAQs

What is mindfulness and how does it actually work?

Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose to the present moment with curiosity and kindness. It works by pulling you out of autopilot and helping you respond to life instead of reacting on repeat.

 

How can mindfulness help with anxiety relief?

When you notice your thoughts instead of getting lost in them, your body calms down too—less fight-or-flight, fewer spirals. It’s like turning the volume down on stress before it hijacks your whole day.

 

What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation?

Meditation is one way to practice mindfulness, but mindfulness itself is bigger. It’s about awareness in everyday life—while walking, folding laundry, or even in conversations—not just when you sit on a cushion.

 

How do I start a simple mindfulness practice at home?

Begin with five minutes in the morning. Sit before your coffee, check in with your body, and notice your thoughts without trying to fix them. That tiny daily ritual can shift how you move through your whole day.

Can mindfulness practice really reduce stress in just a few minutes?

Yes. Even one to five minutes of mindful breathing or checking in can interrupt the stress loop and give you space before reacting. It’s like hitting pause so you can choose your next move.

 

What are the biggest misconceptions about how to meditate?

That you need to “clear your mind” or stop thinking altogether. Thoughts are normal—it’s what your brain does. The practice is noticing them without judgment and coming back to your breath.

 

How can busy moms practice mindfulness during the day?

Mindfulness on the move is key. You can turn chores—folding laundry, washing dishes, walking with the stroller—into practice by noticing sensations instead of rushing through with frustration.

 

How does mindfulness help with overthinking and racing thoughts?

Mindfulness teaches you to see thoughts as passing clouds instead of facts. Instead of being stuck in the storm, you recognize “this is a planning thought” or “this is worry” and let it pass.

 

Can everyday activities like walking or doing chores be a mindfulness practice?

Absolutely. When you feel your feet on the ground or your hands on a shirt while folding, you’re in the moment. That presence is mindfulness—it doesn’t need to look like meditation.

 

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the practice of noticing what’s happening right now—in your body, mind, and surroundings—without judgment.

 

What is the actual meaning of mindfulness?

At its core, mindfulness means paying attention to your experience with openness and kindness, instead of being on autopilot or caught in old patterns.

 

How to bring mindfulness into your workplace?

Use micro-practices: a one-minute breathing pause before meetings, noticing your body posture at your desk, or doing the STOP practice (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed) to reset during stress.

 

How to practice mindfulness for pain?

Start by observing sensations instead of resisting them. Label them as “tight,” “warm,” “dull,” or “sharp” without judgment. This shifts you out of fighting the pain and into relating differently to it.

 

 

Full Transcript on a mindfulness practice with Aiko Smith

 

Chardét Ryel (00:00)
Welcome to the Feel Good Naked Podcast, podcast for busy women that want to feel amazing without giving up all the things they love. I’m Sade, your host and online wellness coach, personal trainer and nutrition specialist. The Feel Good Naked Podcast and Feel Good Naked Facebook group are all about helping women like you to live healthy, to be confident and to just feel good. Our guest today, Iko Smith,

is so motivating and inspiring and she is going to really show you the power of mindfulness but in a relatable way. Now Aiko is a mindfulness teacher, she’s a TEDx speaker, she’s a coach, she trained through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center so she’s bringing a lot of evidence-based techniques and strategy to mindfulness. I’m excited for you to have a listen. Thank you for being here today Aiko.

Really excited for everyone to listen because I think you’re gonna help a lot with some stress and anxiety But before we get into it, can you just give them a little snippet of what it is that you do?

Aiko Smith (01:12)
Currently, I’m a mindfulness coach. I’m a writer, a speaker.

Chardét Ryel (01:18)
And where did your mindfulness journey start?

Aiko Smith (01:22)
My mother was like a Reiki healer and an artist. So I was kind of heavily influenced by her spirituality growing up. We grew up really poor, me and my sisters. And so my mom was always working. She was a single mother. We’d come home at three o’clock, came home to Oprah every day after school. And she would have spiritual teachers on there like Louise Hay and Gary Zukof, Maya Angelou. And so

I was like nine, 10, 11 years old, just absorbing all of this information. But it was only through suffering, depression. I don’t know if I mentioned, I’m a mother of three. After having kids live, your life just shifts, things change. I went through postpartum depression. I gained a ton of weight. So much so that I was like ashamed of my body, afraid to go out and take pictures.

It was really affecting my life in a negative way. That kind of Tony Robbins, that kind of motivation wasn’t working. I needed something real, something that was gonna get to the core of my suffering. so mindfulness is really just seeing things as they are, getting clarity, growing that awareness. So that’s why I came to the practice.

Chardét Ryel (02:43)
I relate to this really a lot. was also from a single parent home and really the media that is there, how it can impact you in a positive way, as you’re saying with Oprah, because it kind of gives you this feeling of I’m not powerless. I have some control. There’s things I can do to better my life and to feel better about my situation, even if it’s not great at the moment. What was it about Oprah or about her guest?

that got you specifically? What was it that inspired you?

Aiko Smith (03:18)
I was just a little girl listening to all this self-development and healing stuff. At the time, I wasn’t aware that I needed it. It was just what was on. I wasn’t even aware that I was suffering. I was just a little kid. But something about being able to have some autonomy, some control, a say-so, when you feel powerless, the world is telling you how your life is going to evolve.

And in these practices, it gave me some control and I felt a little bit more powerful. I could look at life in a different way with a different perspective and it can make it easier. Does that make sense?

Chardét Ryel (04:00)
you aren’t lost in the storm, have some direction, you have a way out.

Aiko Smith (04:06)
That’s what it was. you know, mindfulness is different from like any of the healing kind of modalities because it’s not just meditation. Typically people use that word a lot, you know, it’s on the cover of magazines. People would say it in conversation a lot, just be mindful, just be mindful. And so it really is so much more than being aware of what’s happening in the moment. It’s seeing things as they are.

without the influence of our conditioned way of looking at things and thinking about things.

Chardét Ryel (04:43)
You’re so right that this is a big misconception. speak to clients when they come to me and we’re doing, you know, we’re mindset work quite a lot. And oftentimes people think that that just means meditation or a little bit of self care.

Aiko Smith (04:59)
Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose to our present moment experiences with kindness, curiosity, a willingness to be with what is without judgment. So that’s what you’re doing in your meditation. But as you can see, like you could apply that to your everyday interactions, your attitude. It’s also a science because it has to do with how we

regulate our flight and fight systems. Really, it’s deep because it’s old, just like yoga. 2500 year old Eastern Buddhist philosophy that was secularized by John Cabot Zinn in the 70s to make it more accessible for us, you know, not in the East. So these are real kind of spiritual deep practices without the woo woo.

Chardét Ryel (05:56)
Can you kind of go into detail a little bit about how our thoughts can overrun our emotions or direct our life in an unhelpful way sometimes?

Aiko Smith (06:06)
You could be thinking, I need to go to work today. I need to get my shoes on, my purse, put my makeup on. And you could have these thoughts and they can make you anxious because while you’re thinking them, it’s creating feeling in your body that has other consequences, hormones starting to rush your system. That flight or fight system turns on. You’re getting ready for battle because you’re having these thoughts.

that are making you feel anxious and stressed and rushed as opposed to observing the thoughts. Those are planning thoughts, worrying thoughts, rushing thoughts. See them like clouds in the sky passing as experience and not be in a rainstorm, if that makes sense.

Chardét Ryel (06:57)
Yeah, and you know it’s one of those things where everyone has this misconception as well that I also had that when you’re going to sit down and meditate, especially in the beginning, that the idea is to think about nothing, that you shouldn’t have any thoughts. And that is so stressful, especially in the beginning, but even now after years of doing it, to not have any thoughts is difficult, but it’s also not the goal.

Aiko Smith (07:24)
Girlfriend, do you know how many people come to me and tell me they cannot meditate because they can’t stop their thoughts? Who the hell told you that’s how you meditate? Biggest misconceptions and roadblocks to people getting onto their cushion and really practicing.

Chardét Ryel (07:44)
So this is kind of a different question for you, but one that I feel you’ll have really good insights on. What for you is the relationship between mindfulness and therapy?

Aiko Smith (07:58)
You need both, right? You need to know where you need healing. Like I said earlier, I grew up poor. My mom was single. I’m black and Japanese. I grew up in all white spaces. I felt really uncomfortable. And it’s in the growing up in these circumstances and systems that made me kind of believe I have beliefs.

about my worth, my position in society, all of these things, and they affect the way that I function. That’s all information that I need to know. That’s what the therapist is for. But the mindfulness is like, what do I do right now? I know that I have trauma. I see that it’s showing up or in my way that I emotionally eat or that I don’t move or I freeze up. But mindfulness is what do I do right now?

to change. I think that’s how they go together.

Chardét Ryel (08:58)
Therapy is kind of the spotlight on your behavior and mindfulness is changing the way that you act, being conscious of it based on what you know are your issues or things that trigger you.

Aiko Smith (09:12)
and awareness, real time awareness. We’re so on autopilot, us as humans, and that’s part of our wisdom and our intelligence, saves energy by creating shortcuts. So we don’t have to think so much because that takes a lot of energy. our life is kind of gets put on autopilot, the behaviors that we like, the behaviors that we don’t like, our habits, all of that, the routines, autopilot. So we save energy.

but it’s in the autopilot where we are acting in ways that we don’t want to act in. So mindfulness is kind of getting you off of the autopilot and putting you in life real time. If you live life that way, then you kind of miss out on living.

Chardét Ryel (09:59)
completely. It’s so easy to disconnect and you don’t even think about it. It’s not even conscious. You’re just kind of going through the steps of life.

Aiko Smith (10:08)
Life is literally just a set of stimulus response, stimulus response, unless you’re intentionally making it not that way by being mindful, aware, paying attention on purpose.

Chardét Ryel (10:24)
What you have just done is kind of showed why mindfulness, why meditation, why journaling is so important. It’s not just, it’s good for you, but it actually brings awareness to what you’re doing so that you can change that for the future if you want to. It lets you check in with where are you right now?

Aiko Smith (10:45)
My mission in life, it’s kind of big and small. I just want everybody to sit down for five minutes in the morning before you get your cup of coffee, I think is a great time and just kind of check in what’s going on here. How am I feeling? How’s my mind? How am I gonna go about my day in the easiest way? It’s making life easier for you. Just five minutes.

Chardét Ryel (11:10)
I’m such a believer in these five minutes. I’ve talked about this on the podcast before, but I was never someone who really liked the mornings. I still don’t love them. But for me, something I’ve realized is that if I have to wake up super early, for example, to get a flight, I would rather wake up, you know, those five minutes sooner, even if I’m missing out on sleep, because it will change the way that my entire day goes from there.

Aiko Smith (11:33)
You won’t take five minutes in the morning. That five minutes is gonna bite you in your ass later in the day. You see people at the airport boxing each other. If that person would have just sat in the morning for five minutes, they would have not taken that energy out there elsewhere. They could have handled it right there. It’s being responsible, really.

Chardét Ryel (11:53)
Completely. It’s being a better human being and respecting and responding to people in a more compassionate way.

Aiko Smith (12:02)
Part of the meditation that I think people miss and what they do and why it feels bad is, for example, you’re meditating, you’re focusing on your breath, your mind wanders. If you’re observing correctly, notice how mean you are to yourself. Ugh, my mind is an asshole. It keeps wandering. Come back. Ugh, I did it again. Ugh, I did it again. I’m lost in thought. I’m a jerk. I’m an idiot. I’m stupid. I can’t do this. That’s what they’re doing in the meditation.

course people don’t meditate. Whatever you’re doing on your cushion when you’re meditating, whatever you practice grows, right? But being mean to the monkeys while they’re jumping all over the place doesn’t make them settle. Focusing on your breathing makes the monkey mind settle. The monkeys get calm. And when you’re being compassionate with yourself, that compassion grows and you’re able to be more compassionate with other

people and I think that’s what we’re missing now and it’s because we’re mean to ourselves that we don’t have that energy and space for other people.

Chardét Ryel (13:10)
really really beautifully said because it of highlights the importance of mindfulness especially for those who are more focused on caring for others especially moms

Aiko Smith (13:22)
Yeah, mindfulness in the morning helps me not rip through my day and then, you know, not rip through the kids.

Chardét Ryel (13:30)
Can you talk a little bit about the four foundations of mindfulness? Because I know that this is something that you educate on.

Aiko Smith (13:39)
There

is mindfulness of the body. That’s the first foundation of mindfulness. And that’s pretty much where people stop. But what’s really interesting are the other foundations. Mindfulness of feeling, mindfulness of the mind, and then mindfulness of the dhammas, which it sounds a little Buddhist-y, so people don’t want to go there, but it’s important.

Chardét Ryel (14:00)
Can you kind of describe these other three, these other ones in more detail?

Aiko Smith (14:05)
Mindfulness of the feeling is the quality of sensory experiences in our body as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral basic sensations of our body. This ability to do that is called interoception. What you learn from this is that we are always craving or we’re avoiding, right? Or we have apathy.

Chardét Ryel (14:32)
What does craving refer to?

Aiko Smith (14:35)
Craving is like about our addictions. Food, it feels good. You want more of it.

Chardét Ryel (14:41)
And what exactly is this apathy? What does it look like?

Aiko Smith (14:44)
With the apathy, the things that don’t feel good, we ignore, and then we get dead to it. The unpleasant things are usually the things that we need to do. If you’re feeling uncomfortable in your own skin, to get to where you want to be, you have to go through discomfort.

Chardét Ryel (15:02)
How does this all tie into meditation?

Aiko Smith (15:07)
We can bring that into our real life that can help us get to where we want to be. We can recognize this discomfort in the things that we want to do and do them anyway, because we have practice on our cushion.

Chardét Ryel (15:22)
I’d love to get a little bit more background on your mindfulness journey, especially as an adult, because you’ve got a really interesting story. So do you mind going into it just a little bit?

Aiko Smith (15:34)
I was a behavioral therapist for children that have autism. So in doing that work, I realized that I needed to be mindful because it’s all about behavior, right? Stimulus response and how I am showing up to work with these children. While I was working with the kids, I started feeling a lot better, just paying attention, being aware of my body in the moment, because with these kids that I was working with, they were really aggressive.

got kicked out of schools for fighting or hitting or biting and they didn’t have awareness of what they were doing. Like they couldn’t just stop. You know, they’d get really frustrated and their response would be to hit. And I would have to ignore that because in their hitting, they were getting attention and getting things that they wanted or that they needed from that, from that interaction. So I would have to ignore it, have to be really mindful. So I was feeling really good at.

work and then when I left work I was feeling really bad and I figured it out is because I was in my body at work and when I got home my brain would just scatter all over the place and I wanted to really help people in healing and so I just wanted to be a part of that movement and like I said I’m a black woman, black and Japanese, my community needs to meditate. I just want to make it accessible for everyone by

kind of tearing apart these misconceptions.

Chardét Ryel (17:04)
What do you think is making it less accessible for people of color and for the black community specifically?

Aiko Smith (17:11)
When

you’re marketing towards people, you need to be like using their language. You need to be representative of the culture. And there’s kind of not a lot of people in teaching that represent. So I’m kind of like the in between my black identity, being a woman and I was a single mom at one point and I was a teen mom. So all of these systems that I’ve like navigated, which is very common for people of color in America.

these systems that I was navigating and the harm and suffering during that. I know mindfulness will help heal, but like I said, there’s not teachers that are representing or representative of that culture to bring people to practice.

Chardét Ryel (17:57)
Yeah, and just the idea that people can relate to all of your experience or some of it. And then also just having someone physically represent someone, having someone, you know, seeing someone that looks like you doing this stuff and recommending it is a lot more powerful and can make a difference than when it’s someone who’s so far outside of your experience, outside of your community, who doesn’t look like you.

Aiko Smith (18:23)
and having time is a privileged thing. To even have the mental capacity to say, I want to start healing or I need to start exercising or eating well. But people suffering need it the most.

Chardét Ryel (18:35)
Yeah, you’re really doing this because even just something like saying, it only takes five minutes, you don’t need to sit and meditate for an hour, just five minutes can help you really in your day to survive, that can be part of making life a little bit easier for you. And I don’t know, just, I think back for my mom who’s single working mom like yours and…

how tired she was and how her energy was and how if she had known to take five minutes, if she had known how to do it, if she had known what that looked like, how that would have maybe changed her mindset and her energy in the day.

Aiko Smith (19:14)
I could tell the difference between the days that I do and I don’t.

Chardét Ryel (19:20)
So here’s a question for you. You know, we’ve been saying five minutes, but let’s say you don’t have time at all. You’re too busy for five minutes. What would you recommend to those people?

Aiko Smith (19:32)
meditate on the move, which is easy to do if you’re at home and you’re a mom. If you’re doing dishes or you’re folding laundry or you’re or you’re just walking. Those are good times for practicing mindfulness. I’m still folding my own laundry. My goal is to never have to do that to pay someone to do it for me, but I do not like it. So I’m like, that’s going to be my meditation practice. And so while I’m folding laundry, lay the shirt out.

I’m feeling the sensations of my hands on the shirt as I rub the shirt out to get the wrinkles out, creasing the folds like Marie Kondo. Detail and really just staying there in the moment, actually doing the thing instead of thinking about how much I hate this thing, how I want someone else to do it. I get into the moment. Mindfulness is about turning in, not away.

Chardét Ryel (20:27)
I’m already taking notes on this for the dishes. I’m like you, know, household chores, not a fan. This is kind of a good solution. I really like it. And I was gonna actually ask you anyway, this was, you what small steps can you give to people who are busy? What can they do to cultivate mindfulness? And I love this idea of mindfulness on the move.

Aiko Smith (20:50)
another practice that I hope that your audience will listen to this and then do it today. It’s an acronym. Stop, take a breath, observe, proceed. It’s a mindfulness practice that you could do any time. would that check in and not fixing anything for just a where and then going on with your day takes one minute.

Chardét Ryel (21:13)
These are fantastic. I’m already kind of making a note about the little reminders on my phone. I’m sure that I’m gonna be able to use this. So let me ask you now, if anyone listening wants to connect with you, and I’m sure many will, how can they do that? Where can they find you?

Aiko Smith (21:32)
on Instagram. I’m at Ico means love. I have a Facebook group called food body self.

Chardét Ryel (21:38)
And I will include links in the show notes guys, so you can find those. And Aiko, thank you so much for being here, for inspiring us, giving us some laughs. This is definitely gonna be a memorable episode.

Aiko Smith (21:50)
Thank you so much for having me. I love doing this.

Chardét Ryel (21:54)
And thank you so much for joining us and listening. really hope that you found this episode inspiring and it’s shifted your thoughts about how you approach mindfulness. Now, if there’s someone else in your life who you know struggles with anxiety, anger, stress, please share this episode with them. I’ll see you in the next one.

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