In lieu of releasing my Austin Art Talk podcast interview with Valerie Chaussonnet today I am sharing at little info about a book I recently listened to. The interview will come out instead next Wednesday when life is hopefully back to normal and the snow has thawed. When I first started listening to this book I knew nothing about it. Sometimes that is a good thing. I definitely was not expecting it to be a book about meditation. That is not what it is all about, but Midal does base his grounded attitude and mindful approach on a consistent practice. Hard to say if being French has anything to do with it, but I’m sure it cant hurt. Seems to me to really be about accepting reality and not striving and struggling so much with life. Loving what is, as Byron Kaite would say.

Here is some text used to promote the book that summarizes things much better than I ever could. And there is my favorite quote that talks about artists at the end.

Midal gives listeners permission to: 

• Stop obeying - you are intelligent

• Stop being calm - be at peace

• Stop wanting to be perfect - accept life's storms

• Stop rationalizing - let things be

• Stop comparing - be you

• Stop being ashamed - be vulnerable

• Stop tormenting yourself - become your own best friend

• Stop wanting to love - be benevolent

One of the world's leading teachers of meditation and mindfulness, Midal offers us a new solution to the perennial problem of our too-much, too-fast modern life. It's OK, he urges us, to say no. It's fine to quit the things that don't fulfill you. It's necessary, in fact, to give ourselves a break and say, simply, c'est la vie. 

In The French Art of Not Giving a Sh*t, Midal gives each of us permission to stop doing the things that don't make us happy...so we have room in our lives for the things that do. “

©2017 Fabrice Midal (P)2017 Hachette Audio

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