Asatru Folk Assembly - October 13, 2025


Just Not on the Same Road as Allen #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Topics
mindfulness in driving
Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Alan
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

158.56

Word count

475

Sentence count

18


Summary

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In this episode of All I Really Need to Know I talk about the importance of mindfulness in our lives, and how it can be applied to our daily lives. Mindfulness is a process of self-awareness, in which we engage in a series of questions and ponder them out as we go.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Years and years ago, when I first found Also True, one of the things that engaged me about our faith is that we have that our primary God, Botan, lives at the conjunction of thought and memory.
00:00:15.480 so that in and of itself is mindfulness like odin is mind odin is awareness and um so that
00:00:27.520 so that brings that to the fore in the way that it is not
00:00:32.460 addressed in any other faith that i've ever run across and i think in a lot of ways this topic
00:00:40.820 Mindfulness is kind of a conjunction of a lot of the other things that I've talked about on this segment over the last few months.
00:00:50.960 Even health, for example.
00:00:52.700 You know, health is about awareness.
00:00:55.040 It's about how many calories have I eaten today?
00:00:58.520 Should I eat this sugar or should I have a salad?
00:01:01.920 Should I have this overloaded fatty cheeseburger or should I go home and cook a chicken breast?
00:01:09.200 I mean, those are the sorts of things that if you have some degree of self-awareness, mindfulness, then you can ponder those sorts of things out for yourself.
00:01:20.840 A question of mindfulness fits in with a lot of the other things that we do in All's a True because there's no line between this and that.
00:01:31.760 You know, it's kind of a process that you have to engage in and you and by being by having self-awareness and by actually being engaged in your life, then you can ponder these questions out as you go.
00:01:49.200 The one of the examples that always comes to my mind, example of driving, like when you're driving, you're doing whatever.
00:01:58.560 like one of the guys says i just zone out you know i'm just driving along and like that's the
00:02:04.240 most boring part of my day is the time that i spend in the commute which irritated me on two
00:02:11.040 levels number one you should never turn your brain off like that number two he's that guy
00:02:18.160 daydreaming when the light turns green and sitting there for three or four seconds while
00:02:22.560 while the rest of the line is waiting to go,
00:02:27.480 or he's driving along at 72 miles an hour in the passing lane, you know,
00:02:30.960 while the rest of us have, you know, are late to food pantry.
00:02:34.960 And all those are the kinds of things which, and it's fine.
00:02:38.000 If you want to drive slow, I, that is,
00:02:41.040 that is certainly an approach to driving in a vehicle,
00:02:44.960 but just not on the same road as Alan.
00:02:48.360 You can be on the same road, but just be in the correct lane. Okay.
00:02:51.600 If you're going to drive slow, drive in a slow lane, okay?
00:02:55.480 Don't make me bright my lights and honk my horn or you just get out of the passing lane.