Ever feel like your mind never stops—and you’re just watching life go by?
In our high-speed, complex, and uncertain world, your brain has adapted to nonstop mental chatter, and now being “lost in thought” feels normal.
But, it doesn’t have to be that way.
At Mindful Origins, we don’t ask you to clear your mind or start a meditation habit. Instead, we help you restore a more natural state of calm, clarity, and connection, through immersive experiences and tailored consultation sessions.
The result? A coming home, to yourself and to the world.
"There is nothing wrong with you. Your mind is trying to adapt to a world it was never designed for."
Your transformation starts here
Step 1. Learn what's keeping you stuck in your head.
Mindful Origins Questionnaire
How much of your day is spent stuck in your head — and why?
The MOQ is a free 10 minute questionnaire that reveals which parts of your life — your body, mind, relationships, pursuits, communities, and surroundings — are causing you to stay stuck in your head.
Price: Free
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Step 2. Experience what you've lost.
Mindful Origins Experience
Participate in one of our Mindful Origins Experience sessions to discover what it feels like to get out of your head and come back to the world. Most people don't realize what they're missing until they experience it.
After your Experience, you’ll be invited into the Mindful Origins Community, a private space to share reflections and continue the journey together.
Indoor | In nature | Equine assisted | Online
Price: $29.99 - $49.99
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Step 3. Transform your mind by realigning your world.
Mindful Origins Transformation
An 8-week transformational journey back to mental calm, clarity, and connection. Realign your environments with what the mind was designed for. Choose from two options below.
Participants in our transform programs gain access to an alumni-level community for connection and ongoing support.
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Mindful Origins Course COMING SOON! 8-week online program Price: $399 Click image to learn more
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Mindful Origins Consultation COMING SOON! 8-week 1:1 consultation program Price: $1,599 Click image to learn more
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Scientific Foundation
Pioneering a new perspective on mindfulness
Our research reveals how modern environments unintentionally trap us in our heads, a perspective we published in a paper called the Environmental Model of Mindfulness (click link to read the paper).
Read a short summary of our research by clicking the image below.
The Mindful Origins Framework
Combining modern science with traditional wisdom
All programs are based on the Mindful Origins Framework© (MOF) which identifies six key environmental factors that influence our minds.
By aligning each of these factors with our evolutionary needs, we restore mental calm, clarity, and a deep sense of connection to ourselves, others, and life itself.
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We use our scientifically-validated Mindful Origins Questionnaire© (MOQ) to help you understand where you are and where you would like to get to—think of it as the compass that guides you home.
The image below shows a sample of an individual's results from the MOQ.
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You've been living in your head.
Let's come back.
Back to your body.
Back to the moment.
Back to what's real.
Back to your life.
This isn’t traditional mindfulness.
It’s not therapy.
It’s not a new technique.
It’s a quiet return
to the kind of presence
you didn’t know you’d lost.
About Mindful Origins LLC
Mindful Origins began with a profound insight: modern life pulls us away from a natural state of being—one rooted in mental calm, clarity, and a deep connection to life. The distractions, uncertainties, and endless demands of today's world overwhelm our minds, making it harder to stay present. But it wasn't always this way.
For 95% of human history, mindfulness—our ability to be fully present and feel connected to life—was not a skill to be learned; it emerged effortlessly. It was the natural result of living in alignment with our environments and our evolutionary needs.
Mindful Origins was created to help people rediscover this innate mindfulness—not through rigid techniques or endless self-improvement methods, but by making specific and practical adjustments to our environments.
Through scientific research, traditional wisdom, and nature-inspired practices, we empower people to realign their environments with what their mind needs, and to restore their natural state of calm, clarity, and connection that lies just beneath the surface.
Mindful Origins' Guiding Statement
To restore our mindful origins and guide the wise use of future-oriented thinking, fostering mental calm, clarity, and connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
Founder
James Meaden is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist based in Leesburg, Virginia. He is a certified mindfulness teacher and Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) facilitator.
James Meaden
Industrial/Organizational Psychologist