Mindfulness Vapourizer
As I move forward to adventures in Tokyo and beyond, I remember and appreciate the beautiful fall I had with mother nature and friends in Canada.
We often are not able to let go of past moments or people that hurt us. Or we look to the future as our saviour when things will be better. But then where does that leave the present moment? Unappreciated and unlived?
A Harvard study reports that people spend 46.9 per cent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy.
What can we do?
I did this simple exercise with my best friend Barb recently who learned it from a fellow coach. She said on the phone, “let’s take a deep breath in and out in silence and then report how we feel afterwards.”
It seemed a bit silly but easy enough so I shut up and did it with her.
Wow, it seemed like I was in an altered state afterwards of seeing everything more clearly, including myself, though the only drug I took was a big puff of my own breath. Perhaps the altered state was before and being present is the big high now.
I encourage you to try it, especially when you are anxious. It’s a mindfulness vapourizer that you always have on you and is free.
Originally published at Caroline Ishii.
