For just over a year a now I have been on a mindfulness journey, including a 10-minute daily meditation. I think I now spend more time in the moment and that is important. They call it the present for a reason.
Looking back, I can see I had three hours a day of mindfulness practice for 11 years, but it wasn’t formal: that was the decade I spent teaching 8th grade U.S. History half-time.
Teaching is without question mindfulness practice; the consequences of even a moment’s inattention can be major and disastrous. And now, I am once again spending three mornings a week with my grandson while his parents WFH. That, too, is a mindfulness practice. Any moment I am “not there” is a moment wasted, and a possible step towards small-scale disaster. We should all take our mindfulness where we find it, because it’s good for you/me in so many ways.
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