This post was part of my bud Sarah Martin Hawkins’ Mindful Habits Blog Tour, a virtual visit with 13 women posting about the power of habit for running a business, being healthy, and getting creative over two weeks. Check out the full lineup here. Seems everywhere you turn these days someone is talking about mindfulness. There’s mindful walking, mindful yoga, mindful coloring; doctors are prescribing mindfulness meditation to their patients, and corporations are offering mindfulness as a leadership practice. It’s a thing. But what IS it, really? And WHY is it such a thing? I mean, we’re mindful a lot of the time, aren’t we? Our brains are always working … checking stuff off the to-do list, watching the clock so we’re not late for this or that appointment; thinking schedules, when did the dog last get walked, have I checked in on the parents today, and what am I making for dinner? And that’s what our brains were designed for: practical matters; taking care of business. For many of us, they also keep busy narrating our days, like an internal voice-over, commenting on our activities and interactions, judging us and others, obsessing over past mistakes, and future tripping about all sorts of stuff. The mind is a meaning-making machine. It […]
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