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2354: The Alternative to Thinking All the Time by David Cain of Raptitude on Meditation Practice & Mindfulness Routines

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Wine Tasting - The Only Thing That's Real

Wine tasting is nothing but a specific and well developed way in which human beings have learned to notice their present moment experience. We can taste any present moment in the same way, as long as we make a point of noticing what it's like. When we're preoccupied by worry and idle thinking, we don't even recognize that we're having an experience. Usually we fail to give our experience much attention because our thoughts take it all. It might not be clear how you can think of meditation as time set aside just for tasting the present moment - putting aside other projects like planning or analyzing.

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