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Embracing everything life has to offer, by Garrett McNamara

Meditative Story

CHAPTER

The Power of Mindfulness

Modern life has so patterned me to check my phone at gazillion times a day. It's become an instinctual reaction when the mind is idling a little. What helped change my relationship to it all for him was turning it into a meditation technique. The first part of the technique is simply to watch the pattern while it is happening. If you're thinking about what's just happened, that's past. If your mind is settled and steady with things as they are happening now, then that's present. And if you notice your mind is flitting here and there, unable to settle into the present, why not take a tip from Garrett? Lean into the lovely.

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