What Everybody Ought to Know About Mindfulness
Do you live as if your life depends on it?
Just like you, I often wish there was a shortcut to living the good life; but alas, there’s not.
All this talk about mindfulness makes it sounds like it’s a new buzzword; a new chic meditation style that can bring us instant enlightenment.
I wish mindfulness was the easy path to inner bliss, but it isn’t.
If you’re discouraged about reading on, just hear me out — at least for another paragraph or two?
I learned to savor my life the hard way.
The sudden death of my younger sister whammed me over the head like a Zen master and screamed, “Wake up! Life is short. See?”
For 20 years, I was too timid to see. I needed trauma to wake me the fuck up. You might not need trauma or drama to make you savor each breath you take. I seriously hope you don’t. Drama aside, I feel that some of you might have a story similar to mine, one in which extreme circumstances pushed you to see life from a new perspective, and perhaps forced you to let go of your fears to fully live.
