The gift of paying attention
People often ask me how mindfulness actually helps me in daily life. Not in theory - but in the real moments when life gets messy and difficult, when you feel squeezed by the chaos of life. This is one of those stories. It was one of those days when everything piles up at once. One thing after another, arriving before you can take a breath. I was already at capacity, unable to think how I could possibly complete the tasks on the to-do list. And somewhere in the rush and blur of it all, I...
