Expand your options for developing focus and awareness.

Let your thoughts and feelings help you practice being more present sometimes.

It’s surprisingly satisfying to notice what doesn’t insist on our attention sometimes and to really notice what it’s like to be alive more often.

When you begin a walking or running program, there are several details you can track as evidence of improvement. Your step count. The length of your stride. Your pace. The amount of time it takes your heart to return to its recover its baseline resting rate. But how will you know when you’re getting better at noticing perceptions? 

What makes it so difficult for us to pay attention at any given moment? It seems like it should be easy.

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.

Louise Glück

When you catch yourself absorbed by some immediate aspect of your environment, try to yield to the observation fully for a few seconds.

Just as physical exercise increases strength, flexibility, and endurance to support the regular activities of your life, mindfulness exercises develop skills of attention that nurture a deep and mature level of personal contentment.

"We can’t always have complete experiences, but sometimes we can and with practice, we can have them more and more."

Shinzen Young