But the adventurous part took over. So I headed outside before I even read the article...

The essence of mindfulness. When I am here, I can feel my feet, feel my breath, feel my beating heart--notice in this moment that I am okay.

I didn't feel good there, but sometimes I felt a little less bad. A tiny shift, but it was a start.

"And when I dreamed my dream I awoke and came swiftly....I heard the stars singing as I came and felt warm wings about me..."

Something so beautiful & unusual that it follows you around for days, rising again & again from hidden stairways of your heart...

An absurd fantasy--I mentally roll my eyes when I read it. Yet when I decided to write about mindfulness this week that essay came to mind.

Here is the list of all the tools in all the toolkits so far. Or consider it an atlas of maps. Take what you like and leave the rest!

Hands are incredibly, marvelously, terribly important. We've all become hugely aware of that over the last few weeks...

You are not alone. You are amazing and wonderful, able to do so many remarkable things. You have handled awareness...

Skin....It keeps our insides from going out where they shouldn't, and keeps things on the outside that could hurt us from going in.