Who is “too busy” to practice mindfulness?

My answer today is very different from two years ago.

Our society has us stuck in a rat race of going, going, going, gone . . . with no finish line in sight.

When I work with clients who are learning to “manage” stress, who are coming back from injury or dealing with pain, I hear a recurring theme: they don’t have time to waste being ill, in pain, or allowing the body to heal.

Two years ago, something happened to me that forced me to change. Today, I had the opportunity to chat with Dr Rick Richey (one of my colleagues through the National Academy of Sports Medicine). We had a great (and honest!) conversation about mindfulness, movement, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.

I hope you’ll listen! I’ve linked it below.

Our brains’ goal is to keep us alive — simply survival

Today’s mindful minute is a simple tool that you can practice any time you take a sip of water, coffee, tea…your drink of choice!

Try it, right now. Whatever you’re doing, take one minute to do this exercise.

Remember that you can always download the slide and save it to your phone (when we’re stressed, we will not naturally remember to be mindful!).

Now that you have practiced the tool . . .

What do you notice?

Try to answer without judgement. Whatever you notice is simply what you noticed; it’s not right, wrong, or indifferent.

Can you make a reminder to yourself to do this once a day this week??

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