Put Some Gratitude Into Every Day
With the Thanksgiving holiday quickly approaching, now seems like a great time to talk about the benefits of gratitude. Although 2020 has been a challenging year and it might be hard for you right now to find anything to be grateful for – I want to encourage you to give gratitude a chance. There are multiple benefits to developing your capacity for gratitude, and it can be done rather easily simply by adding a little bit of gratitude into every day.
4 Tips to Becoming a Major-League Mindfulness Practitioner
I love baseball. Now that the World Series is almost over and baseball season is coming to an end, I’ve been thinking about how the game of baseball is like life. Baseball is a great analogy for life: long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of excitement, you know the game will end but you don’t know exactly when, you can succeed both individually and as part of a team, and most of all, in the words of the great baseball philosopher Yogi Berra: “It ain’t over till it’s over!”
I also think that batting in baseball is a good analogy for mindfulness.
Live Your Life Like You’re Hiking It
I love to hike in nature, and although I don’t get out of the city as often as I would like, I try to make up for it by taking walks and spending as much time outdoors as possible. During a recent hike – while vacationing in the Texas Hill Country and Big Bend – I mused on how hiking can be thought of as a metaphor for how to live your best life.
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