Mindfulness and action, the other category of mindfulness practice happens in the course of our everyday
activities, we can bring our attention to whatever we're doing, opening to the experience as much
as possible.
Ben loves to cycle around where he lives.
It's a very hilly area.
So most of the time he's either going up or down a big help.
He realized at some point that he was spending much of his rights hating the clients, worrying he'd
be unable to reach the top of one of the next summits.
This had never happened in the 10 years he'd been cycling.
He estimated that he spent about half of his time in the sun will be occupied by the more difficult
parts of his rights, which detracted from his enjoyment of the easier bords.
The next time Ben was on his bike, he decided to focus his attention on each part of the ride and develop
an interest in the experience rather than resisting it.
As he rode, he found he could appreciate the easy part of the ride more because he wasn't dreading
the next 10.
And he could allow the clients to be difficult and challenging, but not something to resist.
He continued to have anxious thoughts about not being able to make it to the top of a hill, but was
able to take those thoughts less seriously, recognizing them as just thoughts and not accurate predictions.
Um, as you were practicing mindful awareness in your own daily activities, keep the following principles
in mind, focus your attention on your sensory experiences, sights, sounds, etc., as well as your
thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations open to what's happening in the moment, allowing your experience
to be as it's rather than resisting being a beginner mind to the activity as though it's the first time
you've ever done let go of preconceived expectations of how it will be, allow the experience to take
as long as it takes, rather than trying to rush through it to the next thing.
Notice the urge to grab onto aspects of the experience you like and push away the parts of.
You don't allow thoughts to come and go recognizing that they are just thoughts practice neither getting
lost in the thoughts nor resisting them, but simply letting them flow.