Happy New Year 2017

It is time once again to usher in a brand new year. Time travels more swiftly with each passing year it seems too. Weren’t we just here wondering what 2016 would bring?

As I watch the minutes of my life tick away I increasingly see just how important it is to make mindfulness an intentional practice. I really can’t afford to miss any of those precious minutes I have left to live!

It is so easy to get all caught up in my head and as a result miss so much of what is really going on around me. Living in the past revisiting what has happened or into a future that we create keeps us from fully being alive and present in this very moment.

We all do this too. It is just what human beings do with this wonderful brain we’ve been given.

It takes practice, intentional practice to keep from parking up in our heads thinking away the minutes and hours of our lives!

To practice a mindful focus I use my senses to notice what I am seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching and completely take it all in. It is the basics of life that I become aware of and experience. I don’t separate myself from life by my thinking and judgments.

I simply experience life as life unfolds.

When I am more fully present in this very moment no matter what it is bringing to me, I am more apt to find a peace with what is and for this I can be grateful.

Mindfulness and gratitude…May you take these gifts into this New Year with you!
Happy New Year to you!

What do you see, hear, taste, smell, and touch right this very moment?