106-The Mindfulness Pause

It’s time to ‘gather your thoughts’ as I say, because sometimes, our brains are hardwired to not stop.  

 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and I’ve been working on building the muscle of pausing.  With our ‘busy’ lives, and I say ‘busy’ in air quotes because I have a love-hate relationship with the busy badge of honor.  Ok, in our abundant and fulfilling lives, mindfulness for the pause to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment is a technique that brings more awareness to being present and you don’t look back at the end of the day and wonder what you did all day.   That happens to me all the time.  I can get caught on auto-pilot and not really be thinking about what I’m doing.  

 

Meditation is something I am exploring and working on, but it’s not where my personality naturally gravitates, so I’ve been exploring this mindful pause.  So far this week, it’s grabbing my coffee and sitting on my back porch, without my phone, to just “gather my thoughts”.  I say “gather my thoughts” all the time and for me, I think it’s my mental pause to take inventory of what’s going on and gather my thoughts or calm my thoughts down if I feel the rushing of emotions and I can’t think straight.  Does that ever happen to you?  Where you just need a pause?  

 

“Gathering my thoughts” also looks like a quick 10-jumping jacks in my office to shift the energy and refocus or walking away form my computer and when I feel like I’m not being my best. 

 

So if you ever take a pause or a reset, share with us what you do, how does it work for you, so that we can all learn from one another.     

 

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