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With all the struggles of modern life, its easy to get lost in a whirlwind of stress, worry, and indifference. Between work, family, and day-to-day tasks, it can be hard to find a moment of peace. By taking just a few minutes a day to meditate, you can improve your physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
A Mindful Day is an easy way to quiet your body and mind. With 365 affirmations as well as soothing mindfulness meditations, you can learn how to take a break from your day and find peace whenever you need it the most. Simple exercises like focusing on your breathing or listening to the sounds in nature can calm your nerves and melt away the demands of modern life.
Spending time to get in touch with your soul can help you achieve true balance and tranquility. Let A Mindful Day help release your stress and find the peace you deserve.
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As we come to the third and final book in this series, I am grateful for the friends and family who have sustained and inspired me. Thanks to the Dillards and the Wrights and my own three wild children, Atticus, Oscar, and Tallulah. Thanks to Jess for making these good dreams come true. I want to especially mention the USC Aiken Mindfulness Meditation Group, which gave me many much-needed midday pauses. Once again, thanks to everyone at Adams Media, especially Eileen, Laura, and Bethany. Thanks to that great cloud of witnesses ever present with me, giving me inspiration when I didnt know what to say. Thanks to Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Shree Maa of Kamakhya, my living gurus, who inspire my writing and teaching.
A Mindful Day explores what we usually consider the main part of the daythe world of work and productivity. I will lead you on an extended meditation that threads its way along a sort of ridgeline toward the summit of peak productivity and deep fulfillment. While walking this ridgeline, you will navigate your way past two precipices, or a set of dualisms that often disturb our thoughts about work: one is heedless neglect, and, the other, an all-consuming frenzy. The consumer cultures in which we live teach, through an unofficial curriculum of books and movies, magazine articles, and television shows, that we must either be frantic workaholics or broke indigents. Given these two bad choices, most of us stumble along, not knowing how to respond. Most of us dont want to be on either end of that spectrumhappiness lies somewhere in the middle.
We must get beyond this all-or-nothing thinking, this excluded middle, this either-or that steals the joy from life. Mindfulness means seeing clearly, and it does not serve you or others to see people in terms of the labels of haves and have nots . And, in order to be fair to ourselves, we need to find a path to productivity that does not steal our souls or our dreams.
We need a way of life that harmonizes our idealist selves with our practical selves, so that we can have the means of life while also having lives. We have to hold to our youthful beliefs in a more just and inclusive world order while also taking care of our responsibilities as employees, parents, friends, and relatives. We have to find the middle way of Aristotle and the Buddha, neither the path of least resistance nor the path of self-harm. And we also have to keep ever mindful of the passing of our days, knowing that everything changes, that we, too, change. So we must learn to be grateful and gracious in the midst of all these changes. This may sound like a tall orderalmost impossible, evenbut hope and faith require us to seek the unknown way, a genuine path to fulfillment that still allows the bread and roses of the labor rallying cry. With a great deal of diligence and introspection, we can find this hidden path that leads to the summit. No one can really teach this path, because it is different for each individual, but you can at least find a few clues in these pages.
Before we can begin to focus on practical matters, we must first engage in a little bit of philosophy. Too much labor in this world goes wasted for lack of clear understanding. Imagine someone who walks very industriously but with a faulty compass. Just having that compass off by a few degrees could mean missing the target by a wide margin. Or worse yet, having no compass at all could lead to walking in circles!
Let us suppose that, like the magnetic field of the earth, we have with us all the time a guidance system in the form of intuition. Let us suppose that our hopes and dreams provide us with guidance, and that even our dislikes and complaints have something to offer. The philosopher David Hume said that reason and what he called sentiment were equally valuable in living the moral life. We have to be intelligent, yes, but we also should be emotionally stirred when we see suffering or come across a great work of art. We have to align the head and the heart in order to live in a good way.
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