Mrs. Teabody Asks You to be Mindful
Chez Teabody is a very warm and aromatic place on this rainy February day because there is a big pot of soup on the stove. The soup was an end product of a troubled sleep night and I shall share with you how that came about. Anyone who so much as dabbles in philosophy has read about the importance of mindfulness . It is no new idea that mindfulness means being totally present in each moment. This requires us to be fully absorbed in the moment, leaving no room for anything else. When we are mindful, we are filled with the momentary happening, whether that may be standing or sitting or lying down, being comfortable or uncomfortable, feeling pleasant or unpleasant. Whichever it may be, it is a non-judgmental awareness, "knowing only," without evaluation. These are not easy times for many of us. Great shifts take place daily and it is easy to be buffeted by these shifts, so much so that we live in a perpetual state of anxiety. Those of us who have lived a few decades k