I’ve been meditating for years, but like a lot of things we do routinely I think I’ve gotten a little sloppy with it lately.  So, I’m hitting the reset button, trying to put a little more intention behind the mindfulness part of mindful meditation.

The idea that the mind will ever be entirely quiet when we meditate, or that if we don’t achieve that we have somehow failed, keeps a lot of us from trying.  The mind will always chatter; my to-do list, my dreams, my fears, always show up when I sit down.  The goal isn’t to make the thoughts never arise, it’s to avoid following them, and then following the next one, and the next,  until you aren’t where you are anymore.  That’s the reset that needs to happen for me, exercising the gentle discipline of bringing myself back to the moment, to the breath.