Don’t read and drive: Mindfulness for Beginners by Tony Smith

What are you doing right now? Are you reading this post while eating, waiting in line, watching television, or driving? (Please don’t read and drive.) Or are you reading this post and really understanding all the words?If you’re not, changes are you don’t practice mindfulness.

Mindfulness is “maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment” according to UC Berkeley. If this sounds like a foreign concept to you, you’re not alo...