When the pressure is on, when we’re feeling bad, when there doesn’t seem to be a moment to spare, these are the times when being mindful can be a major challenge. They are also the times when we need it most. Mindfulness is at least as much about ordinary daily living as it is about making some quiet time for formal practice. In fact, we could say that ultimately life itself is the practice; there is no waking moment in which we might not be more alive and more in touch if we were more aware. So the real work of mindfulness actually starts with life itself, with all its twists and turns, in
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