Working as a therapist for many years, I can say the following with 100 percent certainty: people feel more connected to themselves and to their lives, more aware and present, when they make their bodies their homes. The senses usher us into the moment, and they deliver us here with an immediacy that is reliable and profound. Mindfulness is the practice of learning to pay attention to and reside in our embodied reality, directly experiencing our senses in each moment. Mindfulness is the practice of presence. No matter how virtual life becomes or we become, this real-life body and its
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