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An Autopilot Life
Have you ever driven somewhere, seemingly completely unfocused, just driving on “autopilot” to your destination? Failing to notice the buildings, people, or landscape passing by you. Maybe you’re not even aware of the song on the radio. Losing track of the world around you… with maybe the exception of the traffic signals. In this same way, we can “drive” through life stuck in autopilot. Every once in a while we hit a traffic signal that may momentarily bring us back to the present, but the moment is fleeting and gone all too soon. When our minds are focused on the future to come or the past we have already lived…
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Mind Full or Mindful?
When is the last time you took a minute to just breathe? Yes, I know. We breathe every second of the day. It’s a necessity to life. It’s a requirement to living. It happens thoughtlessly, usually going unnoticed altogether. It happens mindlessly. We walk through life with our minds usually on everything but the present moment in which we are living. Our minds running through our piling to-do list, worrying about what we are going to have for dinner, stressed because we are chasing that promotion, regretting that expensive purchase we made yesterday, reliving the painful memories of last year’s Christmas party, nervous about the results of our medical tests, wondering if…
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An Autopilot Life
