Commit To A Moment Of Wonder Every Day

WELLNESS | by POSY GERING

MY MIND IS A JUMBLE of things I’m supposed to do, endless refrains of what I should have done, forecasts of gloom about the future based on my wild assumptions and scattered patches of happiness. Mostly when I sit down to meditate, it’s an opportunity to

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make another list or obsessively replay a conversation gone bad. I’ve found a way to stop it: Stop for a moment of wonder each day.

I find wonder in the cracks of my life, the spaces between the so-called “very important things.” I really look at some of the art on my walls that has become invisible to me. I notice the shadow of the weeds I am pulling. I look at a single flower and its effect on the space around it. When I surrender to that moment, my mind stops chattering, I’m fully present and I feel expansive … in other words, I’ve given my brain and Being a meditation break.