Mindfulness

The point isn’t to overcome big hard times. The point is to make living in the day-to-day better.

“You made it easy on me!” the hygenist said when she was finished cleaning my teeth. She went on to laugh that she could make up some reason to keep me for the full length of the appointment if that mattered to me.

Her comment made me feel even better than she realized—I’d been consciously trying to make it easier on her—and me—by monitoring the tension in my body and working to release it in the moment. My little goal—set…