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Mindfulness and action, the other category of mindfulness practice happens in the course of our everyday

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activities, we can bring our attention to whatever we're doing, opening to the experience as much

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as possible.

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Ben loves to cycle around where he lives.

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It's a very hilly area.

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So most of the time he's either going up or down a big help.

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He realized at some point that he was spending much of his rights hating the clients, worrying he'd

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be unable to reach the top of one of the next summits.

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This had never happened in the 10 years he'd been cycling.

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He estimated that he spent about half of his time in the sun will be occupied by the more difficult

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parts of his rights, which detracted from his enjoyment of the easier bords.

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The next time Ben was on his bike, he decided to focus his attention on each part of the ride and develop

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an interest in the experience rather than resisting it.

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As he rode, he found he could appreciate the easy part of the ride more because he wasn't dreading

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the next 10.

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And he could allow the clients to be difficult and challenging, but not something to resist.

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He continued to have anxious thoughts about not being able to make it to the top of a hill, but was

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able to take those thoughts less seriously, recognizing them as just thoughts and not accurate predictions.

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Um, as you were practicing mindful awareness in your own daily activities, keep the following principles

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in mind, focus your attention on your sensory experiences, sights, sounds, etc., as well as your

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thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations open to what's happening in the moment, allowing your experience

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to be as it's rather than resisting being a beginner mind to the activity as though it's the first time

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you've ever done let go of preconceived expectations of how it will be, allow the experience to take

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as long as it takes, rather than trying to rush through it to the next thing.

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Notice the urge to grab onto aspects of the experience you like and push away the parts of.

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You don't allow thoughts to come and go recognizing that they are just thoughts practice neither getting

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lost in the thoughts nor resisting them, but simply letting them flow.