Mindfulness Is A SKILL

Here’s what to do.

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I spent the majority of my teenage years and early twenties not being mindful. Like a machine that was trained to be a certain way, someone pressed go and I powered on along the patterns my childhood had conditioned me into. Go this way, do this, be this. I was pushed and prodded by my own skewed beliefs until my fe…