The Miracle of Mindfulness

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of The Miracle of Mindfulness pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Do one thing at a time, on purpose: while washing the dishes, just wash the dishes. The task is not an obstacle on the way to peace; done with full attention, it *is* the peace.
2. Use your breath as the anchor that catches a wandering mind. When you notice you've drifted, return to the physical sensation of breathing instead of fighting the thought.
3. Count or follow your breaths to deepen focus. Silently count 'one' on the in-breath and 'one' on the out-breath up to ten, starting over if you lose track, then graduate to simply following each breath without counting.

The other 4 — and the full 9-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 8 chapters

The whole summary runs about 9 minutes, read or listened to.

1. Washing the Dishes to Wash the Dishes
2. The Essential Discipline: Following Your Breath
3. The Half-Smile and the Relaxed Body
4. A Day of Mindfulness
5. The Pebble: Meditating on Rest
6. One Is All, All Is One: Interbeing
7. The Almond Tree: Compassion and Looking Deeply
8. Three Wondrous Answers: Now, Here, This Person