We have, likely for the first time in most of our lives, experienced the uncertain feeling of not knowing if we might be able to get our hands (or our hearts) on something that we so badly needed. Our world has changed – AND we have changed; but I am not sure that we have accepted these two realities or that we even know how these changes would align into a new way of experiencing the world and responding emotionally to a 'new world' we lived in. If we are not used to the experience of scarcity, how could we possibly be able to know how we would “normally” respond emotionally to the experience?
The thing that I missed the most over the last 2 years was something we may have taken for granted for most of our lives. We likely saw them every day and maybe we glossed over how they made us feel. We felt it for sure, but maybe we just did not notice - we were not mindfully present of the experience that we shared with another human being. We may not have noticed their impact until they were absent or far too scarce. Of course I am talking about our smiles.
This feeling forced me to think about what else is staring us in the face - RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW - that we might be “missing out on” by not being mindfully present? Join us as we learn to be more present and more mindful people!
