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The other day I had a really rough day. But I had a student that I was teaching and I made sure that they received the most out of each situation: all the teachable moments, all the pearls from each case. In medicine, and I’m sure in many work situations, you think you have to look like you have everything under control and nothing can phase you. At the end of the day I realized that I had forgotten to teach the most important lesson: how to deal with the rough day!
Our minds are so busy wondering with worry and anxiety about the future or anger and resentment about the past. In fact, research conducted by Matt Killingsworth in his Track Your Happiness project, (where he’s collected over 650,000 responses from people about how they are feeling, what they were doing and about their mind wandering; using cellphones), showed that our mind wanders about 47% of the time! His project also showed that when our minds wander, we tend to be less happy and that it was the mind-wandering itself that led to unhappy feelings. So then, it would make sense that practicing being present and focused on the task at hand would help increase our happiness. But how do we do that? Enter: Mindfulness.
Have you ever noticed that when you are driving a car, you tend to steer towards what you are focusing on? Hence, the importance of ‘look at where you want to go.’ Well, this happens in life too. Most of us tend to look at what we don’t want in life and especially at the beginning of the New Year:
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