Where is your mind racing to this morning?
Monday mornings have a unique way of pulling us out of the present. Depending on where you are tuning in from today, your morning might look very different. For those in the US, it’s Memorial Day—which can bring the unique stress of hosting family get-togethers and pulling off holiday plans. For others, the job demands you work anyway, or you are joining us from outside the States where it’s a standard, high-velocity start to the workweek.
But regardless of your checklist, the human brain does the exact same thing: it lives in the immediate future, running through scenarios and bracing for impact before the day has even truly begun. In this 10-minute Mindfulness Monday session, we use a classic psychological tool called attentional shifting. By cycling through three distinct layers of immediate sensory input—Sight, Sound, and Touch—we will shatter that anticipatory anxiety and drop a heavy anchor exactly where you are.
No matter what your itinerary looks like today, take ten minutes to arrive in the present.
We’d love to hear where you dropped your anchor this morning!
To help you find your center, today’s episode featured:
Music provided by Epidemic Sound.
New \"Mindfulness Monday\" episodes drop every Monday morning. Our full-length deep dives continue every Thursday.
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