Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.