260903 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation:

The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (ed. by Melvin McLeod), Habit Energy

I drive to work on autopilot.

I go through the motions there.

I eat dinner with my family and don't notice save in the most banal of ways.

I listen to an audiobook and find myself listening again because I didn't hear it the first time.

But I have experienced these things. I know I can; it's a matter of focus, or, at least, of non-distraction.

So let me challenge myself to being 100% present, 100% mindful during my activity. Can I do that all the time? Make it through a single occurrence without my wandering mind planning the future or remembering or regretting the past?

Probably not.

But with time, we'll see. And I can, along my journey, create more of those moments when I am present, here now.