My Experiment For This New Year

A new year begins today. I feel ready to experience life for myself, now. It's a new day, a new dawn, a new era for me.

This morning, during meditation, I realized that I want to mindfully attend to the details of living and being, so the experience of calming and stilling the mind that I've practiced diligently in meditation becomes very relevant for being aware as I do. I can empty the mind and focus my attention on what I experience now without all the chatter of thoughts and I'd like to explore being that way during my daily activities. I can imagine doing what I do with awareness and attention but I usually don't stay focused on being present. I tend to slip into unconscious responses when I perform familiar activities or go about my daily routines. I seem to respond more to the circumstances or recall past experiences I haven't digested when I'm active, but that's just the way I learned to be as I grew up. I want to explore how I might be present and still all the time rather than just during my meditation.

For the first time, I can imagine this as possible and feel like it could be fun. How about that!