Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello again, Mindful Kind and welcome to episode 17. Today I thought I'd share some real before and after examples from

my own life to show you how mindfulness has shifted my mindset, my attitude, my way of living and

general well-being. So I'm going to jump straight into it. The first example is about the pressure of being punctual.

Not too long ago, I was on my way to an event, which I knew I didn't want to be late for.

It was about a 40 minute drive and I left about an hour early just to make sure I would have some spare time. On the way, I took a wrong

turn and ended up stuck in heavy traffic. I literally sat there watching the time on my

Navman go up and up until it was about 30 minutes more than the original time. So I was going to be at least 10 minutes late.

Before I started practicing mindfulness, to me, this would have been really, really stressful.

I probably would have just turned around and gone home because I couldn't even bring myself

to deal with the idea of being

late and everyone judging me and feeling like I let everybody down somehow.

But this time I stuck it out and went to the event because I really did want to go and I didn't

want to let this pressure of being punctual stop me. Yes, I did feel

stressed throughout the drive but I managed it by doing things like turning up the music and singing

along to keep my attention on that instead of imagining what it would be like to arrive late.

I challenged thoughts like, I'll disrupt the event by showing up late and everyone will be

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