Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast.

My name is Crystal Evanshurst, and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. The way that you can enjoy the

season, not have your soul stolen by the season, and be better on the other side of the season is

choosing to embrace a couple of things. Mindfulness, for some of y'all, that's a scary word,

and gratitude. Christians are not afraid of gratitude. Mindfulness and gratitude. There is a power

in mindfulness and gratitude. There is a benefit when you focus on slowing down

and appreciating little things. There is a beauty in being present so that you are pacing yourself

through the season where there are other demands.

Many of us are good at saying no to demands.

We don't want to answer yes to.

That's not the problem.

The problem is when there are seasons where we really want to say yes and we overcommit or

under commit.

We over involve ourselves or underinvolved or we don't plan appropriately.

And so all the things that we are doing, we miss the main thing because we are not paying attention.

What is mindfulness?

Now, some people might say it's a positive form of meditation, that it can help you manage stress,

that if you're not mindful, it can negatively impact your

physical and spiritual health. But mindfulness, this idea is just a technique of focusing your

attention on the present. It is about paying attention. One of the reasons why I have a whole

chapter and she's still there about paying attention

to your life is because when you don't pay attention to your life, when you're not where

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