Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McCongy. Thank you so much for listening.

If you're unfamiliar with the format of Mindfulness Plus,

if your first-time listener, which I hope you are,

I hope you're hearing about the show and that it can help support you to start a

mindfulness practice of your own, to deepen a mindfulness practice you already have.

In each episode, basically, I go through five to ten minutes of a lesson, a concept that's important to the practice of mindfulness,

which is training the mind, learning to pay attention to how you pay attention.

And in paying attention to how we pay attention, you start to notice positive impact

in your day-to-day and moment-to-moment life.

Five to ten minutes on that.

And then every episode, we do a practice.

So it's not just conceptual learning.

It's embodied doing.

You're actually putting the concepts and principles into practice right after you learn them, which is a great

way to learn and internalize them. So that's what's going on here. What I'd like to do is start

with a little story. I find storytelling can be helpful, kind of offer a scenario that gives you

a feel for like the ground I want to cover today.

And then I want to invite you into that particular experience. So this particular story

comes from my personal life. I decided when I moved out to Boston that now that I live

close to a river, I'm going to spend time on that river.

And the way I chose to spend time on the river was to learn how to row, or technically the term is sculling.

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