Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

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

I want to explore in this episode the art of waiting.

Waiting is something we do a lot of in life.

It's an incredible opportunity to practice mindfulness.

I want to start with a little bit of a story, in fact a snippet from Dr. Seuss,

a personal experience I had recently, and then dive into practice with with you so that you can start to wait in a way that is productive in a whole new way that maybe waiting hasn't been for you before.

So let's hear what the artist Dr. Seuss has to say about this.

The selected reading from, Oh, the Places You'll Go.

I'll start from the beginning just to give you a little background in the text,

and I'll jump forward to the place where we wait.

Congratulations, today is your day. You're off to great places. You're off and away.

You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're on your own and you know what you know, and you are the guy who will decide where to go.

So we're just flowing in this beautiful rhyming prose right now.

And then later on in the story, Dr. Seuss talks about where we can get into a lot of trouble

in life.

He writes, You can get so confused that you'll start into race, down long, wiggled roads

at a break-necking pace, and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear,

toward a most useless place, the waiting place.

For people just waiting.

Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come or a plane to go.

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