Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host, Thomas McConkey. Thanks for downloading us today.

A couple announcements and then we're going to get

into a little bit longer of a meditation, which we do about once a month here on the show.

First, for those of you who are joining, what is the show? What is Mindfulness Plus? Well, in terms of

the benefits you can get from the show, I can say it really concisely.

Ancient wisdom traditions, that is meditative traditions, we could say, as well as modern science, are converging on an insight, even a fact, that we can dramatically elevate our quality of life simply by

changing the way we pay attention.

Think about that.

It's really powerful because most of us, most of the day, are frantically trying to manage

the conditions of our lives, thinking that if we manage

them just right, eventually we will finally taste brief joy.

And the science is telling us that that's just not borne out.

That actually how we relate to experience, how we attend to experience is paramount

it's not so much what the conditions of our lives are of course we need minimal viability and

survivability with conditions but once our basic needs are taken care of happiness,

joy and freedom in life have everything to do with how we pay attention.

So we have the luxury, the time, and the space right now to just be with ourselves,

take care of ourselves, turn on a podcast, and see how we might change the way we pay attention to moment to moment life.

That's what we're doing on Mindfulness Plus. That's what we're going to do in this episode.

Nextly, if you get benefit from the show, please tell a friend about us. We do our social media

activism, but really it's hearing from a friend that you enjoy a show that's more potent than

anything we can do. So please be generous by sharing if you enjoy the show. And an extension of that is you can rate us on iTunes,

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