Welcome to Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host, Thomas McConkey, and we are here to learn the life-changing skill of mindfulness.

So for those of you who missed the first show, mindfulness we defined as

bringing awareness to awareness, being aware that we're already aware. And there are countless

ways to do this. And we're going to continue the exploration in this second show here.

So to get started, I want to talk about a really common phenomenon that we're all familiar

with in our personal lives and in the lives of those around us.

It's the quality of exhaustion that we see in this modern world. People are exhausted.

So whether it's wanting to get a degree, go back to school and get a degree so that you can get a better job.

Or maybe it's something like, I'm in this relationship and it doesn't feel fulfilling,

so I want to trade this partner out for another partner and see how I do in the lottery.

Or it could be as simple as in this very moment, your mind could wander off from the present moment to what might be an even better

moment just around the corner that I might pursue. So these are all really common examples of

the ways that we seek. We become exhausted because we're constantly looking for something that's not

here yet, but we think it might be here right around the corner. And I want to be very clear here.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that it is a bad thing to get further education and get a better

job, or that it's a bad thing inherently to

leave a relationship that's not fulfilling, that's not working anymore, or even to start to

wonder in the moment for your mind to wander off into, how can I make this moment even

better?

These are all just parts of human life. It's built

into the human experience. But what I want to speak to today is that when we're stuck in this

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