Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. My name is Thomas McConkey. I will be your tour guide of body, mind, and spirit.

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Each week, I treat a topic, a theme related to mindfulness, meditation, practice.

And then I offer a little bit of a practice so you can really get a taste of it firsthand and decide for yourself.

So today what I want to do is talk about seeking mind.

This is a phrase from the Buddhist tradition.

And in order to really enter into this experience, I want to invite you into a visualization.

So you can do this eyes open, eyes closed, whatever is comfortable.

Take a breath.

And go back to the moment you last purchased something, let's say, on Amazon.com.

If it was at a real brick and mortar store, that's okay too. It works just as well.

But I'm going to offer the visualization for an Amazon purchase.

You identify a product you'd like to buy.

You don't know if you need it, but you know you want it.

You go shopping around, you read the reviews, you compare, and you finally narrow it down to

this is the memory foam bath mat I have always wanted.

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