Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order I wanted to talk about mindfulness

it's a super common term thrown around constantly I I was keen on it as a concept from a distance, but I feel like I only just got it.

And maybe this isn't even technically what is meant by the professionals in the space when they say mindfulness,

but for me, this has really been working,

and so I wanted to give it to you

because that's exactly the purpose

for the good of the order is to give you something useful.

So a piece of the puzzle that I wasn't understanding

is how the senses play into mindfulness.

And so when I am feeling elevated in one way or another, like I'm anxious or I'm super frustrated

with something, or I'm hurt or I'm feeling despondent that I'm not getting any traction on a given project.

I mean these are all emotions that I'm having like almost every single day of the week.

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