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appreciate hearing from you. Today's episode features Marie Burwald talking about how you can

cultivate mindfulness. Hello everyone. Welcome to this edition of the Oil Oasis. Today we are

talking about mindfulness. So we are going to explore what is

mindfulness. Why would you even want to do it? How can you use your essential oils to enhance your

practice? And how can it just fit into everyday living? So my name is Marie Burwell. And I have

been a student of yoga and meditation and mindfulness for the past 20 years.

And I love that our topic today is cultivating it because it's something that and that it's

considered a practice because it's something that can be tricky.

I know a lot of people will say, oh, well, it's too hard.

My mind bounces around a lot.

And our essential oils can actually really help with that. So let's first talk about what is it.

Mindfulness is the quality of being fully present or just really fully alive in what's going on

right here, right now, as opposed to kind of spending all of our mental time,

bouncing to what's happening later on or rehashing things that have happened in the past.

And there are a lot of benefits when we just sink into this present moment.

And we have been gifted these amazing physical bodies to experience our life

here on our wonderful planet. And so mindfulness has a lot to do about with grounding ourselves

into our physical beings. So being aware of what we feel, what we hear, what we taste, what we see.

It's being present in the world.

The side benefit of all that is that it gives us a lot of grace and equanimity. It's a real

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