Hey Spartans, it's Dr. Rall with Spartan Mind, and today we're talking about mindfulness.

I get more questions about mindfulness than I do about a lot of things and I think the reason

is we're sort of actually overwhelmed with this idea of mindfulness right now.

Mindfulness, the words, sort of the idea, the concept is just popping up everywhere.

And I think people are really confused about actually what that means.

They get mindfulness confused with meditation.

So that's why we're talking about it today

because I'm going to give you mindfulness in a real simple form. Paying

attention. That's basically what mindfulness is. It's bringing yourself into the

now, into the present, and paying attention.

And the reason why that's important is because we can be super future thinking.

I'm a goal-oriented person, so a lot of times I'm thinking about

about what's the goal, how do I get there, how do I move in that direction,

which takes me often out of the present

because I'm thinking so much about the goal. The problem with that is

there's no way that I can get to the goal unless I am in the present. So mindfulness

is something that certainly I need to work on and that I try and practice not every day I'll be honest but as much as I

can and it's real simple because it's just paying attention to what's going on right

now in the moment and one of the easiest ways to do this is something

that brings in your senses and just allows you to be present. It's called five, five,

and five. It's you in the now thinking about and paying attention to five things you can see,

five things you can hear and

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