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So a few days back I was chatting to someone, but meditation and mindfulness, a lot of my conversations seem to go that way.

This person was saying that whilst they appreciated the philosophy of mindfulness, the approach of

mindfulness, they felt that really like meditation was where it was at and they were trying to

persuade me, but yeah, but really kind of meditation is what it's all about, right?

As we sort of got into the conversation, I was offering up my understanding of it was every single moment is equally precious.

Every single moment is equally relevant.

Every single moment has its place. It doesn't matter whether that's during our meditation,

whether it's at some other moment during the day. The point is to be present.

And it's so easy to look at meditation as though that's the most important part of the day.

If we're someone who trains in meditation we might look at that time in the day and think that's the really important time that's the time where we're

cultivating awareness and compassion and the rest of the day as well just the rest of the day

but I really encourage you to reframe that outlook if that is the way that you look at it.

Because I would say that meditation is no more important than walking down the street.

It's no more important than eating our food. It's no more important

than putting our head on the pillow at night time. Because we can be sitting in meditation and thinking

about other stuff. Equally we can be doing all those other activities while thinking about stuff.

but we can be doing all those other activities while thinking about stuff. But we can also be sat in meditation whilst being present, aware of each passing moment.

In the same way, we can be walking down the street and yet still be present

still be aware of what's going on. So Rarden thinking of them as two separate

things, starting to think of every single moment being equally important.

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