Dr. John Delony

It really does.

Choosing mindfulness, mindfulness just turned into this whole, it's a whole thing.

Michael Easter has written about it.

He's the best, one of the greatest guys behind closed doors you can find.

He just wrote a great piece on mindfulness.

Here's how I'll describe it.

It's not an old man on a cloud with essential oils.

Mindfulness is simply the gap between stimulus and response.

What just happened and what are you going to do next?

Ryan Holiday talks a lot about that in his world.

Like this just happened, what are you going to do?

And that is a thing you practice, extending that space between mindfulness

That guy just cut you off in traffic.

You just got a bad report.

Your ex-boyfriend just got passed over for the promotion.

What are you going to do next?

And it never occurred to me that my reactivity was a thing I could practice.

And that a thing I had control over, over time.

And so being mindful is exhaling.

One of my former students, a great friend of mine, Jefferson Fisher says, lead with your breath.