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You Can Turn Just About Any Simple Act Into A Practice Of Mindfulness, And It Will Nurture And Nourish You; It Will Start Your Day Off In A Positive Way.

A Lot Of Exercise Is Mindless; You Can Have Music Or The Radio On And Not Be Aware. But If You're Aware In Anything You Do - And It Doesn't Have To Be Yoga - It Changes You. Being Present Changes You.

For Me, First, It's Finding Quiet In My Life - And I Do That Through Yoga And Meditation. It's Also Been A Matter Of Changing The Way I Eat, Because I Think What We Eat Can Inform Who We Are; Food Is A Chemical And A Drug To A Certain Extent.

I Got Back Into The Position Of Taking Care Of My Husband, Which Is What I'd Learned That I Couldn't Really Do: You Can Love And Make Things Okay To A Certain Extent, But You Can't Fix. I Didn't Quite Learn That Until The Kayaking Incident. It Became So Clear Then.

Well, I Was Passionately Curious About What My Body Was Doing, And When I Got The Lessons On How To Meditate, It Seemed Really Solid To Me. It Seemed Real.