3-Bring Awareness to Certain Activities

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Welcome back to the ‘Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness’ email series! During this series, 
you are learning more about how to live mindfully and how it can have a positive impact 
on your daily life. By day 10 of the series, you will have a better understanding of the 
skills used in mindfulness.

On Day 3, we are focusing on Bringing Awareness to Certain Activities. Yesterday, you 
learned how to pick one thing and focus on it. Today, we want to explore this further by 
thinking about activities where you tend to zone out. This is how you know where you 
need to be more mindful.

Find the Activities You Do Without Thinking

Try to think of activities you participate in on a regular basis where you aren’t really 
concentrating much on it. You often zone out and think of other things, such as brushing 
your teeth and thinking about a big work meeting, or focusing on what you need to do 
after work when you are walking down the hallway to your office. 

When your mind wanders like this, it keeps you from being fully mindful, and can create 
a lot of stress and this overwhelming feeling that you are never able to focus fully on 
any one thing. This really affects your productivity and makes it hard for you fully relax. 

Pick one of these activities, and the next time you participate in it, pay more attention to 
your sensations. For example, if you zone out during your morning commute, try to 
concentrate more on it. You might roll down the windows and smell the morning air, 
listen to the cars next to you while on the highway, or even smell your coffee that you 
bring with you. Pay more attention to the sights and sounds every time you are driving, 
and you will be living more mindfully.

Coming up tomorrow: Focus on Eating Without Distractions

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