All it takes is ten mindful minutes

"There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently, that said on average our minds are lost in thought almost ________ percent of the time

47%

"I assumed that it was just an _____________ for the mind. You get ____________, you do some meditation."

asprin, stressed

"... the sad fact is that we are so _____________________ that we're no longer present in the world in which we live."

distracted

"What usually happens when we're learning to be mindful is that we get _______________________ by a thought."

distracted

"We can't change every little thing that ___________________ to us in life, but we can change the way that we ______________________ it

happens, experience

"You don't have to burn any __________________, and you definitely don't have to _________________________. All you need to do is to take 10 minutes out a day to step back, to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life."

incense, sit on the floor

The speaker uses the act of _____________________________ as a metaphor for the importance of being relaxed and having a balance to one'sfocus

juggling

"The _______, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life, the _________ that we rely upon to be happy, content, emotionally stable as individuals, and at the same time to be kind and thoughtful and considerate in our relationships with others.

mind, mind

Meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different ________________________, to see that things aren't always as they appear."

perspective

"It taught me -- it gave me a greater appreciation, an understanding for the _______________________. By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be ___________, how to be prese

present moment, mindful

"...most people assume that meditation is all about stopping _________, getting rid of _______________, somehow ___________________ the mind, but actually it's quite different from that. It's more about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going, emotions coming and going without _____________________, but with a relaxed, focused mind."

thoughts, emotions, controlling, judgement

"...it's only in learning to ______________ the mind in this way that we can start to let go of those ___________________ and patterns of mind.

watch, storyline