10/19/2026
Mindful Moment: Finding time for Mindfulness
How do we fit this into our day? This was a question that came up at a workshop I led this weekend. How do we find the time to reset ourselves and take a pause?
As soon as we wake up in the morning we go into that “Fight or Flight”. Let’s look at our day…
- I need to get up
- I need to get dressed
- I need to have breakfast
- I need to get to work
- I need to…
- I need to…
This “I need to” checklist is already putting us into the cycle of “Fight or Flight”
What if…
🪶 I took some deep breaths and leisurely stretched, enjoying the stretch and the feeling of waking up.
🪶 As I was making breakfast I took a few moments and looked out the kitchen window at the birds getting their breakfast. I smiled as I watched their fun activity and took a deep breath.
🪶 I used my senses as I made my breakfast. I smelled the aroma of the coffee brewing. I felt the cold air in the refrigerator as I retrieved the bacon and eggs. I watched the changes in color as my eggs began to cook. I listened to the sound of the bacon sizzling in the pan. I tasted each bite as I was eating.
Look at the mindfulness we just put into each activity. We used our breath, we took a pause and we stayed in the moment using our senses.
Now, can we just decide to do this one morning? Sure! Does it take practice? Yes, it does. To do some of this perhaps we need to add a few minutes to our morning routines. A pause to take 3 deep breaths only takes 30 seconds, but it’s the mindset change that goes along with it that may take a few minutes longer. You can physically take the deep breaths, but making that mind/body connection is the important part. Realizing that you are pausing. Realizing that you are breathing and feeling that moment of pause. It may mean that you only add one part of this mindful routine in a morning, but what if you started to find places in your day to do more mindful activities?
Finding the time for mindfulness in our day may be our challenge. Taking the time to find those places in our day for mindfulness is the first step. In a practice, sometimes it just starts with baby steps, but when we start that first step it becomes a journey.
