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Actually, let's not be in the moment

Instead of struggling to 'live in the present', maybe we should just be grateful that our brains allow us to be elsewhere.

I'M at the kitchen sink, after a long day of work and kids and chores and the emotional exhaustion of a toxic election season, attempting to mindfully focus on congealed SpaghettiOs. My brain flits to the Netflix queue. I manhandle my thoughts back to the leaky orange glob in front of me. My brain flits to the president-elect.

I'm making a failed attempt at "mindful dishwashing", the subject of a how-to article an acquaintance recently shared on Facebook. According to the practice's thought leaders, in order to maximise our happiness, we should refuse to succumb to domestic autopilot and instead be fully "in" the present moment, engaging completely with every clump of oatmeal and decomposing particle...

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