Informal Mindfulness Practice: Mindfully + Compassionately Checking Work Email
I work in an office + just like everyone else, struggle with being patient while reading my work email. Sometimes I find myself getting caught up in the next thing I have to do + treating each email as though it is a "life or death" emergency which 99% of the time it isn't . At least not for me + the type of office work that I do. When I find myself hurrying, I tend to do a few things to get myself more grounded so that I don't jump from one thing to the next mindlessly. Whether I'm standing or sitting, I notice my feet making contact with the ground. Automatically that allows me to just slow down a fraction of the internal speed I'm usually engaging in. I also pause + if I'm holding the mouse in my right hand, I feel it, truly experience the sensation of how I might be holding the mouse. Then I check my breath. Is it shallow + can I just experience my breath as it is? What does it feel like? So that's the kind of stuff I do when I do get caught up