Increase mindfulness and practice being fully present, except when undergoing simple-tool dentistry.
Asking for feedback, being fully present, and listening makes people feel valued.
Ms. Stephen, older and more experienced than Ms. Clark, contented herself with being fully present in the piece.
But as he returns from Nigeria to his family in Toronto, one senses his quest to balance the pull of politics with another kind of idealism: the dream of being fully present for his wife and children.
In the 15th century, the artist Chu Yun-Ming wrote of the artist's being fully present in his brush strokes: When one is pleased, then the spirit is harmonious and the characters are expansive.
Lutz writes about his experience: Holding so tightly onto what I believed was sanity while consumed by fear of depression and schizophrenia prevented me from being fully present to her reality.
And here's the real gift: For those afternoons that I went walking in the mountains, my eyes on the forest floor, my cellphone out of range, I felt the joy of being fully present, of paying attention to the world.
In a nutshell, my philosophy is this: The power of now: the habit of being fully present is a great gift because it affects how we love, attend to life, how we give.
As he wrote in his summer encyclical on the environment, "We are speaking of an attitude of the heart, one which approaches life with serene attentiveness, which is capable of being fully present to someone without thinking of what comes next, which accepts each moment as a gift from God to be lived to the full".
By our being fully present.
