Anderson Cooper: Mindfulness …

Anderson Cooper reports on what it’s like to try to achieve “mindfulness,” a self-awareness scientists say is very healthy, but rarely achieved in today’s world of digital distractions. The following segment is from “Mindfulness” which aired on Dec. 14, 2014 (CBS News – 60 Minutes):

Interview & Transcript: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mindfulness-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/
Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mindfulness/

Jon Kabat-Zinn: There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Mindful

Everyday
I see or hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle

in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for —
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world —
to instruct myself
over and over

in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant —
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help

but grow wise
with such teachings
as these —
the untrimmable light

of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
— Mary Oliver from Why I Wake Early.

Mindful

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