Mindfulness -- Absolutely Nothing To Do With the Bakken

There's an interesting  Q&A essay in today's Boston Globe by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a professor emeritus at the U of M Medical Center and the founding director of its Stress Reduction Clinic, and, of course, the writer of a couple books on the same subject. From the Q&A essay:

Mindfulness is a way of being. It's actually pretty challenging (for humans) to inhabit the present moment. It requires cultivation by continually checking and seeing where your mind is. Most of the time, we're lost in thought, we're off int he past, we're obsessing about the future or planning or worrying.

The present moment, which is the only one we're ever alive in, tends to get squeezed out.

I do know that this is exactly why dogs are so happy and cats are so serene/content: they are always living in the moment. My understanding is that dogs and cats to not obsess about the past or worry about the future.

I do not know if Medicare covers visits to his stress reduction clinic.

And so it goes, here in Boston. And folks wonder why I would rather be out and about in the Bakken.