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Mindful Reflection

by Dr. Tonya Caylor
May 31, 2025

Michael Bungay Stanier reframes mindfulness as a better sense of reality - more situationally aware.

He explains it as the ability to sort through data and separate it from our judgments.

Currently, in whatever situation you're in - ask yourself the key question he poses:

What do I know to be true about:

A. The external facts of the situation?

B. The internal subjective reality of my experience?

When you slow down and think through it with this approach, what becomes more clear to you?

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