Every once in a while these three words pop up in a calendar notification on my phone – alongside a note that reads something like this:
Acknowledge that what is happening is happening. What happens next has to come out of the understanding of this moment. Is it possible that this is actually the best moment of your entire life? If that was so, what would it mean for you?
It’s a little practice from this book by Jon Kabat-Zinn to bring mindfulness into everyday life. I wanted to give it a try so the question in the first place simply was: how?
How to remind myself of the practice from time to time during (busy) days?
I came up with a little calendar hack: I set this and some similar exercises as repeating events at different times into my calendar. Completely randomly. Now the notifications often hit me really effectively – really out of the blue.
Actually the workaround worked in such an interesting way that we don’t think of it as a nice idea anymore – but as a first prototype. So there is more to come on this one. But for now:
This is it.