Fresh start - OR - Same old, same old

     At the end of each year, many of us resolve to make the new year new, better, different. But the force of habit is disappointingly strong.
     Other ways of saying 'force of habit' include: mindlessness, being on autopilot, sleepwalking through life, among the walking dead, zoned out, brain-dead ... It's a deep conditioning that is very similar to addiction to substances.
     Students I've taught who've served in combat as helicopter pilots or marines are radically more alert, attentive, present than other students. They seem much more alive. They're tuned into what's happening right now, right here - they're mindful. Mindfulness is a life skill that can be learned in civilian life through mindfulness training. Mindfulness allows one to live life consciously, on purpose, in freedom. 

     To - BE HERE NOW - is a moment-by-moment choice. One can vow to, from now on, take hold of one's destiny as an evolving conscious life form, by choosing freedom every moment.

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