Granite, I thought about you while I was running this morning.

I was running, and I realized that T is out of town, in a place that will be affected by the hurricane. I felt so scared...would he be okay? Would he be able to come home on Sunday? Has he been evacuated? Maybe he cancelled his trip and he's still here and okay? And on and on and on.

And I realized that I was totally letting fear and worry take over my brain. Of course there is NO WAY for me to know in this moment what will happen in the future. And I decided to just focus on my feet hitting the pavement, the sounds around me, and I counted my breaths. I knew I had to get back in THIS moment, which is really the only one I have, and stop projecting ahead. And when the fear crept back, I was able to use mindfulness to get back in the moment again (and again and again! lol).

And I just wanted to tell you about it, because to me, this is one of the wonderful things that mindfulness can give us. It can be a tool we use to bring ourselves back to NOW, this moment, and away from all of the fear and worry and negative projections that can steal our peace from us. It didn't make my fear about T go away (it's still creeping back in) but it gives me a way to not get lost in it and to focus on what's actually right in front of me.

Just wanted to share that with you