Jon Kabat-Zin was interviewed on 60 minutes last night. Anderson Cooper went to one of his retreats in Nor Cal. Oh I see that is why you are talking about it, you saw it too. I love him and read his books years ago.

I have found that practicing meditation a lot makes it much much easier to be mindful during ordinary activities. You don't have to do it that way but that is what I do. I love mediation. At first it was very very hard. Monkey brain. The technique of not fighting thoughts and not judging them but just watching them float by really works. I use my breath as my device. The breath is so intricately tied to every cell in your body that I think focusing on it is going to the core. When my mind wanders I bring my attention back to the breath. Each time calmly doing this. With much practice it becomes easy to fall below the busy scattered layer of normal awareness into deeper layers. The breath is very deep in the diaphragm by then. I can't even explain the experiences I have had at this level. At it's root breath means spirit.

This practice has made it much much easier to catch myself during the day and stop and take two breaths to get centered and present again. Nothing like living in the present. I agree with Zinn that is all there is. The only reality is the moment now.

I did have a weird reaction when watching it. When they talked about Google doing it and everyone was doing it and how accepted and popular it is, I got a little upset. It was like I know where the buried treasure is and I don't want anyone else to know. I have this secret weapon and I don't want anyone else to have it. How selfish is that. Of course I do want the whole world to know about it and benefit from it and I think the world would be a better place. But that little selfish bastard in me did raise his head.