Previously this would have ruined my day
And an apology for the email this morning
Hi lovely people,
Apologies if you got an unexpected Untangling podcast episode in your inbox this morning. I didn’t mean to send it to everyone, but hey, accidental bonus if you could listen to it!
A few years ago, this kind of mistake could have ruined my whole day.
I’d have been in a full-body panic.
Heart racing.
Trying to “fix it” in a 10-minute window when I should have been getting dressed, or worse, when on the loo (I know I’m not the only one who’s sent panicked emails from there… right?!)
The whole time, my inner voice would be screaming:
"You're an idiot. You should’ve checked. Everyone’s going to think you’re unprofessional."
But this morning?
I felt the “oh no” moment... and then it passed.
I noted the mistake. And then I put the problem aside until I had the time to deal with it.
Without urgency. Without shame. Without spiralling.
That’s what mindfulness gives you when you live it, not just “do it.”
Because here’s what mindfulness isn’t
🙅♀️ It’s not pressing play on a meditation track while you mentally rehearse the day’s to-do list (which was me for 2 whole years btw, so zero judgement if that’s you)
✅ It’s not adding “walk outside” to your calendar just to tick it off.
💆♀️ It’s certainly not emptying your mind and always being calm
It’s learning to approach life in a completely different way.
So when the email gets sent to the wrong list...
Or your boss asks you to squeeze in an appointment with that client (you know the one)...
Or it’s 8.20pm, you’re hungry, and you realise you’re out of milk.
You don’t panic while dashing around like a headless chicken.
You deal with it. And then you get on with your day.
Hell maybe you even enjoy it and turn it into a positive.
So if you've ever thought mindfulness “sounds nice but probably won't work for me”, same here 🙋♀️
But now I know this:
The real power of mindfulness isn’t what you do in the moment.
It’s who you become between the moments.
Today was a wonderful example of that for me and it’s one I wanted to share.
With love,
Lucy x
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I think that's so true, Lucy... mindfulness IS about approaching life in a totally different way, not necessarily doing certain things.
I have, at times, fallen into the trap of "ticking off meditation off my to-do list" and calling it mindfulness. One Yoga teacher said that we can't actually meditate, we can only become meditative, which is probably much closer to the truth than our culture's current approach to meditation/mindfulness.
Love this:
'The real power of mindfulness isn’t what you do in the moment.
It’s who you become between the moments.'