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In my business of helping people change,  people are often not mindful that a helping professional shows up for appointments and depends on the patient to show up too if any change is to be forthcoming. Well today it happened again--a "cancellation" five minutes before the appointed time which was scheduled yesterday.  It used to be hard on this die hard surfer, especially when the waves are good (rare here but good today!), and I have a dead hour to spare...not to mention the person who called yesterday and wanted this time slot... But no more does it upset me--it is what it is as they say.

So today, guess what!,  I have the opportunity to re read some passages in Jon-Kabat Zinn's book Wherever you go there you are .   He says that positive thinking may involve  replacing one thought with another (I am glad I have an exra hour to relax).  He also says that meditaion or mindfulness goes beyond thinking to watching our thoughts as one might watch a waterfall--a continual torrent of thought but we are not in the torrent.  This way we can begin to understand our thoughts as just thoughts.  Then maybe our thought patterns will change and our lives transformed somewhat as we learn something liberating about thinking itself-we do not have to be drawn into our thoughts...