We use our imagination to borrow trouble from the future and pain from the past, here's how to stop

Angela Hardy

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Why would we want to practice awareness?

Well, awareness is the key to living a good, happy, comfortable, emotionally-stable life. We have a brain that is just so busy with chatter, making up stories, telling us the meaning of things, and imagining thousands of scenarios.

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