The Buddhists call this mindfulness.

Though in many ways it's like un-mindfulness because it is all about entering into an empty-mind state, void of worries and fears and insecurities...a state that can be best achieved through regular meditation.

Which brings you to...

LIFE LESSON #23

When you practice regular meditation, you find you are able to see so much more.

Meditation works like one of those shake-up-snow-dome thingies - it helps the flaky stuff in your mind settle down, so you can see more clearly what you truly need and want.

So once a day you just sit. Stop. Become a human still life.

Except.

Do nothing.

Be nothing.

Except breathe. You become one with your breath. You breathe. In and out. In and out. You shhhhhhhh and ignore the shhhhhhhhhh*t.

Gently borrowed from, "how to be HAPPY, dammit: a cynic's guide to spiritual happiness", by Karen Salmansohn.