1-Minute Practice — Fall in Love With Your Life (See Your Ordinary as Extraordinary)

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Take a moment to arrive here, right where you are. Close your eyes and take one soft breath in through your nose and exhale out through your mouth, releasing any tension. Your life, this ordinary, complicated, imperfect, unrepeatable life of yours, is extraordinary. Not because everything is perfect, not because it has gone according to plan, but because it is yours, because you are living it, because no one else in the history of the world has ever had exactly this life, exactly these experiences, exactly this particular combination of love and loss and learning. As you inhale, look at your life through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time, someone who would find it fascinating, moving, rich with meaning. And as you exhale, let a quiet love for your own life rise up in you, not despite its imperfections, because of them. They are what make it real. Your life is worth falling in love with, starting right now. I am sending you so much love.