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Many of us, even if we don’t travel for work, do something similar by avoiding spending time in the home of our own minds. If being fully present—or in the parlance of modern meditators, being mindful—is boring, stressful, sad, or scary, you’re not going to want to do it very much. You can have a more pleasant time being psychologically out of town, as it were.
But you should work to be more mindful anyway.
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If you can't meditate, it boils down to two problems:
You don’t know how to be at home in your head, or you do know and have concluded that home is no fun.
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