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Transcript of This "Less Stress More Joy!" Episode.Hello, this is Stephen Carter, your host for, Less Stress More Joy - One Minute Acts for Self Care. For those of you who are subscribers, yes, I have been away for quite a while. We will be publishing new episodes on a regular basis ongoing. Thanks for waiting and thanks for subscribing. In this episode, I am going to make a suggestion to slow down and attend. Attend to what? Attend to your morning cup of coffee. Or for bonus points, your morning cup of tea, specifically green tea, or a fruit based tea. One of the things we tend to do is rush or drink our morning coffee or morning tea rather mindlessly. We don't attend to the experience. One of the ways to slow down, breathe, relax, is to attend to whatever it is we're doing. And while the term mindfulness is way overused, it does convey what it means to be attentive, which is the word I prefer. Attending to, connected to, giving your full awareness to whatever experience you're engaged in, in that moment. So how do we drink our coffee or our morning tea mindfully? It begins when we actually touch the cup. We're attending to the felt sense of the cup; really allow yourself to feel the texture, feel that cup.Look at the coffee or the tea look at it. Really pay attention to it. And then slowly bring it to your lips; drink; taste it, really focus in on the taste. It may help to close your eyes unless of course you're driving. Taste the coffee; connect to the taste of coffee or the tea. Savor it; smell it. What is the aroma? Coffee, tea - even light green tea or fruit based teas - there is this slight aroma. Enjoy that aroma; experience it; feel it. Do that at least for one minute. Start out with your morning tea or your morning cup of coffee and then extend it to other things that you do throughout the day such as eating your lunch or eating your dinner. In paying attention to the physical world, to what you're experiencing, you get out of your mind and into your senses, That is a way to have less stress and more joy.This is Stephen Carter of stress solutions LLC. I invite you to join us on our website to listen to the family of podcasts and videos, all related to reducing, eliminating stress in your life. Join us at www.MindOverStress.us. Until our next episode, I invite you to please…be kind…be well, and be blessed.