I find all this interest in mindfulness quite thrilling. It's fun to see people looking at ways to pay attention at work as well as at play. Of course, most of approaches focus squarely on meditation and its role in providing clarity in a variety of settings. The higher stakes, more it seems that meditation is considered only right path to mindfulness, and most dire circumstances seem to encourage most brow-furrowing effort. It would appear that serious problems require serious solutions.

I beg to differ.

Sometimes lightest approach is one that lifts those who are in deepest pit of despair. Those suffering from severe depression have most to gain from mindfulness, and there is no reason to believe that meditation is only way to get there.

There's tremendous power in levity, and because I'm an evangelist (evangelista?) when it comes to playing with mindfulness, it's not too surprising that people assume I shy away from anything too deep.

Au contraire. Mindfulness saves lives. I've seen it happen again and again. I offer it, lovingly and lightly, on a silver platter to those who are facing toughest fight of their lives--finding a reason to live.

If your life is difficult--if it's challenging, exasperating, and vexatious-- then it's time to tap goodness within.

Your life can be another way--if you let it be. At some point, you simply decided that it was impossible to be happy. From that point on, you gathered evidence to prove your point.

Since everyone else, as far as you can tell, appears to be playing same game of “Ain't It Awful,” you don't get to feel left out as you continue to sabotage your reality.

A point, however, may come when you feel that you can't take it anymore, and you start to look for some kind of cure.

The most dramatic cure, of course, is a seminar. There positive coaching and consulting creates a holographic repatterning in your mind. The facilitators argue for your greatness with such brilliance that you actually begin to believe them. Suddenly, you get high, your body floods with endorphins and catechlomines and you feel that anything is possible.

You usually go home with a big manual and continue training your mind about yourself. You realize that anything, in fact, is possible. Change is possible. Building your business and your relationships is possible. Anything is possible for you!