Imagine you are sitting in a waiting room. You look, and you are surrounded by people. The room extends in every direction. As far as you can tell, it seems to go on forever.

Thomas McConkie, a mindfulness coach and founder of the Lower Lights School of Wisdom, hosts the Mindfulness+ podcast on the Skylight app. In the podcast, Thomas uses his unique skillset as a developmental researcher and spiritual leader to illuminate mindfulness in a new way. Each episode is 20 to 30 minutes long, to help you practice mindfulness in bite-sized chunks. This post is a review of the “How to Not Suffer” episode.

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Have you ever felt lost? That feeling where you are simply floating about your day, detached from reality and all that surrounds you, in a cycle of depression, unable to break out of your mind, as if you are frozen in time. That feeling where your heart seems numb, when nothing ever satisfies you anymore, where you are searching for a will to carry on, for a higher purpose and cannot find it anywhere.

The divine feminine is a higher power that helps you find balance in your life and become a better version of yourself. Some people believe that only people who identify as women can or should have relationships with the divine feminine, but this isn’t true.

Enabling self-love is like planting a tree. It takes time and patience to watch the seeds evolve from small entities to flourishing greens.

Eating can be a spiritual experience. In fact, we argue that it should be a spiritual experience. Several religions incorporate rituals or health codes surrounding eating (or not eating). For thousands of years, people have gathered to share meals with one another. Many people choose to pray before they eat.

A Google search of the word gratitude yields nearly two billion results. Yes, two billion. There are 48 million Instagram posts alone tagged with #thankful. More and more companies from just about every industry are using some form of the word grateful not just in their branding but also in their business names.