Thread: Meditation and mindfulness drastically lengthen your life

…and I don't mean in the dates on the epitaph (although living with drastically reduced stress probably does in fact extend life in calendar years). I mean, why does time pass so sloooowly as a child, and zip by in the blink of an eye as an adult? I believe it's all due to *paying attention*. As a child, we haven't learned to tune out life, people, and the world, but as an adult we gradually over the years install more and more filters and focus on fewer and fewer things. Like in the Adam Sandler movie "Click" where he eventually fast forwards over his entire life, and he learns a powerful lesson about the beauty and preciousness of appreciating each and every "now."

That's the wonderful thing about mindfulness and meditation, learning to focus on each "now" and experiencing it fully. Also, that's the beauty of dream recall, so many funny/interesting/bizarre/ moments we live through every single night, and most people just forget it all, what a tragedy!