Benefits of Mindfulness Practice

What were the first, uh, benefits that you found in, in the

practice as, as the habit grew, as it became part of your life?

Well, the first, the first benefits were that ability to, to have

the quietness, the tranquility,

um, the ability to get energy from it rather

than

sleep. It would provide me more energy than

sleeping.

Um, those kinds of benefits.

Mm-hmm.

But then it went on,

um,

to develop an ongoing equanimity, that,

that centeredness, that ability to go

above myself and my circumstances and to look down at

them from a higher level with a clarity and an

objectivity.