• Use your breath as a cue to remain present and receptive to all the sensations—sights, smells, sounds, textures, and tastes—and the many possibilities that each moment offers.
• Stop before every meal or each new task. Pray or reflect about what you are about to do so you don’t miss it.
• Live one day at a time. Limit your worries to this day, at the very most. The quality of each day can always be upgraded by remembering how precious time is.
• Make a series of signs or pictures and post them around your house, in your office, in your car. Have each sign say or depict something to remind you to be present, now.
• Take time each day for silence and solitude. The simple practice of meditation or focused consciousness is the most powerful means of moving into the here and now and staying “here” more consistently.
• Exercise vigorously and regularly. Using your body physically can be a natural high—a means of altering your consciousness—and a powerful way to connect with the multisensory experience of life in the present moment.

Right now: Look at your hands. Don’t just glance at them; examine them at length. Discover something about your hands that you hadn’t known or noticed before. Now touch your hands. Explore them and the many different ways they move. Feel them against your face. Smell them. Taste them. Sit and rest and look deeply at your hands as if they were your most precious friends. For the rest of this day, whenever you notice or think about your hands, let them remind you to breathe and relax into the present moment.

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