Pick a toilet, any toilet. Work, home, doesn’t matter. Can you visualize it? Now, go clean it mindfully. Notice how your mind responds to this prompt. Notice how your mind responds to mindfully cleaning a toilet.
6 Responses to “Clean a Toilet”
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17. June 2010 at 4:46 am
why is that? why are we mindful cleaning a toilet and not, say– other more important things?
17. June 2010 at 4:54 am
Did my wife talk you into this prompt!?!?
17. June 2010 at 10:03 am
Dewbert, ask her if she has The Mindfulist on speed dial.
18. June 2010 at 8:19 am
Can I just wipe down the counter?
18. June 2010 at 1:59 pm
Cleaning a toilet isn’t important? Importance is in the eye of the beholder.
It’s not so much what the task at hand is as how you perform that task. I kinda think the pick of toilet cleaning was intentional to show how even mundane, or “dirty” jobs can be done mindfully.
Personally, I had been putting off cleaning my toilet for a few days now, so this was the perfect prompt for me.