Choosing how to deal with life’s inconveniences when on the road can play a big part in how they affect us.
It’s day one of a 10-day women’s mindfulness-focused trek I’m hosting in Nepal’s Everest region, and our 8am flight to Lukla is delayed. Now a delay for any flight can be grating. But when it’s a flight on a 20-seater plane that we woke up at 3am to take, which was preceded by a five-hour bus ride so bumpy some of us became airborne during it, and that will land in what is widely considered the world’s most dangerous airport, already frayed nerves can start to unravel.
As fidgety travellers pace around us, we start scribbling a page of sentences beginning with the words “I’m noticing”, writing the things we see, hear, feel and smell around us. The exercise, similar to mental noting methods psychologists often use to help ground anxious clients, is intended to suck us right into the present moment.
Once we’ve dropped the resistance to what is, we start to relax and enjoy the day. Two of the women roll out mats and start practising yoga while other travellers gawk and giggle. We naturally break off into smaller groups and fall into long, rambling conversations. After a few hours, we stop asking “how much longer?” We drop our expectations, surrender the idea of how things were meant to be today, and just go with the flow.
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