Dear Royal Friends,                                                                                                                                 

I have always thought that multi-tasking is to mindfulness what life is to a box of chocolate with a flavor guide under the lid: since you do know whatchyur gonna git, life isn’t like a box of chocolates. In other words, multi-tasking and mindfulness don’t go together.  Multi-tasking is to Eckhart Tolle like “not gonna” is to “happen.”

When you are multi-tasking, you are not present in the here and now. You are everywhere but here and now.

This is a pretty confusing idea when considering the alternative as stated by Gertrude Stein: “there is no there there.”

Who among us busy princesses doesn’t want to multi-task? Multi-tasking is a very seductive solution when you’re bat-crap busy.  But the new way  of thinking about mindfulness and being present makes multi-tasking fall into the “shouldn’ts” side of the score board. Do you find yourself muttering, “I know I shouldn’t be multi-tasking like this. I should be doing one thing at a time so I am being more mindful and present in the moment.  But just let me fix this nail, while I order from Whole Foods, while I cut up bananas and papaya for my smoothie, while I pack the kids’ lunch for tomorrow, while I edit this memo, while I let the dog out…ad infinitum.”

I had an epiphany this morning, born of necessity being the mother of in(ter)vention.  How to do Zen’d out beauty multi-tasking!  You see, this week I had the sniffles and had to miss my bi-monthly uber facial. The place I go to is so popular, they can’t fit me in for another month!  As I was coming out of my twenty-minute mantra meditation this morning and my mind was bubbling up from deep relaxation, one of the little bubbles gave me an idea. I have on my vanity table a do-it-yourself face peel that you slop on, let it dry for 20 minutes, then peel it off. Twenty-minute face peel; twenty-minute meditation. Are you seeing what I’m seeing? Zen’d out multi-tasking!

Why don’t I slap on a face mask peel right before I mediate!  I can’t do anything anyway in the next twenty minutes, which is the exact time the peel is finished.  What a refreshing way to start the day with sparkling, rejuvenated skin, and sparkling ready-to-go clear mind.  And I’m multi-tasking…but I’m not. How Zen is that!

This time-saving trick is especially nifty because I’m not supposed to be moving my face around anyway or the peel will crackle…so how better to keep still than through meditation! I smell a symbiosis!

Zen’d out beauty multi-tasking baby…it’s not an oxymoron; it’s the new OOOOMG!

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