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Practicing Being With Uncertainty And Fear

Mindfulness practice is hugely important and beneficial for learning to be comfortable with uncertainty.

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Ed. note: This post is by Jeena Cho, a Legal Mindfulness Strategist at Start Here HQ. She is the co-author of The Anxious Lawyer (affiliate link), a book written by lawyers for lawyers that makes mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable. Jeena offers actionable change strategies for reducing stress and anxiety while increasing productivity, joy, and satisfaction through mindfulness.

When faced with the option of taking action despite uncertainty versus inaction, which do you choose?

As lawyers, we’re trained to analyze every potential consequence of each action before we can take even a single step.

I, too, struggle with this, and it’s something I’ve worked on.

Mindfulness practice is hugely important and beneficial for learning to be comfortable with uncertainty. By definition, being mindful means being in the present moment and catching ourselves when playing the 1,001 ways in which this thing can go wrong game.

A few years ago, I had a vague yet persistent sense that my mission in life is to bring mindfulness and meditation to the legal community. I suppose some would call this a “calling.” Yet, I resisted. Actually, I summarily rejected the idea.

There were the practical questions:

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— What lawyer is going to be interested “mindfulness?”
— How are you going to pay your bills?
— What are you going to tell your parents!?!?

Continue reading over at Jeena’s website…

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