Jon Kabat-Zinn, the man most responsible for the flurry of published studies on mindfulness (over 3400 now), uses the phrase “wherever you go, there you are” to highlight the importance of being present to the moment. But as long as we make our way about in this physical realm, it is equally true that “wherever you go, there also is your body.” This Thanksgiving I want to reflect with gratitude on eight things about the body that are always as close at hand as our own hands.

Decision 2016 is behind us. Whether the candidate you voted for won or not, many of us on both sides are feeling a funk something like what spouses feel after an ugly marital spat. A mixture of anger, frustration, disbelief, guilt, shame, and feeling fundamentally misunderstood leads to a desire to withdraw, cut off all conversation, and rehearse how dreadfully wrong the other side is. At such moments there appears to be little clarity about how to heal the rift except a vagu