Meditating doesn’t always need to take place in a room rid of distractions. In fact, meditating on the go, or what Maria Gonzalez, a mindfulness coach and author of Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others, calls “mindfulness in action,” may be a more effective way to combat the work commute so many of us loathe.
Nearly 50% of those living in the nation’s biggest cities report hating their commutes, and about 40% of workers in one survey said they would rather clean toilets than travel to their pre-pandemic office. If your commute is roughly 30 minutes (the average commute in the U.S. in 2019 was 27.6 minutes), you spend the equivalent of 10 days a year commuting to the office, so why not make it less dreadful?
