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Tea: discovering mindfulness through the love of a cuppa.

First things first, let’s talk about the warm, golden nectar of happiness; tea. Milky or black, fruity or spiced, it’s the only drink besides water that does you good inside and out. Coffee will give you the trots, booze gives you a hangover. When you drink tea you have to stop where you are and slow down. As far as I’m aware, no one has ever rushed to down a piping hot mug of tea in the last ten seconds before they head out of the house. Well, someone definitely has, but I bet you they never did it again. So tea makes us feel good, but why? Well, I genuinely thank tea drinking for giving me some regular time to relax, contemplate, and sit down on my own, or have a much needed chat. There’s a reason why we’re so romantic about tea drinking. It’s a habit that for many of us we’ve been doing all of our lives, and is the one thing that most regularly and organically brings us together with people. Not to be over the top, but tea basically runs through my veins. When I was little, every morning I’d sleepily go into my mum’s room to swipe a cuppa from the pot, make some attempts at chatter from the squeaky wicker chair, and look out the window. Then when I got home every day, I’d chain about 3 cups of tea and 10 biscuits. I know I’m not alone here. Dark chocolate digestives? Yep, thought so. We all know that tea is the gateway drug to biscuits. Essentially, tea gave us time to sit and think, and talk to those around us. I think that when you grow up, you lose those moments because you stop thinking of them as very important parts of the day. Our days become to-do lists. But boy oh boy are those moments important. Essentially, the ritual of drinking tea was my first experience of a kind of mindfulness. A time to note how you are, inside and out, and a time when you can’t really lie to yourself. When life has been busy, I’ve found myself going weeks without tea - now at this point I sound like I’m losing perspective, and I probably am, but stay with me. Those weeks that I don’t drink tea align pretty much exactly with the weeks when I have no idea what’s going on in my head, or in the minds of others. I’ve heard people saying that the state of your pot plants reflects the state of your mind. But, when I’m feeling good in myself, I’m too happy drinking earl grey to even buy plants. I suppose what I’m saying is that everyone has their different little acts of mindfulness that filter through each day. Watering plants, exercising, talking to friends, meditation, cleaning, baking… etc. It might be something you’ve been loving to do all your life, or it might be something new. It’s definitely not the thing that you feel you should be doing, it’s something you already do. It’s whatever makes you take that sigh of relief. And as you’ve probably guessed, one of mine is drinking tea. To finish up my thoughts on tea today, I have to tell you that my tea of choice is the aforementioned underdog, Earl Grey. English breakfast tea may have taken over, but everybody loves an underdog. I think a lot of folk think that it’s too much faff for them. Why put a floral fragrance in tea? You may as well eat some grass. What’s bergamot and who the damn heck is the Earl Grey? Sounds like some sort of twisted, fancy fairytale-jungle. Well, I couldn’t agree more. However, from my experience, it’s the least expensive thing that makes you feel fancy. And don’t we all like to feel fancy sometimes?

So bugger off and make a brew. After all, there’s nothing better than tea.

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