Have you ever experienced being completely stuck in your own experience of a situation? I am fairly certain I am not the only one. Recently, I witnessed a situation where two lovely people experiencing the same situation but from entirely different points of view literally blew up what looked to be initially, quite a nice friendship. It appeared that, in the absence of information and conversation, they each started imagining the worst about each other and fear concerning the other party started growing astronomically. They were each stuck in their own perspective and did not even try to see the situation from the other person’s viewpoint. It made me wonder about myself and what I would suggest to a client who was feeling stuck in a disagreement or impasse with a family member or colleague. Through my coaching course work, I have picked up some very useful tools. One is called take 5 and it is a tool to help you to get off the hamster wheel in your head and into the present moment so you can be present to yourself and the people around you right in the moment. Another word for being present is to be mindful. I use this definition of mindfulness: a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's current feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. The first tool is to flip into a sensing mode of being mindful instead of mindless. The other too, is also called Take 5: Getting a New Perspective. I find it useful to teach the first take 5 tool and then teach the second one. But first, let’s explore a few details regarding mindfulness.