(CNN) "You can't figure it out by thinking," Jon Kabat-Zinn advised Anderson Cooper on embracing the present moment through mindfulness. "It's more of a way of being." He said the capacity for awareness is like a superpower that everyone has and it can be accessed by paying attention and practicing meditation. "Just recognize that your awareness can see it as an event in the field of awareness -- a thought, an emotion coupled with unpleasantness or pleasantness -- and then you can let it be." Cooper said he is learning to embrace mindfulness in his life after at first being hesitant to try meditation.

Source: CNN December 31, 2020 00:00 UTC