I manifest mindfulness.

You have driven home and arrived with no memory of the last three miles. The road was there. You were somewhere else, and the somewhere else was probably an argument from 2011.

Mindfulness is mostly the moment of noticing that this has happened. Not a permanent state of glowing attention — just the small return, thirty or forty times a day, each one taking about a second.

Nobody stays present. They come back. The coming back is the entire skill, and it gets faster the more often you do it.