New Delhi, July 12 -- One of my all-time favourite trips has been to a small town in India where I went to deepen the skill of patience. It's only when I drove down to the place I discovered that we would have a monk teaching us how to meditate. I remember how that entire experience significantly shaped my lens around meditation and how to live.

As a lot of my clients and friends are returning from summer holidays, I have been thinking about how travel meets so many of our needs and how mindful travel is important to our well-being. It doesn't matter where we are going.

A few years ago, I discovered the term "a beginner's mind", which has its origin in Buddhism. It largely means being able to see the world from a lens of openness, curio...