This Is What Mindfulness Is
It’s touching the miracle of being alive and holding it in both hands.
Mindfulness — it seems to be the term of the era. The thing we seek to attain, to incorporate in our lives and hold in our hands. It’s the term that has spearheaded a new wave of personal development, and yet, somehow, it seems to be something else. Something new. Something different.
But what is mindfulness?
If you were to google the word, you’d get 214,000,000 results in approximately 0.84 seconds.
One dictionary definition tells us that mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Another dictionary definition tells us that mindfulness is the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
Perhaps one could say that mindfulness is paying close attention to the world around you and the world within you.
Mindfulness is recognizing what makes you happy, and sad, and frustrated, and fearful, and angry, and elated and overjoyed — and understanding why. It’s extending that same recognition to the world around you, too.
