What is Mindfulness

Mindfulness meditation is moment to moment awareness. It is being fully awake. It involves being here for the moments of our lives, without striving or judging.
You have felt it. Let’s explore one of those times now. Remember doing something you really, really enjoyed. . . . . . . . Really. Stop reading this and close your eyes and take a few moments to remember that time right now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How did you feel as you recalled it? Did you notice there was little room left for distracting thoughts or feelings? Bringing our fullness of attention into anything is mindfulness. You step fully into the moment. There is a sense of completeness, of enough-ness. These are the moments of our lives when we feel most at home.

There is another experience you know. It is the feeling of being alone, isolated, and cut-off from the world. You feel somewhat removed from life; like an outsider pressing your face against the window.

Or perhaps you are caught in the game of “if only”. If only I could get a promotion. If only I could lose 15 pounds. If only I had a loving partner, a child, better health. Then… But “then” never comes. It is always now. And you know there is a better way, but what is it? How do you find your way back to that experience of home?

Mindfulness is coming home to yourself, to live your own life, as you are, in the only moment that you have to live– this moment.