What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a state of open attention on the present. When we are mindful, we carefully observe our thoughts and feelings without judging them as good or bad. Mindfulness can also be a healthy way to identify and manage hidden emotions that may be causing problems in our personal and professional relationships.
It means living in the moment and awakening to our current experience, rather than dwelling on the past or anticipating the future. Mindfulness is frequently used in meditation and certain kinds of therapy.
It has many positive benefits, including lowering stress levels, reducing harmful ruminating, improving our overall health, and protecting against depression and anxiety. There is even research suggesting that mindfulness can help people cope better with rejection and social isolation.
Mindfulness comes from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition of Vipassana meditation. Vipassana can be translated as ‘insight,’ a clear awareness of exactly what is happening as it happens.
Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are beneath the surface. We wake up to what life really is. Life has a much deeper texture if we bother to look and if we look at it utilizing mindfulness.
Vipassana is a form of mental training that will teach you to experience the world in an entirely new way. You will learn for the first time what is truly happening to you, around you, and within you. It is a process of self-discovery, a participatory investigation in which you observe your own experiences while participating in them as they occur.