What Is Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the practice of being in the moment. It has been defined as remembering the lessons from the past, remembering our purpose and remembering to be here now in the present moment. Mindfulness is being in the present and having centred awareness, paying attention to what is happening and what you are doing right now. If we are ‘in’ each moment it is difficult to be in emotional distress. Mindfulness helps us break unhealthy reactive patterns and automatic negative behaviours. Mindfulness is the opposite of being mindlessly or being on automatic pilot. If practiced daily mindfulness can give relief from stress, anxiety and depression. We can be mindful anywhere and with almost everything in life. We can be mindful when we are playing music, eating, talking, walking, sitting, lying down, and simply breathing.