What Is Mindfulness?
Can mindfulness help? What is mindfulness
We all experience a roller-coaster life with stress, abrupt challenges and losses. The application of mindfulness can help us develop a new approach even if we don’t suffer difficult to manage conditions. Most of us do not need to remedy some deep, disabling conditions. We simply wish to feel better about ourselves and life as a whole.
To understand the principles of mindfulness and to develop the basic skills is not as hard as it may sound. Actually, mindfulness is nothing exotic or new. We all have the ability to be mindful but we don’t cultivate it, so we lose it.
We have inherent capacities passed down through the centuries from our ancestor who needed to be mindful in a moment to survive.
There are instants when we are mindful without realizing it. We mindfully do activities we love doing, when we forget about time and we are single focused. Hobbies might be a good example of activity we do mindfully and with engagement of the senses. We can think of daydreaming as the opposite of mindfulness. That is the time when we mentally travel and think about the past or future.