MINDFULNESS
“Mindfulnes means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally”
(Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994)
This attention involves maintaining full awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and the environment that surrounds us in the present moment. This awareness should be also accompanied by a nonjudamentally attitude of what is happening. That is to say, with acceptance of what is happening, without grading as "right" or "wrong".
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Mindfulness does not mean a mind full of things. It involves a thoughtful mind, with full awareness of what is happening in the present moment (neither in the past or in the future).
This ability is not innate, but it needs to be trained. The most common practices are based on bring the attention to the present by focusing on an anchor such as breathing, movement, body sensations, sounds ... In this website, different examples of practices are given in order to start training mindfulness.
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