From the course: Mindfulness for Beginners

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What is mindfulness?

What is mindfulness?

From the course: Mindfulness for Beginners

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What is mindfulness?

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- [Instructor] So let's begin at the beginning. What is mindfulness? My working definition of mindfulness is that it's paying attention on purpose in the present moment as if your life depended on it, non-judgmentally. Actually, mindfulness is what comes out of paying attention on purpose in the present moment, non-judgmentally and as if your life depended on it and that is nothing else than awareness. Now awareness is something that we're all intimately familiar with and yet complete strangers to. So the training in mindfulness that we'll be exploring together is really the cultivation of a resource that's already yours. It doesn't require going anywhere, it doesn't require getting anything but it does require in some way, learning how to inhabit another domain of mind that we are as a rule, fairly out of touch with, even though, of course, if we didn't have it, we'd already be dead. Mindfulness is often…

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