Be Mindful How You Go

Zen masters call mindfulness a miracle, the Buddha spoke of mindfulness as the direct path to enlightenment. Anyone can do it, it is time enhancing and it changes everything.


The foundation of Mindfulness is curiosity and being more fully present with your experience. Deliberately paying attention and being fully aware of what is happening inside your body, heart, mind; and also your environment.


Mindfulness is respectful awareness, without judgement, criticism or comparing. Simply witnessing with warmth, kindness, openness and acceptance.

Mindfulness is a capability we all posses, and like anything in life, if practised regularly it can be cultivated. The opposite is mindlessness like when you're on autopilot or not really present. Without mindfulness the mind wonders elsewhere, lost in thoughts about the past and future. The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is over. When you are not present you waste mental and emotional energy, the mind is less fresh and open.


Our society conditions us to be mindless; valuing productivity, busyness, speed, efficiency and success. When we live mindlessly we can feel dull, disconnected, dissatisfied, anxious and unhappy, it creates a gap between us and everything, and everyone else.

When we are present everything becomes clear and vivid, we are in the zone and experience 'peak moments' of complete awareness. When mindfulness is practised anything we bring our full attention to will begin to open up and reveal worlds we never suspected existed.


Mindfulness is a powerful stress management tool, training your mind to return to the present no matter what is happening. 

I am only beginning to learn about mindfulness, it seems like a wonderful asset to posses, I'm curious to learn more in the 'Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction & Relaxation Program' I'm enrolled in.  

* Concepts above were inspired by a wonderful book called 'The Mindfulness Revolution, edited by Barry Boyce'.


~ Future Forward