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Every Day You Get to Choose Your Life Approach
This is incredibly empowering for us all.
Over the years, I’ve made some adjustments and alterations to how I define mindfulness. Specifically, what goes into it.
Mindfulness, as I define it, is active conscious awareness. It’s the practice of being actively, consciously aware of your mindset/headspace/psyche self, here and now. In the present, the only time that’s really, truly, real.
Initially, I quantified what went into practicing mindfulness as knowing what you’re thinking, how and what you’re feeling, and what you’re doing. In time, as I developed my definition of mindfulness, I added becoming consciously aware of what you’re intending.
Thoughts, feelings, and actions are easily defined. Thought/thinking is your ideas, notions, concepts, and the like. It’s the starting point for everything. Feeling is the sensation of how you feel, warm and fuzzy, cold and furious, the anxiousness — good or bad — of butterflies in your stomach, and so on. Feeling is also what the emotion is. The reason what and how are separate is because how you feel can vary depending on circumstances, situations, time and place, and other variables largely outside your control. What you’re doing is easy. It’s the actions you are or aren’t taking.
