What is Mindfulness?
The state of mind one chooses to be in at any given moment. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts (Buddha)."
Mindfulness is a person's ability to see relationships among thoughts, feelings and actions, with the goal of learning the meaning and causes of these experiences and behaviours.
Mindfulness implies one has the ability to recognize and admit psychological and interpersonal problems, to see oneself in psychological terms, to use or to accept the use of psychological constructs, or to at least imagine psychological causes of one's symptoms and behaviour.
Mindfulness can be thought of as a trait which has as its core the disposition to reflect upon the meaning and motivation of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings in oneself and others.
Mindfulness is a reflective process about relationships and their meanings; a person's level of mindfulness can be measured by the extent to which they are interested in reflection and their motivation to create the ability to continue mindfulness.
One who is mindful has a degree of access to one's feelings, a willingness to try to understand oneself and others, a belief in the benefit of discussing one's problems, an interest in the meaning and motivation of one's own and other's thoughts, feelings and behaviour with a capacity for change.
