What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a bit of buzz word these days. Many people speak about and write about it but it can still be unclear what mindfulness actually is. Jon Kabat Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and who is often credited with birth of the modern mindfulness movement, describes mindfulness as: ‘paying attention in particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally’. Let’s break that…