What is Mindfulness

Your mind either tends to get stuck in your past or it keeps dreaming about the future, which either makes people depressed and despondent or anxious and perturbed. Mindfulness is a state of consciousness where you intentionally bring your awareness back to the present moment, learning how to live your life purposefully and with an enhanced sense of awareness and mental balance.

New to Mindfulness?

If you are new to mindfulness, read the next lesson for more information.

Mindfulness: Being Fully Awake in Our Own Lives [10 min ]
A good introduction to what we mean by mindfulness in the context of this course. It is narrated by Saki Santorelli, the former director of the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction began.

You can download the entire course document here, or download the pages for each week in the weekly lessons.

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