
It is a practice of attention and intention. As we understand ourselves, we accept ourselves and change ourselves. It has been proven that awareness assists in emotional regulation. To be aware of what you are doing when you are doing it, free from distractions that is Mindfulness.īy learning mindfulness, we are empowered to be in charge of ourselves in a different way. I always tell this parable when speaking of mindfulness because it is such a simple story with a big lesson. The Buddha responded, “When we sit, we know we are sitting. The prince said, “How are you different, then, from my people, for we do those things as well?”

The Buddha said, “We sit and we walk and we eat.” The prince asked him, “What do you and your monks do in your monastery?” One day the Buddha was speaking to a prince.
