Given that our minds tend to focus on the past or on the future, mindfulness helps us learn to be in the here and now. Sometimes mindfulness can be better understood in terms of what it is not, which helped me “get it” better.
The single most important spiritual lesson I learned was that of mindfulness, of others opinions, rights, and the knowing that they are exactly where their life has brought them.
The mindfulness movement has seeped into Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and even the United States Military Academy at West Point. Next stop: the voting booth. A new California-based group wants the estimated 5 million Americans who practice mindfulness to move off their meditation cushions and into the polls on Tuesday (Nov. 6).