I recognize that this may still be a bit difficult to understand, so I will now analyze some key concepts included in this definition:
Present moment
It has no hedonic meaning or is related to the compulsive search for happiness.
“Present moment” has to do with what happens here and now, both outside of me (the circumstances that surround me and the stimuli that reach me) and inside of me (my bodily sensations, my emotions and my thoughts).
All this regardless of whether its nature is brazil data positive, negative or neutral.
Calm and neutral attitude
When observing the present moment, it is important to do so from a serene position.
Without letting my own impulses hijack my attention and cloud my focus or cause automatic reactions in which my conscience or my will is not involved, and neutral, without evaluating or judging, neither myself as an observer, nor what happens in my external or internal experience.
Just watching.
From this position of calm and neutral observer, we will be able to better understand the relationships, causes and effects of the different events that occur in our daily lives and make more effective decisions when dealing with them.
In short, Mindfulness is about being more attentive to our own experience.
Living a little more awake, without letting ourselves be carried away by those automatisms that unconsciously hijack our attention, through old ways of thinking, feeling or behaving.
In this way, we avoid living numbly or in automatic mode and we take charge of the direction of our own life.
Actually, it's not a new concept.
In Eastern traditions, there has been talk for a long time about this “mental clarity” and “awareness of our thoughts, actions and motivations.”
What differentiates this current trend is the contextualization of these ideas in our Western culture through the scientific paradigm, to study the benefits it brings.