Definition of "mindfulness" []

• Awareness (noun)
• Inclination to be mindful or aware (noun)
• Paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally (noun)

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• "Google the word "mindfulness" and there are around 13,600,000 entries."
• "i'm aware of the role that the term mindfulness plays in psychology and buddhist teachings."
• "Though "mindfulness" is used as a term in western Buddhism, the word they chose when they were translating from Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, Vietnamese and whatever all hodgepodge of ideas were eventually described in English, "mindfulness," is an English word over 800 years old."