What Is Mindfulness? What's the Difference Between Mindfulness + Meditation?
A little truth bomb for you...And it seems weird and silly to admit this but I didn't actually think twice about what mindfulness meant when I first embarked on my own personal meditation practice. It wasn't until I joined Sean Fargo's mindfulness teacher training program in January 2019 that I started to realize how important it is to know the difference between mindfulness and meditation. I find that the words "mindfulness" + "meditation" are often used interchangeably as though they are one and the same but they aren't at all. So let's break it down shall we? The definition I like most comes from author, meditation teacher and Psychologist, Tara Brach. She defines it as "Mindfulness is your awareness of what's going on in the present moment without any judgment. Meditation is the training of the mind that cultivates that mindfulness." So as you can see, mindfulness is the attitude that we apply to our meditation pr...