Mindfulness
is the practice of seeking, developing and nourishing present moment
awareness and paying attention in a way so as to be more aware in the
present moment of all that is here -- and of the constantly changing
nature of what is here.
These
mindfulness practices are often described as "being, not doing,"
because mindfulness itself is the innate quality of human beings which
is bare awareness. Mindfulness can be defined as careful, open-hearted,
choiceless, present moment awareness.
Mindfulness benefits from
the ability to concentrate attention, but is not the same as
concentration. It is a quality, which human beings already have, but
they have usually not been advised that they have it, that it is
valuable, or that it can be cultivated.
Mindfulness is the
awareness that is not thinking (but that which is aware of thinking, as
well as aware of each of the other ways we experience the sensory world,
i.e., seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling through the body).
Mindfulness
is non-judgmental and open-hearted (friendly and inviting of whatever
arises in awareness). It is cultivated by paying attention on purpose,
deeply, and without judgment to whatever arises in the present moment,
either inside or outside of us.
By intentionally practicing
mindfulness, deliberately paying more careful moment-to-moment
attention, individuals can live more fully and less on "automatic
pilot," thus, being more present for their own lives. 
Mindfulness
meditation practices seek to develop this quality of clear, present
moment awareness in a systematic way so that the practitioner may enjoy
these benefits.
Being
more aware in each moment of life has benefits both to a person doing
specific spiritual practice, and also to the same person in everyday
life.
Source: UCSD Center for Mindfulness
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