ABSTRACT
Mindfulness is consciously taking in what is going on within us (internal reality) and outside of us (external reality). It is observing and attending consciously and with curiosity to what is going on right here, in the present moment, moment by moment, so that we see and experience life directly through the senses, without words and without judgement. It is a struggle maintaining the false sense of reality. Due to the negativity associated with it and also because of the falseness of it; it is stressful and draining. We can wake up and connect with reality. Reality is what it is and it is the fighting with it that causes the problems. Expanding our awareness of this space within and without allows us to perceive and accommodate all aspects of reality as it is; it separates us from emotions/reactions.
