What is Mindfulness and Why Meditation?

Mindfulness from Wikimedia CommonsIn studying mindfulness, I've found out it is somewhat important to make distinctions between what mindfulness is and what meditation is. The finding out comes from the comments I've received when I talk about meditation; comments like, "you're just detaching yourself from reality" and something about escaping from experiencing reality. But really, that is the farthest thing from the truth with my experience in meditation and mindfulness. I consider meditation as a practice to attain mindfulness so that in other parts of my life, I can more thoroughly embrace reality. (More)

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