What is Mindfulness

Mindfulness as a practice involves recognizing your intention for being here, while becoming familiar with how your attention and your attitude determine how you experience reality. Mindfulness meditation is the formal practice of watching the mind balancing these dynamic forces of your lived experience moment-to-moment, revealing how the mind operates to create your immediate felt sense of the world. In this way, there is no distinction between meditation and mindful living. Living your life in awareness becomes your practice. In this way, every moment is about discovering for yourself the meaning of the Buddha’s words: “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

I Am Donald Maurer

Before moving to Kauai in 2018, I taught Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and related courses at the UC Irvine Center of Integrative Medicine, following a thirty year career in Emergency Medicine. Over time I have been a student in various spiritual traditions, both Eastern and Western.

Mindfulness in Daily Living

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