Mindfulness
Mindfulness Mindfulness is becoming increasing popular with several books and apps available to help people to improve their mindfulness and wellbeing, but what is it? Mindfulness meditation originates from Eastern religious practices. In Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness leads to enlightenment. The Buddha explained that mindfulness is a path leading directly to the purification of beings: to passing beyond sorrow and grief to the disappearance of pain and discontent to finding the proper way to the direct experience of Nirvana. It is practised by watching the body, feelings, mind and personal qualities and if properly established reveals the four noble truths: truly understanding what suffering is what the arising of suffering is what the cessation of suffering is what the practice leading to cessation of suffering is. This fourth noble truth corresponds with the eightfold path that leads to enlightenment. Mindfulness can develop both serenity (Samatha) and in