How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation: A Guide for Beginners
Mindfulness meditation can help you manage your emotions, improve self-awareness, reduce negative thinking, and heighten awareness of the present moment.
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Simply bring your awareness back to your breathing and continue focusing on it until another thought enters your mind again. The goal of <anchor>mindfulness meditation</anchor> is to sit and experience the present moment with openness and acceptance. As you practice more often, you might begin to find that you have less difficulty focusing and fewer thoughts that arise.
What is Mindfulness? - Dr Nathan Brandon
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# What is Mindfulness?

by [Dr. Nathan Brandon](https://drnathanbrandon.com/author/99dev/ "Posts by Dr. Nathan Brandon") \| Apr 22, 2022 \| [Mindfulness](https://drnathanbrandon.com/category/mindfulness/)

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Mindfulness is a state of open attention on the present. When we are mindful, we carefully observe our thoughts and feelings without judging them as good or bad. Mindfulness can also be a healthy way to identify and manage hidden emotions that may be causing problems in our personal and professional relationships.

It means living in the moment and awakening to our current experience, rather than dwelling on the past or anticipating the future. Mindfulness is frequently used in meditation and certain kinds of therapy.

It has many positive benefits, including lowering stress levels, reducing harmful ruminating, improving our overall health, and protecting against depression and anxiety. There is even research suggesting that mindfulness can help people cope better with rejection and social isolation.

Mindfulness comes from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition of Vipassana meditation. Vipassana can be translated as ‘insight,’ a clear awareness of exactly what is happening as it happens.

Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are beneath the surface. We wake up to what life really is. Life has a much deeper texture if we bother to look and if we look at it utilizing mindfulness.

Vipassana is a form of mental training that will teach you to experience the world in an entirely new way. You will learn for the first time what is truly happening to you, around you, and within you. It is a process of self-discovery, a participatory investigation in which you observe your own experiences while participating in them as they occur.

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