The ability to focus all of your attention on the glass of wine you are drinking yet knowing you have already had a skinful and the Universe contains an infinity of bottles yet to be drunk ... ommmm
Many people think of my best mate as a winefulness practitioner whereas I know him to be a complete pisshead.
Popular ideas of Mindfulness:
1. Meditation watered-down to one ultra-simple practice: noticing what your mind is thinking, without judging the thoughts. Similar to stream of consciousness, but at least paying attention to the idea that "My mind is thinking this."
2. Doing things undistractedly; paying attention to what we are doing.
Traditional Buddhist definition:
3. Part of our mind which holds and remembers the meditation object, or enables us to remember things. It also helps to overcome distraction. If we are very forgetful or get distracted easily, then we need to strengthen this kind of mindfulness. In traditional Buddhist meditation, one focuses on a feeling or concept, and tries to hold the attention on this feeling or concept with mindfulness.
1. Today, I kept following my thoughts instead of letting them go. My mindfulness meditation wasn't working.
2. I took out the trash without thinking of anything except the trash can rolling on the uneven ground.
3. I was meditating on love, but my mindfulness was weak, so I started thinking about pizza.
Paying attention to the downright fucking obvious. This usually manifests as paying for a therapist to tell you that if you fart you might need to shit soon. Can only be counteracted by a whack over the head with a plank and a tattoo reading, 'GET A FUCKING GRIP.'
I've been practising mindfulness. It's been very helpful. I haven't been arrested once since I started getting dressed before going to drop the children at school.
The point of mindfulness is to focus on the thoughts and feelings of the now. This new psuedo-word promotes mindfulness by drawing the attention to how changing just a single letter in a word, an l changing to a k, changes everything.
I used to meditate every single day but now I shoot the breeze and just do it when I fancy and find mindfukness so much more liberating.
When the kind of middle aged soccer moms one would find shopping at whole foods sits in front of a guided track on YouTube or iTunes in a futile effort to connect their souls with the earth or something. They will often go berserk and hysterical if their husbands refuse to buy into the conspiracy.