So Why Choose Mindfulness Anyways?

     With a full menu of options available that includes self-help empowerment, New Age secrets, psychological and philosophical theories--not to mention organic and manufactured substances--what advantage does Mindfulness bring to the already over-crowded table?

     Mindfulness is a way to live purposefully and deliberately. In essence, it's a shift in the way we see ourselves and the way we see and interact with the world around us. It means learning to look at and understand how our minds operate inwardly, how we consider ourselves, and, outwardly, how we consider the world.

     With this understanding, we can actively take control of how our thought patterns function as our minds act and react to the constantly changing world around us. There are no new belief systems to adopt. If anything, it's a letting go of many of our set beliefs.

     Through Mindfulness you can come to see that, in reality, all of your problems arise from your own mind, from within your own thoughts. For example, you may blame others or the world for your problems. But if you learn to look at a challenge honestly, you'll see that you have a choice in how you respond to it. Blame no longer becomes a way out.

     With Mindfulness, other people's actions or large-scale actions that occur in the world don't matter so much. You can't control any of that. What is infinitely more advantageous is understanding why you react the way you do to the actions of others, and how those reactions impact your state of mind at every moment. This you can control (Michael H. Brooks, from his book This. Only This.).

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