Over the past year, I have been experimenting both experientially and intellectually with the concepts of mindfulness and meditation. What might be the challenges to practicing mindfulness and taking a mindful approach to life in today’s society as opposed to practicing mindfulness in an ancient Eastern society? What are the benefits of a conscious approach to living in today’s Western society? What are the losses, or harms in taking a consistently mindful approach in today’s Western society? How have I cultivated with mindfulness over the past year? How did mindfulness altered, added, subtracted, or had little effect on how and what I value in my life, work, and relationships? These were the questions I kept in my head while writing this…
