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Mindfulness Meditation is an ancient discipline that is now a western, non-sectarian, researched form of meditation.   Mindfulness is designed to develop a practice of acceptance, patience, and compassion of whatever arises in the present moment, either inside or outside of us.   Finding the capability to release the patterns of thought that keep us out of balance.  The University of California Center for Mindfulness, part of the medical school's psychiatry department, defines Mindfulness Meditation, in this way:  
 

Mindfulness is releasing judgment, fullness of heart, gentle, and being open to whatever arises in awareness.  By intentionally practicing mindfulness, deliberately paying more careful moment-to-moment attention, individuals' can live more fully and less on automatic pilot.   Not habitually thinking about the past or future, but to feel what it's like to be...here...present...now. 

Mindfulness is a quality, which human beings already have, most of us have not been advised that we have it, that it is valuable, or that it can be cultivated.  

• Release habitual thinking & negative emotions

• New perspective and choices in life situations

• Skills to manage your conflicts with other people 

• Learn to pause and listen

• Acceptance includes the whole of your experience

• Discovering the joy in living