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Is Mindfulness the Opposite of Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the opposite of wandering attention, which you go very deep in the book abouta like. Whereis mind wandering? You're either for winding the mind to events that have already happened,. ruminating, reliving experiences that are not happening at this moment; or fast forwarding the mind to catastrophes of your own making. That goes to the description i have of mindfulness, paying attention to present moment experience, without elaboration or reactivity.

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