The Importance of Mindfulness

Hirthkins says that since her escape she has sorted out in her mind. She describes this experience of moment after moment after moment as mindfulness before its time Before we all knew the word for it In some ways this mindfulness was foisted upon her by her body When after a couple of days the man who had been beside her died Hirthkins realized she was alone in the jungle and I had never been so entirely alone. Her collapsed lung made it hard to get the air in she had to breathe intentionally And by breathing I got back into the moment back into the now, writes Hirthkins.