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What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness and Awareness Practices
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What is mindfulness?

Sir Anthony explains that he’s never been able to define Mindfulness despite practicing for 40 years. He says it’s about being connected with your senses, knowing you are present. He also explains that this ability improves with practice.

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I've never quite known what mindfulness is despite having been meditating for 44 years twice a day with a few breaks. But it is clearly about being in touch with the present moment as experienced through the senses, sight and hearing and touch and taste. And, but also knowing that you are. So there is a matter awareness that comes in, the more you practice it. So it isn't only about being in the present moment, it is about knowing that you are present.

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