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Podcast: A Quest for Well-Being
Episode: Mindfulness & The Essentials Of Meditation
Description: — Mindfulness is the practice of increasing your awareness of the present moment. We spend so much of our lives thinking of the past or the future and not focusing on the here and now. Mindfulness is our basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are, and what we're doing. By practicing mindfulness regularly this helps us to not be overly reactive or overwhelmed by what's going on around us. Mindful.org states, "whenever you bring awareness to what you're directly experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts an...