Hi Michael. I often ponder about this "mindfulness" thing. The young people at the office where I worked till recently would be all over it, as they say, whilst frenetically running on their particular "life treadmill" whilst simultaneously facebooking every article they could find on the subject of being mindful.
"Don't talk to me about mindfulness" I would say to them. "Go and bake some bread, complete a puzzle, work out a difficult knitting pattern, tackle a recipe with a list of ingredients as long as your arm and make sure you measure them all out carefully. You'll find that during the time you concentrated fully on getting that right, you probably achieved mindfulness". They'd laugh at me of course. And I know it's about more than the above. But when I think of my gran for example, she never knew about mindfulness, and I ponder, how did she achieve her serenity?
I'm not knocking it by the way, I just wonder what did we do before we had mindfulness.