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Originally Posted by SubhashBhat
In my opinion, mindfulness is related to observing things attentively and analysing the situation without actually being involved in it.
Meditation is the best way of analysing things unbiasedly. It may be any situation, it is always good to give a pause, have a thought and then respond. This is a hard habit to develop. But one can start by sitting alone and thinking about the past situations and the possibilities s/he could have responded to.
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When I see descriptions of mindfulness (not all descriptions of it are like this), I always keep thinking to myself, is mindfulness just about learning to do rational control over emotion?
Which would be kind of a seeming - and funny - contradiction, as rational control tends to get seen as the evil by people who think emotions >>>> rational detachment and distance and non-attachment and non-connection.
Instead you are constantly pushed to connect, connect, feel your emotions, sink in your emotions, all that. Distance is a bad thing, it gets called walls, and blah blah. So yeah, ironic.