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Many great teachers offer us insights into the practice of mindfulness as a path to reduce stress and cultivate inner peace.  One of my favourite teachers is Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses – Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness.

He says, “mindfulness is the final common pathway of what makes us human, our capacity for awareness and self knowing.”

He also says: “When cultivated and refined, mindfulness can function effectively on the every level, from the individual to the corporate, the societal, the political, and the global.  But it does require that we be motivated to realize who we actually are and to live our lives as if they really mattered, not just for ourselves, but for the world.”

How do you practice mindfulness? What does being “mindful” mean to you? How do you increase your self-awareness?  How do you live in a way that your life matters to the world?