Mindfulness is the practice of attention.

Attention to life. Attention to your heart. Attention to the systems that sustain all life.

The word “mindfulness” originates from the Pali word sati and the Sanskrit word smirti. In the Buddhist tradition, to be “mindful” is to practice “Right Mindfulness.”

Right Mindfulness is one spoke on a wheel of practice that Buddhists call the The Noble Eightfold Path.

At the heart of that wheel is the dharma. Dharma means teaching. It also means the path we walk on.

The core teaching and path of mindfulness practice is to remember that all life is interconnected.

Right Mindfulness means to let go of excessive self-interest. It means to rest in the awareness that we can’t exist without one other. We can’t exist without clean air, clean water, and equitable treatment of all human beings.

Mindfulness means to drop our transient self-centred judgements of life. It means to stay present from moment-to-moment. To witness each moment as it appears now, not to hammer it into the shape that we wish it to be.

Through the practice of mindfulness, learn to:

• Build emotional literacy.

• Overcome bias and resolve conflict.

• Manage relationships skillfully.

• Navigate uncertainty.

• Choose wisely.