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What Most People Often Forget About The Purpose of Mindfulness

The three hallmarks of mindfulness are relaxed alertness, open awareness, and kind attention.

Relaxed alertness: The ability to be fully aware and focused, yet with an effortlessly calm mind.
Open awareness: The ability to keep your attention open and aware of everything happening in and around you.
Kind attention: The ability to allow and accept everything in your experience gracefully and with a beginner’s mind.

But what happens when mindfulness fails?

Because let’s face it, on the majority of days you practice:

You will be anything but relaxed, as merely sitting in your seat will be a challenge.
Your awareness will not be open and inviting — instead, absorbed by every thought buzzing in your mind.
And your attention will be quite unkind to yourself and everything around you.

But none of that is the point.

Instead, mindfulness is an act of remembrance:

Remembering who and what we really are.
Revealing what is already inside us.
And allowing our basic humanity.

Even with all its immense physical benefits — mindfulness and meditation are still spiritual practices. It’s a connection to your depth, the very spirit that lives inside you.

The demands of the modern world cut us off from this truth. Meditation helps us remember.

However, here’s the rub: while meditation allows us to dip below the surface of everyday life, it is not a practice of withdrawal from our humanness. Instead, we are waking up by rediscovering what resonates inside us and what brings each of us back home to a place of love, acceptance, and wisdom.

The goal of mindfulness, meditation, or any other spiritual practice is never to get good at the practice itself.

The goal is always to get good at life.

Here are two free guided meditations that can help you remember who you really: