Mindfulness

Mindfulness is something that is encouraged in society but at the same time is greatly discouraged.Uwe Herwig defines mindfulness as having, "purposeful, attentive, and nonjudgemental awareness of the moment" and in order to do so you have to be in-tune with your self and be firm in your identity as well as emotions. There are so many things in society that teach us to be mindful such as yoga, meditation, therapy, etc, which teach us to come in terms with who we are and be at peace with that in order for us to see the world clearly enabling us to be mindful eternally as well as internally. When your mind is in chaos that undoubtedly clouds your judgement and  you arent able to see things as they really. Society discourages mindfulness because of the fast paced, multifaceted aspect of life. There are constantly new things going on in the world that are unimportant but society follows like celebrities for example as well as the new technology coming out. These unimportant things fill our minds with crap clouding our judgement of who we are and our purpose for being. We are a consumer based society and that is all we think about whether we like it or not.