**Mindfulness is living in the now, not the past or future.** "Mindfulness" is the common modern term applied to the practice of experiencing here and now. Those who aren't _mindful_ may very well spend an entire day alternatively ruminating about the past and planning for the future, never appreciating what they are experiencing in the moment. In the book "[[How to Do Nothing]]" this concept is pitched as quite literally 'doing nothing', which is what enables you to ground sense the concrete world around you wherever you are. **** # More ## Source - [[10% Happier]] - [[How to Do Nothing]] ## Related - [[Silence is Listening to Everything]] - [[We Remember Moments, Not Days]]