Hello friends of Natural Medicine, I know that perhaps many of you have heard of Mindfulness and some of you may know what it means and others like me, well not so much, I decided to read a little because I was intrigued and this is what I assume and understand. This word is associated with mindfulness or mindfulness, and is a practice that dates back to the time of Buddha with some modern adaptations.

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Basically derived from a word from the Pali language contemporary with Sanskrit, this word "sati" can be translated as remembering, remembering to live in the present here and now. Although it is associated with Buddhism is not exclusive of this, there are many ways to meditate on this practice and achieve full consciousness, this current is already present in the West in psychological therapies and stress management for about 30 years or so.

Now beyond the benefits that meditation can bring to those who practice it, I believe that this concept can be perfectly applied to everyday life. This means to be aware and awake in what we live day by day, whether we like it or not. Many times we know people who are anchored in the past or expectant with the promising future, and we forget, because I include myself, the present that is the time we really have and in which we really live. Whether we want to or not.

The past, however wonderful it may have been, will never return, and that perfect future is still uncertain and always will be. So we spend time and energy on what was and what will be and we do not dwell on what is. In the time that prepares us for that future or teaches us the mistakes made and that is already far away from us. There are those who abstract as a refuge for a pain or present situation that they prefer to avoid, but this will be there anyway when you decide to see, no matter how much you avoid it, it will not go away.

This practice of mindfulness or at least its initial concept, I think it can also be positive to help us focus our skills and our work, organize ourselves consciously where we want to go, paying full attention to our moment, with an eye on that future we want but building it from the here and now.

It may be a slow and exhausting process, but I am convinced that it is a way to accept the reality that we have for good or bad, and that from a conscious point of view I think it can help us to move forward or even to deal with a situation that is difficult to deal with. This at least is what I have particularly understood, and I invite you to share this thought, or to form your own regarding this ancestral practice, of which much is said but little is known yet.