The Healing Power of Mindfulness

Google the word 'mindful' and you'll find about 24,900,000 entries. Google the word 'mindfulness' and there are around 13,600,000 entries. Ever wonder how these ancient, distant, and diverse Asian practices known as mindfulness have made their way into our living rooms today? Quite simply it is thanks to some noteworthy people who clocked hours, days, weeks, and years on a meditation cushion. They saw something important and then they showed it to us.

In the United States we have had the benefit of extraordinary Eastern teachers coming west to teach us their native practices. But without a doubt, those who have had the greatest impact translating classical Eastern practices for Westerners, without dumbing them down, have been our own Western teachers. Many of them are Americans who were drawn to Asia fresh out of college in search of meaning and who came home to share what they learned with the rest of us. (MORE)

Source: Huffington Post