“Mindfulness, or full attention, is not an abstract concept nor a practice limited to moments of meditation. It’s a lifestyle. A way to relate to yourself, with your emotions, with your thoughts and with the world from presence.
It is the ability to be here and now, fully awake, aware and available to what is happening, inside and outside of you.
As a Beginner, you must stop and breathe with awareness. You must look at your thoughts without getting carried away by them. You recognize your emotions without rejecting or repressing them. You train your attention, cultivate presence in everyday life, and establish the first bridges between your internal world and your external experience.
You learn to practice essential tools such as body scanning, conscious breathing, non-judgemental observation, and gratitude. You discover that peace is not found by changing circumstances, but by learning to relate differently to what is already present.
This first level is like sowing a seed in fertile soil: with practice and patience, a new way of being in the world will begin to sprout.
In the Intermediate level, you delve deeper into the art of conscious self-observation. You sustain your presence in the midst of uncertainty, observe the ego clearly and without judgement, accompany your emotions in real time and release mental patterns that no longer serve you.
You also explore the relationship between the body, movement, and mindfulness, as well as the impact of your internal dialogue on your emotional well-being.
This level invites you to look beyond the surface, to remain present even when the mind wants to escape. By practicing walking meditation, conscious listening, recognizing personal limits, and transforming automatic thinking, you begin to consolidate a more stable, serene and authentic lifestyle.
Later as an Advanced and awakened mindfulness practitioner, you enter the more subtle and expansive territories of mindfulness. Here, practice becomes spiritual experience. Not in a religious sense, but in its deepest form: a living connection with what is essential.
Listen. Silence is full presence. Be still. The body is an energy channel. You contemplate without judgment. Your compassion is a form of unity. You come closer in experiencing non-duality: that understanding that is born when the feeling of separation between you and life, between the internal and the external, between the self and the other disappears.
You integrate mind and spirit, reason and intuition, practice and understanding. Because mindfulness is not a belief, it is a verifiable experience. A real transformation that occurs in the body, in the brain, and in daily life.”
Mindfulness From Beginning to Advances – Calm Your Mind, Expand Your Consciousness, And Transform Your Life With The Step-By-Step Method To Manage Stress, Improve Focus, And Live Mindfully Every Day, D. Millares, Introduction.