“We can either expand or contract our mindfulness, to take in as many or as few facts possible to our awareness.”

I like this. It’s an eloquent summary of the article. :P

The interesting thing is that “fact” is not always represented in its “purest” form by the brain. Several “facts” are encoded as experience, or even memory, which are subjective. But yes, it’s possible to be more mindful of that process in general, and therefore more able to refine the “fact list.”

I hope you do tumble down more links! I’m really enjoying your comments. :)

The first link in this article (to your own definition of mindfulness) leads to a 404 page!

Thought I’d let you know.

I see mindfulness as a conscious awareness of facts. And when we experience an emotion, that, too, is a fact. We can either expand or contract our mindfulness, to take in as many or as few facts possible to our awareness.

Therefore, we can be aware of our feelings only, or our feelings and their causes, or our feelings and their causes and the roots of their causes, and so on. The more mindful we can be, the more facts we have available to us, to make sound judgments about what we can do and how response able we can be.

False beliefs, judgments, associations or any construct that conflicts with facts also conflicts with being mindful, although you can be aware of your belief in a false belief, which is a fact. In other words, if I acknowledge that I believe in the tooth fairy, I am being mindful. Believing in the tooth fairy, and using that as a basis for life decisions, isn’t being mindful, since mindfulness depends on facts.

OK, I now have 9 more browser tabs to Mindful Construct articles. Hope I don’t end up following any more links! :P