What's the Difference Between Concentration and Mindfulness: Common Questions About Meditation

What is the difference between concentrating and being mindful? When you meditate, what's the difference between mindfulness and concentration? After watching this video, you'll know what it means to practice mindful awareness or being mindful and simply concentrating or focusing your awareness.

This is part of my playlist on Meditation FAQs. I answer common questions about meditation and mindfulness to make starting your meditation practice easier and to clarify things that are not so obvious.

Starting a mindfulness meditation practice can make a huge difference in your life in terms of helping you to cultivate less reactivity to situations, to feel more stability in your emotions and to get insight into your habits. It is proven successful in helping people to change habits like quitting smoking or stopping compulsive eating. Practicing mindfulness helps you to find that space between your initial emotional feelings about a situation and how you decide to respond. It allows you to use that pause for more freedom of choice and less reactivity.

If you want to create more pause in your life to help you connect with that place of power within you, check out my free guide, The Power of the Pause. click here:
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