Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about a very simple definition of mindfulness that you can use when you're thinking about a moment of mindfulness.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. So I've talked a lot about different definitions of mindfulness on this podcast.

The definition I typically offer is the practice of being with versus in our experience in a way that is spacious, curious, and heartfelt.

And to me, that captures a lot of the essence of the practice.

However, there's one that I've been playing with lately that is even more, well, is more simple than that.

And it's only two words.

And I think it really captures the heart of practice.

And before I give you those two words, I'll just give a little bit of background.

The first is that I've always been a big fan of including curiosity in the definition of mindfulness.

There's something about that that I very much prefer over non-judgment, just because when you

start telling people that mindfulness is about non-judgment, they think in general that that tends to mean that the mind shouldn't have judgments, which isn't the case.

Non-judgment is more pointing to the attitude in the mind in relationship to what arises,

which can include judgments. Things like, oh, like this, don't

like this. This is good. This is bad. So that's just normal mental activity in the mind.

The non-judgmental quality is the awareness in relationship to it. That's just going, oh,

this is what's here now. This is what's here now. This is what's here now.

And so I think non-judgment can just get confusing. And the great thing about curiosity is that it imbued in curiosity is non-judgment.

Curiosity is inherently non-judgmental.

It just seeks to understand what is here.

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