Mindfulness Is Not

1. A religion

2. An answer

3. A way to feel successful

4. A way to improve yourself

5. A cult

6. A scientific explanation

7. How the brain should work

8. A way of life for the enlightened

9. Ancient

10. New

11. Good for you

Mindfulness is a deliberate choice, each moment, to observe reality with complete and total responsibility.

George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more. 

See all his poems on Tea House here.

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