Imagine your consciousness is a river. In your every day life you are being dragged along by this river. Mindfulness means leaving the river and sitting on the side watching the water—your thoughts, emotions and perceptions—float by without being dragged along.
Featured image: By Rosser1954 Roger Griffith – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6806949
