No. Mindfulness is an awareness, a wakefulness, a cultivated attention that can be practised in many situations and contexts. Meditation can be a useful way of developing and strengthening the particu
The word is just as confusing and misunderstood as 'mindfulness'! Most people who practise 'meditation' and/or 'mindfulness' discover that neither are what they thought they were and both are evolvin
Equanimity comes from the Latin aequanimitas which translates as 'equal' (aequus) 'mind' (animus). Perhaps we could say 'calm', 'composed' mind. but let's stay with the direct translation, EQUAL MIND
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