Mindful Meditation Techniques

Mindful meditation techniques involve cultivating metacognitive awareness of one's thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in the present moment. The term mindfulness derives from the Pali word sati, which refers to the cultivation of metacognitive awareness towards the contents of one's own mind and bodily sensations in the present moment. Mindfulness practice was associated with increased grey matter in the hippocampus, a region involved in learning and memory. The mindfulness-based book The Mind Illuminated has become a bestseller.