YOGYAKARTA -Mindfulness is an awareness that arises from paying attention, intentionally, at this time and without judging (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994). Meanwhile, according to Bishop et al, 2004, mindfulness is a awareness centered today, accepting every thought, feeling, or sensation as it exists without being expanded or rejected. Some people think that mindfulness is sometimes misused that mindfulness is just an excuse to avoid responsibility.

One of the goals of mindfulness is to achieve full self-awareness, by starting with the intention in the heart so that you wake up, feel a natural sensation that flows and is expected to be focused and calm when facing something unexpected.

Train yourself to be more focused on the emotional state of yourself and your surroundings in order to accept with a wide heart, stable emotional management, and fully feel what you feel through your senses.

Mindfulness improves psychological health, such as being able to make better memory and being able to manage pain by paying attention to emotions. In addition, mindfulness is beneficial, making a more positive mindset, working more productive to achieve goals, and being happier by living real life. Mindfulness is the type of managing maintaining a mood, not feeling anxious or even stressed when getting things that are not expected.

Mindfulness can be a false mindfulness by making mindfulness a goal to avoid discomfort, accept surrender, build up sensitivity, and aim at passive awareness.

Ronald Purser (2019) in his book McMindfulness said that mindfulness is often used to make employees more productive, not more aware of systemic injustice. From this point of view, mindfulness can indeed be a false reason to avoid responsibility, for example, "What's important is that I am calm and peaceful," while ignoring real problems.

So that if understood shallowly, mindfulness can be an excuse to avoid responsibility. Mindfulness is not calming down so as not to care but to raise awareness so that they are able to act wisely and responsibly.

If you return to the root of the concept (Buddhisme and contemporary psychology), mindfulness is not an escape, but an enlightenment of reality as it is. This means realizing suffering, not refusing or running. This awareness actually fosters ethical responsibility and mercy (compassionate action).

Mindfulness can at one time outline a statement or solve a problem to refer to a more directed level of understanding of brain memory.

It must be considered that it is not only physical health that must be maintained, but mental health is very much needed. Mindfulness can reduce excessive anxiety because excessive anxiety will cause mental disorders or depression. Through mindfulness meditation can produce endorphins that are useful in the aftermath of reducing negative feelings of mind and making you able to sleep better and stress less.

Everyone has a sense of emotion. Eemotion is a reaction in an incident. This Mindfulness functions to control emotions in oneself so that they feel calmer when they get problems because they can stimulate positive thoughts that improve brain performance in memory and concentration processes more fully than before.

Excessive sadness and anxiety will make blood pressure higher which will result in affecting the heart's health organs working harder. It is better to keep blood pressure stable by doing mindfulness meditation so that heart health is more awake or stable.

In several studies, it is stated that routine mindfulness meditation can make the antibody system strong and can reduce the risk of disease that will enter you. Therefore, a healthy lifestyle is needed, adequate rest, a healthy diet is regular, and exercise regularly for at least 10 minutes.

Health is not only measured by physical parameters, but also mental health. The essence of mindfulness invites individuals to realize reality clearly, understand the impact of their actions, and act wisely and responsibly. In other words, mindfulness is not an escape from reality and avoids responsibility, but an active awareness of reality that fosters moral, social and personal responsibility.

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