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Mindfulness or faith

Over the past few years, this word, mindfulness, has crept into the everyday vocabulary and there are experts aplenty to expound on the benefits and the barriers to achieving true mindfulness. How to practice mindfulness through various means including meditation, yoga etc is one of the basics. Of course, where there are experts, there are qualifications at all levels including online and college based. I'm fascinated because if you look at religion, mindfulness is very much part of its practice. I have no doubt that many of the expertise in mindfulness has been 'borrowed' from various religious practices around the world.  I'm a Church Warden in St. Fachtna's Cathedral , Rosscarbery . Essentially that's a fancy title for a person who ensures that everything is ready before people arrive for a service and tidies up afterwards. There's no special qualification or qualities apart from a willingness to be of service in one's church. However that's not