Dear Jim:
I just googled the book you mentioned and am reading excerpts from it, trying to refine my understanding of mindfulness. I find writing and re-writing, editing what i am reading a way to better understand. So re-stating: Mindfulness is the changing of my attitude about my experience of distress, from turning away from it, rejecting it TO turning toward it, accepting it. From judging it negatively and closing to it to suspending judgment and opening to it with curiosity and interest, opening to the experience with a friendly attitude. It is viewing things with a Beginner’s Mind: ““A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” … a rose is not a romantic relationship that ended tragically… it is not I-have-to trim the rose bushes over the weekend- it is just rose…“
Mindfulness is open-hearted, moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness.”…If we turn away from uncomfortable experience with anxiety or disgust, our ability to work with that experience is significantly diminished…moment-to-moment acceptance is a prerequisite for behavioral change… awareness of present experience with acceptance.
Notice everything: an itch, an intent to scratch it, the movement to scratch it etc.

There is much more mindfulness that I can practice and need to practice. thank you for the book title. Please post again…
anita