In my own words, mindfulness is a state of being. A state of being is not a state of doing, but rather of being. Being is differentiated by the following factors.
1) In a state of being, you don't "do" anything. You don't "think", act, or react. In fact, according to the concepts found in the ancient art and science of Aikido, http://www.aikidofaq.com/introduction.html, we don't move forward "into", but rather allow the force to actually "move" us. In other words, imagine someone coming at you with an object (friendly i hope, but suppose not), what would you do? Some might instantly react, get frazzled and fight back. Others, if they know "the way", would see the force of movement coming toward them, follow it (more on this later) and duck, leap, get out of the way. Due to the non-force (some may call it non-violence) the energy of the force of the natural object then ceases to destroy or hurt one. In other words, you have gotten out of the way but not failed nor have done anything but allow the objective force to actually boomerang back into existence. Because of the law of physics, the force then will ultimately create a backlash, so to speak, and make the other object (person or weapon) fall down or fall away because he/she has now lost their balance.
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