Listen to Jon Kabat Zinn, who first brought secular mindfulness to the US in 1979 discuss mindfulness. He talks about what it is and isn’t, and explains what it is really about. He describes how it is not just a quick fix, a panacea or something you do for an hour here and there when life gets stressful. It is instead “a way of being, of finding a way of living with a deep sense of balance when facing the actuality of one’s own life” and all the ups and downs that come with that.