Mindfulness Research Paper

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I. INTRODUCTION
In response to human’s disconnectedness among individual’s body, mind and community (Aoki, 2004) due to “business as usual” (Macy, 2012), mindfulness is newly emerged as an antidote for people to deal with “emotional and psychological sufferings” (Dalai Lama, 1999). What is mindfulness? You can find 27,900,000 results on Google just in 0.75 seconds (recorded in December, 2017) if you type “mindfulness”. There are a huge number of research and explanations about “mindfulness”, but in this paper, I refer “mindfulness”, according to Cambridge dictionary, simply as “the practice of being aware of your body, mind, and feelings in the present moment.”
The above definition of “mindfulness” reminds me of my favorite Japanese proverb

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