Meditation is when you intentionally set aside time to do something that’s good for you. There are all kinds of meditations (prayer, exercise, art, etc.). Mindfulness is both a general awareness of the world (noticing your existence and the existence of everything else around you) AND formal meditation practice. It’s two things, not one. So you can meditate without being particularly mindful and you can be mindful without meditating. But meditation and mindfulness overlap when we do mindfulness meditation, which means that we are setting aside time for that intentional focus on our awareness
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