Mindfulness: The Here and Now

How often do we rush through life, through work or school or grocery shopping - just so we can return home and switch on the television? Our precious life passes by without us noticing the small meaningful moments in the here and now. Those moments completely escape us as we focus on getting the day over with or are too worried about the future and the things we cannot change. The answer to this plague of empty living is called mindfulness. Follower’s of this art experience many wonderful benefits such as a greater appreciation for life, decreased anxiety and depression, improved concentration and quality of communication and relationships, it helps master stress, and even builds up the immune system. Mindfulness is as easy as breathing, taking the time to focus on your in breath and your out breath.

That's the introduction to my mindfulness paper that I'm writing. I need to give a persuasive speech in a couple weeks so I think I'll do it on mindfulness. I'll write a paper first and then turn it into a speech. This is a topic I feel passionately about so it'll be easy to persuade.