Business mindfulness: Terminology at a glance

While mindfulness is to some extent designed to foster clarity, a problem with terminology and definitions sometimes can muddy the waters. Is mindfulness a kind of meditation or is meditation a form of mindfulness? Or are meditation and mindfulness synonymous? Local experts indicate that it depends on who’s using the terms and in what context.

“Mindfulness” removes religious connotation

Some would call mindfulness “a particular kind of meditation practice,” said Michael Gayner, executive director at Shambhala Mountain Center, northwest of Fort Collins.  Mindfulness has “also become a general rubric to talk about meditation in general,”…