What does Mindfulness have to do with, well Anything?

I decided to call my blog site Creating Mindfulness because I wanted to sort of journal my gardening experience. I am for the first time starting a garden. It should be an experience considering I have a difficult time keeping my indoor plants alive, but I am really wanting to make a good effort. So after I thought about writing about Gardening, I remembered that a good friend and my sister have a site about knitting and weaving. So then I thought well I could write about my knitting too! But there is no good title for knitting and gardening together aside from well, knitting and gardening. Then I thought about how I have been exploring the way of life in mindfulness. Mindfulness is the act of staying in the present moment. Sounds pretty simple, but it's not really. Do you ever find your mind wondering off and thinking about something that happened in the past (recent or not) or thinking about what's going happen in the future??? Well, I do. And that is NOT Mindfulness! Mindfulness is essentially being in the present moment, noticing or experiencing what is going on this very moment. Well to do this mindfulness stuff it's important to practice! So I've been trying to practice and the more I do, the more I realize that my mind wonders off ALOT! Anyway, what I have learned is when you realize that your not in the present moment, then your in the present moment, and bringing yourself back is the most important part. So it doesn't matter that my mind is wondering as long as I am willing to bring it back to the present moment. I have also learned that if I find myself talking about mindfulness or in this case, blogging about mindfulness, then I'm not currently being mindful! Tricky isn't it?!? So back to the topic at hand. What does mindfulness have to do with knitting or gardening?? Well, I have decided that these are two activities that I can practice mindfulness in. There is a lot to pay attention to while knitting (especially when your just learning) and there is also a lot to be aware of while gardening. Whether it is the physical work of it or the being aware that the plants need to watered or weeded. So since I am beginning my first garden and tend to slow down on the knitting in the spring and summer, there shall be more to come about gardening and maybe some knitting too!!