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This chapter advances the description and exploration of real mindfulness and the personal understanding and practices of it that were provided in the previous chapter to the understanding and practice of mindfulness in practice, including clinical mindfulness. The essence of clinical mindfulness is that it is mindfulness that is applied—to therapeutic, counselling, workplace and other professional settings—where it can help a wide range of people with a wide range of life problems.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
—Sri Ramana Maharshi
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McKenzie, S.P. (2022). Real Mindfulness in Practice. In: Reality Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97170-0_7
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