Mindfulness when reading news
While reading the news, you’re mindful if you’re fully aware of what you’re reading. You know that you’re holding a newspaper or a mobile phone, and you’re reading the news (e.g about the Anti-Terrorism Law) from a specific source.
You become mindless if you start dwelling on the negative things about the news. You start having a conversation in your mind and think about how they come up with this law.
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