[Gem]

I'm glad you brought up universal, because even though we think of mindfulness as Buddhist, it is really a human being thing which isn't relevant to any religion, but the background philosophy about it is mostly a Buddhist discourse.

The psychologists have cottoned on to it, so there is a whole psychiatric story about it, too, but I think on this forum we'd be more inclined to spiritual purification and liberation, though there is trauma resolution or 'overcoming of sorrows' as part of purification.

In Buddhism they say there are 4 purposes of mindfulness: purification, overcoming sorrows, walking the path of truth and liberation.

Mindfulness is always universal and always true. Just like breath is universal, there are no Christian breaths, Buddhist breaths or German breaths. There are no Christian, German or Buddhist sensations or emotions. It's universal. The truth as it is experienced by you.