Could this be Mindfulness?

That is the question.   And help is needed with an answer.

But as usual I am rushing my fences.  Let me explain and start at the beginning.  Firstly we need to understand what we are talking about.  So.  Buddhism (a religion from the East) started Mindfulness as a meditation technique to help still the busy mind.  That's as far as I go on the  technicalities.  Not my Minder.  She quotes from books whereas I quote from life.  Anyway I invite her to read out loud:

 

Mindfulness is "knowing what is happening while it is happening no matter what it is " and I am quoting from Diamond Mind by Rob Nairn, she says.   

I jump up and down.  Okeydokey, I say,  -  that is exactly what I do when I play with my frisbee.  Look I am playing with my frisbee now.  I know that's what I am doing, and I love playing this game.  

My Minder claims that while I am close I don't get a cigar.  (??? What would I want with a cigar???)  How come?  AND SO WHAT?  I bark loudly.  Now I'm being told to stop that silly noise by my Minder.  But I pay her no attention.    I am rolling my frisbee this way and now that way.   Did I say I love my frisbee.  Maybe I did,  but my mind is like a jack-in-the-box; here one minute gone the next.   YESSSSSS  I love my frisbee, and when I play with it my mind is empty of anything else.  I am in the moment.  I am completely focussed.  And I want the world to know that I KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING WHILE IT IS HAPPENINNGGG ......

Uh oh.  Because I'm shouting again the frisbee is taken away as a punishment. My Minder cannot stand it when I bark loudly.  She reckons it means I'm not practising Mindfulness.  But I am practising.  I am.  Honest.  I whisper.  Please give me back my frisbee pleeeEEEESSSSE.  

I get it back on the condition I play my game quietly.   I play on.   I tell my Minder I can be quiet or noisy and still be practising Mindfulness.

Hmmm - (this is the noise my Minder makes when she is stumped).  I reassure her.  Look.   I know I am playing with my frisbee.  And I know I like playing with my frisbee.  And I know I am expressing my enjoyment.  She agrees but only up to a point.  She is sure that while I am focussed on my frisbee I exclude everything else that is going on,  and that is not being mindful.  She says that if I were truly practising Mindfulness I'd be aware of, for example, her talking to me.

I am aware you are talking to me, I reply, but it doesn't mean I have to listen to you;  yes, of course,  you are part of the moment and I am mindful of that,  and, at the same time, I am mindful of my frisbee-game and my reaction to it. 

My Minder thinks about this; then she agrees I could  be ticking all Mindfulness boxes, but still there is a niggle.  Something is not quite right but she doesn't know what it is.  Maybe you can meditate on it, I suggest, - or ask someone else - and then could you get back to me?