Mindfulness (in the Buddhist tradition, at least) is not a synonym for "paying attention to detail". From[1]: > The practice of Satipatthana meditation centers

Mindfulness (in the Buddhist tradition, at least) is not a synonym for "paying attention to detail". From[1]: > The practice of Satipatthana meditation centers on the methodical cultivation of one simple mental faculty readily available to all of us at any moment. This is the faculty of mindfulness, the capacity for attending to the content of our experience as it becomes manifest in the immediate present. I can't speak to what your psychiatrist applied the term to, nor how it's been popularised. [1] https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/soma/wayof.html https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/soma/wayof.html