 Mindfulness is turning off, dialing down the internal chatter that is governing what you think about anything at all. It is silence in that and creating space for what you really think and feel to emerge. Without someone else telling you, and not someone else by the way, could be an ancient belief system voice, an old narrative that's telling you what to think. Mindfulness creates a space, a gap for you to decide, I think this, I feel this right now. In other words, mindfulness creates you back to your authentic self.