How Mindfulness Can Impair Your Mind

I read an article on BigThink called "How Mindfulness Can Impair Your Mind." When you are mindful, you are aware of what you are doing, and this is an overall good thing. It improves your behavior and well being and helps you break bad habits. However, being too mindful can keep you from learning many things that you learn when you aren't really thinking about it. In other words, babies first learn how to talk by listening. They don't know how to spell, and they aren't outright thinking, 'I'm speaking English right now.' This is why it is harder for people to learn a language later in life, because they are almost always mindful of it.