When you are mindful, you are paying attention to what is happening, both internally and outside of yourself, in the present moment. Your focus is on accepting your thoughts and feelings about what is occurring and how you are feeling, without judgment.
Every time we get angry we get better of being angry and reinforce the anger habit.Every time we become self-absorbed,we get better at becoming self-absorbed and found unconscious.Every time we get anxious,we get better of being anxious.Practice does make perfect.Without awareness of anger or of self-absorption or any other mind state that can take a over when it arises,we reinforce those synaptic networks within the nervous system that underlie our mindless habits,and from which it becomes very difficult to disentangle ourselves if we are even aware of what is happening at all.