Mindfulness is about Awareness, Spiritual Alchemy is about Transmutation
Mindfulness is mastery of your relationship to your thoughts.
Spiritual Alchemy is mastery of the content of those thoughts. (One small aspect of Spiritual Alchemy)
The mind is our focusing tool of creation.
Its usefulness is directly proportionate to our relationship to it, in small part; the content within it, in far greater part.
To well manage a head full of crap, whilst demonstrating a profound skill, is far less conducive to positive growth and influence, then is having a head full of heart based and creative positive thoughts!
Don’t get me wrong, mindfulness is a profoundly useful skill to develop, for without it, you will have little chance of mastering the content of your mind. But needless to say, on the path to Full Awakening, it is a preliminary skill and most certainly not the nature of the entire journey. It will and can only get you so far.
Being mindful of a head full of poor thoughts is not Enlightenment!
That said, having deep mindfulness of your thoughts, and especially not engaging them, does create space for one’s Higher Consciousness and Divine Thought to arise – not that Divine Thought will appear automatically. One must cultivate the right conditions and know how to connect to their Higher Divine Nature.
It is the same as with judgement and gratitude.
One can stop judging, but gratitude doesn’t automatically rush in to fill the void created. It must be cultivated – through conscious work.
Likewise simply stopping bad behaviour doesn’t automatically mean all your behaviours will then be good. A lack of warmongering does not automatically mean we are at true peace, and therefore will spontaneously have kindness and generosity. Positive life-affirming values and qualities must be cultivated and nurtured.
Stopping something negative or limiting just means stopping – it means a void, and that a space or opportunity has been created. What comes in next, to fill that void, is best created through conscious choice and direct Heart Based Action.