Fatemi and Langer’s chapter of the book demonstrates how an enhancement of mindfulness in one’s life would lead to an increase of agency, empowerment and novelty. They explore the role of art and artistic expressiveness as an effective strategy to implement a mindful phenomenology of life. This chapter examines how mindlessness would impede the process of re-authoring one’s life and impose a self-limiting mental, emotional, behavioral and cognitive incarceration. The chapter illustrates the power of poetry and art in creating lively moments of an experimental mindfulness where people may go beyond the mundane discourse of disempowerment and helplessness and create a novel realm of being