Meditation is a common method for increasing mindfulness, but mindfulness can be achieved without meditation.

“meditation is probably the most tried and true way to increase mindfulness most mindfulness training programs base their techniques on meditation but being mindful is just kind of being aware whenever you're aware that you're suffering you're being mindful of your suffering especially when you're aware in a certain way when you're aware not like freaking out aware but you're aware like okay this is what's happening so mindfulness itself you can't have self-compassion without some degree of mindfulness”