Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mindfulness, a definition


Mindfulness is a process of regulating attention in order to bring a quality of nonelaborative awareness to current experience and a quality of relating to one’s experience within an orientation of curiosity, experiential openness, and acceptance. [It is] a process of gaining insight into the nature of one’s mind and the adoption of a de-centered perspective … on thoughts and feelings so that they can be experienced in terms of their subjectivity (versus their necessary validity) and transient nature (versus their permanence).

S. R. Bishop et. al., "Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition’. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice"

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