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Theme 3 - exact mechanisms within mindfulness, Formal/Informal minfulness…

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        How we attend is also essential. The qualities one brings to attention have been referred to as the attitudinal foundations of mindfulness . This axiom asserts that the attitude one brings to the attention is essential. Often, mindfulness is associated with bare awareness, but the quality of this awareness is not explicitly addressed. However, the qualities one brings to the act of paying attention is crucial. For example, attention can have a cold, critical quality, or it can include an “an affectionate, compassionate quality . . . a sense of openhearted, friendly presence and interest”
        
        It is helpful to note the Japanese characters of mindfulness are composed of two interactive figures: one mind, and the other heart . Therefore, perhaps a more accurate translation of “mindfulness” from the Japanese is heart-mindfulness, which underlines 1Self-liberation refers to the experience of transcending (i.e., becoming free of or dis-identifying from) the sense of being a separate self
      - A second fundamental component of mindfulness is attention. In the context of mindfulness practice, paying attention involves observing the operations of one’s moment-tomoment, internal and external experience. This is what Husserl refers to as a “return to things themselves,” that is, suspending all the ways of interpreting experience and attending to experience itself, as it presents itself in the here and now. In this way, one learns to attend to the contents of consciousness, moment by moment.
      - Attention has been suggested in the field of psychology as critical to the healing process. For example, Gestalt therapy emphasizes present moment awareness, and its founder, Fritz Perls claimed that, “attention in and of itself is curative.” The importance of attention can also be seen in cognitive-behavior therapy, which is based on the capacity to attend to (i.e., observe) internal and external behaviors. At the core of mindfulness, is this practice of paying attention.
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