Mindfulness has been described by Mark Teasdale and colleagues as the following:
• A gateway to awareness of our experience
• A different way of knowing our experience
• A way of sidestepping a ruminative mind, or cascade of thoughts
• A way of reconnecting with feelings (those we like, those we don’t like, those we don’t know that we have)
• A way of befriending our feelings
• A way of seeing our thoughts as creations of the mind
• A way of creating space
• A way of reconnecting with all of our experiences
References
Williams, M., Teasdale, J., Segal, Z., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (2007). The mindful way through depression: Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness.
