True or False
Mindfulness-based interventions incude ACT, DBT, & MBSR.
True
Allowing awareness to flow freely in and through our experiences.
Mindfulness takes on an ____ point of view, meaning that it gets all the facts before making a judgment.
Objective
Being aware of desires and needs so that one avoids automatic, habitual thought patterns.
Insight
Mindfulness has no effect on physical health or pain management.
False
Self-regulation is more clearly driven by awareness itself, rather than by self-relevant cognition. Has also been called decentering, disidentification or de-embedding.
Mindfulness is ____, meaning it is a lens that can zoom into a focused attention or outward to a clear awareness
Flexible
Willingness to accept “it is what it is” in contrast to states of mind that involve avoidance, control and the investment of personal wellbeing in alternating circumstances or attaining goals.
Non-Attachment
Mindfulness incorporates both a past, present, and future focus.
False
This term is characterized by an assimilatory, non-discriminatory interest in what is occurring both internally and externally that serves the function of promoting synthesis, organization or integration in functioning.
Integrative Awareness
Mindfulness is noticing when you are ____ and when one is no longer ____.
Present
This benefit leads to desensitization, reduction in emotional reactivity, quicker recovery and greater tolerance for and acceptance of unpleasant states.
Exposure
Being mindful means being aware that we do not live in the world, however, we live in the world we interpret and construct.
True
A receptive attention to and awareness of present events and experience.
Mindfulness
Being mindful means the thoughts are less likely to be based on _____.
Biases
Mindfulness may permit more direct relief of stress, enhances immunological resistance, promoting relaxation and pain tolerance.
Mind-body