Mindfulness as clinical intervention to relieve suffering and improve coexistence
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v17i66/67.906Keywords:
mindfulness, clinical intervention, meditation, attunementAbstract
Mindfulness refers to a state of mind in which awareness (the observing I) is receptive to the present moment and it is open to the ongoing flux of events. Mindfulness is a psychological skill that requires practice, like learning to play piano. Historically, it has been cultivated in the contemplative traditions and, today it has emerged as a clinical intervention in psychotherapy and health psychology. How to work with mindfulness from different psychotherapeutic models as well as ideas about its operating mechanisms are reviewed. Likewise, it is stated that minfulness in congruent with the new historical time in which we live now: the continuous present.
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