Term
Mindfulness
In the book: the skill of deliberately directing your attention to what is happening right now, without judging yourself.
Sane New World: Taming the Mind, Ruby Wax
Explained in
- Sane New World: Taming the Mind, Ruby Wax
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke
The ability to observe your own thoughts, feelings and sensations without judging them.
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, Tara Brach
The ability to notice what is happening in you and around you right now, without judging it or rushing to change it.
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff
The third part of self-compassion in Neff's model: the ability to see your thoughts and feelings clearly in the present moment, without denying them or blowing them up.
- Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind, Judson Brewer
The ability to notice, on purpose and without judging, what is happening in your body, thoughts and feelings right now. The basis of the practices Brewer uses.
- How to Be an Adult in Relationships, David Richo
A practice from Buddhism: attention to the present moment, to your own feelings and thoughts, without rushing to judge them.
- The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
In Thich Nhat Hanh's book, the ability to be fully present in what is happening now: in a task, in the breath, beside another person.
- 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, Amy Morin
The ability to calmly notice what is happening inside you and around you right now, without judging it or running away from it.
- Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom, Rick Hanson, Richard Mendius
The ability to guide your attention and notice what is happening inside you and around you, without judging it.
- I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
In DBT, the skill of noticing your state in the present moment without judging it. One of the four skill modules of the method.
- Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Mark Williams, Danny Penman
the skill of paying close attention to what's happening right now — thoughts, sensations, surroundings — without immediately judging it as good or bad