Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the practice of attending carefully to present-moment experience, including thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Buddhist traditions cultivate it through meditation and ethical training.

Satipatthana: A Buddhist framework for establishing mindfulness through contemplation of body, feelings, mind, and mental phenomena. It organizes Buddhist mindfulness practice around four domains of experience.
Attention: The selective allocation of cognitive resources to particular information or experience. Mindfulness depends on attending to experience, but includes more than selecting an object.
Gautama Buddha: The spiritual teacher whose teachings founded Buddhism in ancient India. Early Buddhist teachings place mindfulness within the path attributed to the Buddha.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A structured therapy combining mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy to reduce relapse in recurrent depression. It adapts mindfulness practices to help people recognize and disengage from depressive thinking patterns.
Concentration meditation: Meditation that stabilizes attention on a chosen object, often by repeatedly returning to it. Concentration narrows attention, while mindfulness can include observing a wider field of experience.
Anapanasati: A Buddhist meditation practice that develops mindfulness through attention to breathing. Breath serves as a steady object for training present-moment attention.
Present moment: The immediate interval of experience as it is occurring. Mindfulness emphasizes direct awareness of what is happening now.
Satipatthana Sutta: An early Buddhist discourse presenting the four establishments of mindfulness as a path to awakening. This discourse is a central textual source for Buddhist mindfulness practice.
Dialectical behavior therapy: A psychotherapy developed for emotion dysregulation that combines behavioral skills with acceptance-based strategies. Mindfulness is one of its core skills modules.
Relaxation technique: A method intended to reduce physical or psychological tension through deliberate practice. Relaxation may result from mindfulness, but reducing tension is not its defining aim.

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