Mindfulness involves meta-cognition. What is meta-cognition?
What will be an ideal response?
As Bishop et al. (2004) note, mindfulness involves self-regulation of attention and meta-cognition, in other words, sustaining attention and thinking about one's thinking. Harris (2008, p. 40) shows us how we can go from having a thought that "I am X" to "I'm having a thought that I am X" to "I notice that I am having a thought that I am X. Sometimes these thoughts are stressful or disturbing. Going from "I am incompetent" to "I'm having a thought that I am incompetent" to "I notice that I am having a thought that I am incompetent" goes from a simple stressful cognition to a more complex and less stressful meta-cognition.
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