Methodological analysis of mindfulness and foreign perspective

Pages:77-80
Ashna Gupta (Department of Psychology, Delhi University, New Delhi)

In the last 20 years, mindfulness has become the focus of considerable attention for a large community of clinicians and, to a lesser extent, empirical psychology. Mindfulness has been described as a process of bringing a certain quality of attention to moment-by-moment experience (Kabat-Zinn, 1990). The capacity to evoke mindfulness ostensibly is developed using various meditation techniques that originate from Buddhist spiritual practices (Hanh, 1976). This paper describes the methodological analysis of mindfulness and the development of various mindfulness techniques that have evolved in foreign.