How Does Mindfulness-Based Therapy Cultivate Psychological Equanimity?
Mindfulness in therapy trains your attention and reduces reactivity, enabling you to observe thoughts and sensations without judgment so you respond with steadiness, lowering anxiety and strengthening emotional balance. Key Takeaways: Attention training stabilizes present-moment awareness, reducing automatic reactivity to thoughts and feelings and enabling more deliberate responses. Acceptance and nonjudgmental observation reduce secondary emotional reactions (for example, anxiety about anxiety), lowering overall distress and preserving balance. Decentering allows viewing thoughts as transient mental events rather than facts, weakening cognitive fusion and habitual rumination. Repeated exposure to internal experiences in a mindful stance diminishes avoidance and increases tolerance of discomfort, supporting adaptive coping and relapse prevention. Neural and physiological changes-enhanced prefrontal regulation, reduced amygdala reactivity, and lowered stress biomarkers-support sustained…
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