Friday, April 30, 2010

Mind Your Emotions

...emotions evolved as signaling systems that need to be sensitive to environmental contingencies. Failure to switch off emotion is due to the activation of mental representations of present, past, and future that are created independently of external contingencies. Mindfulness training can be seen as one way to teach people to discriminate such “simulations” from objects and contingencies as they actually are.

Source:
Williams, J. (2010). Mindfulness and psychological process. Emotion, 10(1), 1-7.

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