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Rev Mex Invest Psic 2018; 10 (2)

Relational enactive perspective to understand mindfulness

Araya-Véliz C

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 125-131
PDF size: 616.02 Kb.


ABSTRACT

This article presents a commentary of the article written by Moscoso (2018) titled “Mindfulness: Science or Fiction?”. The historical review of the concept of mindfulness was valued, as well as the presented proposal on neurocognitive action mechanisms. The perspective was complemented with four ideas: 1) the need to include different types of studies on mindfulness, besides the quantitative ones; 2) the need to specify the sources from which the mechanisms of action proposed were elaborated; 3) the incorporation of the body and an embodied perspective of cognition; and, 4) the need to develop a bidirectional and symmetric perspective between cognition and emotion. In summary, we propose to incorporate an enactive relational perspective of mindfulness, which avoids falling into reductionism, incorporating fundamental aspects for the understanding of mindfulness, such as the body, the relationship and the sociocultural context.


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