- Decentering
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- T247696
- Decentering (English, Latin script, Original)
Meta-awareness, meta-cognitive awareness and decentering are terms employed interchangeably in the MBCT literature. The terms refer to the ability to observe thoughts and feelings as temporary and automatic events in the mind, rather than facts or true descriptions of reality.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Decentering has been defined as the capacity to take a present-focused and non-judgmental stance in regard to thoughts and feelings, and to accept them.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Distancing, stepping away from, disengaging, allowing, accepting, and letting go of negative thoughts and moods.
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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To make radical changes in one’s hidden views, beliefs, and cognitive patterns that shape the depressed patients’ relationship with negative thoughts and feelings.
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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By cultivating mindfulness a shift in people’s perspective toward their inner experiences, i.e., their thoughts and emotions, is facilitated. They describe this shift as a change in relation to perceived mental and emotional experiences, which they term reperceiving, respectively, referring to it as decentering.
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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Distance and disidentify themselves from the contents of their conscious thoughts and emotions.
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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“A metacognitive capacity of individuals to observe items that arise in the mind (e.g. thoughts, feelings, memories, etc.) as mere psychological events.”
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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Thoughts, feelings, and body sensations are experienced simply as components of one’s ever-changing nowscape.
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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Distance away from their negative thoughts; preferably in a way that would take up the cognitive “capacity” in a mind otherwise filled with ruminative thoughts. (…)This implies that if the limited channel can be filled with nonruminative material, the person, for that period, will simply be unable to ruminate.”
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- English
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- Veronica Kuhn
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Cognitive therapy emphasizes decentering from thoughts, while MBCT teaches a decentered relationship to bodily sensations and emotional states, as well as cognitions.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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To disengage from dysfunctional processes by redirecting attention to the unfolding of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations in the present moment.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Distancing oneself from negative thoughts.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Distance from our internal experiences in a non-judgmental manner.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Disengaging the self from the event.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Decentering is defined as the ability to observe one’s thoughts and feelings as temporary, objective events in the mind, as opposed to reflections of the self that are necessarily true.
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- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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