#73 Perceptual shift

     “Mindfulness is not about fixing anything, but about seeing things as they actually are and then being in wise relationship to them, even if it is difficult or painful.” Jon Kabat-Zinn

      “mindful awareness is flexible, self-regulated and does not involve conceptual processing. Therefore, it is theoretically at odds with the type of attention involved in catastrophizing, which involves interpretation, conceptual processing, judgment and is most often automatically invoked rather than intentional.”
 
      Schutze R et al. Low mindfulness predicts pain catastrophizing in a fear-avoidance model of chronic pain. Pain 2010; 148(1): 120-7.

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