Participatory awareness involves observing feelings and sensations as they happen. Patients who are more detached from their feelings may benefit from cultivating participatory awareness.

Participatory Awareness

Metacognitive awareness is the acknowledgement that one's thoughts are only thoughts, and they may not be facts. When used as a definition of mindfulness, it is called mindful metacognition, and conceptualizes mindfulness as an information processing style.

Mindful Metacognition/Metacognitive Awareness

There are two types of awareness a patient can work to cultivate in therapy. They include:

- Metacognitive awareness
- Participatory awareness

Villanova University

Boston University

Awareness is a dimension of well-being and an aspect of mindfulness that refers to heightened and flexible attentiveness to perceptual impressions within one's environment, including internal cues such as thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. In therapeutic mindfulness, awareness is imperative in observing what causes the individual to engage in certain behaviors. 



Awareness - Dimension of Wellbeing

Fabrizio, D. (ed.). (2009). Clinical handbook of mindfulness. Springer. 

Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness

Awareness in Therapeutic Mindfulness

Meta-awareness refers to the explicit recognition that one is experiencing an emotion, a thought, or a sensory perception as it occurs in real time. The occurrence and duration of awareness can therefore be increased by self-regulating attention through mindfulness practices that work to train meta-awareness. 

Learn Before

Related

Learn After