By practicing mindfulness meditation, the individual comes to recognize their thoughts and feelings as more fluid and arbitrary because they focus more on concrete sensory data during meditation. 

Effects of Bottom-Up Processing on Perception of Thoughts in Mindfulness Meditation

During mindfulness meditation, the individual uses bottom-up processing to pay attention to information from the senses, rather than the complicated thoughts and feelings associated with the sensory data.

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When processing starts at the beginning of the system, starting with the environment stimulating receptors (i.e. electrical signals being sent through the brain after light reaches the eye)

Bottom-up processing

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

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