Though these practices have different approaches, both share that they  result in weakening the cycle of maladaptive cognitions, emotions, and behaviors through changing one's perspective by showing a client that these unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or sensations have no hold over them. This is why CBT and MBIs, though they differ, are very compatible. This compatibility is seen in cognitive behavioral stress management and integrative body-mind training.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) begins with a patient defining goals they are looking to achieve and works towards them during the treatment process. Patients in Mindfulness treatments may have similar goals/reasons for participating, but the process does not strive to achieve the goals.  

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Mindfulness and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy both focus on practices like:
- Relaxing and Improving Self-Regulation
- Learning to Understand Thoughts and Feelings as Temporary
- Desensitizing Conditioned Fear Responses
- Goal Orientation
- Focus on Maladaptive Cognitions

While their approach of many of these practices is different, they prove compatibility between the practices which opens a gateway for further improvement of putting these practices together.

Mindfulness and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Hofmann, S. G., &amp; Gómez, A. F. (2018). Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 40(4), 739–749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2017.08.008 

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression

Both MBIs and CBT include relaxation and the improval of self-regulation as components of treatment, but it is unclear whether this is due to specific shared aspects of the two treatments, or of the concept of therapy as a whole.  Though now with current research, it is shown that the combination of both MBIs and CBT as MBCT has quicker results in both relaxation and self-regulation when combined.

Mindfulness and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Relaxing and Improving Self-Regulation

MBIs achieve understanding of thoughts/feelings as temporary through observations of such thoughts and feelings, while CBT attempts to do so by addressing and changing metacognitions about the internal phenomena.  Though they differ in practice, they share the directive for patients to view their internal phenomena as temporary and without worth or meaning.  By combining these processes, MBCT teaches people to have an awareness of their thoughts and feelings and then dismantle the idea that these thoughts are dangerous.

Mindfulness and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Learning to Understand Thoughts and Feelings as Temporary

Mindfulness attempts to desensitize conditioned fear responses through sustained attention. CBT attempts to directly separate the conditioned fear response from a stimulus, typically through exposure processes.  However, both work towards the same goal, desensitizing the conditioned fear response.

Mindfulness and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Desensitizing Conditioned Fear Responses

This is a key difference between Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBIs) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) because mindfulness works to simply accept maladaptive cognitions, while CBT attempts to change them. CBT relies on "cognitive restructuring" in order to disprove maladaptive thoughts rather than the mindfulness focus of accepting these thoughts.

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