<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc" rel="nofollow">Focused mindful self-awareness</a> (Google talk Jon Kabat-Zinn) are common activities, used to help patients of a variety of mental illness of different degrees - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcrGlUHlu4M#t=21m08s" rel="nofollow">with some evidence of healing</a> (Dr. Jeffery Schwartz).</p>

<p>From a cognitive science perspective, what is this focused mindful self-awareness?</p>

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2014-02-09T22:05:06.987Z
Perhaps you might want to come back to those last questions after having received an answer to the first?
Steven Jeuris
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2014-02-09T22:35:41.427Z
+1 for the research effort and usefulness of the questions; not so much for clarity, as a little additional summary of the sources you link would go a long way. I voted to close as `too broad` following @StevenJeuris' reasoning, the site's ("There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs."), and my own: without defining `self-awareness of awareness` for yourself, you're effectively asking about the entire 72 min video. That's pretty broad.
Nick Stauner
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@steven-jeuris: ok, removed.
Greg McNulty
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@nick-stauner: ok, trying to narrow down.
Greg McNulty
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FWIW, I did find those other questions useful too. If you still want to ask them (preferably a little more specifically) and relate them to this question, you might also edit in links to those questions, and link those questions to this one. No harm in having a lot of related questions to ask, so long as you ask each one well. This can be truly difficult if you don't want to separate your questions for some reason (speaking from [personal experience](http://parenting.stackexchange.com/q/11283/6389)), and IMHO, it can be justified to keep them together...but that's the harder road to take.
Nick Stauner
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BTW, as it stands, I'd say you've narrowed this particular one perfectly well...but (please forgive me for personifying the difficulty of asking an ideal question by continuing to critique) since I can't change my reason for voting to close or vote again after retracting it (and since four others will have to vote with me before anything really happens here), I'm going to leave it active for now. By my own reasoning about the length of the video, this question is still pretty broad, but IMO, the best way to describe this remaining problem is clarity.
Nick Stauner
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In another sentence or two, could you offer some verbal examples of specific activities that represent `focused mindful self-awareness`? I've studied [self-awareness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness) and [mindfulness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness), and methods for changing them, so I might be able to offer an answer myself, or at least some pointers, if I can get a better sense of why, for instance, these Wikipedia pages don't answer your question sufficiently by themselves.
Nick Stauner
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What is mindful focused self-awareness from a cognitive science perspective?
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# What is mindful focused self-awareness from a cognitive science perspective?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-09)

[Focused mindful self-awareness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc) (Google talk Jon Kabat-Zinn) are common activities, used to help patients of a variety of mental illness of different degrees - [with some evidence of healing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcrGlUHlu4M#t=21m08s) (Dr. Jeffery Schwartz).

From a cognitive science perspective, what is this focused mindful self-awareness?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Perhaps you might want to come back to those last questions after having received an answer to the first?  
> **username_2**: +1 for the research effort and usefulness of the questions; not so much for clarity, as a little additional summary of the sources you link would go a long way. I voted to close as `too broad` following @StevenJeuris' reasoning, the site's ("There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs."), and my own: without defining `self-awareness of awareness` for yourself, you're effectively asking about the entire 72 min video. That's pretty broad.  
> **username_0**: @steven-jeuris: ok, removed.  
> **username_0**: @nick-stauner: ok, trying to narrow down.  
> **username_2**: FWIW, I did find those other questions useful too. If you still want to ask them (preferably a little more specifically) and relate them to this question, you might also edit in links to those questions, and link those questions to this one. No harm in having a lot of related questions to ask, so long as you ask each one well. This can be truly difficult if you don't want to separate your questions for some reason (speaking from [personal experience](http://parenting.stackexchange.com/q/11283/6389)), and IMHO, it can be justified to keep them together...but that's the harder road to take.  
> **username_2**: BTW, as it stands, I'd say you've narrowed this particular one perfectly well...but (please forgive me for personifying the difficulty of asking an ideal question by continuing to critique) since I can't change my reason for voting to close or vote again after retracting it (and since four others will have to vote with me before anything really happens here), I'm going to leave it active for now. By my own reasoning about the length of the video, this question is still pretty broad, but IMO, the best way to describe this remaining problem is clarity.  
> **username_2**: In another sentence or two, could you offer some verbal examples of specific activities that represent `focused mindful self-awareness`? I've studied [self-awareness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness) and [mindfulness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness), and methods for changing them, so I might be able to offer an answer myself, or at least some pointers, if I can get a better sense of why, for instance, these Wikipedia pages don't answer your question sufficiently by themselves.  

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