Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills

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• Observing. All descriptions of mindfulness emphasize the importance of observing, noticing, or attending to a variety of stimuli, including internal phenomena, such as bodily sensations, cognitions, and emotions, and external phenomena, such as sounds and smells.

• Describing. Although some mindfulness teachers advocate observation without labeling, many discussions of mindfulness encourage describing, labeling, or noting of observed phenomena by covertly applying words.

• Acting with awareness. Engaging fully in one's current activity with undivided attention, or focusing with awareness on one thing at a time, is a central component of many descriptions of mindfulness.

• Accepting (or allowing) without judgment. A fourth skill emphasized by many authors is accepting, allowing, or being nonjudgmental or nonevaluative about present moment experience. To accept without judgment is to refrain from applying evaluative labels such as good/bad, right/wrong, or worthwhile/worthless and to allow reality to be as it is without attempts to avoid, escape, or change it.