Mechanisms of mindfulness meditation: The Intention – Attention – Attitude model
A good understanding how mindfulness meditation unfolds its beneficial effects is pivotal, whether scientist or mindfulness practitioner. Here, models of the mindfulness mechanisms are a true blessing.
Such models direct scientists when specifying their hypotheses and when designing their studies. In turn, the results of these studies either lend further support to a model or challenge module assumptions, thus allowing researchers to either modify or fully reject a model.