We tend to associate mindfulness with presence and engagement, but detached mindfulness (DM) suspends conceptual processing and biased thinking. Cultivating DM provides us with a more objective meta-awareness of what is and aids us in detaching from those “sticky” thoughts.
Analyzing the data the world feeds us is important, but our aim is to strike a balance in the ways we absorb this data. I consider this a balance between processing and simply observing. This balance varies from person to person and can be realized by experimenting — making choices of how much be want to simply be, observe, and process.
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