Mindfulness is a top-down cognitive process, not just present-centered awareness.

Evidence

Dreyfus (2011) goes on to state that this retention of information, which is integrated into the temporal flow of life, allows a person to make sense of one’s experiences—which is the primary job of the mind. He further flips mindfulness from a “bottom-up” process (Kabat-Zinn definition) to a “topdown” process, beginning in the mind and moving downward (p. 47). As the attention moves downward, it acquires an embodied dimension which allows for a fuller experience of the present moment (Dreyfus, 2010). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 666

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the cognitive, retention-based Dreyfus account of mindfulness from the popular present-centered Kabat-Zinn definition.
• XREF: Connects to chapter 12’s motif of teacher inner-outer self friction and mindfulness practice. — connects to: Mindful bidirectional attention produces the critical consciousness Freire described.; Mindful awareness has been defined as the capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on ‘automatic pilot’ or being lost. — Relationship of mindful awareness to neural processing …; Mind is embodied higher-level cerebral process enabling top-down agency — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 304 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Mind is embodied higher-level cerebral process enabling top-down agency #corroborates (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 304