中華心理衛生協會

Mindfulness is a significant method in Buddhist practices. Mindfulness-based programs in modern psychotherapy and mental health promotion efforts have been well-developed. Researchers have explored how mindfulness facilitates mental health and identified the mediators (mental health factors) between mindfulness and mental health. Research shows that these mental health factors are promoted by practicing mindfulness and a number of theoretical models have been proposed to interpret the mindfulness-mental health mechanism. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clarify the meaning of mindfulness and integrate mindfulness-mental health mechanism theories that include Buddhism and psychology. Methods: This article adapted two ways to integrate those theories. First, it investigated the mental-health-view of Buddhism and psychology and found their consensus. Second, based on the common mental-health-view of Buddhism and psychology, mentioned mindfulness-mental health mechanism theories and the clarified mindfulness definition, it built a macro view of mindfulness-mental health mechanism. Results: This article eventually used ”full and fit awareness and comprehension” and ”creative self” to describe the mindfulness-mental health mechanism. Full and fit awareness and comprehension consists two parts: ”full awareness” and ”fit comprehension”. Full awareness refers an individual can fine, smooth, free, honestly, undistortedly and unfixedly notice every experience. Fit comprehension means that an individual adaptively think and understand himself/herself and his/her situation. Creative self derive from full and fit awareness and comprehension, and it refers an individual self is deeply aware, acceptant, flexible and compassionate. Conclusions: This article didn't want to propose a ultimate mindfulnessmental health mechanism theory, but rather supply a macro and integrated picture by systematically marshaling existing related theories.