Flexibility is often treated as a single, global construct, but it can also be described in terms of interrelated components (e.g., accepting, awareness, defusion, values).
Kabat-Zinn defined mindfulness as 'intentional, non-judgmental and accepting awareness and focus of oneself', and meditation as 'disciplinary self-regulation of attention from moment to moment'.
Mindfulness has been defined as a particular form of attention: an open-focus attention that involves the ability to direct and maintain a nonjudgmental, moment-by-moment, accepting awareness of the present canvassing thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without attending to any one sensory object in particular.
It is widely accepted that awareness is an important condition, although not sufficient on its own, for stimulating behavioural change.
The reported results are potentially confounded by concomitant treatment; two participants in the verbal therapy intervention "accepted body awareness as an additional treatment during psychotherapy" compared with none in the art therapy arm.
Only by yielding to the fact that our "longing to endure" will be frustrated and accepting our "awareness of death" are we able to open ourselves to the riches of life, which are physical above all.
Our own bias is for expanding the observer effect more and more, until science accepts that awareness is key to everything.
In 2011, Paula C. Durbin Westby began Autism Acceptance Month http://www.autismacceptancemonth.com/about/, which has expanded to become "a way of viewing Autism in a positive and accepting way". Awareness and Acceptance has led to better early identification and intervention, research, funding, and more accommodations for people with autism and their families.
However, wastewater reuse implementation faces obstacles that include insufficient public acceptance, technical, economic and hygienic risks and further uncertainties caused by a lack of awareness, accepted standards, uniform guidelines and legislation.
As The Washington Post's Abby Phillip reported on Monday, Paltrow recently posted a Twitter picture that showed a bounty of healthy food — all of which she bought with $29 as part of a challenge she accepted to raise awareness for the hardships faced by those who live on Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP.
The putative principles of collaboration, campaigns and champions may be the way forward for the accepted axiom of awareness, appropriateness and audit.
