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When Jon Kabat-Zinn released the word "mindfulness" to the general public a few years before, he was attempting to incorporate Buddhist meditation methods with modern medical mindset and medication. Kabat-Zinn's ideas were interesting and effective, especially given the alternatively conservative setting in which he was applying his advice. But we're a long way from Full Catastrophe Living. And the mindfulness motion is far removed from Kabat-Zinn's original ideas on the subject. Honestly, when most people use the word "mindfulness" today, it means next to nothing at all. Here's the unglamorous fact about the mindfulness motion that almost all of us don't want to recognize: If we objectively watch our thoughts - and do not emotionally intercede with them - we'll probably watch ourselves having the same cycles of good thoughts and bad thoughts, repeating themselves over and over. If we meditate in such a way - without attempting to refine our thoughts, and instead simply permitting them to "be" - we'll often notice the same psychological cycles in our thinking recurring over the course of many months, and sometimes even years. Objective, nonjudgmental meditation makes us quite aware of this. Our specific thoughts changes - but we'll still usually have the same up and down emotional cycles within our thinking, regardless of the specific thoughts.