This empirically robust resource examines multiple ways mindfulness can be harnessed to support self-regulation, in part as a real-world component of therapy. Its authoritative coverage approaches complex mind/brain connections from neuroscience, cognitive, personality, social, clinical, and Buddhist perspectives, both within and outside traditional meditation practice. In domains such as letting go of harmful habits and addictions, dealing with depression and anxiety, regulating emotions, and training cognitive function, contributors show how mindfulness-based interventions encourage and inspire change. In addition to scientific coverage, experts translate their methods and findings on mindfulness mechanisms in terms that are accessible to students and clinicians.

The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation.- Part I: Neuroscience and Cognitive Perspectives.- The Emerging Neurobiology of Mindfulness and Emotion Processing.- Mindfulness and training attention.- Mindfulness, Attention, and Working Memory.- Mindfulness and its role in overcoming automatic mental processes.- Part II: Personality and Social Psychology Perspectives.- Burning issues in dispositional mindfulness research.- The "Why", "What", and "How" of healthy self-regulation: Mindfulness and well-being from a self-determination theory perspective.- Self-Regulatory Strength and Mindfulness.- Mindfulness and emotion regulation.- What it is, what it does, and how it relates to mindfulness.- Part III: Clinical Perspectives.- Mindfulness as a Key Construct in Modern Psychotherapy.- How Do Mindfulness-Based Interventions Work? Strategies for Studying Mechanisms of Change in Clinical Research.- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mood Disorders.- Mindfulness and the addictive process: Psychological models and neurobiological mechanisms.- Mindfulness, Eating Disorders and Food Intake Regulation.- Mindfulness and self-regulation: A medical approach to the mind and mental health.- Mindfulness as a general ingredient of successful psychotherapy.- Part IV: Buddhist Perspectives.- Buddhist Styles of Mindfulness: A Heuristic Approach.- The Emperor's clothes: A look behind the Western mindfulness mystique.