Jacinta M. Jiménez

“Open monitoring (OM) is one form of mindfulness meditation that has been shown through research to help reduce the subjective experience of intrusive thoughts popping into your head.42 OM (also called mindfulness meditation) is a practice in which you simply observe your thoughts nonjudgmentally, acknowledge them, and then (theoretically) let them float by or pass on. Instead of concentrating on something, your attention is open and aware of the thoughts passing through your mind. Rather than reacting to the thought (like you would in the three C’s of tidy thinking), you just observe it and then watch it subside. A study from Yale University suggests that mindfulness meditation can actually deactivate the brain regions that are thought to underlie mind chatter.43 Another study from Harvard indicates that”
― Jacinta M. Jiménez, The Burnout Fix: Overcome Overwhelm, Beat Busy, and Sustain Success in the New World of Work