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difficult experience, and noticing the painful consequences of trying
to buttress our sense of separate self, all have an impact on how we
approach our patients’ problems.
Finally, the most explicit application of mindfulness to psychotherapy
is mindfulness-based psychotherapy (Germer, Siegel, & Fulton, 2005).
Mindfulness-based therapists actually teach mindfulness practices to
patients to help them work with their psychological difficulties. A
host of mindfulness-based interventions are currently being
developed for a wide range of clinical problems. Sometimes the
patient is taught a traditional meditation practice, and other times that
practice is customized for the patient’s particular diagnosis,
personality style, or life circumstances.

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