Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development, University of Utah, United States; College of Social Work, University of Utah, United States.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2019 Aug;28:184-191. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.01.004. Epub 2019 Jan 14.
The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory (MMT) is a temporally dynamic process model of mindful positive emotion regulation that elucidates downstream cognitive-affective mechanisms by which mindfulness promotes health and resilience. Here we review and extend the MMT to explicate how mindfulness fosters self-transcendence by evoking upward spirals of decentering, attentional broadening, reappraisal, and savoring. Savoring is highlighted as a key, potential means of inducing absorptive experiences of oneness between subject and object, amplifying the salience of the object while imbuing the sensory-perceptual field with affective meaning. Finally, this article provides new evidence that inducing self-transcendent positive emotions and nondual states of awareness through mindfulness-based interventions may restructure reward processing and thereby produce therapeutic effects on addictive behavior (e.g. opioid misuse) and chronic pain syndromes.
正念-意义理论（MMT）是一种正念积极情绪调节的时间动态过程模型，阐明了正念促进健康和适应力的下游认知情感机制。在这里，我们回顾并扩展了 MMT，以阐明正念如何通过唤起去中心化、注意力拓宽、重新评价和品味的上升螺旋来促进自我超越。品味被强调为一种关键的、潜在的手段，可以诱导主体和客体之间的统一的吸收体验，放大客体的显著性，同时赋予感觉-知觉领域以情感意义。最后，本文提供了新的证据，表明通过基于正念的干预诱导自我超越的积极情绪和非二元意识状态可能会重构奖励处理，从而对成瘾行为（如阿片类药物滥用）和慢性疼痛综合征产生治疗效果。
