According to AUM, the process of thinking in new categories, being open to new information, and recognizing multiple perspectives; according to face-negotiation theory, an awareness of our own assumptions, viewpoints, and ethnocentric tendencies when entering any unfamiliar situation
The ability to be open to new categories and ways of interpreting information and to be aware of more than one perspective
The practice of cultivating the mind to become increasingly aware of the pivotal elements of moment to moment experience, including how experience of the interior and exterior world arises from how one chooses to deploy attention and action Includes noticing what kinds of worlds our choices create Although some of the most straight-forward, comprehensive and refined methods of developing mindfulness have come out of the Buddhist tradition (particularly the Insight meditation or Vipassana tradition) other methods with similar results have developed in the western spiritual traditions and to some extent philosophy, notably in Christian contemplative prayer and phenomenology among others