“Mindfulness allows for a discrimination in psyche which is free of judgment . . . and which still allows for the influence of the unconscious to be entertained in consciousness. Mindfulness is not looking for a way “beyond,” rather it is a posture which seeks insight within and which allows an openness and availability to unexpected and uninvited unconscious content.
Mindfulness is awareness which is not determined by the directedness of the mind, judgment, as much as it is compelled to attend to the predominant object in the field of awareness. It is the compelling nature of the most predominant object within that field which draws the awareness and thereby the object into consciousness. This is also referred to as choiceless awareness or bare attention.
Mindfulness then becomes a means by which the conscious and the unconscious are mediated without the necessity of giving up conscious direction to the influence of the unconscious or to lose the influence of the unconscious through conscious judgment.” (P. 199)
Dukes, Timothy P. (1995). Father Mindfulness: The psychodynamics of loving attention. Ph.D. Dissertation.
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