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A 9-minute video<\/a> summarizes the goals of mindfulness cognitive therapy and then, at about the 3-minute mark, asks the viewer to engage in an exercise in which they use mindfulness-based methods to deal with worry about current events (it was shot during the COVID-19 pandemic). This exercise might help your students experience first-hand what mindfulness-based cognitive therapy involves, but be sure to warn them about what the video entails so that anyone who might begin worrying about some especially serious or traumatic source of anxiety has the opportunity to opt out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 9-minute video summarizes the goals of mindfulness cognitive therapy and then, at about the 3-minute mark, asks the viewer to engage in an exercise in which they use mindfulness-based methods to deal with worry about current events (it was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcjttF-2A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":418,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/15\/cognitive-bias-about-danger\/","url_meta":{"origin":160,"position":0},"title":"Cognitive Bias about Danger","author":"dbernstein","date":"May 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Mass Formation\" is an idea proposed by Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet. 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