Contemporary scholarship on mindfulness casts it as a form of purely nonevaluative engagement with experience. Yet, traditionally mindfulness was not intended to operate in a vacuum of dispassionate observation, but was seen as facilitative of eudaimonic mental states. In spite of this historical context, modern psychological research has neglected to ask the question of how the practice of mindfulness affects downstream emotion regulatory processes to impact the sense of meaning in life. To fill this lacuna, here we describe the mindfulness-to-meaning theory, from which we derive a novel process model of mindful positive emotion regulation informed by affective science, in which mindfulness is proposed to introduce flexibility in the generation of cognitive appraisals by enhancing interoceptive attention, thereby expanding the scope of cognition to facilitate reappraisal of adversity and savoring of positive experience. This process is proposed to culminate in a deepened capacity for meaning-making and greater engagement with life.

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正念拓宽意识，构建意识意义：正念积极情绪调节的过程模型

当代关于正念的学术将其视为一种纯粹非评价性的体验形式。然而，传统上的正念并不是要在冷静观察的真空中运作，而是被视为对 eudaimonic 心理状态的促进。尽管有这样的历史背景，现代心理学研究却忽略了正念练习如何影响下游情绪调节过程以影响生活意义感的问题。为了填补这个空白，我们在这里描述了正念到意义理论，从中我们推导出了一种新的正念积极情绪调节过程模型，该模型由情感科学提供信息，其中提出正念通过增强认知评估的产生引入灵活性。内感受注意，从而扩大认知范围，促进逆境的重新评估和积极经验的品味。这个过程被提议以加深理解意义和更大程度地参与生活的能力而告终。