ABSTRACT
An essential premise of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is that the mind operates through various modes of mind which have different functions and through which experience is processed. Two key modes of mind are doing and being. Doing mode is entered when the mind registers discrepancies between an idea of how things are and an idea of how we want them to be or how we do not want them to be. Essentially, doing mode relates to the goal-oriented strategies they engage in to: reduce the gap between a desired state and how we are experiencing things now; keep the gap open between an undesired state and how we are experiencing things now. The doing mode style of processing experience is configured in such a way that it remains in action on a particular 'problem' until it is resolved. However, the doing mode of mind can tip from being a functional, adaptive orientation, into a driven-doing mode.
